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Place of Birth: Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia
About Cheryl (Yeoh) Sew Hoy
- Cheryl (Yeoh) Sew Hoy (born May 31, 1983) is an entrepreneur, speaker and angel investor, best known for being the Founding CEO of the Malaysian Global Innovation and Creativity Centre (MaGIC), a government-funded agency to support entrepreneurship in Malaysia and ASEAN.
- She co-founded Reclip.It, which was acquired by Walmart Labs in 2013.
- Yeoh served as an Independent Board of Director of Flexiroam Limited (ASX:FRX), an Australia-based telecommunications company from 2016-2018.
- She is currently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Silicon Valley Bank, and an advisor to various startups including blockchain infrastructure company Tendermint, the team that built Cosmos Network and Kenzie Academy.
- Yeoh has been credited with helping put Malaysia and its startups on the world map,.
- In 2012, Yeoh was named “Top 44 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know” by Mashable.Yeoh is the founder of the #movingforward campaign which encourages VCs to commit to a diverse, inclusive and harassment free workplace.
- She was listed in TIME magazine's "2017 Person of the Year," as the 13th "Silence Breaker," who spoke out against sexual harassment in the workplace.
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