Kelly Zhang
Chinese businesswoman, chief executive officer of ByteDance China
Kelly Zhang (Chinese: 张楠; pinyin: Zhāng Nán) is a Chinese businesswoman. She is the chief executive officer of ByteDance China. She is responsible for overseeing the operations and management of the company's China portfolio, including the video-sharing platform Douyin and the news aggregator Toutiao.
Zhang was ranked 64th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023. She was named in the Forbes list of The World's 100 Most Powerful Women in 2020, and in the Fortune's Most Powerful Women International list in 2020 and 2021.
Early life and career
Zhang studied painting as a child and completed her university studies in 2003 with a degree in fine arts. After graduating, Zhang's first position was working on product planning and design for three years in Beijing at Digital Red, a mobile game studio.
In 2006, Zhang left Digital Red and began working at Qianchi Unlimited, a social media app developer.
In February 2013, Zhang founded a photo-sharing app called Tuba, which accumulated nearly 500,000 users in its first six months.
ByteDance
Tuba was acquired by ByteDance in 2014, where Zhang had begun working as a product manager.
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