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Erika Cheung

Executive Director, Ethics in Entrepreneurship, Theranos Whistleblower

Erika Cheung is executive director of Ethics in Entrepreneurship, a non-profit that aims to foster ethical questioning, culture and systems in start-ups and innovation ecosystems. She is an adviser to several family offices, venture capital firms, and governmental investment programmes focused on healthcare, biosciences and biotechnology companies. She invests a portion of her time building cross-border networks between the US and the Asia Pacific region to facilitate the growth of companies operating in emerging markets. Her first job after college was working for Theranos, where she subsequently was one of the critical whistle-blowers who reported the fraud case to regulators, preventing the company from providing false lab results to patients.