TikTok’s low-key CEO faces down US Congress FMTNews FMTBusiness
SINGAPORE: TikTok’s CEO Shou Zi Chew, who will represent the Chinese company in a US congressional meeting today, is a former banker turned tech boss whose soft-spoken persona belies his meteoric rise.
Born in the city-state to a family with Chinese heritage, Chew attended the prestigious Hwa Chong school before studying economics at University College London. He moved to TikTok’s parent company ByteDance in March 2021 and soon took over as the social media app’s chief executive officer after the abrupt resignation of his predecessor, the American Kevin Mayer.But it is unclear how much power Chew has to make decisions compared to ByteDance founder Zhang Yiming and other executives at the parent firm.
The Biden administration has gone one step further, telling the company to cut ties with its Chinese ownership or face a complete ban. “TikTok has never shared, or received a request to share, US user data with the Chinese government. Nor would TikTok honour such a request if one were ever made.”Chew himself is not a prolific TikTok user, posting less than two dozen videos since last year and boasting a mere 18,500 followers.
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