Philippe Henry

Senior Advisor, Co-Chair, MLETR Group, Paris EUROPLACE

^{Philippe Henry is a senior corporate and investment banking professional with more than 35 years transactional experience and expertise in financing, risk management and structuring of debt and equity based solutions. Until recently he was the Head of Global Banking for Europe, Middle East and Africa at HSBC. He played an active role in building extending stakeholder relationships with senior clients, regulators and third parties. He is adept at thinking ahead and ready to embrace new, challenging, yet ultimately rewarding ways of driving business, including financial, non-financial risk and conduct, and encouraging the building of the healthiest human system in the banking industry. He was also a key business sponsor of HSBC’s Digital Transformation effort. Convinced that fintech, technology, analytics, big data and AI have the potential to transform the financial services industry into a leaner and more customer focused sector, in July 2021 he launched Dewenson Partners, a management consulting and venture capital company, helping strategic investors, private equity, entrepreneurs, boards and executive committees to create value in financial services. Philippe is a Strategic Board Advisor to Kyriba, a leading global fintech company and a Senior Advisor to Paris EUROPLACE, the French financial centre association. He has a great deal of experience as a board member of several business units and legal entities within the HSBC Group. He is co-chair of the mission entrusted by the French government on the digitalisation of international trade financing activities.}