Cheryl Sew Hoy

Cheryl Sew Hoy ( Yeoh; born 31 May 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. Sew Hoy served as an independent non-executive director of Flexiroam Limited, an Australia-based telecommunications company from 2016 to 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.

Sew Hoy has been credited with helping put Malaysia and its startups on the world map. In 2012, Sew Hoy was named "Top 44 Female Founders Every Entrepreneur Should Know" by Mashable.

Sew Hoy is the founder of the #MovingForward campaign which encourages VCs to commit to a diverse, inclusive and harassment-free workplace. She was listed as one of ''Time'' magazine's persons of the year in 2017, as a "Silence Breaker", who spoke out against sexual harassment in the workplace. Provided by Wikipedia