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Downtime: Yian Huang

by Marc Almagro
Photography by Chino Sardea
29 Mar 2017

Entrepreneur Yian Huang has a need for speed, which helps him unwind from the hectic work week that was

Yian Huang wears many hats: He's a director at Capital H Priavte Limited, whose principal activity is running a portal for real estate rantal, and concurrently CTO and CFO at The Great Room Offices — the game-changing co-working space at One George Street. But it's a motorcycle helmet that he dons when he unwinds.

"I love going on road trips; I once went across the US on a bike for 40 days — it was the best trip ever."

"I love going on road trips; I once went across the US on a bike for 40 days — it was the best trip ever," he recalls. His favorite pillion is, obviously, his wife Jaelle. The couple stunned friends and family when they "famously traveled down the coast of Western Australia just after she gave birth." Yian rides a Triumph Bonneville t100.

Yian, who studied finance at the University of Pennsylvania, and journalism at Columbia University, is an accomplished photographer and photojournalist. He has had stints at global management consulting firm Bain & Company, as well as German lens and camera giant Leica.