Gary Liu is the Co-Founder & CEO of Terminal 3, a company building Web3’s most powerful user identity and data oracle. Terminal 3’s decentralized data platform and zero-knowledge applications allow fully private data to be freely composable, enabling verifiable identities that remain publicly anonymous. Gary is also the Founder & Board Director of Artifact Labs, a historical NFT company, and the Chair of Web3 Harbour, an industry association dedicated to advancing the decentralized internet and economy across Asia.

In his previous role as CEO of the South China Morning Post, Gary oversaw an extensive transformation of the century-old publishing group, expanding its global audience reach and influence, establishing new revenue channels, and cementing SCMP as Asia’s leading news media company. Previously, Gary was CEO of Digg, Head of Labs at Spotify, and has also worked at AOL and Google.

Gary is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, was the chairman of the WAN-IFRA Asia Pacific Committee and also a member of INMA’s global board. He has been featured across global news publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The Business Times, Business Insider, Nikkei Asian Review, and was a Tatler Asia honouree for the region’s ‘Most Influential’ leaders.

Born in the United States, Gary grew up in Taiwan and New Zealand, before returning to America where he lived and worked for 20 years. He now resides in Hong Kong with his wife and son. Gary is an Economics graduate from Harvard University.

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