Lian Zhu is the Co-founder and CEO of Aperture Finance, a DeFi platform for structured products. Prior to starting Aperture, he had served as a Senior Product Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS) and a Technical Program Manager at Netflix for 3 years respectively. Lian founded Internest Inc., a Natural Language Processing (NPL) focused startup that empowers multi-media marketing, localization, and publishing. He obtained his Executive MBA degree from UC Berkeley in 2022. An American Association of Chinese Writers member, he has published over 30 books, including the Chinese translation of Revival by Stephen King and the Diary of A Wimpy Kid series.