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(Incorporated in the Cayman Islands)
We intend to focus our search on businesses in Asia within the deep technology sector, including artificial intelligence, quantum computing, and biotechnology. However, we will not undertake our initial business combination with any company based in or having the majority of its operations in Greater China (as defined herein).
Tse Meng Ng, our chairman and CEO since September 2025, is a highly regarded and successful financier and businessman. Since February 2024, Mr. Ng has also served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of RF Acquisition Corp II, a special purpose acquisition company that consummated a $115 million initial public offering in May 2024 and entered into a definitive agreement for its initial business combination with Nanyang Biologics Pte. Ltd., a company that offers a comprehensive drug discovery platform integrating traditional medicine with state-of-the-art technologies, including artificial intelligence, in October 2025. Mr. Ng previously also served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of RF Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company that consummated a $115 million initial public offering in March 2022 and consummated its initial business combination with GCL Global Holdings Ltd in February 2025. Since February 2025, Mr. Ng has served as a director of GCL Global Holdings Ltd.
In February 2019, Mr. Ng co-founded Ruifeng Wealth Management Pte Ltd, a Singapore Capital Markets Services licensed financial institution regulated by the Monetary Authority of Singapore for which he serves as the chairman. Mr. Ng and his team provide fund management services to ultra-high net worth individuals. From May 2014 to January 2019, Mr. Ng served as the Managing Director of Credit Agricole, an international full-service banking group. He was voted ‘Outstanding Young Private Banker’ in 2011 by Private Banker International, the leading journal for the global wealth management industry. Prior to that, Mr. Ng was a Director at Credit Suisse where he helped form the team that covered the North Asia markets. He started his career in 1998 at Citibank N.A where he managed a team of banking staff.
Chee Soon Tham, our CFO and a director since September 2025, was an audit partner at Ernst & Young, in Singapore, from 2004 until 2018. Since March 2024, Mr. Tham has also served as Chief Financial Officer and director of RF Acquisition Corp II. Mr. Tham is an independent director of VinFast Auto Ltd, a Vietnam-based electric vehicle manufacturer, listed on NASDAQ, CH Offshore Ltd, a Singapore-based provider of offshore marine assets and services, listed on the Singapore Exchange, and Tokio Marine Insurance Singapore Ltd. While at Ernst & Young, Mr. Tham worked in a number of overseas offices, including New Orleans and Boston, in the USA. In 2018, he founded iCFO Advisors Pte Ltd, where together with a small team of senior executives, he provides outsourced finance support, financial due diligence, liquidation and other related services to small to medium sized enterprises and listed clients. He has led various audit assignments, including that for an Asia-based group listed in the US as a foreign private issuer that reported in US GAAP. Mr. Tham qualified as a CPA in the State of Oregon. He is a Chartered Accountant in Singapore and a CFA charter-holder.
(Note: RF Acquisition Corp. III disclosed the terms for its SPAC IPO on Oct. 17, 2025, in an S-1/A filing: 10 million units at $10.00 each to raise $100.0 million. Each unit consists of a share of common stock and one right to acquire one-tenth (1/10th) of one ordinary share upon the consummation of an initial business combination.)
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