Pearly Chen is a Vice President at HTC with a unique operator-investor role on the forefront of immersive technologies. She first joined HTC as Chief of Staff to Cher Wang, the company’s founder/Chairwoman, working closely with the executive team on strategic business management, global engagement and board affairs since 2012. She then helped establish and lead HTC’s early-stage investment program Vive X which has since its founding in 2016 invested in more than 100 innovative startups globally. She also led the growth of the world’s first VR content subscription service Viveport Infinity through prolific partnerships with content creators around the world, as well as the creation of VR for Impact program. She serves on the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on VR/AR, Academy of International Extended Reality’s Advisory Council, and the Communications Committee of the XR Association. Pearly represented Cher Wang during her tenure representing Taiwan at APEC Business Advisory Council between 2009-2015, chairing its various working groups including Finance and Economic Working Group, SME & Entrepreneurship Working Group, and ABAC Women’s Forum, collaborating with business and political leaders across the Asia Pacific region to form policy recommendations and often speaking at global forums on innovation and women leadership. Prior to HTC, Pearly was an Investment Professional at Goldman Sachs, providing investment advisory and portfolio management services to its Asia Pacific clients. A dynamic, high energy, multilingual global citizen, voracious reader, avid traveler, competitive triathlete, aspiring healer and mother of 3 girls, Pearly currently lives in South Florida with her family and makes it her life’s goal to leave behind a positive legacy for future generations.