Most Americans likely first heard of Chew when he released a video this week speaking directly to TikTok's U.S. “Chew has been in the background on public discourse until now, so he doesn't have the same reputation we would associate with the Silicon Valley set, especially Zuckerberg,” Duffy said. public knows relatively little about Chew compared with Silicon Valley social media giants such as Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, said Brooke Erin Duffy, who studies social media platforms as an associate professor of communications at Cornell University. Chew reports to ByteDance CEO Liang Rubo. He then worked for five years at Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone company, before being appointed TikTok CEO in 2021, replacing Kevin Mayer, a former Disney executive. Chew had a two-year internship with Facebook.Īfter earning his MBA, he became a partner at venture capital firm DST Global, where he worked for five years and helped facilitate investment in the company that became ByteDance. to pursue a master's degree at Harvard Business School. He graduated in 2006 from University College London and worked for two years at Goldman Sachs before moving to the U.S.
user data on servers maintained and owned by the software giant Oracle.Ĭhew, 40, is a native of Singapore, where he lives with his wife, Vivian Kao, and their two children. He says the company plans to store all U.S.
Lawmakers have said they're worried about American data falling into the hands of the Chinese government and claim it threatens national security and user privacy and could be used to promote pro-Beijing propaganda and misinformation.Ĭhew attempted to persuade lawmakers not to pursue a ban on the app or force Chinese parent company ByteDance to give up its ownership stake, testifying that TikTok prioritizes the safety of young users.
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