Erika Cheung is a tech ethics advocate, keynote speaker, and the Executive Director and Co-Founder of Ethics in Entrepreneurship, a non-profit organisation dedicated to embedding ethical thinking, internal accountability, and systemic governance into global startup ecosystems.
Erika began her career in biotechnology after obtaining dual degrees in Molecular and Cell Biology and Linguistics from UC Berkeley. As a young lab associate at Theranos, she discovered that the company’s blood-testing devices were unreliable and posed serious risks to patient safety. When internal concerns were dismissed, she reported the misconduct to federal health regulators. This is a decision that helped expose one of the largest corporate frauds in Silicon Valley history and prevented thousands of patients from receiving faulty medical results. Her story has been extensively covered in John Carreyrou’s bestseller Bad Blood, the HBO documentary The Inventor, ABC's podcast The Dropout, and CBS's 60 Minutes.
Following Theranos, Erika redirected her work towards building responsible innovation systems. She spent several years in Asia as a Programme Director at Betatron Venture Group and founder of Spiral Bio, helping early-stage healthcare and technology startups scale across the APAC region while strengthening their governance.
Today, through Ethics in Entrepreneurship, Erika works globally to provide tools, training, and resources for founders, workers, and investors to navigate high-stakes ethical dilemmas before they escalate into crises. She also serves as an advisor to venture capital firms, family offices, government investment programmes, and whistleblower support organisations, specialising in fraud prevention, public-interest technology, and building speak-up cultures.
