Evan Auyang

Evan Auyang

Group President

Animoca Brands

Mr Evan Auyang is the Group President of Animoca Brands, a global digital asset leader that harnesses tokenization and blockchain to power consumer-facing and institutional ventures while curating an investment portfolio of more than 600 companies. 

Mr Auyang also serves as Independent Non-Executive Director on two publicly listed company boards: Sun Hung Kai & Co. Ltd. and Asia Financial Holdings Limited. In addition, he is a board director of Anchorpoint Financial, a stablecoin JV amongst Standard Chartered Bank, Animoca Brands and HKT. Mr. Auyang is the Chairman of the Board of Civic Exchange, a public policy think tank. He is also a board director of Voyage, which is a company that provides care services,focuses on supporting individuals with complex needs, including learning disabilities, physical disabilities, and mental health conditions, He is an Advisor for Our Hong Kong Foundation, and serves on the Innovation and Technology Advisory Committee of the Hong Kong Trade Development Council, the Subcommittee on Ecosystem and Infrastructure of the Task Force on Promoting Web3 Development, the Development Fund Committee of the Hong Kong Council of Social Service, as well as the Advisory Council for Institute at Brown for Environment and Society for Brown University. In addition, Mr Auyang is a lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy of Politics and Public Policy.

Prior to joining Animoca Brands, Mr Auyang was the Managing Director and Head of GLG International (Gerson Lehrman Group), a technology-enabled expert insight platform where he ran and grew its business spanning Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific across 15 locations. Before GLG, Mr Auyang was the Deputy Managing Director of the Kowloon Motor Bus Co. (1933) Ltd. (“KMB”) and a board director of Transport International Holdings Limited, the parent company of KMB. Prior to joining Transport International and KMB, Mr Auyang was an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company. Before that, Mr Auyang worked at Citigroup’s Derivatives Structuring and Marketing unit. 

He obtained his undergraduate degree in Economics and Political Science from Brown University and his MBA degree from the Kellogg School of Management. 

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