# Michel Lee

> Michel Lee is the Executive President of HashKey Group, Co-Founder of Cybertech Partners, and a former UBS executive with a background in Physics and Artificial...

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**Michel Lee** is the Executive President at [HashKey](https://iq.wiki/wiki/hashkey-exchange) Group, a financial service provider with a focus on the [web3](https://iq.wiki/wiki/web3) space; and is also a Co-Founder of Cybertech Partners (Asia) Ltd. Prior to his current positions, he has worked for UBS for 25 years, assuming three different roles during his time at the company. [\[1\]](#cite-id-pmil60jj6j)[\[2\]](#cite-id-ip1yuhi87ri)  
  
  
# Education  
  
From 1990 to 1992, Michel Lee pursued his Bachelor of Science (1st Class) in Physics & Computer Science at University College London (UCL). Subsequently, from 1992 to 1993, he continued his education at Imperial College London, where he took a Master of Science program in Advanced Information Technology with a specialization in Artificial Intelligence. [\[2\]](#cite-id-ip1yuhi87ri)  
  
# Career  
  
In the first 25 years of Michel Lee's career, he worked for UBS, a multinational investment bank and financial services company, gradually moving up the corporate ladder. [\[3\]](#cite-id-i6fvyw2jhzb)  
  
## UBS  
  
In the early years of his career, from July 1993 to May 1995, Lee worked in London, United Kingdom, where he engaged in Quantitative Research & Investor Coverage. [\[3\]](#cite-id-i6fvyw2jhzb)  
  
Following this, he transitioned to Tokyo, Japan, and served as Managing Director, Head of Structured Products, from June 1995 to June 2008. In this role, he played a key part in shaping and overseeing structured products within the Japanese market. [\[3\]](#cite-id-i6fvyw2jhzb)  
  
In July 2008, Lee moved to Hong Kong where he held the position of Managing Director, Head of Capital Markets & Derivatives, Asia-Pacific until October 2018. In this role he had to take leadership in capital markets and derivatives, contributing significantly to the Asia-Pacific region. [\[3\]](#cite-id-i6fvyw2jhzb)  
  
Continuing his tenure at UBS, Lee took on the role of Board of Directors, UBS Securities, and Head of China Investment Banking from January 2017 to October 2018, lasting 1 year and 10 months. During this time, he was responsible for directing investment banking activities, particularly focusing on the Chinese market. [\[3\]](#cite-id-i6fvyw2jhzb)  
  
## Current Positions  
  
### Cybertech Partners  
  
In October 2018, Lee co-founded Cybertech Partners (Asia) Ltd. in Hong Kong SAR, where he has been serving as a Co-Founder, overlooking and taking leadership of the company's direction and its involvement in the technology sector. [\[3\]](#cite-id-i6fvyw2jhzb)  
  
### HashKey Group  
  
Since January 2019, Lee has held the position of Executive President at [HashKey](https://iq.wiki/wiki/hashkey-exchange) Group, a financial services company serving for individuals, businesses and people in the [cryptocurrency](https://iq.wiki/wiki/cryptocurrency) and [blockchain](https://iq.wiki/wiki/blockchain) space. in Hong Kong. At this position, he continues to contribute to the strategic leadership and executive decision-making within the organization, aiming to fully understand each company that they are looking to partner up with in terms of their goals and focal points, and looking for a strong team behind them. He highlighted this at an Institutional Investors and Digital Assets panel in 2020: [\[3\]](#cite-id-i6fvyw2jhzb)[\[4\]](#cite-id-oxtt1k1xbr)  
  
> "We started really understanding who are the smartest people, who has the best teams, and a lot of these are affiliated with universities with some of the smartest scientific institutions globally. Really understanding the angle that they are coming at and the innovation that they're bringing"