Within the
world of business, there are many leaders and innovators of Asian/Asian
Pacific American descent that have made invaluable contributions that
have benefited many people within the United States and/or directly affected
by their efforts in America. These important leaders are divided in the
various categories that are listed below. Click are the "links"
to discover more information on these talented trailblazers.
WANG AN - In the 70s and 80s, his own inventions helped Wang
Laboratories become a major manufacturer of the prototypical desktop
computers used in laboratories and schools. Throughout those years,
Wang oversaw an uninterrupted series of more compact and efficient
instruments and systems for use in office automation and information
processing. Wang was also a noteworthy philanthropist whose efforts
and funds continue to foster the arts and sciences, especially in
and around the city of Boston.
SABEER BHATIA - founded (w/Jack Smith) founded Hotmail, one
of the Internet's first Web-based e-mail service providers
STEVE SHIH CHEN - this risk taker from Taiwan left the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign a semester and a half early to work for PayPal. Steve was drawn to PayPal partly because several U. of I. alums worked there, including PayPal co-founder Max Levchin, who in turn was eager to hire Steve because of his educational background. Al Gore tapped Steve on the shoulder outside the bathroom (of a GQ part in West Hollywood) to congratulate him on the success of YouTube (a company he founded with Chad Meredith Hurley - who is married to Kathy Clark, the daughter of the legendary Silicon Valley entrepreneur James Clark - and Jawed Karim) which is to video browsing what a Wal-Mart Supercenter is to shopping: everything is there, and all you have to do is walk in the door. YouTube was sold to Google for $1.65 billion dollars.
DAVID EUN - VP of Content Partnerships for Google This graduate (Magna Cum Laude in Government) of Harvard Law School oversees Google's partnerships and alliances with leading providers of content and information. In this capacity, he directs the business development and operational execution of deals with Google's print, multimedia, and local content partners. He also works closely with Google's product management and engineering organizations to develop new products and services with this content. Prior to joining Google, David was at Time Warner as the Chief of Staff for the Media & Communications Group. efore joining Time Warner, he was a partner at Arts Alliance, a trans-Atlantic venture capital firm focusing on digital media, information technology and business services.
GAUTAM GODHWANI -
Only a few
years out of UC Berkeley, he helped start an Internet company called
AtWeb from his parents' basement, and Netscape snapped it up in 1998
for $93 million.
He celebrated by buying a Porsche 911 and a San Francisco apartment
with three bedrooms and a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. Then he
quit work and traveled the world first-class. Not sure what to do
next, he founded and ran a community center for Indian Americans.
But, as is typical in Silicon Valley, the urge to innovate brought
him back to the office. Now 34, he's plugging away in Mountain View
at an online job-listing start-up called Simply Hired.
KEIKO HARVEY - Verizon's Senior Vice-President of Advance
Services and Digital Subscriber Lines (business & consumr)
MING HSIEH - Pasadena native Hsieh became a billionaire when Cogent Inc., which makes fingerprint identification systems, went public in 2004. As a child in China, he missed school for 10 years during the Cultural Revolution, when his family was sent to a remote village to work on a rice farm. His parents, both college graduates, improvised with scavenged textbooks, teaching Ming and his brother by candlelight in their one-room shanty. Hsieh's father had been an electrical engineer for the power authority and his mother was a high school literature teacher. In 1990, he founded Cogent in South Pasadena with Archie Yew, another USC graduate. They won their first contract, from the Los Angeles County Department of Social Services, to create a fingerprint ID system to prevent welfare fraud.
TONY HSIEH - Tony and Alfred Lin formed Venture
Frogs. They were the founding team of LinkExchange which was acquired
by Microsoft for $265 million in November 1998. Their company focused
on the Internet, e-commerce, information, and telecommunications technology
markets, Venture Frogs provides investment in and consulting for private
companies which are in early development of new strategic opportunities
and in a phase of unusual growth. Investments typically range in size
from $100k to $3 million.
GENE KAN - innovative and creative computer programmer whose
ability to clearly communicate made him the unofficial spokesman for
Gnutella and for file-sharing applications in general.
JEONG KIM - Group President at Lucent Technologies after his
company (Yurie Systems) was purchased. He has won numerous awards
and is ranked the 20th richest person in America under the age of
40.
LIU CHUANZHI - Chairman of Legend Holdings (2001) which is
China's—and Asia's—leading manufacturer of PCs.
PREMAL SHAH - With a Stanford degree and PayPal experience under his belt, Premal
Shah (President of Kiva.org, Shah is helping connect individuals across continents to
support unique small businesses in developing countries. Users can peruse small business profiles and then choose to sponsor a needy business via a loan of small or large amounts - an eBay meets MySpace for microfinance, a mechanism by which every
person can encourage and support economic independence throughout the world.
DONALD TSANG - David, a famous Chinese who built up the Oak
Technology, has contributed a lot to the technology of computer science
in the Silicon Valley. Parts of computers, DVD plays, Video player,
CD-ROM, and PC (3D), all, are the inceptions and products of Oak Technology.
LEO S. TING - He joined Hewlett-Packard and managed three
major organizations: HP Asia Pacific, Europe, and the Americas. In
1989, he took a two-year leave from HP to join the venture capital
firm Hambrecht and Quist, where he served as Senior Vice President
and led their expansion into Asia. He is now active as a venture capitalist
in California
JOHN TU - Successful co-founder (along with David Sun) of
Kingston Technology
CHARLES WANG - This Shanghai
native (Mao drove the family out) Charles
Wang founded Computer
Associates, Inc in 1976 with 3 associates, a single product and
a simple idea: that technology must serve business. Computer
Associates has proven itself to be an ingenious company, ranking
as the third largest software company worldwide and the world leader
in mission-critical business software.. Under Wang's
guidance, the company's net worth has expanded to $25 billion, with
revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998 and employs more than
11,000 people in 43 countries. In addition, Mr. Wang is the author
of TECHNO
VISION II: Every Executive's Guide to Understanding and Mastering
Technology - in addition to owning hockey's New York Islanders!
PADMASREE WARRIOR - the Economic Times ranked Motorola's executive vice president and chief technology officer, Padmasree Warrior, as the 11th Most Influential Global Indian, she makes our top 10. Warrior is responsible for the company's $3.7 billion research and development investment and 25,000 engineers. She has been credited with crafting much of Motorola's strategy around seamless mobility, and now the world is taking note. Recent honors include Working Woman's "Women Elevating Science and Technology" and a Distinguished Alumni award from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.
SUSAN AU ALLEN - is President of the United States Pan Asian
American Chamber of Commerce (USPAACC), and chair of the Excellence
2000 Awards. She is also an lawyer at Paul
Shearman Allen & Associates
ANTHONY HSIEH - Successful owner of HomeLoanCenter.Com sold
his online mortgage company to Lending Tree
JOHN HUANG - Democratic Fund-Raiser that was convicted of
violation campaign finance laws.
FRANK JAO - Jao got his start in the 1970s with a strip of vacant
industrial buildings that he turned into a shopping center serving his
fellow Vietnamese exiles. The man known as the "Godfather of Little
Saigon" has owned or developed roughly three-quarters of Orange County's
best-known ethnic commercial enclave and remains the community's biggest
landlord with 1,500 business tenants lease space in the half a dozen
developments. His latest ventures include the district's first major
residential project. Also, Coastline Community College has opened a
Little Saigon-area campus, thanks in part to his largesse.
MICHAEL LEE-CHIN - he has $2.2 billion in assets, his own
bank and a $60-million Global Express jet just like Bill Gates's.
RALPH LIU - started an exchange for hedging real estate.properties.
TAE HEA NAHM - Venture Capitalist started "Storm Ventures"
SUNG WON SOHN - High-profiled economist became Hanmi Financial's
CEO in 2005
VICTOR HWANG - President and Chief Operating Officer of Larta
Institute, where he oversees the formation and execution of strategy.
Larta Institute is among the most prominent national organizations that
accelerate the transition of technology into the marketplace. Since
1993, Larta has helped thousands of technology companies grow.
THOMAS WU - President and CEO of San Francisco-based United
Commercial Bank - the nation's largest bank serving the Chinese-American
community. Bank has $2.4 billion in assets and 27 branches throughout
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LEO CHU - Leo Chu is the president of California Casinos Management
Inc., and Century Gaming, companies involved in ownership and management
of Crystal Park Casino and Hollywood Park Casino, respectively.
DENNIS FUNG - the King of Computer Gamers has achieve a great
deal of success and money by the age of 22!
CYRUS LAM - has been an artist in the computer game industry for over
10 years. He got his start at Strategic Simulations Inc., creating
computer artwork for games based on the Advanced Dungeons and
Dragons license. In March of 2000, Cyrus cofounded Inevitable Entertainment - a video
game development company dedicated to creating innovative product
for the next generation game consoles. He serves as Inevitable's Art
Director.
CUNG LE - former world championship fighter
and one of biggest draw of PPV fight events owns a series of “UsH”
that owns training centers, produces live events/workout vides and
sports merchandise.
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NOEL LEE - He pursued his music passions by quitting his job as engineer at Lawrence Livermore Lab where he was playing a key role in the setting up of the then top-secret laser-fusion experiments in 1972 to tour with his all-Asian country-rock band called Asian Wood. His love of listening to music that resulting in his quest to improve the quality of the sound coming out of his speakers, Lee discovered that the conductivity of speaker cables was crucial. He created speaker cables of quality copper with gold-plated connections and decided to make a business of it. Convincing audiophiles that expensive speakers were wasted on cheap cables, Monster Cable. The company became the Bay Area's biggest private Asian-owned employer with 750 employees at its Brisbane facility. In an age when hi-tech is king, especially among ambitious Asian Americans, Noel Lee has shown that lo-tech executed with passion and flair could trump a local multi-billion-dollar hi-tech icon.
ARTHUR LIU - his Multicultural Radio Broadcasting is a prominent
multi-ethnic network of 30 radio stations. His history of bringing
Western culture to the Chinese community in Asia and the U.S., he
has built him empire of radio stations throughout the United States.
JOHN SIE - Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Starz
Encore Group LLC (Starz Encore), one of the largest and fastest-growing
owners of premium cable networks, as well as the International Channel,
the nation's premier in-language cable network for immigrant Americans
WANG FAMILY - Their rags-to-riches story started with a penniless immigrant John Ta Chuan Fang arriving from Taiwan in the early 1950s to a small job at a printing shop that has become a media dynasty with distribution in excess of 1,000,000 copies in San Francisco and San Mateo Counties through the Independent, the nationally distributed Asian Week, and San Francisco Examiner, along with potent political connections that has awed many in San Francisco’s Chinese American communities
KENNETH WONG - Former president of Walt Disney Imagineering
and president of Pop.Com
HENRY YUEN - Started GemStar, that purchased TV Guide Online.
Eventually purchased by News Media and ousted.
GEORGE ARATANI - the California-born native used philanthropy
(through
his Aratani Foundation) to fight prejudice. He
acquired the ability to give through his success of Mikasa Chinaware
and Kenwood
Electronics (that he formed with Bill Kasuga and Yoichi Nakase)
to be a "quiet" but high-impact philanthropist (i.e. Internment Studies
at UCLA, Japanese American Nationial Museum, National Japanese American
Memorial in Washington D.C., etc.). He
has utilized the wisdom gained from his wartime internment tragedies
(where
his family lost their entire fortune) to use philanthropy to fight
the prejudice and fear that many Japanese Americans lived through
that is at the root of his giving of approximately $10 million dollars:
His
goal is to help institutions involved with Japanese Americans
help others with similar legacies of discrimination and loss. He
states that his giving and entrepreneurial spirit is inspired
by the example of his father, Setsuo
Aratani.
MIN KAO - Garmin Chairman and Chief Executive Min Kao has given
$17.5 million to his alma mater, the University of Tennessee. Dr. Min
Kao co-founded Garmin Corporation with Gary Burrell in October 1989
to integrate Global Positioning System (GPS) technology into navigation
devices for multiple markets.
CHONG-MOON LEE - Seoul-born Korean-American businessman Chong
Moon Lee, founder and chairman of Diamond Multimedia, a leading manufacturer
of graphics and accelerator cards for personal computer systems, donated
the $15 million to move the Asian Art Museum (that includes the Avery
Brundage Collection - single finest comprehensive collection of Asian
art in the nation - from Golden Gate Park to a reconverted San Francisco
Public Library building on the Civic Center.
SCOTT OKI - former Microsoft SVP of Sales and Marketing, has
used his estimated $750 million fortune to create the Oki (non-profit)
Foundation. Oki sits on the boards of 20+ nonprofits and manages his
investment company, Oki Developments.
ANDREA JUNG - President
at Avon. She oversees all of Avon's international operations and
soon to be COO. She joined Avon in January 1994 as senior vice president,
product marketing, and was promoted to her last position in March
1997 before her presidency.
CHLOE DAO - a Vietnamese born in Pakse Laos, opened Lot 8
boutique - one of Houston's premiere boutiques
REI KAWABUKO - founder of Comme des Garcons that specializes
in anti-fashion, austere, sometimes deconstructed garments, sometimes
lacking a sleeve or other component. Her garments are primarily in
black, dark gray, and white, often worn with combat boots. Her designs
have inspired many new designers like e.g.the Belgian Martin Margiela
and Ann Demeulemeester, as well as Austrian designer Helmut Lang.
MICHAEL LAU - Hong Kong artist introduced his series of "Gardener"
figures based on his comic strip of the same name that the East Touch
magazine began running in 1998. They were 10-inch pieces were like
one-of-a-kind, ultra-detailed action figures influenced by street
art, skateboarding and modern design. His next step was to create
the "Crazychildren" series. More stylized than the G.I. Joe-like Gardeners,
the vinyl figurines with moveable limbs combined the geometry of modernist
sculptures with the flowing lines and energy of graffiti. He also
opened a Hong Kong toy shop that's set up like a high-end gallery,
with a high ceiling and minimalist fixtures.
DEREK LAM - Upcoming fashion designer that designed Ms. Barbara
Bush attire during the 2004 inaugural activities.
(DIANE) MONIQUE LHUILLIER - This Filipina designed the wedding
dress for Britney Spears and Kevin Costner's new bride (Christine
Baumgartner). Other celebrities who have worn her creations include
Allison Janney from "West Wing," Jamie-Lynn DiScala of "Sopranos,"
Angelina Jolie, Sarah Jessica Parker, Jennifer Connelly, Janet Jackson,
Debra Messing, Sharon Stone and Lea Salonga. Within six short years,
Monique Lhuillier (runned by her husband - Tom Bugbee) has established
herself as one of the leading bridal designers.
JENNY MING - She became president of Old Navy after being
part of the management team that led the creation in 1994 of Old Navy,
which became the fastest-growing apparel retail start-up in U.S. history.
Ming was executive vice president of Old Navy prior to her promotion.
KIMORA LEE SIMMONS - As the youngest star (13 years old) ever
in the House of Chanel. She has modeled for Chanel; Yves St. Laurent;
Valentino; Mizrahi; Donna Karan; Ralph Lauren; Armani; Issey Miyaki;
Yamamoto, etc. She's
the Design Director & Marketing force behind Baby Phat, Kimora Lee
Baby Phat Jeans collection - a $40 million annual clothing line.
AUGUSTINE TSE - Created Cashmere House to create Chinese brand
that competes in the world of haute couture.
VERA WANG - she competed as an elite amateur figure skater,
worked sixteen years as senior fashion director for Vogue, then two
years as design director for Ralph Lauren. With the help of her father,
a pharmaceutical tycoon, she was able to expand her lines into evening
wear and ready-to-wear categories. Her gowns began draping the much-photographed
frames of creatures like Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman, Meg Ryan and Tyra
Banks. So admired has the Vera Wang brand become that its owner has
licensed it for a fragrance, jewelry, eyewear, shoes, and a home collection.
SUE WONG - started Sue Wong Inc. with Dieter Raabe and Joanie
Graham-Pepper making garments in China (Guangzhou, Shantou and Shanghai)
to vendors such as Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Macy's, Bloomingdale's,
Bendel's, Lord and Taylor, and Saks Fifth Avenue.
AN FAMILY - Their restaurants have been featured in Esquire
Magazine, People Magazine, Wall Street Journal, InStyle Magazine,
Bon Appetit, Gourmet, Food & Wine as well as on CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC
and the Oprah Show. The Ans are considered the pioneers of Asian fusion
cooking. They are the proprietors of the oldest Vietnamese restaurant
in San Francisco offering signature Euro-Asian cuisine. Crustacean
is also one of the first Asian restaurants to break into the mainstream.
In 1999, the Ans received the Jacqueline Kennedy Women of Achievement
Award.
ANDREW & PEGGY CHERNG - This couple built Panda Restaurant
Group from a single Pasadena location to a national powerhouse with
423 outlets in 34 states, with 5,000 employees and about $300 million
in annual sales - the largest Chinese restaurant chain in history.
MICHAEL CHOW - Designer, painter, actor, restaurateur (Mr.
Chow Restaurants, collector and frustrated director
FRANK FAT - Created the Sacramento restaurant institution
"Frank Fat" that was a meeting place of politicians since 1939.
WING FAT - Continued the reputation of his father's (Frank
Fat) Fat's Restaurants that began in 1939 and become a favorite of
many California politicians while becoming a place where legislation
is often made.
HASTY KHEI (CEO OF MADAME CHOCOLAT - After five years of planning,
including more than a year at the California School of Culinary Arts
in Pasadena, a year and a half working for Torres in New York and
four trips to Brussels to source chocolate, Khoei opened Madame Chocolat,
a chocolate boutique and "factory. Rows of chocolates line the marble
counter in Khoei's
shop, all green and gold and decked out in the style of Louis XVI.
But most of the 1,800-square-foot space is devoted to the open chocolate
kitchen, in which Khoei's
staff fills trays of chocolate-lined molds as tempering machines whir
in the background, their wheels spinning melted dark and milk chocolate.
The molded chocolates are made with custom chocolate that Khoei
buys from the Belgian company Belcolade. They have names such as Ooh-la-la!
or C'est la vie! The Monsieur is filled with a Johnny Walker Blue
Label ganache. Khoei's shop is strewn with metal statuettes of Madame
Chocolat, a svelte woman in a formal dress, rising up from a pool
of chocolate. Four plasma screens display pictures of Khoei making
chocolate with Torres and his
business partner Ken Goto who assisted Torres at Le Cirque for
many years.
DAVID KIM - Director of Sales Development and Community Relations
for Anheuser-Busch
CHIEN LUNG - successful late 19th Century businessman known
as the "Chinese Potato King"
NOBU
MATSUHISA - Before the now world-famous Japanese chef came to
Southern California, he worked in Peru, where he began incorporating
hot chiles into his sushi and sashimi dishes. In L.A., he used not only
chile, but garlic, caviar, olive oil, even butter. His original restaurant,
Matsuhisa, on La Cienega's restaurant row, was a runaway hit when it
opened in 1987. He'd found a flavor profile that made sense to Angelenos
craving ever more vivid food. In 1994, when Matsuhisa opened Nobu in
New York — financed in part by his biggest fan, Robert De Niro — the
Los Angeles chef took Manhattan. He went on to open restaurants in Tokyo
and London and Milan, Italy, essentially colonizing the world with his
eccentric Latin American-Japanese fusion sushi.
XUAN
NGO (CEO OF "XUAN CHOCOLATE") - Born in Danang, Vietnam, Ngo
grew up mostly in Les Baux de Provence, where his adopted father,
chef Jean - André Charial, owns a hotel and Michelin two-star restaurant,
Oustau de Baumanière. After high school, his father's connections
helped him land a job at Pâtisserie Lenôtre, the Paris bakery renowned
for its sweets and chocolate confections, where he
worked for four years, mostly baking cakes. Next was New York, where
he worked at Daniel Boulud's restaurant Daniel, when François Payard
was pastry chef there. In 2000, Ngo
moved to Los Angeles to work at Spago and has since worked at Sona
and Boule and now as a pastry cook at the Peninsula Beverly Hills.
It's only after he finishes his shift at the Peninsula that he begins
to make chocolates, working through the night to fill orders sold
through Los Angeles-based coffee roaster LA Mill's website. Flavors
include chocolate onyx, for which Ngo
uses the roaster's Black Onyx coffee, and Earl Grey-infused chocolate.
He also makes fleur de sel caramel and ginger and passion fruit chocolates.
TODAI RESTAURANTS - Brothers Kaku and Toru Makino founded
this thriving sushi-buffet restaurants that is managed by Hans Kim.
JOHNNY CHUNG - Johnny
Chung, a Taiwan-born American citizen, gave nearly $400,000 to
Democrats from 1994
to 1996, including $100,000 from a Chinese military intelligence
officer, and visited the White House nearly 50 times, often with Chinese
business clients and was sentenced.
TOMMY LE - A U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission program manager
who has been consistently involved in school and community activities.
CONRAD LEE - U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) administrator
of Region 10, which encompasses programs and services in Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Alaska.
TEI-FU & OI LIN CHAN (SUNRIDER INTERNATIONAL) -
Upon renewing his early acquaintence/knowledge with the traditional herbal remedies used by Taiwanese of humble at Nature's Way & Nature's Sunshine, Tei-Fu started his own company. Unlike herbal companies that professed to sell remedies for diseases, he wanted to create supplements to keep the body healthy. Tei-Fu began doing precisely the kinds of traditional things from which he had hoped to distance himself by becoming a medical doctor — boiling herbal extracts in the basement of their apartment. To sell his supplements, Tei-Fu built up the kind of multi-level direct marketing scheme used by his former employers. The Chens faced some severe tests such as western suspicions of oriental health traditions, numerous lawsuits were filed claiming injury from Sunrider herbal supplements., scandal pieces by TV networks/newspapers, Tei-Fu Chen's own sister and father filed suits claiming a share of the fast-growing company and Uncle Sam suing for taxes.
MARINA JIANG - The Waldorf-Astoria Hotel's director of diplomatic
affairs pampers the world's heads of state at various high-profiled
political functions. Jiang, 35, originally from Shanghai, speaks fluent
French, German, Chinese and English, and knows greetings in several
other languages.
CHIU MOON CHAN - Chiu M. Chan, R. Ph., has served as President
and Chief Executive Officer of Dynacq International, Inc. since July
1992. He is the founder of Dynacq and serves as the Chairman of the
Board.
HSIN MING FUNG - Partner at Hodgetts & Fung has designed many
high-profiled within her architectural practice.
KA-SHING LI - Asia's richest and most influential businessman
whose businesses centers on the conglomerates Hutchinson Whampoa and
Cheung Kong. Read
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for additional info.
DR. CHIRINJEEV KATHURIA - he and partner, Geoff Sheerin, are
behind PlanetSpace, a company competing with the likes of Virgin Galactic
in the space tourism industry. Kathuria was a founding director of
MirCorp, the company that sent billionaire Dennis Tito into space
for $20 million in 2001, and now he wants to expand on those efforts
and advancements, giving anyone the opportunity to travel to space.
Kathuria has said that PlanetSpace has a list of 3,000 people ready
to drop $200,000 for a 30-minute, suborbital jaunt into space and
he has reportedly indicated plans to sell a reality show around the
space flights.
LOIDA NICOLAS - The first Asian woman to pass the New York
bar examination was Loida Nicolas, an alumna of the University of
the Philippines. In the mid-1990s, she headed the European-based multi-billion
dollar business TLC Beatrice International Holdings, Inc. Time Magazine's
Thomas McCarroll noted in October 1996: "She is perhaps the only CEO
of a multinational company to greet visitors with a hug rather than
a handshake."
INDRA NOOYI - In 2006, became PepsiCo's CEO - a rare combination
of a wife, mother and being the third female CEO of color (the others
are Patricia Woertz of Archer Daniels Midland Co. and Irene Rosenfeld
of Kraft Foods Inc. while being the 11th female CEO of a Fortune 500
company) U.S. corporations. Previously the Indian-born native was
the company's president and CFO. At 51, Nooyi is the highest-ranking
woman of her descent in corporate America, and for that she is ranked
No. 28 on the Forbes Most Powerful Women list. A risk taker, Nooyi
pushed Pepsi beyond soda, first by helping to start the company's
fast-food chains in 1997, and later by spearheading the purchase of
Tropicana in 1998. She became president and chief financial officer
of the company in May 2001, and moved into the corner office last
October.Nooyi also serves on other boards, including those at Motorola
and New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She attributes
much of her success to her upbringing in India."Being a woman,
being foreign-born, you've got to be smarter than anyone else,"
she has said.
VIRGINIA P'AN - formed TransCapital Group, a company that
helps Western corporations form strategic alliances within the Chinese
market.
I.M. PEI - one of the U.S.'s most famous architects. The Chinese
American architect designed such famous buildings as the East
Wing of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Bank
of China in Hong Kong, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland
and the Louvre Pyramid in Paris.
HOWARD PIEN - He was appointed chief executive officer of
Chiron Corporation in April 2003. He was appointed chairman of the
company's board of directors in May 2004. Mr. Pien joined Chiron from
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where he assumed the role of president, pharmaceuticals
international, in January of 2001.
