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, counting more than 400 million users and 45,000 employees.
Yet for all her experience and 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 graduating from the University of Florida, 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) executive in the company then entered the room and was received with similar degree of respect. Ranked third, Sun
