CCFA Board of Directors

Daju Gu, Emily Gu, Houben Huang, Ti Wang, Xiaobo Wang, Yanan Wu, Dianna Zhang

加中金融协会理事会

顾大局，顾怡，黄厚本，王体，王晓波，吴雅楠， 张文琦

The Biography of the CCFA Board of Directors

Daju Gu

Daju is currently the Chief Operating Officer of Toronto Futures Options Swap Exchange (tFOSE). He is a seasoned executive with over twenty years’ experience serving banking, capital markets, exchanges and clearing houses. He has successfully led many business initiatives in RBC, Scotia, TD, BMO, Sunlife, Fairfax Financials, Canadian Derivative Clearing Corporation (CDCC) and TMX, all of which involved strategy development, regulatory compliance, and technology transformation.

Daju was the President of TMX Razor Risk Technologies where Daju worked with teams in Toronto, Sydney, New York, and London to assist clients globally in various regulatory initiatives. He has collaborated with many financial institutions in China.

Daju is very familiar with international regulatory framework. He has extensive experience in risk management, collateral management, central counterparty clearing, and capital market infrastructure building. Daju has a BSc from Tongji University and MSc from University of Alberta.

Houben Huang

Houben Huang is a Vice President of Bank of Montreal, responsible for enterprise wide model risk management framework, governance and model validation. Prior to joining BMO in January 2006, Dr. Huang worked in TD Bank taking increasing roles starting from May 1996 and being promoted to TD executive in 1999 as a Vice President, Quantitative Analysis. From 2002 to 2005, Dr. Huang worked as global head of Front Office Quantitative Analytics in TD Securities in charging of Front Office model development for structuring, pricing, valuation and hedging. Dr. Huang was also a co-founder and first President of the CCFA. He is CCFA President Emeritus. Dr. Huang holds a PhD in Mathematics and a Master Degree in Quantitative Finance both from University of Waterloo.

Ti Wang

Graduated from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Ti came to Canada in 1985. He got his Ph.D from the University of Toronto in pure mathematics.  In 1994, Ti joined the Bank of Montreal as a quant in risk management. In 1996, he moved to Royal Bank of Canada as a front-office derivatives quant.  

Ti is now the head of Canadian fixed-income quant team, and is the head of the global cash analytics team for RBC Capital Markets. As a founding member of the CCFA, Ti has served as CCFA’s secretary general and president in the past.

Xiaobo Wang

Xiaobo Wang is the Chief Risk Officer at North Horizon Holdings Inc., overseeing strategy formulation, enterprise risk management, and IT management. Previously, he served as Chief Risk Officer at Industrial and Commercial Bank of China’s Canadian subsidiary, where he represented the firm at the Canadian Banker’s Association and OSFI, reported major risk issues to the Board, chaired the asset and liability risk management committee, and managed enterprise risk. Xiaobo also worked at Scotiabank for twelve years in risk management, internal audit, and treasury functions.

Xiaobo is the Co-Director of the Global Association of Risk Professionals (GARP) Toronto Chapter and serves on the boards of non-profits like the Canadian Chinese Finance Association and Kensington Health Center. He holds a Ph.D. from Boston University, an MBA from Schulich Business School, and is a CFA charter holder with the FRM designation.

Yanan Wu

Yanan Wu is the Chairman/CEO of Surfin Meta Technology Pte Ltd. and Meta Fund Investment Management Pte Ltd. (Singapore) with over 26 year’s global investment experience serving institutions and family offices. He received a Ph.D in statistical physics from University Western Ontario in Canada and completed his post-doctoral research at Los Alamo National Lab in USA.

Surfin is a global leading financial service firm headquartered in Singapore focusing on wealth management technology and global asset allocation for growing middle class families in emerging markets. By using Al and big data analytics, Sufin strives to provide individualized financial services that are inclusive, transparent, innovative and passionate. It delivers its services through advanced algorithms and models based on AI and big data. Surfin currently serves 40 million customers in three continents since 2017 through its partnership network that includes fund managers, asset managers and institutional investors.

Dianna Zhang

Dianna is currently the Vice President of Economic Capital and Capital Efficiency in Global Risk Management group in Scotia Bank (a multi-national Canadian bank). She leads a team responsible for pro-actively improving Economic, ICAAP and Regulatory Capital models, and conducting counterparty credit, market and credit capital stress testing.

Dianna holds MBA and CFA designations with over 15 years of financial analytics experience across enterprise risk, capital management and stress testing. Her extensive leadership experience in the enterprise risk management covers all risk types including counterparty credit risk, market risk, credit risk, operational risk, asset liability management and liquidity risk.

As a member of the BOD of CCFA, Dianna has been actively involved in various management of the association in the past years, and she is currently president of CCFA.