Juwan Lee

Juwan Lee is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, fintech, blockchain and social media influencer and investment professional with three decades of financial services and investment industry experience, managing portfolios and organizations on behalf of multi-billion dollar hedge funds, proprietary trading desks, asset management and venture capital firms. He is the Founder and CEO of NexChange, an innovation venture ecosystem as a service, specializing in fintech, insurtech, blockchain, AI and healthtech. Mr Lee is a Co-founder and Director of the Hong Kong Blockchain Centre. Most recently, Medium has placed him as one of the top 8 influencers of the Asian blockchain community. He is the organizer for both Hong Kong Fintech Week and Healthtech O2O, a part of StartmeupHK Festival.From an investment perspective, Mr Lee is the CEO of Arrakis Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology startups. He is the former CIO of Shanghai's largest asset management firm and spent many years at JP Morgan in a variety of roles from principal investments to heading equity within asset management division. Mr Lee was a pioneer in managing technology portfolios on behalf of hedge funds like SAC Capital, Continuity Capital and Osprey Capital and asset managers like Rothschilds and Montgomery. He funded many star companies in the Silicon Valley, Taiwan's Hsinchu Science Park, Korea and Israel and was an early investor in Netscape and Yahoo and has an Engineering degree from the University of California Berkeley.