Tianyi (TJ) Jiang

TJ, as the Co-Founder & CEO of AvePoint Inc, oversees the global businesses of AvePoint Inc.

TJ personally drives the global strategy and business development of AvePoint Inc. Prior to co-founding AvePoint, he had years of experiences in designing and implementing fix-income trading systems in Deutsche Bank, global equity program trading platforms in Lehman Brothers, and credit risk modelling at Citadel and Moody’s, as well as conducting research in Data Mining at NYU Stern.

A recipient of Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year award in New Jersey in 2010, TJ received both his B.S. and Master’s in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University, and a Master of Philosophy and PhD in Data Mining from Department of Information Systems, Operations Management, and Statistics, Stern School of Business, New York University.

TJ co-founded AvePoint in 2001 with Gong Xun Kai, his long-time mentor and friend since their days of working together at Lucent Technologies back in 1998.

TJ currently resides in Singapore with his wife and 5 young children. He spends 50% of his time traveling managing AvePoint’s business across 26 global offices. While on the go, TJ maintains his hobby of long-distance running, and completed a recent bucket list item of earning the Abbott Six Star from running all six global Abbott Major Marathons.