Malcolm Ong

Malcolm Ong is the Head of Product at the South China Morning Post (SCMP), a leading global news media company. He has been a speaker, mentor, and longtime attendee of SXSW.

He joined SCMP from Lyft where he led an array of product initiatives from Lyft.com to organic passenger and driver growth to partnerships with Fortune 500 corporations. Malcolm’s team launched Lyft’s first progressive web app (PWA), Amazon Fire app, Windows 10 app, and its iconic connected dashboard light called “Amp”. Prior to Lyft, Malcolm was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at 500 Startups, a global venture capital fund, where he advised a class of 30+ startups through the fund’s accelerator program. Before 500 Startups, Malcolm co-founded Skillshare, an education-tech start-up, and led the product team at OMGPOP, a gaming studio. He has also held senior technology positions at Razorfish and IBM.

Malcolm holds a B.S. in Computer Science with a double major in Business Administration from Carnegie Mellon University.

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