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Emily C. Chiu

As the third member of the team that launched UniversityNow, Emily leads strategic operations and business development efforts that further uNow's mission of making higher education available to all. As Vice President of Employer Solutions Operations, Emily oversees all business development / channel partner relationships and operational implementations; she also manages PR and communications, grant writing (won grants from California Endowment, Gates Foundation, EDUCAUSE, NGLC), and shaped uNow's social campaign to make a debt-free college education possible (unow.com/campaign).

Emily is a Board Advisor to Stanford University’s Women in Business and Head of Operations at TEDx San Francisco (http://www.tedxsf.org), where she curated an event that featured leading thinkers and entrepreneurs who are re-imaging higher education.

Emily founded Apply in the Sky, an edu / tech start-up that built a series of software applications and workflow management solutions to simplify and organize the graduate school admissions and application experience. Apply in the Sky won the 2010 Women 2.0 PITCH competition, was featured in TechCrunch and Business Insider, and partnered with Vault.com, Deloitte / McKinsey & Co., admissions and education providers.

Before this, Emily was an investor at a $4 billion private equity fund based in Menlo Park, California. In this role, Emily was responsible for evaluating control-oriented equity investments across industries, and also served as a Board Observer and advisor to portfolio companies in the technology and healthcare sectors, helping to grow, scale, and turn around portfolio companies.

Emily started her career as an investment banker for Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York and San Francisco, and Deutsche Bank in London. At Goldman, Emily was part of both the Healthcare and the Technology, Media & Telecom investment banking groups, and helped close over $3 billion in debt and equity financing on behalf of corporate clients.

Emily graduated with honors from The Wharton School of Business with concentrations in finance, healthcare management and entrepreneurship. She holds a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was part of the Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business. She also completed an executive program in Leadership & Organizing: Leading Change from Harvard's Kennedy School.

LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/emilychiu