Hospitality Investor Dinner (Bay Street Hospitality, Alyvate Hospitality, InvestHK & Chris Shen)
Network with hospitality investors, developers, operators, and asset owners over dinner.
About your hosts:
Invest Hong Kong (InvestHK) is the investment promotion agency of the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR). Our vision is to strengthen Hong Kong’s status as a leading international finance and business hub. Our mission is to facilitate and promote economically and strategically important investment, both inward and outward, to support the economic development of Hong Kong. We support overseas and Mainland Chinese companies and institutions, from multinational corporates to startups, to plan, set up their business in Hong Kong, and to expand their operations and international reach via Hong Kong.
William Huston is the Founder and General Partner of Bay Street Hospitality, an institutional investment platform redefining hotel investing through data, discipline, and global access. Recognized as Entrepreneur of the Year (2023) by Daymond John, Huston was also named one of Investopedia’s Top 100 Investors (2021–2023). In 2023, Bay Street ranked #1 by AUM growth, and in 2024, he exited its wealth division at 5x EBITDA. Bay Street’s quantamental framework powers the Bay Street Terminal—featuring proprietary metrics like Bay Score™, AHA™, and BAS™—offering institutional investors structured exposure to global hotel assets through a diversified, data-driven lens.
Chris Shen is the cofounder and COO of Revere, which is building the Bloomberg terminal for private alternatives, and is backed by Morgan Stanley and institutional VC funds. Prior to that, he was the cofounder of West 22nd Capital Advisers, a HK-based single family office, where he oversaw fund investments and was a member of the investment committee. Chris began his career as a corporate finance lawyer at Baker McKenzie, where he represented APAC issuers and sponsors on a wide range of transactions. Based in Asia from 2006-2019, Chris is admitted to practice law in Texas, is a SFC Type 1, 4, and 9 responsible officer and speaks fluent Mandarin.