Who is Shou Zi Chew? What to know about the TikTok CEO testifying before Congress
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Shou Zi Chew, the CEO of TikTok, faced a panel of federal lawmakers Thursday and sought to calm their concerns about the social media platform due to its ties to China and possible security risks that could arise as a result. Chew, 40, took the helm of TikTok about two years ago after spending most of his career in investment banking and venture capital. Here's what you need to know. Who is Shou Zi Chew? 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 took an internship in 2009 at a then-modest startup