Our pleasure to have Mr. King Leung, Global Head of Financial Services @InvestHK, the department of the Hong Kong SAR Government responsible for attracting Foreign Direct Investment, to deliver an opening keynote for the Kaspa Innovation Summit 2024 in Hong Kong.
Mr. Leung builds a better Hong Kong by accomplishing his mission of investment attract and job creation in the financial services, fintech, and sustainability sectors. Mr. Leung and his teams also enrich the ecosystem and contribute to raising the long-term competitiveness and innovation of the related sectors; these goals are only achieved through collaboration with a broad range of stakeholders – policy bureaus, regulators, financial institutions, investors, fintech and sustainability companies, associations, etc.
Prior to joining the government, Mr. Leung had a diverse private sector background as a serial tech entrepreneur, angel investor, fintech lecturer. Mr. Leung was a management consultant at Booz Allen & Hamilton and KPMG Consulting in the US, as well as a venture capitalist at Innovate@, a technology fund jointly managed by Booz Allen & Hamilton and Lehman Brothers in the US. His first data-related startup was established through seed investment from Credit Suisse.
Mr. Leung received his MBA in Finance and Strategy (honors) from the University of Chicago and BSc in Mechanical Engineering (honors) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison.