TikTok chief executive Shou Zi Chew has mostly kept a low profile since taking the job in 2021 but on Thursday he testified before US lawmakers, many of them suspicious of the popular Chinese-owned social media app.
Chew previously worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs and investment firm DST, which was an early backer of ByteDance, the company that owns TikTok. The administration of US President Joe Biden is under pressure from some lawmakers to ban TikTok over national security concerns at a time when US-China relations have deteriorated.
TikTok pointedly said in a letter to lawmakers last year that Chew was not from China and that the company is independent of ByteDance. Chew served as an officer in the Singaporean military during his mandatory conscription and went on to obtain an economics degree at University College of London and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
His TikTok account, which has more than 18,700 followers, often shows him attending sporting and cultural events, socializing with celebrities and other images typical of most social media users.
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