Calvin Chu, MBA ’09
Managing Partner, Eden Strategy Institute
Calvin Chu Yee Ming is Managing Partner at Eden Strategy Institute, LLP. He has advised senior executives in over 20 countries, including organizations such as 3M; Bell Labs; Canon; Coca-Cola; Cummins; DBS; DHL; Disney; Fujitsu; HP; Intel; General Electric; M1; MasterCard; Medtronic; Nikkei; Nokia; Reed Elsevier; Roche; Samsung; SKF; StarHub; Standard Chartered Bank; Sumitomo; TNT; UNDP; UNESCO; UNICEF; and VISA; as well as the governments of Australia; Malaysia; New Zealand; Indonesia; Philippines; Singapore; Thailand; and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Calvin was recognised as a NetImpact Change-maker in 2014 and inducted into the International Who’s Who of Professionals in 2009. Under Calvin’s leadership, Eden Strategy Institute has been awarded as The Most Innovative Management Consultancy in APAC Insider’s Singapore Business Awards; Corporate Livewire’s Management Consultancy of the Year; Global 100’s Most Innovative Management Consultancy (Singapore); Corporate Vision’s Best Social Innovation Consultancy (Singapore); and was also the winner of the National Business Award in the Consulting category by the Singapore Business Review. His work has appeared in Asian Banking & Finance, Asia Pacific Biotech News, BusinessWeek, The Star, the Straits Times, the Singapore Business Review, Today, and the Wall Street Journal, and he has featured at the ASEAN Smart Cities Network, ASEAN Social Entrepreneurship Forum, The Economist Social Innovation in Action, the Regional CEO & CIO Summit, Asia-Pacific CFO Summit, Business & Nature Forum, Institutional Investors APAC Summit, Singapore Business Federation, TEDx, Education Innovation, Prepaid Mobile Asia, Private Healthcare Asia, and Biomedical Business Conference. Calvin has been a Judge, Reviewer, and Mentor at the President’s Challenge Social Enterprise Award, The Grand Challenges Explorations (GCE) Program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, MIT Inclusive Innovation Challenge, MIT Emerging Technologies Innovators Under 35, the Youth Social Enterprise Programme Grant Committee, The DBS-NUS Social Venture Challenge Asia, The Grameen Creative Lab, the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan Competition, Social Innovation Camp Asia, Start-up@Singapore, and The University of Chicago Booth School of Business Global New Venture Challenge. He has also served as an iAdvisor with IE Singapore, an Executive Advisor at NUS Enterprise, and on the boards of BioFourmis, Bettr Lives, Conjunct Consulting, Rotary Club, and the World Toilet Organization.