Henek is CEO and Co-founder of Hypeasia.co, a Venture Builder that help Startups expand in Asia. By leveraging our local market expertise, operation networks, and proven experience we partner with Founders and Investors to scale their business in Greater China, Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. We work hand-in-hand as stakeholders to build long term winning businesses. Hype Asia has worked with 17 startups since launching in 2018, a few notable names include Carousell, Snapask and Homage who are backed by VCs like Golden Gate Ventures, Sequoia, Rakuten Ventures and Jungle Ventures.

Henek was previously part of the first landing team to expand WeWork into the APAC region in 2016 as the General Manager for Asia ex. China - launching 5 locations in Australia, Hong Kong and S. Korea. Previous to WeWork - Henek was the General Manager for Greater China at Airbnb and part of its 2012 landing team that started Airbnb operations in Asia through setting up the Singapore hub. In his various roles with Airbnb, Henek helped grow Airbnb’s presence in the region and oversaw the hyper-growth of the company. At the start of his career - Henek worked in Bear Stearn, JP Morgan and Macquarie - departing as VP in Sales Trading where he serviced large institutions and funds that traded in APAC. He holds a Bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in the USA