Emily C. Chiu

Emily C. Chiu serves as a director of Covista, a role she has held since July 2026.

Ms. Chiu is a global executive with over two decades of experience building leading technology businesses and digital products.

Ms. Chiu was most recently the CEO of Novo, a financial technology platform that provides digital banking and business solutions to over 250,000 small businesses.

From 2017 to 2024, Ms. Chiu served on the executive team at Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ), where she drove transformational impact in leadership roles across Square, Cash App, and Block’s open source developer platform, which she co-founded as Chief Operating Officer. During her tenure, Ms. Chiu led M&A transactions that accelerated Block’s capabilities in emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, and also led the development and launch of new products and businesses. The stock investing and consumer lending businesses she built helped transform Cash App into a fintech banking platform with nearly $9 billion in annual loan originations, serving over 50 million monthly active customers, through a top 10 most-downloaded and #1 finance app in the U.S.

From 2015 to 2017, Ms. Chiu was a Partner at 500 Global, LLC, a tech startup accelerator and venture capital firm. In this role, Ms. Chiu founded its Corporate Development practice, advising entrepreneurs across a portfolio of over 2,000 technology companies in 60 countries.

Ms. Chiu also has extensive experience in edtech as a founding executive at UniversityNow, Inc., where she oversaw strategy and operations at accredited universities that partnered with Fortune 500 and government employers to offer workforce-relevant post-secondary degree programs. The work she led was recognized by EDUCAUSE and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as a “breakthrough model in college completion” for its blend of flexible, self-paced online education and personalized learning to help students complete college degrees that advance their careers without student loan debt.

Ms. Chiu started her career in finance as an investor at GI Partners, a global private equity firm, and as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs in the organization’s technology and healthcare practices.

Ms. Chiu has multiple U.S. patents filed. Her thought leadership has been featured by Fortune, the Financial Times Agenda, Axios, CoinDesk, Bitcoin Magazine, and other publications.

Board Service

Ms. Chiu currently serves on the board of Justworks, Inc., where she is a member of the Audit Committee and Compensation & Leadership Development Committee. She previously served on the board of Barnes & Noble Education, Inc. (NYSE: BNED), where she was a member of the Audit Committee and Corporate Governance & Nominating Committee. She has also served on the Board of Trustees, Board of Governors, and Executive Committee of the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), a non-profit provider of leadership development and global leadership research.