Henry Chen Weinstein is the CEO of Avolta NEXT, the ventures and innovation arm of Avolta Group, the global leader in Travel Experience, founded to drive transformative growth and global leadership in travel retail and F&B. He also co-founded and leads Vine Stone Ventures focused on Travel, Commerce and Foodtech and One Travel Ventures, a syndicate focused on solving travel’s biggest challenges as it becomes the fastest-growing mega-industry of the next decade.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Henry co-founded Travel Tech Nation, the industry’s first and only crowdsourced travel tech source, startup database (,2,500 entities), and global leadership community.

Previously, Henry founded and led Cockpit, the first corporate venture arm of the airline industry (EL AL), focused on disruptive travel, aviation, and aerospace technologies. As CEO, he expanded its global shareholder and partnerships base to include Boeing (Fortune 25), Lufthansa (Fortune 500), IATA, JetBlue (Fortune 500) and GateGroup (Held by HNA at the time - Fortune 500). Cockpit built a portfolio across 5 countries and enabled numerous startup POCs that led to commercial deals.

Investments included 30secondstofly (acq. Amex GBT), AeroCRS (acq. 777 Partners), Holisto (fka Splitty) (acq. Trivago NASDAQ:TRVG), Quicklizard (IPO: TASE:QLRD, acq. Riverwood Capital), Routier (acq. accesiBe), Eplane, and others.

Henry also served on the boards of companies such as NSLComm (satellite tech innovator improving transmitting precision and power by as much as 500x) and AeroCRS (supporting 90+ airlines worldwide with mobility and ops tech).

With a passion for breaking innovation barriers, Henry founded platforms like the Startup Challenge Competition (450+ semifinalists, 200+ corporations, 15 verticals, $3B+ raised). He also advised global firms on tech-driven strategy and growth, including Dufry, Hisense, Axel Springer, ERG, Barclays, Techstars, Tel Aviv University, Bezeq, and Pelephone.

Earlier in his career, Henry spent nearly a decade in product development across both private and public sectors, driving product success in industries ranging from electro-optics to mobile commerce.

He has been recognized as one of Forbes 30 under 30, Phocuswright’s 35 under 35 in Travel, Globes 40 under 40 (Israeli Financial Times), one of Israel’s 100 most influential people in digital, and a Top Retail Expert (TRE) in global commerce and innovation.