Michelle Koo Hayashi

Philanthropist and entrepreneur Michelle Koo Hayashi was born in Taiwan, raised in Japan, and emigrated to the US in 2011.She was the CEO of a Tokyo-based real estate investment firm and founder of a wedding online planning company in Taiwan. Michelle also worked as an account executive for Koo’s Cable, the largest cable and satellite TV company in Taiwan. As a teenager, she founded Chinese Children Charity Association, a Taiwan-based children’s charitable organization that remains active today. She has been a board member of nonprofits in Taiwan and Japan and, since relocating to the US, has been a board member of the China Institute and MOCA, the Museum of Chinese in America. Michelle received her MBA from Harvard Business School and an undergraduate degree of Law & Political Science from Keio University in Japan. She is fluent in Japanese, Mandarin, Taiwanese, and English. BORN TO BE is her first film.