President
Cheesan Chew is a seasoned leader with over two decades building businesses, driving innovation, and advising senior executives – from start-ups to corporates. Through active counsel, Cheesan extends leverage for leadership teams with expertise in strategic innovation, transformation, systems design, organizational management, customer and employee experience.
Previously, Cheesan was Chief Operating Officer of RBC Ventures (now RBCx), a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada. She was responsible for establishing best in class foundational capabilities for 20+ incubated ventures including risk management, business strategy, marketing, analytics and people experience.
Cheesan started her entrepreneurship journey co-founding Idea Couture, a global strategic innovation and design firm, where she led multi-disciplinary teams advising Fortune 500 companies as Chief CX Officer for 10 years.
In addition to Canadian Club Toronto, Cheesan is currently on the board of League of Innovators, a national Canadian charity that empowers young people towards entrepreneurship and is a mentor with the Black Wealth Club.
