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New York, United States

• Honor: Forté Fellow (merit-based scholarship recipient)
• Extracurricular involvement: Management Consulting Association, Peer Tutor, Columbia Women in Business, CSIMA

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Constructed subscription strategies covering pricing, advertising planning, and audience engagement, helping drive the company’s Jounce Score, a monetization metric for advertising-supported websites, to 1.5, above the.
• Created go-to-market strategies by working closely with the leadership team to refine its positioning, delivering 12 recommendations to best utilize its audience engagement of 4 minutes per session, far surpassing the.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Devised market entry strategies for a FTSE 100 media company to expand into the US, identifying value creation opportunities and synergy through qualitative and quantitative analysis, recommending 3 acquisition targets.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Led a team of six business journalists, creating two pages of business news daily covering Taiwan and foreign markets, and cultivating team morale through mentoring, growing page views by 8% and improving turnover by.
• Communicated with advertisers to ensure the best and win-win outcomes, solved one major conflict of interest by designing creative advertorial solutions, enabling five-year partnership with most clients, outperforming.
• Created a new segment of start-up news after identifying the next readership trends and pitching to the editor-in-chief, attaining new readers and collaborating with the advertising team to convert the traffic growth.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Published reports assessing readiness of Boeing 737 Max by conducting interviews with Boeing’s C-suite, Asian suppliers, and experts and synthesizing conflicting information, steering a world’s top 10 airline to.
• Issued reports unveiling $9M crypto fraud by conducting due diligence of 10 token offerings to identify risks and fraudulent roots, and proposing policy directions through Web3 expert interviews, leading to the passage.
• Modeled financial losses of Evergreen for blocking Suez Canal in 2021 by leveraging a key piece of information obtained from exclusive interviews with reinsurance firms along with freight data, cited by Suez Canal.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Published comprehensive reports on Taiwan’s first offshore wind power bidding, identifying the root cause of cost overruns of $70B by modeling, collecting data from 10 government agencies, and interviewing suppliers.
• Covered 2017 Taiwan Blackout under immense stress, issuing exclusive reports revealing the root cause through intensive research of LNG power and expert interviews, gaining 1M page views in 1 hour, the highest in the.
• Elected as the first female president in Journalist Society of the MOEA, Taiwan’s largest government agency in business space, raising women participation by 3X and negotiating for data transparency on behalf of all.
• Won Taiwan’s Sustainable and Constructive Journalism Award in 2017 (1st out of 52 competing reports) for reports on net zero challenges facing Asian businesses

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Advised an e-scooter unicorn’s CEO on disappointing sales in the early days when being requested by the CEO, leveraging key findings from interviews with riders, and suggesting strategic changes; the CEO adopted them.

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Issued reports on the disappointing user adoption of Taipei bicycle-sharing program, collaborating with one council member to use public traffic data to identify reasons of low adoption and determine better locations.
• Led a special task force covering Taipei mayoral election and proposed solutions to optimize workflow after noticing inefficient work patterns and identifying error reasons, increasing output by 80% and reducing errors.
• Won VivianWu Journalism Award in 2013 for reports on national traffic policies

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Economics

Top 3% of class

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature, General

Top 3% of class