Mr. Parpart joined the Company in January 2021 and was a co-managing director to develop the business operations. Mr. Parpart was appointed President of Asia Pacific of the Company on April 1, 2022. Mr. Parpart has been developing the business strategies of the Company and guiding the development of the financial research and analytic models of the Company since 2021. Mr. Parpart was also a director of IMTE for the period from December 2019 to August 2021. Since 2016, he has also been the Chairman and Publisher of Asia Times Holding Limited, a Canada-based English language news media publishing group, covering politics, economics, business and culture from an Asian perspective. From 2011 to 2016, Mr. Parpart was the Executive Managing Director, Chief Strategist, and Head – Research of Reorient Group Limited, a company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Limited. Mr. Parpart brings over three decades of experience in finance, journalism, and academia to our Company. Before Reorient, he was the Chief Economist and Strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald HK Capital Markets from 2006 to 2011 and prior to that a senior currency strategist at Bank of America. Mr. Parpart’s experience in Asia dates back to the late 1980s, when he worked with the Mitsubishi Research Institute in Tokyo, and later served as an advisor to the Thailand’s Prime Minister’s office. He has contributed to numerous magazines and publications; he was the founding editor of Asia Times from 1995 – 1997, a contributing editor of Forbes magazine, and a columnist for Shinchosha Foresight magazine, Tokyo. He was a frequent guest on CNBC and Bloomberg TV. After serving as an officer in the German Navy, Mr. Parpart received a Fulbright scholarship for doctoral studies in Mathematics and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. He had also taught at University of Pennsylvania and Swarthmore College.