TikTok names Singaporean CEO based out of SG Details 01 May 2021
TikTok has appointed Singaporean ByteDance CFO Shouzi Chew as CEO. Chew will be based in Singapore, while remaining as ByteDance’s CFO. According to his LinkedIn Chew was previously CFO and partner, director, president of International at Xiaomi Technology for over five years. Prior to joining ByteDance earlier this year, Chew held a number of senior roles with global mandates in the technology and investment community. In 2013 he led a team that became one of the earliest investors in the company. He is based in his hometown of Singapore.
According to the company, the move was a “strategic reorganisation to optimise TikTok s global teams” and support the company s “unprecedented growth . Yiming Zhang, founder and CEO of ByteDance said, Chew brings deep knowledge of the company and industry, having led a team that was among our earliest investors, and having worked