Former Shanghai Innovation Bank and Silicon Valley Bank Asia Executive Jade Lu Joins Alpha Ladder as Wealth and International CEO

Appointment marks the next phase of Alpha Ladder Wealth Management Solutions and the Group's international expansion, as Alpha Ladder advances its ambition to support Chinese enterprises going global with a broader financial services platform

SINGAPORE, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Alpha Ladder Group Pte. Ltd. ("Alpha Ladder"), today announced the appointment of Jade Lu as Wealth CEO and International CEO, reporting directly to Dr Bo Bai, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Alpha Ladder Group.

Jade brings more than 20 years of international banking experience and was previously President and Executive Director of Shanghai Innovation Bank (Previously known as SPD Silicon Valley Bank) and, concurrently from 2020 to 2023,  with Silicon Valley Bank Asia. She previously held senior leadership roles at Standard Chartered Bank and Citibank.

In her dual role, Jade will lead two strategic growth priorities for Alpha Ladder: the development and international expansion of Alpha Ladder's Wealth Management Solutions and the build-out of Alpha Ladder's international financial services capabilities across key global markets.

Her appointment also marks the next phase of Alpha Ladder's international growth ambitions, including building a broader financial services platform to support the growing needs of Chinese enterprises expanding globally. As these businesses establish and grow their operations overseas, Alpha Ladder aims to support their increasingly complex financial needs across markets.

Building the next generation of wealth through Alpha Ladder's Wealth Management Solutions

Wealth creation is undergoing a historic paradigm shift. Accelerated by AI and next-generation technologies, global economic and industrial structures are being fundamentally reshaped. Alpha Ladder's Wealth Management Solutions is built to empower investors to capture these multi-dimensional opportunities.

Alpha Ladder defines the next generation of wealth as a powerful fusion: uniting strict regulatory compliance and the fundamental risk discipline inherent to finance with the agility and innovation of new digital paradigms.

Through its Wealth Management Solutions, Alpha Ladder delivers an integrated, multi-dimensional platform. It enables clients to seamlessly access, manage, and diversify their portfolios across traditional and future-facing assets.

Jade will champion the platform's global proposition and ecosystem, cementing it as a core pillar of Alpha Ladder's international expansion.

Supporting Chinese enterprises as they go global

As International CEO, Jade will lead Alpha Ladder's international strategy across Hong Kong, the Middle East & Africa, Europe, the United States and Latin America, building the Group's capabilities and partnerships in markets where its clients increasingly operate.

A major focus will be supporting Chinese enterprises through the increasingly complex financial requirements that come with international expansion.

As companies enter new markets, their needs extend well beyond moving capital across borders. They require financial partners that understand both their home-market context and the regulatory and commercial environments in which they are expanding, while being able to support their evolving requirements as their international businesses grow.

Alpha Ladder's ambition is to build a full-spectrum international financial services platform for cross-border enterprises, spanning four core areas: financing, payment, wealth and compliance. Together, these capabilities are intended to support Chinese enterprises across different stages of their global journey, from establishing in new markets to managing increasingly complex financial requirements as they scale.

Dr Bo Bai, Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of Alpha Ladder Group, said:

"Jade joins Alpha Ladder at an important stage of our development, as we accelerate both our wealth and international strategies.

She brings more than two decades of international banking experience, together with a deep understanding of China's innovation economy and the financial needs of companies as they grow beyond their home markets. Her leadership experience at Shanghai Innovation Bank and Silicon Valley Bank Asia is particularly relevant as we build for this next phase.

With Jade leading Alpha Ladder's Wealth Management Solutions and our international expansion, we aim to build a differentiated wealth proposition while strengthening Alpha Ladder's capabilities across financing, payment, wealth and compliance. Our ambition is to support enterprises with the financial capabilities they need as they expand and operate across markets."

During her tenure at Shanghai Innovation Bank and Silicon Valley Bank Asia, Jade played a leading role in China's innovation finance ecosystem, working with high-growth companies and venture capital institutions and providing full-lifecycle financial services across different stages of their development.

Jade Lu, Wealth CEO and International CEO of Alpha Ladder Group, said:

"Chinese companies are entering a new phase of international growth. As they expand into more markets, their financial needs are becoming broader and more complex. They need financial partners that understand where they come from, the markets they are entering, and how their requirements evolve as they grow internationally.

Wealth management is evolving at the same time. Technology is changing how clients access, manage and diversify wealth across markets, while trust, regulatory discipline and institutional standards remain fundamental.

I look forward to working closely with Dr Bai and the team as we build the next phase of Alpha Ladder's growth. My focus will be on building Alpha Ladder's Wealth Management Solutions into a distinctive wealth proposition and strengthening our international financial services platform to support companies and clients as they grow across markets."

Jade holds a Bachelor of Economics from Fudan University and an International MBA from the University of Hong Kong, and served as a member of the first Sci-Tech Innovation Advisory Committee of the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

About Alpha Ladder Group

Headquartered in Singapore, Alpha Ladder Group Pte Ltd (Alpha Ladder) is a technology and financial services group driving Digital Green Transformation. We operate on the conviction that the future of financial infrastructure is neither purely centralised nor distributed, but a Hybrid.

From our first member subsidiary founded in 2016, we have grown into a multi-vertical ecosystem that operationalises this conviction across four critical sectors:

• Digital Financial Services
  In digital financial services, our businesses operate one of Asia's leading licensed digital financial services platforms, providing compliant payment and wealth services, with annualised transaction volume of US$14 billion (FY26 run rate).
• Sustainable Investment
  Our sustainable investment business is an award-winning impact investment firm with around US$2.9 billion AUM*, focusing on investing in deep-tech companies for decarbonisation.
• AI-Powered Green Technology
  In green technology, our businesses provide end-to-end carbon SaaS solutions, including an AI emission factor search engine, Scope 1, 2 & 3 measurement, decarbonisation rating, AI ESG reporting, and green asset development & trading.
• AI-Native Energy Intelligence
  In AI-native energy intelligence, our businesses are advancing AI for energy by forging hybrid models that ground graph transformers in deterministic physics and high-throughput real-world validation. Our platforms deploy this intelligence to address the pressing energy challenges constraining AI and other mission-critical infrastructure, providing speed, resilience and sustainability to the systems that power the compute age.

At Alpha Ladder Group, our name reflects our commitment to continuous evolution. We believe that by engineering the intersection of Digital and Green, we move the world forward to pursue sustainable alpha—one particle at a time.

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Former Shanghai Innovation Bank and Silicon Valley Bank Asia Executive Jade Lu Joins Alpha Ladder as Wealth and International CEO

Parcel Perform becomes Perform.AI for an industry where brands are chosen on how they perform, not how they market.

SINGAPORE and BERLIN and CHICAGO, Sept. 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Perform.AI today launched the AI Commerce Operating System to do the job end-to-end—from merchants' being found to the parcel being delivered—on one system, and changed its name from Parcel Perform to match this ambition.

Brands now have to build experiences for both the humans who buy, and for the AI agents that support them. The AI agent focuses on finding the best product, at the best price, with the fastest delivery. A brand now sells to a person and to that person's AI—which picks only the brands that keep their promises.

The Perform.AI system is built for this reality, and runs the whole e-commerce journey—AI Commerce Visibility, Checkout, Post-Purchase, and Returns—with Logistics doing the daily work collaborating with shipping partners underneath. Behind it all, AI Decision Intelligence fuels every decision. It reads the data, holds a view on what should happen next, and acts on it, optimizing for gross margin.

With this foundation in place, once an e-commerce business is live on Perform.AI, their teams—marketing, logistics operations, customer service—can connect to Perform.AI data through the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and get answers about their e-commerce operations inside the AI tool they already work in.

"An AI agent deciding which brand to recommend reads what you promised, and checks what you actually delivered. You can see that record before the agent does, and fix what is in it. This is the new world of AI Commerce, and we are proud to help merchants get ready for it," said Dr. Arne Jeroschewski, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Perform.AI.

"Loyalty doesn't move an AI agent. Advertising doesn't move it either. But consistent performance does. We announced AI Commerce Visibility in October 2025, so e-commerce brands can see how AI recommends the product lines they actually sell, not just their brand name, and what AI says about their delivery and returns." said Dr. Jeroschewski.

"For ten years, e-commerce software offered the same deal: buy the tool, do the work yourself," Dr. Jeroschewski said. "Fifteen tabs, fifteen logins, every decision still stitched together by your team. Perform.AI does that work in one system. Your teams just need to focus on the strategic decisions, not on assembling answers."

Echoing that focus on a better way forward, Dana von der Heide, Co-Founder and Chief Customer Officer of Perform.AI, shares: "We started as Parcel Perform ten years ago. Performance was always the point: it was the outcome our customers wanted. Parcel was just the unit of work we began with. The ambitious brands we work with expected more from us, we built it, and their performance became our obsession."

"The rebranding follows the change that began inside our company. E-commerce software used to move on roadmaps, but Perform.AI revamped how it scopes, develops, and ships software to match the pace AI commerce moves at. This is the new velocity you can expect from us," said Dr. Jeroschewski. "We are not renaming the company. We are naming what it has become already."

The Perform.AI system runs on more than 100 billion parcel updates a year for thousands of brands, with 1,100+ carrier integrations across 160+ countries. It reads that data and acts on it: catching a delay before a customer emails to ask, picking the cheapest carrier that is most likely to hit a promised date. This is one system where outcomes matter, because the software should create value, not just the people working with it.

ABOUT Perform.AI

Perform.AI is the AI Commerce Operating System for ambitious brands. In agentic commerce, performing is what gets a brand recommended - so Perform.AI runs the delivery promise, the post-order experience and the return as one interconnected system that acts on what needs fixing, with Logistics carrying the daily work of the delivery promise underneath. Founded in 2016 as Parcel Perform, the company became Perform.AI in September 2026.

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Perform.AI Launches AI Commerce Operating System