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July 6, 2026

New leadership structure aligns OORT's full-time management team around strategy, product, and operations as Dr. Chong (Max) Li drives the company's collaboration with Nasdaq-listed Aether Holdings

New York - Oortech Inc. ("OORT"), a global decentralized AI data cloud company, today announced the formation of a CEO Office — a new internal leadership structure bringing together the company's management team: Chief Operating Officer Kema Bae, Chairman of the OORT Foundation Michael Robinson, Chief Technology Officer Dr. Yang, and Founder Dr. Chong (Max) Li.

The move follows OORT's joint venture with Aether Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHR) to build AetherHub, a dedicated data infrastructure for financial AI. Dr. Li will serve on AetherHub's board on OORT's behalf with the goal of building AetherHub into a durable, recurring revenue stream and a long-term value driver for OORT. The CEO Office is designed to keep OORT's strategy, product, and day-to-day operations tightly coordinated — without adding a new layer of management.

"The CEO Office isn't extra bureaucracy — it's the opposite," said Dr. Li. "It's a small execution hub that lets the people who run this company day to day move as one unit, so nothing slows down while I'm focused on making AetherHub succeed for OORT."

OORT expects its existing AION multi-agent AI system and OORT DataHub to benefit directly from the AetherHub collaboration — through shared data, funding, and brand visibility, while continuing to operate as core, independent product lines in their own right.

"AION and DataHub aren't just holding steady, they're positioned to grow faster because of this," adds Michael Robinson, Chairman of the OORT Foundation.

That continuity extends to the infrastructure itself. "AetherHub runs on the same DataHub infrastructure we've spent years hardening — this structure just keeps engineering as tightly coupled to strategy as it's always been," said Dr. Yang, Chief Technology Officer.

The announcement comes against a broader market backdrop that has been challenging across crypto and decentralized AI. OORT's leadership said the new structure reflects confidence in the company's path forward: a growing joint-venture revenue track running alongside its established AI infrastructure business.

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