We intend to focus on businesses in the education, training and education technology (“EdTech”) industries, specifically in Asia (excluding China). Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will provide that we shall not undertake our initial business combination with any entity with its principal business operations in China (including Hong Kong and Macau).

Our management team is led by Jonathan Chan, our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, and Alex Lee, our Chief Financial Officer.

Jonathan Chan, our chairman of the board and CEO, is the founder and managing partner of Vigilant Assets Pte. Ltd., an investment advisory firm. He is also the founder and CEO of Jules Corp., where over the past six years, he has devoted his efforts to building his expertise and network in the education and EdTech ecosystem. Driven by the JULES mission “to prepare our children for jobs of the future”, Mr. Chan is credited in leading the creation of the world’s first Digital Literacy curriculum for preschoolers, teaching “Computational Thinking and digital life” skills during the early childhood years. Mr. Chan previously spent 27 years in banking and corporate finance covering the technology, media and telecom sectors. Mr. Chan has held senior positions as the Asia Head of Technology Investment Banking at Salomon Smith Barney/Citibank and as Head of Investment Banking, Southeast Asia at CLSA Merchant Bankers Limited, where he was credited with structuring the most original deal for the listing of the first independent REIT in Singapore.

Alex Lee is a managing director of Vigilant Assets Pte. Ltd. Mr. Lee has over 20 years of experience in various hardware and software technology- driven sectors, encompassing DNS (Domain Name System) SaaS, digital media/marketing, and most recently blockchain/distributed ledger technology. In addition to holding corporate positions and founding several companies, he has spent more than 15 years advising and creating cross-border business partnerships and investments in Asia and the U.S. Mr. Lee is currently the founder and CEO of Liquidigy.com, a security token issuance and investment platform and an active digital assets portfolio manager and angel investor. He also co-founded BITCV Foundation, a Singapore-based organization focused on the development of blockchain-powered technologies, solutions and applications that facilitates the management of blockchain assets. 

(Note: Aetherium Acquisition Corp. priced its SPAC IPO on Dec.29, 2021, in line with the terms in its prospectus: 10 million units at $10 each to raise $100 million.)