About Justin Yek

Justin Yek, finance leader, entrepreneur, and software engineer. Former head of Southeast Asia tech investment banking at Morgan Stanley, where he worked with founders in China and Southeast Asia to find strategic partners, raise capital, and go public. Before that, he ran a profitable web and mobile app development agency before exiting the business in 2018. At Airwallex, he leads the finance team. They are a payments and financial platform for global businesses. Businesses use them as an all-in-one platform to grow and manage their financial operations including payments, treasury, and spend management. They also white-label their financial and licensing infrastructure to provide embedded financial services to their users. Justin Yek is interested in meeting founders, investors, and builders in fintech and tech. Please reach out if you’d like to chat! Justin Yek, Head of Strategic Finance & Corporate Development at Airwallex since November 2022. Cofounder at Altitude Labs from 2014 to 2018. Associate, Industrials Investment Banking at Citi from 2009 to 2014. Justin Yek first pursued their education at Columbia University from 2006 to 2009, obtaining a Bachelor's Degree in Financial Engineering. After that, from 2004 to 2006, they attended ACCA to acquire a Masters Equivalent Accounting Qualification. In 2014, Justin Yek completed an Advanced Software Engineering Immersive program at Hack Reactor.