Innovator – Sylvia Zhou

Sylvia is the Head of Global Industry Marketing at Meta, where she leads a team of business marketers to build insight-driven industry and thought leadership programs at global tentpoles such as CES, Davos, MWC, and Cannes Lions Festival of Creativity, and for the tech company’s largest owned events such as Meta Connect. Sylvia also builds meaningful partnerships to drive the industry agenda on innovation and build communities with strategic partners including the Ad Council, Ad Age, Forbes, Global Advertising Week, TIME, and more. Prior to taking on this role, Sylvia developed Facebook’s industry marketing program in Asia Pacific. 

Sylvia is a board member of the Asian American Advertising Federation (3AF), an organization that aims to advance the Asian American marketing and advertising industry for Asian American consumers through education, advocacy, promotion, and increased collaboration.

Sylvia holds a M.S. in Corporate Communications from New York University and a B.A. in Journalism from Renmin University of China. A “lady from Shanghai,” Sylvia now lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two kids.