Alex Chan

Alex is the Director of Business Engineering in APAC at Meta. His team's mission is to help businesses grow today and build for tomorrow through world-class engineering. Prior to joining Meta, he was the head of product and engineering at Rakuten Viki, a successful video streaming startup acquired by Rakuten. Before that, Alex spent 10 years at Microsoft, where some of his many accomplishments include helping to launch the R&D center in Shanghai and incubating new cloud services in the early days of Azure. He also led the development of Microsoft’s billing and payment platform. Alex’s past work experiences include being a founding member of a new business venture for cloud infrastructure at Cisco Systems.

Alex is a citizen of the world. Having lived, studied and worked in Singapore, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Canada, and the United States, he loves learning about and experiencing new cultures. Alex has an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He also has a bachelor’s degree from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and a master’s from the University of Waterloo, both in computer science and with a specialisation in AI. Alex holds numerous patents for networking and workflow technologies.