Kathy Chan (陳凱英) is an American
entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values t ...
and investor. From 2007 to 2010, Chan worked at
Facebook
Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Mosk ...
, where she focused on corporate communications and marketing. In 2010, she co-founded investment fir
137 Ventures In August 2014, she became an operating partner at
Khosla Ventures
Khosla Ventures is an American venture capital firm founded by Vinod Khosla, focused on early-stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, financial services, agriculture, healthcare and clean technology sectors. Some of its most successf ...
.
Earlier in her career, Chan was involved in
U.S. politics. During the
2006 election cycle, she served as deputy campaign manager and interim political committee director for
Senator Bob Casey Jr. Previously, she was the director of operations for
John Kerry
John Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American attorney, politician and diplomat who currently serves as the first United States special presidential envoy for climate. A member of the Forbes family and the Democratic Party, he ...
’s
2004 presidential campaign in Pennsylvania.
Kerry General Election Pennsylvania Campaign Organization
''Democracy In Action. ''Retrieved 18 August 2013.
Chan currently serves as a senior advisor to South by Southwest (SXSW).
References
External links
Bloomberg executive profile
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Living people
American venture capitalists
American people of Chinese descent
Facebook employees
American women in business
Silicon Valley people
Drew University alumni
American financial company founders
Businesspeople from New York City
21st-century Chinese businesspeople
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century American women