Henry Chen

Henry has more than 30 years of experience in investment banking, private equity, and venture capital.

Henry spent the first part of his professional career in New York City. He started his journey in Smith Barney's Debt Originations Group (now Citigroup Inc.’s Global Corporate & Investment Banking Group). Later, he joined BBVA to work with financial and industrial clients in South America. He shifted his focus to Asia about 10 years ago and was recently a Managing Partner at Aspiro Capital, a venture capital firm based in Taipei.

As an entrepreneur, Henry co-founded OptiPhar, a fintech start-up that focused on the acquisition and securitization of adjudicated pharmacy receivables; and GTLpetrol which planned to build, own and operate multi-billion-dollar industrial complexes that would convert natural gas to synthetic petroleum. Recently, he co-founded and is the CEO of Double Helix Labs, the sponsor for Nucleo DAO, which is working on the intersection of Web3 and healthcare big data.

Henry holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Technology from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University and a B.S.E in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.