Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Next47
Location Menlo Park, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast Gender Female
Investor Type Investment Partner
Website www.skyboximaging.com LinkedIn View on LinkedIn Twitter View on Twitter
Ching-Yu is an entrepreneur born and raised in Silicon Valley.
As the Director of Business Development, Ching-Yu is responsible for driving new business opportunities with strategic alliances and partnerships around the world. Since co-founding Skybox, she has played a key role in supporting Skybox’s Series A, B, and C venture capital financing,
marketing, sales, and various business operations initiatives.
In 2008, Ching-Yu met her 3 co-founders who shared a vision of building a big data company powered by small satellites. Prior to Skybox, Ching-Yu held various roles at JPMorgan and TIAA-CREF creating portfolio optimization models, analyzing large volumes of transactional data to determine risks and exposures of financial assets, and other data analytics projects. As an undergraduate, Ching-Yu conducted research in the Industrial Engineering Operations Research department focusing on uncertainty modeling and robust portfolio optimization.
Ching-Yu earned her Master’s degree in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. She previously earned a Bachelor’s degree in Operations Research Management Science, and a Bachelor’s degree in Statistics from University of California, Berkeley.
While not at Skybox, Ching-Yu greatly enjoys bossa-nova jazz, vinyasa yoga, traveling, and spending time with her friends and family.