WSPN appoints Jeff Wong as Independent Director to drive innovation and expand stablecoin utility through strategic partnerships.
Worldwide Stablecoin Payment Network (WSPN) recently appointed Jeff Wong as an Independent Director. Wong has over 25 years of technology and business transformation experience and will add valuable insight to the company.
Most recently, he was EY’s Global Chief Innovation Officer where he oversaw the firm’s global innovation initiatives across EY platforms that deliver analytics to clients and provide applications geared to the business, including innovations revolving around advanced technologies, including artificial intelligence, Blockchain, quantum computing, and Web3. While with EY, he played a major role in founding the company’s advanced technology labs and contributed to how the company would change in digital and inventive spaces.
Jeff Wong Joins WSPN to Drive Stablecoin Innovation
Wong has previously held leadership roles at eBay and JPMorgan Partners before his role at EY. He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations and Forbes Technology Council. In addition, he was the founding chair of Asia Society’s Technology and Innovation Council working to advance global tech. He was also on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Innovation Ecosystems and a board member at Oxford University’s Oxford Foundry. He received the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business award for recognition of his professional achievements.
Wong said he is excited to join the WSPN team and apply his expertise in emerging technologies to the company’s mission. This presents a key opportunity for him to help build the future of digital payment infrastructure, especially in the fast-growing stablecoin industry.
WSPN’s CEO, Raymund Yuan, said it was a strategic appointment for the company. Wong’s deep expertise in innovation management, enterprise transformation, and emerging technologies ‘clearly adds value’ to WSPN’s acceleration of international development and market expansion, Yuan added.
Along with this leadership appointment, WSPN also partnered with Fractal, a leading Bitcoin scaling solution. The goal of this collaboration is to bridge traditional finance with digital asset to expand the utility of WSPN’s stablecoin, WUSD. It is aimed at making Bitcoin more applicable to financial transactions and demonstrating WSPN’s innovation commitment and its standing in an emerging stablecoin market.
