Newton Cheng - Sumitcan
15 videos • 47 views • by SUMITCAN Newton Cheng is Google’s global Health and Performance Lead. He’s spent his 13-year career at Google developing, launching and scaling global programs aimed at helping Googlers to thrive. Today he oversees Google’s global fitness and massage/recovery programs (both real world and digital). He spends much of his time exploring how Google can leverage spaces and services, community, culture and technology to drive the physical, mental, and social health of Googlers, their families, and our neighbors. Newton’s career before Google includes diverse highlights such as helping to design the hardware for Sony’s Playstation 3 by finding novel ways to increase the speed of a simulation platform by 1000x, teaching M.B.A. students at the University of California, Berkeley, as an award-winning leadership instructor, and performing as a break dance soloist in a piece with Ballet San Jose. He lives in Sunnyvale, CA with his wife, daughter and four cats. In his spare time he trains as a competitive powerlifter. He has set five U.S. and 18 California state records, is a world bronze medalist and three time US national champion, and has been the world’s top drug-tested deadlifter in his age and weight class for the last 3 years. He earned his BS of Electrical Engineering at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 2001, and his MBA at University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business in 2008.