The TikTok CEO, a former Goldman Sachs banker and Harvard grad, is on the hot seat as lawmakers consider banning the app.
Chew, 40, took the helm of TikTok about two years ago after spending most of his career in investment banking and venture capital. Chew, born in January 1983 in Singapore, completed mandatory military service for the Singaporean government as a teenager. then moved to England to enroll at University College London. After earning a bachelor's degree in economics, he then landed a job as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs in London.
A few years later, he left that role to move again — this time to the United States — to enroll in Harvard Business School in 2008. While still at Harvard, Chew After graduating from Harvard in 2010, Chew spent a decade working for a venture capital firm in Hong Kong and a consumer electronics manufacturer in Beijing.
In 2021, he joined TikTok and its parent company ByteDance in a dual role of TikTok CEO and ByteDance chief financial officer. Why is Chew appearing before U.S. lawmakers? Chew is facing intense questioning before the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce as a possible ban of TikTok is The hearing Thursday centers on TikTok's"consumer privacy and data security practices, how the platform affects children, and its relationship with the Chinese Communist Party," or CCP, according to the committee.
National security experts have warned that TikTok, which has 150 million American users, could be used to spy on Americans or as a propaganda tool by the Chinese government. Advocates for banning the app in the U.S. said TikTok's China-based parent company, ByteDance, could be forced to share user data with the CCP.
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