Winston Ma （马文彦） CFA Esq. Managing Partner, CloudTree Ventures; Adjunct Professor, NYU Law School; former MD and Head of North America at CIC), China’s SWF Fund Winston Ma, CFA & Esq., is an investor, attorney, author, and adjunct professor in the global digital economy. He is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner of CloudTree Ventures, a seed to early growth stage venture capital firm empowering interactive entertainment companies. He is currently the board Chairman of Nasdaq-listed MCAA, a European tech SPAC, advisory board member of Capgemini, and an Adjunct Professor at NYU Law School. Most recently for 10 years, he was Managing Director and Head of North America Office for China Investment Corporation (CIC), China’s sovereign wealth fund. Prior to that, Mr. Ma served as the deputy head of equity capital markets at Barclays Capital, a vice president at J.P. Morgan investment banking, and a corporate lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP. He is one of a small number of native Chinese who have worked as investment professionals and practicing capital markets attorneys in both the United States and China. A nationally certified Software Programmer as early as 1994, Mr. Ma is the book author of several books on tech revolution, including The Digital War and The Hunt for Unicorns. He was selected as a 2013 Young Global Leader at the World Economic Forum, and in 2014 he received the NYU Distinguished Alumni Award. His new book is “Blockchain and Web3 – Building the Cryptocurrency, Privacy, and Security Foundations of the Metaverse” (Wiley, September 2022).