{"id":"dominic-jang","title":"Dominic Jang","content":"**Dominic Jang** is a business development executive working in [Web3](https://iq.wiki/wiki/web3) and blockchain gaming. He has held roles in investment banking and corporate governance, and more recently in blockchain gaming and collectibles tokenization.\n\n## Early Life & Education\n\nDominic Jang holds a Bachelor's degree in Economics from Waseda University. Before entering the finance and technology sectors, he served as a Sergeant in the Republic of Korea Army from May 2010 to March 2012, including a United Nations peacekeeping deployment to Port-au-Prince, Haiti, from February to August 2011. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-Y2wwHyjCPILC1P6B)\n\n## Early Career: Corporate Governance and Investment Banking\n\nDominic Jang began his professional career in Tokyo, holding short-term Corporate Governance Analyst roles at ISS | Institutional Shareholder Services (January–March 2014) and at Morgan Stanley Capital International Inc. | Institutional Shareholder Services (January–March 2014). Between these roles, he worked as an Analyst on the Hifumi Fund at Rheos Capital Works, Inc. (June–December 2014). He then spent seven years at BNP Paribas in Tokyo within Financial Institutions Coverage, progressing from Analyst (April 2015–March 2017) to Associate (March 2017–February 2019) to Vice President (March 2019–March 2022). [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-Y2wwHyjCPILC1P6B)\n\n## Oasys\n\nJang joined Oasys Pte. Ltd. in March 2022 as Head of Game Alliance and served in that role through February 2023, based in Singapore. He was promoted to Head of Business Development and served from January 2023 to June 2024, based in Singapore. During his time at Oasys he participated in partnership announcements including the [XPLA](https://iq.wiki/wiki/xpla) Verse [Web3](https://iq.wiki/wiki/web3) gaming integration and worked on partnerships with Korean game developers. He also spoke at industry events including Korea [Blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) Week and Paris [Blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) Week 2024. [\\[2\\]](#cite-id-YaiqGHbBPKHVnshq) [\\[3\\]](#cite-id-a4YdQdaR3FbYoK5D)\n\n## NEXPACE\n\nFrom July 2024 to June 2025, Jang served as Chief Business Officer and Vice President for MapleStory Universe at NEXPACE Limited, based in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-Y2wwHyjCPILC1P6B)\n\n## ATH Labs\n\nSince October 2025, Jang has served as Co-Founder and Chief [Strategy](https://iq.wiki/wiki/strategy) Officer of ATH Labs, based in Abu Dhabi. The company is developing Deadstock, a platform for tokenizing physical collectibles, including trading cards.\n\nIn a LinkedIn post responding to CNBC coverage of the Pokémon card market, Jang described himself as a longtime collector and paraphrased reported market figures (including a cited 1,350% rise in a Pokémon card price index since 2020 and a $16 million sale of a Pikachu Illustrator card) to argue that physical collectibles are emerging as an asset class similar to earlier growth in sneaker and watch markets; he described Deadstock as infrastructure built for that shift. [\\[4\\]](#cite-id-3JGR8aGId0bEnjS6) [\\[1\\]](#cite-id-Y2wwHyjCPILC1P6B)\n\nHe appeared at Consensus 2026 in his ATH Labs capacity, participating in discussions on real-world-asset tokenization. He has also served as an Advisor to Tomoland on a contract basis since June 2025. 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