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ExtendMax Becomes First Vietnamese Company to Win the Asia-Pacific People’s Choice Stevie Awards

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HANOI, Vietnam, May 21, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — ExtendMax has made history as the first Vietnamese company to win the Asia-Pacific Stevie® People’s Choice Award, securing the coveted “Favorite Company” title.

This major milestone reflects ExtendMax Vietnam Company Limited‘s decade-long journey building trust through regulatory expertise and seamless project execution for multinational clients entering or operating in Vietnam.

“We’re honored to represent Vietnam on a global stage,” said Tran Thanh Phuong, Founder and CEO of ExtendMax. “This award belongs to our customers, partners, and team – people who’ve trusted us to solve complex compliance challenges and deliver critical business outcomes.”

ExtendMax’s recognition follows a growing list of achievements, including Gold and Silver Stevie Awards in innovation categories, further cementing Mr. Phuong’s status as a leading legal and compliance expert in Vietnam’s fast-evolving tech and import landscape.

One of ExtendMax’s hallmark achievements underscoring its capabilities is the project supporting LEGO in importing the IT systems for LEGO’s largest global factory in Vietnam, with a total investment of approximately USD 1.3 billion.

From the outset, this project faced numerous regulatory challenges related to importing IT equipment that uses encryption technology and network security systems. As both a consulting firm and a trusted provider of Importer of Record (IOR) services in Vietnam, ExtendMax provided end-to-end advisory services, crafted detailed plans, applied for encryption licenses, and prepared all necessary procedures to ensure the project stayed on schedule without disruption.

Thanks to its comprehensive solutions and extensive experience handling large-scale projects, ExtendMax enabled LEGO to smoothly import tens of millions of dollars’ worth of IT equipment, helping ensure the factory’s construction and operations progressed as planned.

“The LEGO project is a testament to the values of commitment and customer-centricity that ExtendMax upholds. We don’t just provide consulting; we stand side by side with our clients, overcoming every obstacle, executing every procedure, and taking responsibility for the final outcomes. Our clients’ success is our success – and that is the value we cherish most,” Mr. Tran Thanh Phuong added.

According to CEO Tran Thanh Phuong, this People’s Choice Stevie Award is not only a recognition of his personal efforts or those of the leadership team – it is a proud achievement of the entire ExtendMax collective, whose members have remained steadfast in their mission to accompany and support clients in successfully completing every project.

He also extended his heartfelt gratitude to the customers, partners, and community who took the time to vote, share, and support ExtendMax, helping the company make its mark across the region:

“The Stevie Awards are among the world’s most prestigious business awards. This year, the Asia-Pacific Stevie Awards received over 1,000 nominations from 29 markets, but only eight People’s Choice Stevie Awards were presented. ExtendMax is honored and proud to be the only Vietnamese company to win this special category. I believe this award belongs to all of us – the ExtendMax team, our customers, partners, and friends – those who have joined me in a nearly decade-long journey of continuous innovation, relentless effort, and the ambition to reach the global stage.”

Looking ahead, Mr. Phuong shared that ExtendMax remains committed to its strategic focus on developing professional compliance certification consulting services and Importer of Record solutions, enhancing internal capabilities, embracing digital transformation, and expanding international partnerships.

“We will not stop at this award. This is the motivation for ExtendMax to continue improving service quality, pursuing innovative solutions, and advancing transparent, sustainable development that brings value to the business community in Vietnam and the broader region,” Mr. Tran Thanh Phuong emphasized.

About ExtendMax

ExtendMax Vietnam Co., Ltd. is a leading provider of product conformity certification and IOR services, enabling seamless market entry and regulatory compliance for global companies operating in Vietnam. Founded in 2014 and led by industry expert Tran Thanh Phuong, ExtendMax has built a reputation for integrity, speed, and execution in mission-critical projects for some of the world’s largest brands.

Head Office: ExtendMax Villa, C01-L18 An Vượng, Dương Nội Urban Area, Hà Đông, Hanoi
Tel: +84 24 6666 3066
Email: consultant@extendmax.vn 
Website: https://extendmax.vn 

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Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Announces Leadership Transition Following Landmark Opening; Founding CEO Edward F. O’Keefe Named President & CEO of The WNET Group

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MEDORA, N.D., July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Following the historic July 4 grand opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, the institution’s Board of Trustees today announced that O’Keefe, its founding chief executive, has been named President & CEO of The WNET Group, the parent of New York’s flagship PBS station and one of the most respected independent public media organizations in the country. O’Keefe will remain CEO of the Library through September 18, 2026.

“The successful opening of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter and the timing is right for this transition,” said Hilary Hamm, Chair of the Board of Trustees. “The Board is deeply grateful to Ed for seven years of leadership in bringing this vision to life and equally confident in the exceptional team leading the institution every day. We have launched a national search for the Library’s next leader and are committed to ensuring the organization continues to grow, inspire, and thrive for generations to come.”

The leadership transition comes at a moment of extraordinary momentum for the institution. Since its July 4 debut, the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library has welcomed more than 40,000 participants and counting, enrolled almost 3,500 members, and attracted more than 1 million website visitors, reflecting tremendous national interest in Theodore Roosevelt’s enduring legacy and the Library’s immersive participant experience.

“This Library was never intended simply to tell the story of Theodore Roosevelt. It is about our shared responsibility to carry forward the principles he championed: leadership, citizenship, and conservation,” said Theodore Roosevelt V, the President’s great-great-grandson and a member of the Board of Trustees. “Ed O’Keefe understood that from the very first day. He built a place that does more than honor Theodore Roosevelt; it asks every person who walks through its doors what kind of citizen they intend to be. The Roosevelt family is proud of what he has built and confident that the institution he leaves behind will continue to embody his boldness, ambition, and sense of possibility. We are thrilled to see him bring that same visionary energy back to public media.”

When Edward F. O’Keefe took the helm of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library, there was no land, no architect, and no museum to design — only the conviction, shared by the Roosevelt family, former Governor Doug Burgum and the North Dakota Legislature, that Theodore Roosevelt’s story deserved a home in the Badlands that shaped him.

“Building this Library alongside the people of North Dakota and our partners across the state has been the honor of my career,” said O’Keefe. “What we set out to do is now real, thriving, and welcoming thousands of participants, and I leave day-to-day leadership with complete confidence. Public media has a vital role to play in American life, and I’m eager to take up that work.”

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library’s Board of Trustees has launched an Executive Search Committee and is actively working to identify the Library’s next leader. During this process, the Library’s leadership team will continue to ensure continuity in operations, programming, and the world-class experience that has defined the institution.

About the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library opened in Medora, North Dakota, on July 4, 2026. Designed by Snøhetta and organized around the pillars of Leadership, Citizenship, and Conservation, the Library is an independently operated institution supported through a public-private partnership, including a State of North Dakota operating endowment. It is governed by the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Learn more at trlibrary.com.

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Percent’s Private Credit Infrastructure Enables Trillium Technologies to Launch Compute Credit Investment Marketplace

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Percent’s institutional-grade infrastructure powers deal structuring, investor onboarding, compliance framework and marketplace mechanics to bring private credit products to market

NEW YORK, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Percent, the platform powering modern private credit markets through access, liquidity and data, today announced that Trillium Technologies, a diversified investment company, has built its own branded investment marketplace on Percent’s institutional-grade infrastructure. The marketplace introduces Trillium Technologies’ compute credit, convertible note offering, demonstrating Percent’s ability to help companies turn emerging asset classes into investable private credit offerings without building the capital markets stack from scratch.

Compute credits, a unit of prepaid or allocated computing capacity, are one of the most novel structured credit products in the market today. These credits are often used in cloud platforms, AI services, or infrastructure providers that convert monetary value into a fixed pool of usable resources with a specific redemption rate and an expiration window. Yet, they are an emerging, trillion dollar asset class based on the capacity of data centers. The launch comes as demand for AI infrastructure financing is outpacing what traditional capital markets were built to support. Cloud computing companies require new ways to finance capacity and private credit is increasingly becoming a bridge between technological innovation and financial markets. Percent gives companies like Trillium Technologies the capital markets foundation to structure, distribute, and manage these products seamlessly.

“Compute credits represent exactly the kind of emerging asset class that private credit infrastructure should be able to support,” said Prath Reddy, CFA, Co-Founder and CEO of Percent. “Trillium saw an opportunity to bring a novel, real-world asset to investors and needed the capital markets foundation to do it with speed, compliance and operational rigor. That is what Percent was designed to do. Our platform has structured and distributed over $2 billion in private credit, and that infrastructure works whether the underlying asset is a consumer loan portfolio or compute capacity backing AI workloads. We’re building the rails for private credit’s next chapter.”

Percent’s infrastructure supports private credit products across asset classes, giving companies the core systems needed to administer and scale investment products. For a first-of-its-kind asset like compute credits, that foundation helps reduce the time, cost and complexity of building a marketplace while allowing Trillium Technologies to stay focused on its market, investors and long-term growth.

“Compute credits have become one of the defining resources of the digital economy. Trillium is focused on turning that resource into a transparent, liquid, investable asset,” said J. Christopher Mizer, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Trillium Technologies. “With Percent providing the capital markets foundation behind our marketplace, we can move faster, operate with greater confidence, and leverage our team to build the compute credit economy for investors and innovators.”

As demand for compute power accelerates, driven by AI, data analytics, scientific computing, and large-scale cloud workloads, Trillium bridges technology infrastructure and capital markets by enabling compute to behave like traditional commodities or financial securities.

Trillium Technologies closed its first round on July 10, with subsequent capital raises expected to follow. As the company continues to grow its marketplace, the relationship also expands the Percent ecosystem into a category expected to generate significant deal flow as compute capacity becomes a more important financial asset.

About Percent

Percent is unlocking private credit by enabling efficient access, liquidity optionality, and data for all market participants. Through its digital primary issuance and secondary markets platform, Percent provides all deal counterparties with a unified environment to source, structure, distribute, service and trade private credit assets. Founded in 2018, Percent has facilitated billions in private credit transaction volume across primary issuance and secondary markets — bringing transparency and standardization to a historically fragmented asset class. For additional information, please visit www.percent.com.

About Trillium Technologies, Inc.

Founded in 2025, Trillium Technologies bridges the gap between technology innovation and institutional capital. The company develops and monetizes the emerging asset class of Compute Credits through strategic investment, securitization, and marketplace development for the Archeo Futurus cloud computing platform. Trillium’s mission is to power the future of intelligence by making compute a liquid, tradable, and investable asset.

Disclaimer: Unsecured Notes may involve high risk and are speculative investments. The Unsecured Notes are not secured. In the event of a default, investors may not receive any payments. There is no public market for Unsecured Notes, and none is expected to develop. There is no guarantee that an investment will be profitable or that an investor in Unsecured Notes will receive any payments of principal or interest.

Risks associated with compute credits include expiration, utilization, lock-in, pricing change, non-transferability, opportunity cost, valuation ambiguity, and counterparty risks.

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Emplifi Appoints Omer Sharon as Chief Product & Technology Officer to Advance its Autonomous Customer Experience Platform

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NEW YORK, July 23, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Emplifi, a leading Autonomous CX platform, today announced the appointment of Omer Sharon as its Chief Product & Technology Officer. Sharon will lead Emplifi’s global Product and Technology organization, overseeing Product Management, Engineering, AI & Data, Architecture, DevOps, Security, and Design as the company accelerates its vision of delivering intelligent, AI-first solutions that transform how brands engage with consumers.

As Chief Product & Technology Officer, Sharon will drive Emplifi’s next chapter of innovation by advancing AI across its autonomous CX platform, engineering organization, and technology strategy. His leadership will help accelerate the development of intelligent, agentic capabilities that empower brands to deliver more personalized customer experiences, improve operational efficiency, and unlock new levels of productivity across marketing, commerce, and customer care.

“Omer joins Emplifi at a pivotal moment, not only for our company, but for the customer engagement industry,” said Ohad Hecht, CEO of Emplifi. “The next generation of customer engagement won’t be powered by disconnected AI tools; it will be driven by intelligent orchestration across the entire customer journey. That’s the vision behind Emplifi Fuel and our Autonomous Customer Experience platform. Omer’s experience building AI-first products and leading global technology organizations will help us accelerate that vision, empowering brands to operate faster, engage customers more intelligently, and achieve better business outcomes.”

Sharon brings more than two decades of experience building and scaling enterprise software products and leading high-performing global product organizations. He spent more than a decade at Emarsys, where he helped shape the company’s product strategy and scale its customer engagement platform through its growth and eventual acquisition by SAP. Most recently, he advised technology companies on AI-first product transformation, helping organizations modernize their operating models, accelerate innovation, and embed AI into their products and product development processes.

“I’m excited to join Emplifi at such a pivotal moment in the evolution of customer experience,” said Omer Sharon, Chief Product & Technology Officer at Emplifi. “AI is allowing us to rethink not only how software is built, but how brands create value for their customers. My focus will be on building products that customers love to use, accelerating innovation through AI, and creating even stronger connections between our product teams and the customers we serve. By combining deep customer insight with intelligent automation, we have an incredible opportunity to help brands deliver more connected, personalized, and impactful experiences at scale.”

Sharon’s appointment underscores Emplifi’s continued investment in advancing Autonomous Customer Experience (A-CX). As the company continues to evolve the Emplifi Fuel platform, Sharon will lead the next phase of product and technology innovation, accelerating the development of AI-powered capabilities that help brands create more intelligent, personalized, and autonomous experiences across marketing, commerce, and customer care.

About Emplifi

Emplifi is the only Autonomous CX platform unifying social marketing, commerce, and customer care for more than 20,000 brands worldwide. Powered by Fuel AI, built on more than 5T of data, and recognized as a leader by leading industry analysts, Emplifi helps enterprise teams orchestrate connected customer journeys and deliver personalized experiences at scale, turning every customer touchpoint into a competitive advantage.

Contact:
Jordan Lukes, Corporate Communications Director, Emplifi
jordan.lukes@emplifi.io

 

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