Candace Chen

Founder & CEO @ Fluv

About

Taiwanese American serial entrepreneur who is passionate about consumer tech and social innovation. After resigning from a management role at PepsiCo, I started a healthy lifestyle beverage company in Southern California. Within 1.5 years, we doubled the company value and exited. After finishing a Women’s Entrepreneurship Program at Cornell University, I began building another company. I am now the CEO & Founder of Fluv, a pet care marketplace for urban pet parents in Asia. We are currently raising. Ted Talk: https://www.ted.com/talks/candace_chen_how_to_become_an_impactful_entrepreneur RTI radio interview: https://en.rti.org.tw/radio/programMessageView/id/102157 https://en.rti.org.tw/radio/programMessageView/id/102190 Meet Startup interview: https://meet.bnext.com.tw/articles/view/45969 Meet Startup podcast interview: https://podcasts.apple.com/tw/podcast/ep2-fluv Global News: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KTzLk2ji-mA VoyageLA interview: http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-trailblazer-candace-chen

Country

Japan

City

Tokyo

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

International Marketing, International Business, Mandarin, Taiwanese, Microsoft Office, International Logistics, Sales, Operations Management, Managerial Finance, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Research, Teamwork, Microsoft Word, Customer Service, Marketing, Data Analysis, Time Management, Windows App Develpment, Foreign Currency

Experience

Founder & CEO

Fluv

2020-5 - Present · 6 yrs 4 mos

Taipei City, Taiwan

Fluv is a pet care marketplace that helps urban pet parents in Asia find trusted and loving local pet care easily. Fluv has over 200,000 users and 9,000 pet sitters across Japan, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Founder & CEO

Pink Matter Juice Bar

2017-3 - 2019-1 · 1 yr 11 mos

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Built a healthy and Instagramable lifestyle juice startup and exited in 1.5 years in SoCal • Dragonfruit juice wholesaler + juice bar • Dragonfruit juice made with love and sold in Erewhon, Farms Shop, Lassens, Sur Restaurant, and more natural food markets

Associate Supply Chain Operations Manager

PepsiCo

2015-7 - 2016-10 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Led and developed various packaging and processing teams to improve efficiency, quality, cost, safety, and downtime performances. • Managed daily production using analytical thinking skills through qualitative and quantitative analysis. Worked closely with R&D, receiving, maintenance, warehouse, and sales teams to meet site goals. • Organized and facilitated team meetings. • Managed various projects on product launching, process innovations, quality testing, and employee safety.

Marketing Assistant

Got Shades International Inc

2015-2 - 2015-5 · 4 mos

Pomona

• Developed social media Ad campaigns, designed home website banners, planned and used digital marketing strategies (SEO, PPC, SEM), e-commerce promotional strategies (AdWords), data analysis, and B2B marketing strategies. • Managed and presented marketing project for trade show. • Inventory and marketing management (AccountMate, Magento). • Created E-mail campaigns/newsletters through iContact.

Market Research Intern at the College of Business Behavioral Lab

California State Polytechnic University-Pomona

2015-1 - 2015-3 · 3 mos

Pomona

• Developed market research project and hypothesis. Used data conducting strategy (Surveys, Qualtrics, SPSS), data analysis, and data quality auditing. • Conducted quantitative research and coded data. Studied consumer insights and market tastes.

International Sales and Marketing Intern

Raycome Intl Corp.

2012-7 - 2012-9 · 3 mos

Taipei City, Taiwan

• Introduced company's mission and products and provided product samples to international potential clients an international bio-tech convention representative. • Translated Mandarin Chinese and English for business meetings. • Conducted a market research project using secondary data and consumer taste studies.