#3 Lucy Liu - Building a Unicorn Cross-Border Payments Company

Lucy Liu is Co-founder and President of Airwallex. She is responsible for the company’s branding and operations and has been involved with the company since its early days. Before establishing Airwallex, she was an investment consultant in CICC (China International Capital Corporation) and also served as a board director of Hong Stone Investment Development Limited, a Hong Kong based investment company. With her outstanding entrepreneurial achievements, Lucy has won a series of awards including 2020 EY Entrepreneurial Winning Women Asia-Pacific, 2019 SmartCompany “30 Under 30”, 2018 Fintech Australia Female Leader of the Year, and 2017 Forbes “30 Young Entrepreneurs in Asia”.

Lucy's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/awxlucy/ Airwallex's website: http://airwallex.com/

Airwallex is a technology company that revolutionises the way businesses operate globally. Businesses use Airwallex as their end-to-end global financial services platform. Whether it’s making or receiving payments from customers, domestically or internationally, Airwallex saves businesses time and money by offering real-time, reliable and cost-effective financial solutions.

Founded in 2015, Airwallex has since grown to over 400 employees across ten offices around the world. Airwallex has raised over US$360 million in venture capital funding, supported by top-tier investors including Tencent, Sequoia Capital China, DST Global, Hillhouse Capital, Horizons Ventures, ANZi Ventures, Square Peg Capital, Mastercard and Salesforce Ventures. In March 2019, Airwallex was valued over US$1 billion after its Series C financing, and became one of the fintech unicorns in APAC. The company was also named one of the world’s top 50 fintechs in KPMG’s 2019 and 2018 Fintech100 lists.