Shou Zi Chew is a Singaporean businessman and entrepreneur who has served as chief executive officer (CEO) of TikTok since 2021.
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Shou Zi was born on 1 January 1983. He is 40 years old.
Chew was born on 1 January 1983 in Singapore. His father worked in construction while his mother was a bookkeeper.
Upon his graduation from Hwa Chong Institution, Chew went on to serve his National Service (NS), where he served as a commissioned officer in the Singapore Army.
After his active military service, Chew went on to study at University College London, where he graduated in 2006 with a Bachelor of Economics degree.
In 2010, he completed a Master of Business Administration degree at Harvard Business School and did a summer internship at Facebook.
After graduating from University College London in 2006, Chew worked at Goldman Sachs in London for two years as a banker before he joined venture capital firm DST Global. At DST Global, Chew led a team of early investors in ByteDance in 2013.
In 2015, Chew joined smartphone giant Xiaomi as its chief financial officer. In 2019, he became Xiaomi’s international business president.
In March 2021, Chew joined ByteDance as its chief financial officer. He subsequently replaced TikTok CEO Kevin A. Mayer, who left the ByteDance subsidiary after three months on the job.
In March 2023, Chew testified before US Congress regarding the legislative effort to ban TikTok in the United States.
Chew married Taiwanese American Vivian Kao. They met in 2008 while studying at Harvard Business School. The couple has two children.
Chew likes to play golf and read books on theoretical physics in his spare time.
Shou Zi Chew Wife: Biography of Vivian Kao
The TikTok CEO’s wife is called Vivian Kao and works in investment. They met at Harvard Business School in 2008 and she is Taiwanese American.
Her LinkedIn profile reveals she is an independent non-executive director at Sun Hung Kai & Co, an investment company headquartered in Hong Kong.
Based in Singapore, she is also CEO and principal of Tamarind Global and on the board of trustees at Wellesley College in Massachusetts.
Vivian graduated with a BA in economic and Chinese studies from the school before going on to get an MBA from Harvard Business School.
The pair have two young children together who the CEO recently said are eight and six, although their names are not known.
In a March 2023 interview, the entrepreneur revealed his kids’ ages and said they don’t use TikTok as he believes they are “too young for that”.
“TikTok here in the US, if you are below 13, you get a very restrictive version of TikTok,” he continued, adding that many countries don’t allow users under 13 at all.
He then said that legally, there isn’t a way he could stop kids from having access to TikTok.
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