Chade-Meng Tan

Chade-Meng Tan (Chinese: 陳一鳴), known informally as Meng, is a former software engineer and motivator at Google known especially for greeting celebrities who visit the Google campus.

He was Google employee number 107 and his job title was Jolly Good Fellow.[1] He joined Google in 2000 after working for five years at Kent Ridge Digital Laboratories in Singapore. He officially left Google on October 30th, 2015 as announced on his personal blog.[2] At Google, he worked for eight years in Engineering on projects such as mobile search. He then worked for two years as the Head of Personal Growth and was a member of their Talent Team. In these latter roles, he wrote a motivational course and the associated book called Search Inside Yourself has become a New York Times bestseller. Following the success of the book, in 2013, Meng founded a non-profit, the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (SIYLI) that brings the Search Inside Yourself program to businesses and to the public.

He started collecting celebrity photographs when Jimmy Carter and Al Gore visited the Google campus. This became a tradition and he now has a large collection of photographs of his meetings with celebrities at Google.[3]

Meng is still the Chairman of the Board of the Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute, and is part of the team of the non-profit organisation, One Billion Acts of Peace that has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2015. The nomination was signed by 6 Nobel Laureates.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Lucy Kellaway (June 7, 2012), "The wise fool of Google", Financial Times
  2. ↑ Chade-Meng Tan (October 30, 2015), Officially Retired From Google
  3. ↑ Steve Lohr (September 1, 2007), "Hey, Who’s He? With Gwyneth? The Google Guy", New York Times
  4. ↑ Shefali Rekhi (January 9, 2015), "Singapore's Jolly Good Fellow in Google part of team nominated for Nobel Peace Prize", The Straits Times

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