Ching-Yu Hu is an entrepreneur born and raised in Silicon Valley. As a co-founder and director of business development at Skybox Imaging, Hu is responsible for driving new business opportunities with strategic alliances and partnerships around the world. Since co-founding Skybox, she has played a key role in supporting Skybox's Series A, B, and C venture capital financing, marketing, sales, and various business operations initiatives.

In 2008, Hu met her three co-founders who shared a vision of building a big data company powered by small satellites. Prior to Skybox, she held various roles at JPMorgan and TIAA-CREF creating portfolio optimization models, analyzing large volumes of transactional data to determine risks and exposures of financial assets, and other data analytics projects. As an undergraduate, Hu conducted research in the Industrial Engineering Operations Research department focusing on uncertainty modeling and robust portfolio optimization.

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