Board of Directors

Mr. Gallo was appointed as our independent director in June 2020, and his appointment was effective in March 2021. Mr. Gallo is the chief financial officer of CoinTiger a blockchain company since July 2022. Previously, Mr. Gallo was the chief financial officer of ETAO International Group, a healthcare firm, from March 2021 to May 2022, and the chief executive officer of Columbia China League Business Advisory Co. from November 2019 to February 2021, providing advisory professional services, including advising Chinese companies on U.S. initial public offering. From April 2013 to December 2018, Mr. Gallo served as co-founder and principal of GLS Group LLC, responsible for providing management consulting services to financial sector firms. Previously, between February 1994 and March 2013, Mr. Gallo was a senior executive at Scudder Kemper Investments (Deutsche Bank Asset Management), TLX Trading Networks, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and EMC. In those roles, Mr. Gallo advised about 100 global financial institutions on strategy, transformation, risk, and relationship management projects. Mr. Gallo obtained his bachelor’s degree in management from Binghamton University – State University of New York in 1993, a master’s degree in international relations from Tufts University in 2008, and a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University in 2018.