Henri Arslanian is the Head of Corporate Development and Strategic Partnerships at APrivacy, an award winning FinTech firm based in Hong Kong and Canada, where he leads the corporate development efforts of the firm. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Hong Kong University’s Masters in Finance program where he teaches graduate courses on FinTech and Entrepreneurship in Finance. He previously spent many years with the UBS Investment Bank Capital Consulting team in Hong Kong, where he assisted finance entrepreneurs with every aspect of setting-up their own fund in Asia from early stage investor seed deals and fund structuring to institutional capital raising and international expansion. Admitted to the Bar in both New York and Quebec, Henri started his career as a financial markets and corporate lawyer in Canada and Hong Kong, where he advised financial institutions, family offices, venture capital and hedge funds Henri is a regular speaker globally on the topic of FinTech, hedge funds and Asian financial markets and and currently sits on a number of other finance, academic, civil society and FinTech related boards and advisory boards, including as co-Chair of the Financial Services Committee of the Canadian Chamber of Hong Kong, as an adviser to FinTech.HK and as President of the Armenian Community of China. Fluent in English, French, Armenian, Spanish and conversational in Mandarin Chinese, Henri has been awarded many honors over the years including the Governor General of Canada Gold Medal for Academic Excellence and was named as one of the global "20 Rising Stars under 40" by the Armenian Bar Association. Henri holds a Masters in Chinese Law from Tsinghua University, a joint Global Executive MBA from Columbia Business School, London Business School and Hong Kong University, a Masters in Transnational Law from the University of Sherbrooke and a Bachelor of Law from the University of Montreal (Dean's List of Excellence)