FoundersHK: How to Hire CTO and Build an Engineering Team with Henson Tsai, SleekFlow
Join FoundersHK for an exclusive live webinar with Henson Tsai, founder and CEO at Sleekflow and Edith Yeung, General Partner at Race Capital happening on September 12 at 8:30 AM HKT (September 11 at 5:30 PDT)
In this webinar, you will discover essential strategies for hiring a CTO and building a strong engineering team in Hong Kong. Key topics include:
How to hire CTO, engineering leaders, and engineers.
When and how to intentionally create and shape a team culture
The pros and cons of offshore versus fully distributed teams
Dos and don'ts for scaling a engineering team
Challenges with hiring in Hong Kong
And much more
Speakers include:
Henson Tsai - Founder & CEO of SleekFlow
Henson Tsai is Founder & CEO of SleekFlow - an Omnichannel Conversational AI Suite that merges popular platforms like WhatsApp and Messenger, with CRM and e-commerce tools like Salesforce and Shopify for businesses to drive conversations through conversations.
Henson plays a crucial role in growing SleekFlow’s young, resilient and dynamic team of over 160 engineers, sales, marketers, support professionals, and designers. Headquartered in Singapore and Hong Kong, SleekFlow now operates in several global locations, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Brazil, and the UAE, with plans for further expansion.
Under his leadership, SleekFlow secured $7M Series A+ funding from from AEF Greater Bay Area Fund, Transcend Capital Partners, Moses Tsang and mopre.
Selected as one of the Forbes Asia's 30 under 30 2023, Henson holds a BSc in Mathematics with Statistics for Finance from Imperial College London and started his career as an investment banker at HSBC then Ernst & Young.
Edith Yeung - General Partner at Race Capital
Edith Yeung is a General Partner at Race Capital - an early-stage Silicon Valley venture capital fund investing in all things infrastructure. Edith is the seed investor in Solana (has been dubbed one of the best venture investments of all time), Lightning Network, Agora.io, Placer.ai, RapidAPI, and 60 other amazing startups.
Prior to Race Capital, Edith was a partner at 500 Startups, the world's most active early-stage fund and incubator which invested in Twilio, Credit Karma, Grab, and 2000 more companies.
Before 500, Edith was the general manager at Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia Capital - backed mobile browser with over 150 million installs worldwide. Edith also worked with many Fortune 500 companies such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, and Autodesk. She frequently speaks on venture capital, women in leadership, China and Silicon Valley technology and investment landscape. She is also a frequent guest lecturer at Berkeley and Stanford and commentator on BBC, CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, SCMP, Techcrunch, The Information, etc.
About Race Capital
Race Capital is an early-stage venture fund focused on investing in exceptional founders who are building market-transforming companies in the data, enterprise, infrastructure, and fintech sectors. Our team are seed investors in Databricks, Solana, Agora.io, and many other great companies. For more information, visit https://race.capital/.
About FoundersHK
FoundersHK is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization with the mission to build Hong Kong as the next tech hub of the world.
FoundersHK is a global community of entrepreneurs, technology leaders and investors passionate about propelling the next generation of Hong Kong founders to scale and thrive in all parts of the world. FoundersHK is an entryway for Hong Kong founders to Silicon Valley and the rest of the world. We put the right people together, to help Hong Kong founders become an integral contributor to the global community of tech innovation leadership.
FoundersHK is a community where we skip the bullshit, get right to work, and deliver results. For that is the essence of the true Hong Kong spirit.