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- Stephen Xu (Chinese name: Simplified Chinese: 许一方; Traditional Chinese: 許一方; pinyin: Xǔ Yīfāng).
- Born on December 16, 1987 in Shanghai, China.
- Named after one of Qiong Yao's romance novels, Zai Shui Yi Fang (Chinese: 在水一方; pinyin: Zài Shuǐ Yī Fāng, later made into a TV series of the same name), which in turn had its name taken from a poem from the Book of Odes.
- Immigrated to Calgary, Alberta, Canada on November 30, 1990, adopting the given name Stephen.
- Colloquially fluent in Mandarin and Shanghainese.
- Attending the University of Waterloo, majoring in Actuarial science.
- Working at the Bank of Montreal in North York, Ontario over the summer, for the Spring 2006 co-op term.