For almost two decades, Jane Sun has been part of Trip. com Group’s C-suite. And since 2016, she has served as CEO of the Nasdaq-listed company, which is one of the world’s largest online travel agencies, with more than 400 million users and 45,000 employees.
Yet for all her success, Sun experienced her fair share of bias as she worked her way up in the male-dominated tech industry, first in Silicon Valley, where she worked for more than a decade after university, and then in China.
Sun recalls an early business trip when she was CFO at to meet with partners in another Asian country and describes how her then (male) CEO entered the room and was met with bowing and great politeness. The number two (also male)
