Full Name
Ruo-Mei Chua
Job Title
Chief Impact Officer
Company
SUTW IMPACT
Speaker Bio
>19,000 Lives Touched | >25 Countries | >930+ Award-Winning Startups, Deep Techs & SEs

Impact Storytelling & Presenting | DeepTech Startup Pitching & Corporate Innovation | Career Consulting & Interviews Coaching | Values-Driven Purpose Design | Digital Innovation & Human-Centred Design |

Quadrilingual Hosting, Moderation & Interpretation (EN, CHI, JPN, ESP) | Ex-Amazon (AWS) | Keynote Speaker

Ruo-Mei Chua is Chief Impact Officer at SUTW Impact Consulting. An authentic brand storyteller, international career consultant, and highly sought-after pitch coach to award-winning startups and innovation teams, she has inspired more than 19,000 people from across 25 countries. Her passion is helping innovators, professionals and businesses better articulate their value for decisive buy-in and rapport with key stakeholders. She infuses her approach with cultural and linguistic fluency in English, Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish and her experience living in five countries and growing up alongside peers from 78 nations.

Ruo Mei is well-known in global pitching circles and works extensively with accelerators and corporate incubators to nurture award-winning startups. A long-time pitch mentor at top global accelerators such as Silicon Valley-based 500 Global, Singtel Future Makers, EduSpaze, SMU IIE, NTUitive Venture Build, NUS GRIP, Stanford-SG Biodesign, and A*START Central, she has personally coached changemakers from across the globe, including media success stories, SWITCH/ Slingshot category winners, successful Series A founders, and international winners (e.g. Plug n Play SF, TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 Startup Battlefield, Entrepreneurship World Cup EWC). These include Flint, Augmentus, CareCam, WaveScan, Polybee, AEvice Health, Magorium, StaffAny, Tic Tag, Solve! Education, E3A Healthcare, Moon Technologies, Revivo Biosystems, and SoundEye, to name a few.

She also works with intra-preneurial MNCs and large local corporates such as L'OREAL (APAC), BNP Paribas, and Goldbell Group / MoveSG. SUTW runs programmes for internal corporate innovation accelerators such as Singtel HackOne and Deutsche Bank APAC Intrapreneur Initiative.

An international keynote speaker and linguistic dork by nature, Ruo Mei has lived and worked in five countries, speaking English, Mandarin, Japanese and Spanish. An accomplished host, she has been featured on major networks such as CNA, NHK World and UFM100.3, and moderated dialogues for dignitaries from ministers and ambassadors, to senior executives at companies such as Shell, Total, Continental and Goldman Sachs.

Ruo Mei graduated with a heart for social justice and liberating people to their fullest potential, inspired by her alma maters Brown University, and the United World College (UWC) of The Atlantic.
Ruo-Mei Chua