Chaki Ng, PhD

Chaki develops and ships technology products that serve millions, driven by user-centered design and data insights. Currently, he is CTO of Forge (next-gen trades and construction workforce) and applying a range of enabling technolgies (e.g., AI, CV, 3D, AR). Earlier, he spent 8+ years at Viacom (now Paramount) as the SVP Product: led MTV + VH1 to launch 15 industry-first video streaming apps on  in just 2 years (early versions of Paramount+ today), with combined 500M+ video streams per year and helped 2.5X revenue. He also led redesigns of VMA + MTV News with data science to cement Top 10 spots among entertainment properties (e.g., 40M+ uniques). Chaki was then appointed by Viacom CXOs to be the first GM Innovations and founded two new business units, including Viacom NEXT - an VR + AR studio that shipped over 10 projects (on Steam + iOS stores, premiered at Sundance, SXSW, the Obama White House and won Grand Prix at Cannes Lions and Webby) in just over a year and a half. Right out of college, Chaki co-founded and boostrapped Interactive Constructs, an edtech engineering company that powered top products such as Read 180 for publishers like Scholastic + Harcourt via multi-million dollar licensing of its learning platform and was successfully acquired ($13M+ ARR with 65 employees). Chaki lived a parallel academic life: did research on distributed systems (sensor / cloud / grid computing and mechanism design) at Harvard (PhD + SM in Computer Science, advised by Prof. Margo Seltzer and Prof. David Parkes) and augmented interfaces at MIT Media Lab. He also holds degrees from MIT Sloan and Northeastern (BS in CS).

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Inspirations
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt