Henry Zhang is the President and Managing Partner of Hermitage Capital, a tech focused global private equity firm with US$1.5bn AUM. Henry was named Forbes China’s “Venture Capital 100” in 2023, Forbes China’s “Top 100 Most Influential Chinese Elites” in 2023 and “36 under 36 Investors” by 36Kr. In 2024 Henry was selected as China-France Young Leader by France China Foundation and Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs.
Henry led Hermitage Capital’s investments into global technology leaders, including large language model companies xAI, Anthropic and Cohere, AI robotics company 1X, autonomous driving solution provider Horizon Robotics, AI smart manufacturing provider SmartMore, AI drug discover company XTalPi, LiDAR provider Seyond, computational storage solution provider ScaleFlux, Web3 DeFi company ConsenSys, high-performance GPU provider MetaX, solid-state EV battery provider Factorial Energy, and all-solid-state EV battery electrolyte provider CASOL.
Prior to Hermitage Capital, Henry spent 11 years as an investment banker, holding various senior positions including Executive Director and Head of China Enterprise Technology Investment Banking at J.P. Morgan, Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at China Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley, and Associate Director of Asia-Pacific Investment Banking Department at UBS. During his investment banking career, Henry has completed over 60 deals with combined transaction value of over US$60 billion.
Henry attended Owner/President Management Program (alternative to Executive MBA) at Harvard Business School. He has completed Executive Leadership Development Program at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Henry previously studied at Singapore Management University, University of British Columbia and HEC Paris.
Henry has been interviewed by leading financial media including Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Reuters, South China Morning Post, Caixin, ChinaVenture, and 36Kr. He is also a frequent guest speaker at global conferences including Future Investment Initiative (FII), Harvard College China Forum, Hong Kong Stock Exchange Future Tech Summit, Arab-China Business Conference as well as leading universities including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Shanghai Jiao Tong University on topics related to technology investment.