Grace

Chew

Principal, Executive Search, Mobility and Embedded Software

Grace Chew specializes in executive search for C-level and Board roles that shape the future of mobility (air, land, space), technology, software and new energy. She also consults to senior management on external succession planning, talent strategy and change management.

She is a member of Korn Ferry’s mobility practice and the co-founder of Korn Ferry’s Space Practice.

Her key clients include automotive OEMs, their suppliers, startups in the self-driving and connected vehicle space, aerospace and defense companies, consumer electronics (eCommerce), industrial conglomerates and governments.

Prior to joining Korn Ferry, she was a management consultant where she advised businesses and governments on their global and regional growth strategy.

Grace began her career in the public sector at the Singapore Economic Development Board where she negotiated the expansion of business operations of her key accounts, Unilever and L’Oréal and other European consumer companies into Singapore.

Grace speaks English, Spanish, Mandarin, Malay and basic French.

She has an Honors degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore, during which she was a summer research scholar at Peking University and an exchange student at the University of Western Ontario Richard Ivey Business School.

She was the co-author of “Zheng He's Art of Collaboration: Understanding the Legendary Chinese Admiral from a Management Perspective”; author of “Education Content for the future”; as well as several newspaper articles in the Singapore Business Times.

She is a member of the Board of Unbox, a Software as a Service startup which facilitates efficient, transparent and targeted funding distribution.

She is based in Salt Lake City and Palo Alto and works globally.