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About Jack Zhang
https://www.airwallex.com/uk
Jack Zhang Founder & CEO of Airwallex, a technology company that revolutionises the way businesses operate globally. Our financial infrastructure provides a modern technology stack for businesses of all sizes to operate internationally, without the challenges of the current global financial system.
The company, founded in Melbourne and headquartered in Hong Kong, is a global payments platform that helps businesses manage and make international payments quickly, transparently, and cost-efficiently, without the constraints of the traditional financial system. It’s a simple idea but a much-needed one, and it has caught fire accordingly, with Airwallex becoming a unicorn several times over—most recently, in October 2022, raising US$100 million in a Series E extended round and sustaining its US$5.5 billion valuation.
Born in China, Jack Zhang moved to Melbourne as a teenager. He began his career as a software engineer for various financial services companies in the UK and Australia while launching numerous different entrepreneurial ventures on the side, the most significant among them being Melbourne property development company Hohen, before establishing Airwallex in 2015.
Under his leadership, Airwallex has raised over US$800 million in funding, supported by top-tier investors including Lone Pine Capital, Greenoaks Capital, Salesforce Ventures and DST Global. Jack has won a series of awards for his outstanding entrepreneurial achievements including Outstanding Leader of the Year by Fintech Australia (2019) and one of Ernst & Young's Entrepreneurs of the Year (2018). He was also recognised for his engineering excellence and awarded one of the most prestigious engineering awards in Australia, the Kernot Memorial Medal, by the University of Melbourne (2021).Prior to starting Airwallex, Jack had over a decade of experience in foreign exchange trading and investment banking across London, Melbourne and Hong Kong.