Conference on Global Entrepreneurship: Economic Development for Asia and the U.S. – Biographies

John W. Allen, is Chairman and CEO of Greater China Corporation, a U.S. public company with operations in Hong Kong and China. He is also Chairman and CEO of Spring Investment Corporation an international investment firm based in New York City. He was a co-founder of Turtlesnap Ventures, Inc. a company which identifies promising technology opportunities through its “Global Trends in Technology” Symposia. Mr. Allen serves as a Director, Advisor or Trustee of the following non-profit organizations: the Chinese Cultural Foundation, AIESEC Yale (formerly Chairman of the Board of AIESEC, U.S.), the Maryland Information Technology Center (MITC), George Soros’ International Science Foundation (previously, Trustee of the Soros Open Society Institute). After receiving his BA from Yale University, he attended law school and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He assisted Professor George Cabot Lodge in developing case materials for Harvard Business School in Central America. Mr. Allen began his financial career with the Bank of Boston and he later joined Schroder Bank and Trust Company as Assistant to James D. Wolfensohn (recently President of the World Bank Group). Afterwards he became President of the International Securities Exchange Corporation. Upon the death of ISEC’s Chairman, Mr. Allen formed Spring Investment Corporation, a family-owned company through which he conducts his on-going investment activities.

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Eddy Robles Badrina is the Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. In this capacity, he is charged with coordinating all federal activities under the Executive Order 13339 entitled “Increasing Economic Opportunity And Business Participation Of Asian Americans And Pacific Islanders.” Mr. Badrina is also responsible for working with the White House and the President’s Advisory Commission on AAPIs to advise the President on the needs and concerns of this population. He graduated from Texas A&M University, earning his B.S. in psychology, and was a member of the Corps of Cadets and the Aggie Band. Pursuing his interests in government and international affairs, he went on to receive his Master’s Degree in Public Service and Administration from the George Bush School of Government, and also served as a Bush School Fellow in the Capitol Hill office of Rep. Kevin Brady.

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Wellington Z. Chen was appointed by Governor George Pataki in June 2000 as a member of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York. Mr. Chen was born in Taiwan, and lived in Singapore, Hong Kong, and Brazil before arriving in New York over 30 years ago as an adolescent. He is conversant in several languages, including Chinese (Amoy, Cantonese, Mandarin), and Brazilian-Portuguese.
Mr. Chen, a resident of Queens and a long-time communtity leader, graduated from the School of Architecture and Environmental Studies at City College. He was the first Chinese American in Queens to serve on a community planning board, where he chaired the cultural affairs, housing, landmarks, planning and zoning committees and helped to bring about the revival of downtown Flushing. More recently, Mr. Chen was a Commissioner of the New York City Board of Standards and Appeals which reviews zoning variances, special permits, and other land use appeals. He is also currently serving as Vice Chair of the Queens County Traffic Safety Board. A planning, design, and land use consultant, Mr. Chen is senior vice president at the TDC Development Corporation, a real estate company in Queens. He is also a Senior Associate of the posts in private industry, including four years in the early 1980’s with the firm of I.M. Pei & Partners. During that time, he was part of the team that developed the 70-story Bank of China building in Hong Kong and the ARCO Tower in Dallas, Texas. His special interests are in the areas of Main Street revitalizations and urban entertainment centers.
Mr. Chen holds membership on the Board’s Standing Committee on Student Affairs and Special Programs, the Standing Committee on Facilities, Planning, and Management, and the Standing Committee on Faculty, Staff, and Administration. He serves as Vice Chair of the Board’s Standing Committee on Academic Policy, Program, and Research.

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Carolyn Chin is presently Chairman and CEO of Cebiz as well as a corporate board member for Commtouch(Nasdaq)(anit-spam technology), CH2M Hill (Engineering, Procurement, Consulting), State Farm Bank, Holcim US (cement). In ’01-’02, she served as Chairman and interim CEO for KindMark. She is a former member of the Board of Directors of CH3M Hill, a $2B+ infrastructure services firm and a former Chairman of C3 Partners. She was a member of the US delegation, working with David Rockefeller, to the Dartmouth Conferences for bilateral discussions with the USSR and with Ambassador Woodcock, for bilateral discussions with China on trade and Taiwan. Ms. Chin was a founding board member of Independent Sector. She has been active on a number of non-profit boards including: Committee for Economic Development (CED); Committee of 100 (prominent Chinese Americans); New York City Outward Bound; The Redford Institute (to promote organ donation); Nation1 (global teen network) and the Llewellyn Park Committee of Managers. She recently provided the leadership for a national landmark research study for the Committee 100, in collaboration with the ADL (Anti-Defamation League).

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Harry Edelson is Managing Partner of Edelson Technology Partners, a series of five strategic venture capital funds, which has managed corporate rather than pension money for ten of the largest multinational corporations in the world (AT&T, Viacom, 3M, Ford Motor, Cincinnati Bell, Colgate-Palmolive, Reed Elsevier, Imation, Asea Brown Boveri and UPS). ETP has invested in more than eighty companies in all areas of technology including information technology, specialty materials, marketing and medical.
In the first quarter of 2000, Harry Edelson spoke at conferences in Hong Kong, Europe and the United States and predicted that the stock market and venture capital bubbles would soon burst because of excessive valuations. Just two months later, his predictions came true. He warned corporations that the huge gains from their venture capital portfolios would soon turn to disastrous losses and that in-house turmoil would ensue. His predictions on technology and finance have been on the mark for 25 years going back to his Wall Street days.
Harry has more than 30 years of experience in technology divided between industry and Wall Street. His former positions include senior systems computer engineer for Unisys, transmission engineer for AT&T, director of management information systems for Cities Service and director of marketing for a terminal manufacturer. Harry was a securities analyst on Wall Street covering computers, telecommunications, and office equipment for three leading investment banking firms: CS First Boston, Merrill Lynch, and Drexel Burnham Lambert. He formed Edelson Technology Inc., to serve the technology interests of corporations in venture capital, consulting, mergers and acquisitions.
Mr. Edelson is one of the most quoted technology industry figures in the world, his views often appearing in national and international financial and trade publications. He has frequently addressed major industry forums, often as keynote speaker, and has been retained as a consultant by dozens of technology companies. He is former President of the Analysts Club, the oldest club on Wall Street, founded in 1925. Education: BS in Physics from Brooklyn College, MBA in Management from NYU, Graduate Program in Telecommunications Engineering at the Cornell Graduate School of Electrical Engineering.

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William Eng has been on the faculty of Baruch College for 30 years, 25 of them as Athletics Director. Promoted to Full Professor in 1995, Prof. Eng served as chair of the Physical and Health Education department, and is currently deputy chair and Unit Head in the Dept. of Student Development. He is the “senior” athletic director and the only Asian-American athletic director in the City University of New York Athletic Conference (CUNYAC). Prof. Eng received his undergraduate and Master’s degrees at CCNY (’72, ’73) and obtained his doctorate in heath education/administration at NYU in 1978. He is the first Asian-American male to serve on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Management Council. Born and raised on the lower eastside, he has been married 30 years, and the father of 5 sons.

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John Frankenstein is Visiting Associate Professor at Brooklyn College in the Department of Economics. Prof. Frankenstein’s work focuses on the intersection of Asian political and security Concerns with business and trade issues. His career has been thoroughly international: service in Europe and Asia as a US diplomat, and teaching posts at Thunderbird, the University of Hong Kong, the Copenhagen Business School’s Asia Research Center, and Columbia University, plus guest lecturing at INSEAD, the University of St. Gallen, the University of International Business And Economics in Beijing, and other institutions. In addition, he was Director of the Community Colleges in China program of the US-China Education Foundation, a Ford Foundation funded project. He has consulted on China and International strategies for firms and government agencies as varied as United Technologies, Disney, Avon, HSBC, the European Commission, UN organizations and the US State Department. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and French, and has over 70 publications in scholarly and professional journals.

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Katy Gaul serves as the Sr. Policy Advisor for the Workforce Development Unit at the New York City Department of Small Business Services (SBS). Katy directs policy with the collaboration of other City agencies within the Workforce1 Career Centers. She is leading the development of a System Measures Report Card that gives scope and reach of the Workforce Investment Act throughout the City. Additionally she provides research to the unit, as well as coordinating the implementation of services for workers affected by trade. Prior to SBS she worked for several years at Department of Homeless Services (DHS) having spearheaded the production of their Housing Placement Result Card for family shelter facilities. She has spoken at two national conferences on evaluation of homeless shelters. Prior to working for the City of New York, she worked for homeless and housing non-profits and for a State Representative in Texas. Katy has a Masters in Social Work Policy from Columbia University and a BA from Mount Holyoke College.

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Matthew Goldstein was appointed Chancellor of the City University of New York, effective September 1, 1999. He is the first CUNY graduate to lead the nation’s most prominent urban public university (City College, Class of 1963).
Dr. Goldstein has served in senior academic and administrative positions for more than twenty years, including as President of Baruch College, President of the Research Foundation, and Acting Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of CUNY. Prior to being named Chancellor, he was President of Adelphi University.
Dr. Goldstein earned his doctorate from the University of Connecticut in mathematical statistics, and a bachelor’s degree in statistics and mathematics from The City College of the City University of New York.
He has held faculty positions in mathematics and statistics at Baruch College, the CUNY Graduate School and University Center, Polytechnic University of New York, Cooper Union, Eastern Connecticut State University, and the University of Connecticut.
He is the co-author of three books: Discrete Discriminant Analysis, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1978; Intermediate Statistical Methods and Applications, published by Prentice Hall in 1983; and Multivariate Analysis, published by John Wiley & Sons in 1984. In addition, he has written many articles for leading scholarly publications in mathematics and statistics.

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Paul W. Ho is senior vice president and district executive of the bank’s Asian Markets in New York. As district executive, Mr. Ho manages the retail business and small business lending in these Asian communities which comprises 8 branches and over 200 employees. The Asian Market district in New York City has the largest market share in bank deposits in the Asian communities. Mr. Ho began his banking career in Citibank as an executive trainee in 1983. Before joining HSBC in 1993, Mr. Ho worked in various management positions in New York and St. Louis for Citibank. Paul W Ho earned a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from New York University and a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from Columbia University. Mr. Ho is active in community service and is currently board member of the Queens Botanical Garden and the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival Inc.

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Neil Scott Kleiman is the founding director of the Center for an Urban Future, which he started ten years ago. The Center is a New York City-based policy institute focusing on education, economic development and the arts. Kleiman and the Center have focused intently on the area of workforce development over the past five years and have written numerous articles and reports that detail laborforce needs within specific clusters of the economy; the role of the working poor and ways that the workforce system can better link with higher education. The Center’s work has been widely reported in major media including The New York Times and National Public Radio ; and led to major reforms in the employment field including the recent merger of workforce and business development programs and a greater focus on training at City University campuses. Kleiman is obtaining a doctorate in political science from the City University this Spring and has taught public policy at John Jay College for Criminal Justice.

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Sharyn Koenig is a Senior Business Development Officer for Ex-Im Bank’s Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Regional Office. She has 24 years of experience with Ex-Im Bank products and advising exporters, bankers and the trade-related business community in international risk mitigation and trade financing techniques. In addition to her business development responsibilities for 8 states in the region, Sharyn is a frequent speaker at trade-related events, seminars and trade shows. Prior to joining Ex-Im Bank, Sharyn was with Ex-Im Bank’s former agent, FCIA Management Company, where she held various positions in the areas of sales, marketing communications, and broker relations.

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Clarence T. Kwan of Deloitte & Touche LLP has more than 26 years of assurance and advisory experience in the U.S., China and Eastern Europe. From 1995 to 2002, Clarence was based in Beijing as the Deputy CEO of our China practice. Before that, he spent three years in Prague, Czech Republic, advising extensively on the restructuring of state-owned enterprises. He also has worked in Houston, New York and Taipei since joining the organization in 1978. With his multifunctional and multicultural background, he is a trusted business adviser to our clients, and also a proven practice leader of fast growing operations in emerging markets.
Clarence, a certified public accountant in the U.S., advises government agencies, multinational companies and large national enterprises in the following areas: cross-border investments and international alliances, mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts, corporate finance and overseas capital raising, state-owned enterprises restructuring and privatization, financial audits and internal control, corporate governance and organization structure and financial management process improvements.

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Chester Lee is a senior Project Facilitator in the Performance Management Program at American International Group (AIG). In this role he serves as an internal management consultant specializing in Six Sigma quality improvement strategies. Prior to this, Mr. Lee was employed by IBM as the Program Director of Electronic Commerce Operations, and by Citibank in various management positions in consumer banking, including Service Quality Director–Private Banking, Operations Manager–Student Loans, Chief of Staff–Long Island Branch System, and Senior Roll-out Manager–Direct Access (Home Banking). Mr. Lee has extensive small business e xperience having been involved in starting up a fast-food hamburger restaurant chain, a FM radio station in Long Island, an art supplies store in Manhattan, and a commercial bank with five branches located in various Chinese communities in New York City. Mr. Lee is a current board member of the Chinese American Planning Council, and is very active in the larger Brooklyn community through his board memberships in the Brooklyn Historical Society, BEC New Communities Housing Development Fund Company, and the First Presbyterian Church of Brooklyn. Mr. Lee also serves as a director and chairperson of the Advisory Group at the First American International Bank. Mr. Lee is a graduate of Columbia University with a BS in Chemical Engineering from the Fu Foundation School of Engineering & Applied Science and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business. He is very active in alumni/ae affairs at the university, serving on the boards of the Columbia Engineering School Alumni Association and the Asian Columbia Alumni Association.

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Kathleen W. Lee is the Program Director for the Committee of 100, a national, nonprofit membership organization of prominent Chinese Americans based in New York. In this role she staffs two primary initiatives of the Committee: (1) the Corporate Board Initiative, whose aim is to build public support for increasing the number of highly qualified Asian Pacific Americans who hold Fortune 500 director seats; and (2) the Asian/Asian Pacific American Education (APA) Initiative, whose goal is to increase the quality and content of California’s K-12 curriculum so that it more aptly reflects the contributions of both Asian and APA culture and history. Prior to joining the Committee of 100, Ms. Lee has held a number of responsible nonprofit management positions, including serving as a Program Officer for the Tides Foundation (where she administered the Tides 9/11 Fund and the Tides Democratic Justice Fund, particularly focusing on supporting Arab-, Muslim-, and South Asian-American capacity building after 9/11); as the Director of Resource Development for the Chinatown Community Development Center; and as a Special Assistant at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) during the first Clinton administration. A native San Franciscan, Kathy earned a B.A. in social welfare at UC Berkeley and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, with emphases in marketing, finance, and public management. She also completed one year of graduate work in public policy at UC Berkeley.

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Daxi Li is the founder and the Chairman of the Chinese Association for Science and Business (CASB), which is a non-for-profit organization, recognized by US IRS as a 501(c) 3 organizations. Dr. Li is currently the Chairman of CASB Ventures LLC, which is a venture capital management company based in New York, and the Chairman of several technology companies. He graduated from South China Normal University in 1975, gradute school of Sun Yet-sen University in 1980, and received his Ph.D. in high-energy physics from the City University of New York in 1985 . He continued his research as a post-doctoral fellow, Research Associate , and an Assistant Professor at McGill University , CCNY, NYIT from 1985 to 1992 . His works in physics include Up-down quark mass difference, Superstring compactification, and Superstring models.
Since 1992, his research interest has been in finance , and he worked at important Wall Street firms from 1992 to 2001 . He was a Senior Analyst at Salomon Brothers Inc, and a n Assistant Vice President at Lehman Brothers Inc. Dr. Li Founded the Chinese Association of Science & Business (CASB) with a group of experts in finance, high-tech industries and academia in 1997. The mission of CASB is to bridge science with business, and to bridge China with the world. He was one of the founders and the co-Chairman of the SARS Rescue Fund to help China to fight SARS.
He organized series of important international conferences including “ CUSPEA & Beyond ” to honor the lifelong contribution to international effort in physics of Nobel Price Winner Prof. TD Lee, CASB advisor, Nov. 2001, New York ; the 1997 “International Workshop of New Opportunities for Scientists”, New York, 11/8/1997; the Workshop on Asia Finance Crisis, New York, 11/24/1997; the 1998 International Conference on Science & Business, held at Zhongshan University, Guangzhou, China. Dr. Li and his CASB experts play an important role as consultants for China’s policy makers in economy. He led many delegations to China for high-tech exchange. He is an expert in banking. As a Director of Board of United Orient Bank, he oversees the investment of the bank. His recommendations for the China’s banking reform were well received.

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John C. Liu is a member of New York City Council, the Chair of the City Council’s Transportation Committee, and a member of the committees on Education, Consumer Affairs, Contract, Oversight & Investigation, and Lower Manhattan Redevelopment. Councilman Liu has served as President of the North Flushing Civic Association; Member of Queens Community Board 7; and Vice President of the Queens Civic Congress. He also served as Vice President of the New Century Democratic Association.
Councilman Liu is a long-time community activist and has worked with numerous organizations. When he served as President of the North Flushing Civic Association, Member of Queens Community Board 7, and Vice President of the Queens Civic Congress, John fought for greater community participation in citywide development issues. Prior to serving in the City Council, John Liu worked as a manager at the global consulting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers. John draws upon his real world fiscal expertise to root out waste and mismanagement in municipal government.

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Philip Lui is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Knoa Software. Dr. Liu has obtained multiple patents on the company’s core technologies including the Knoa platform and has assembled and led the technical teams that have produced all M-Pen, now Knoa, technology product platforms. Lui is responsible for leading the vision, design, implementation, and patenting of all of the company’s fundamental technologies.
With a diverse background in music, science, and mathematics, Lui graduated with a doctorate in music composition from the Juilliard School. As a composer he wrote many commissioned works which have been performed in the U.S., Canada, and Asia. Beginning in the late 1970’s, Lui began researching music computer applications and developed the Music Composition System, a real-time music application that established M-Pen in 1987. This technology demanded complex graphics, high-resolution printing, sound synthesis, large databases, and real-time operation. With this tool, M-Pen produced more than 80,000 pages of commercially released printed music for more than 60% of the U.S. market.
Subsequently, in the mid 90’s Lui led the development of M-Pen’s interactive authoring tool platform of 2D and 3D engines, which are powerful multitasking environments that model physical properties, logic and behaviors with visual interface systems. This technology became the proprietary platform that successfully delivered more than 40 applications to worldwide markets. M-Pen products have reached millions of users on multiple platforms including PC, MAC, Sony PlayStation, CD-ROM and the Internet with many of the products being awarded top industry prizes. Through M-Pen’s media partners including Paramount, the Discovery Channel, Fujitsu, Time Warner, Virgin and Microsoft, hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue were generated based on M-Pen developed products.
During the late 90’s, Dr. Lui led the design and direction of the Knoaplatform, that captures unique information to enhance targeted applications. Lui received multiple patents including the patent for the fundamental Knoa technology in 2001. Additional Knoa software patents are continuing to be filed.
Lui’s core expertise is in object oriented design of client/server applications, C++, Java, and UML and the patenting process. As a CTO he is driving the software engineering, quality assurance, R&D and release management efforts. Dr. Lui is the chief taxonomist for the technology and services of Knoa Software.

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Xiabo Lu is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Barnard College and Director of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. Prof. Lu’s current research interests include Chinese politics and political economy, East Asian politics and economy, comparative political corruption and governance, political economy of regulation, and politics of development in East Asia. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at Barnard College (1994-2001).
He is a co-author of (with Thomas Bernstein) Taxation without Representation in Contemporary Rural China and Resistance and Democratization, and the author of Cadres and Corruption: The Organizational Involution of the Chinese Communist Party. He has also written numerous articles, book chapters, and reviews. Professor Lu holds a BA from the Sichuan Institute of Foreign Studies (1982), an MA from Foreign Affairs College in Beijing (1985), and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley (1994).
He is currently a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Chinese Political Science and a member of the Senior Editorial Board of Crime, Law, and Social Change. Lu has been a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Graduate Program in Pacific Basin Studies at Dominican College (1993-4) and a National Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution (1998-9). He has also served as an International Affairs Fellow on the Council on Foreign Relations (2001-2). He was an Instructor at Foreign Affairs College in Beijing (1984-85).

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Terrence F. Martell is Director of the Weissman Center for International Business in the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. Prior to his appointment, he served as a Fellow in the Weissman Center. Dr. Martell is the Saxe Distinguished Professor of Finance, where he teaches and conducts research in the area of derivative markets. In addition to his teaching responsibilities, Dr. Martell serves on numerous committees at the College. He is Chair of the Graduate Curriculum Committee and Chair of the Faculty Senate. Dr. Martell is a Public Governor of the New York Board of Trade where he also is a member of the executive committee. Prior to joining Baruch College, Dr. Martell was Senior Vice President of the Commodity Exchange in New York City. Dr. Martell serves on a number of civic boards and committees. He is currently President of the Pelham School Board.

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Roberta H. I. Martin is director of the Asia for Educators program (AFE) at Columbia University ’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and one of five founding co-directors of the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia (NCTA). She is on the board of advisors of the ASIANetwork association of liberal arts colleges, and an associate editor of the journal, Asia for Educators. Dr. Martin has served as a consultant to the New York City Board of Education, New York State Department of Education, the National Council for History Standards, Annenberg/CPB, and Houghton-Mifflin publishers, among others.

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Joseph Melookaran is a Certified Public Accountant and President of JMA Chartered, an accounting and information technology firm headquartered in Kansas. Mr. Melookaran holds several leadership positions in several community organizations including Chairman of the Asian American Chamber of Commerce of Kansas City and First Vice President of the International Relations Council. He also serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Minority Business Advisory Program of Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and Advisory Council member of First National Bank. He is also the Paul Harris Fellow of the Rotary International Foundation. Mr. Melookaran received a Bachelor of Arts in Business from Kerala University, India.

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John Mogulescu is the Senior University Dean for Academic Affairs and the Dean of the School of Professional Studies at the City University of New York. His current responsibilities involve him in almost all aspects of the University’s academic life. He has for many years focused on issues related to the adequate preparation of students for college-level work prior to matriculation. In that regard, he has been responsible for the oversight of collaborative programs between CUNY and the NYC Public Schools, the CUNY Language Immersion and Bridge to College Programs, and the Adult Literacy and GED Preparation Programs. Dean Mogulescu also oversees the University’s Workforce Development Initiative, special training initiatives for City and State workers, and programs for welfare recipients. He is responsible for Adult and Continuing Education at CUNY and its non-credit programs which serve over 200,000 students per year. One of Dean Mogulescu’s priorities is to build an infrastructure and create new programs for the School of Professional Studies. Dean Mogulescu presently serves as a member of the NYC Workforce Investment Board and NYC Youth Council. He is a past president of the Continuing Education Association of New York, a former member of the New York State Adult Learning Services Council, and the past Chair of the Board of Visitors of the New York City Police Department. Dean Mogulescu received a BA from Brown University and an M.S.W. from New York University. He also attended the Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

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Samuel Tinsing Mok was the first career Chief Financial Officer and Comptroller of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, appointed by former Treasury Secretary James Baker. Prior to joining the Labor Department, Mr. Mok served as the Managing Member of Condor Consulting, LLC, a Washington, DC-based international consulting firm. His expertise lies in providing and leveraging business and government contacts for American companies interested in the Asian market. Other aspects of Mr. Mok’s practice included assisting American businesses that sought information on prospective business partners in Asia and facilitating meetings for American corporate executives who wished to establish contacts with senior Asian embassy officials in Washington, DC.
Mr. Mok received his M.A. in Auditing from Catholic University in 1982. He earned his B.S. in Accounting from Fordham University in 1968. He also graduated from the U.S. Army Institute of Administration at Fort Benjamin Harrison and from the U.S. Foreign Service Institute in Rosslyn, Virginia. Mr. Mok speaks fluent Cantonese and Mandarin Chinese. He is a Certified Internal Auditor and Certified Government Financial Manager. Additionally, Mr. Mok has undergone extensive formal training in cultural diversity instruction at the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the U.S. Department of State.
Mok has served in various capacities for numerous community and government organizations, including Trustee of the Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI); Treasurer of AFSA (American Foreign Service Association) a labor union for U.S. foreign service officers at the Department of State; and Chairperson of the National Conference of Community & Justice (formerly known as the National Conference of Christians and Jews) in the Washington, DC area. In addition, Mok has frequently lectured around the country on diversity issues and formerly provided seminars to various federal agencies and senior executives of major U.S. corporations. He is a former Chapter President of the Association of Government Accountants. Mok is also a former Chapter President and National Vice President of the Organization of Chinese Americans and a founding member of the Federal Asian Pacific American Council.

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S. Alice Mong is the Executive Director of the Committee of 100, a Chinese American leadership organization based in New York with membership across the United States. In the newly created position, Ms. Mong will manage the expansion of the Committee’s programs to build understanding between the U.S. and Greater China and encourage the full participation of Chinese Americans in American society, culture and politics.
Ms. Mong, herself, embodies the bi-cultural nature of the Committee and its work. Born in Taiwan, Ms. Mong immigrated with her family to the United States in 1973. She majored in international relations at Ohio State University and began her career with the Ohio Department of Development. She eventually built a strong coalition from the governmental, educational and business sectors of that state on issues pertaining to China and went on to head the Department’s regional office in Hong Kong.
Ms. Mong was most recently Senior Investment Manager for the non-property investment subsidiary of the Hang Lung Group, a leading Hong Kong property company with substantial investments both in Hong Kong and Shanghai. While at Hang Lung, Ms. Mong obtained a joint Executive MBA degree from Northwestern University (Kellogg School of Business) and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

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James L. Muyskens became the ninth president of Queens College on July 29, 2002 after having served as CEO and Dean of the Faculty for the Gwinnett University Center/University System of Georgia.
The appointment to Queens College marks Dr. Muyskens’ return to the City University of New York. From 1984 to 1987 he served as Associate Provost and Acting Provost at Hunter College and spearheaded a revision of the undergraduate curriculum, among other efforts. Dr. Muyskens also served as chairman of Hunter College’s Department of Philosophy and Director of the Religion Program.
Before joining the University System of Georgia, Dr. Muyskens held the position of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas from 1988 to 1995.
A graduate of Central College in Iowa, he also earned a Master’s of Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Michigan. His publications include many on ethics, especially for health care providers, including Moral Problems in Nursing: A Philosophical Investigation published in 1982. Two chapters were reprinted in 1990 in Ethics in Nursing: An Anthology.

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Alex New is President of (JFK) Wen-Parker Logistics (New York). After attending Hunter College, CUNY, Mr. New worked for three years in a Hongkong-based International freight forwarding company before setting up his own business, Wen-Parker Logistics, in 1997. WPL today is a 50-million dollar international logistics company with twelve offices in seven Asian countries and four offices here in the USA.

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Kathleen Pesile, A.A.S., B.B.A., M.P.A., was appointed by Governor George Pataki in June 1998 as a member of the Board of Trustees of The City University of New York. She is a Financial Advisoreducator, and CUNY alumna, and has a diverse background in international banking and higher education. She is the owner of her own financial services firm, PESILE FINANCIAL GROUP established in 1995. She is a former chairperson of the American Bankers Association, New York, where she developed workshops and seminars for international bankers. Ms. Pesile was Vice President for Global Markets, Treasurer’s Division, and in Mergers and Acquisitions at J. P. Morgan & Co. from 1986-1993, where she served as the bank’s first corporate financial services information officer, and chairperson of an international committee established to create standard practices in the dissemination of global real-time financial data. Ms. Pesile served as Vice President of Finance and Administration at Capital Cities/ABC from 1981-1986, where she also was part of a three member team established by CEO Thomas Murphy that developed, financed, and managed the company sponsored Substance Abuse Assistance Program, later modeled by Xerox and other Fortune 100 corporations. She also developed a national university recruiting program to hire and train financial analysts.
Since 1978, she has been an adjunct professor in Finance and International Business at The College of Staten Island, and is a founding member of its Weekend College. She has also served as an adjunct thesis advisor/examiner at the Stonier Graduate School of Banking at the University of Delaware. In 1977, she started her teaching career as the first woman instructor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Jersey City State College, where she developed finance related courses for law enforcement personnel, and was a founding member of the Peter Rodino Institute for Justice.

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Alejandro Reyes is a Hong Kong-based journalist and consultant, specializing in Asian politics and economics. He obtained a M. Litt. in Politics in the University of Oxford and he has an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University. For six years, he was the youngest senior foreign correspondent in Time Inc. Asia.s magazine operations and he was former senior adviser to Canada’s Foreign Minister on G8 issues and foreign policy development. Mr. Reyes is a frequent speaker on Asian political and economic trends, the effects of globalization, and media issues.

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Michael Ribaudo is University Dean for Instructional Technology and Chief Technology Officer for the City University of New York. Prior to Assuming his current position in December of 1994, he served as University Dean for Academic Computing since 1985. Prior to that he was University Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, with responsibility for academic program evaluation and oversight of the Freshman Skills Assessment Program. Dean Ribaudo has served on a number of technology based national advisory boards, was a founding member of NYSERNet and the Apple University Consortium, and was intimately involved in EDUCOM’s effort in pressing the Nation Science Foundation to adopt the TCP/IP standard for NSFNet, the precursor of the global Internet as we know it today.

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Alvin M. Roselin is presently the district director of SCORE New York City. He obtained a BA in Business and Public Relations in the Empire State College, State University of New York. His areas of expertise focus on business administration, marketing, advertising, public relations, film/video production foreign travel and relations, etc. Mr. Roselin is also the president of The Roselin Group in which he’s responsible for marketing communications and public relations/ photography. He has previously worked at Planned Communication Services, Inc., Central Feature News and the U.S. Army in Hokkaido during Korean Conflict. In addition, Mr. Roselin is a member of the Public Relations Society of America, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, Publicity Club of New York and international Center for Photography.

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Parmatma Saran is former Chair of the Sociology and Anthropology Department at Baruch College, CUNY. He teaches courses both at the Graduate and Undergraduate level focusing on race relations, ethnicity, minority groups, new mmigrants, and India. His writing and research is on Asian communities in the United States and India. He is the author of four books and a large number of articles both in professional journals and magazines. Two of his books are on experiences of Asian Indians in the United States and are widely quoted in journals, magazines, and newspapers including the New York Times, Daily News, Time Magazine, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, National Geographic, India Today, India abroad, News India, India Monitor, and many others.

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Marilyn K. Shea was appointed Executive Director of the New York City Workforce Investment Board in June of 2004, where she has been working on Board development and strategic planning for the New York City workforce investment system. Prior to coming to the Board, Ms. Shea previously held significant positions in workforce development at the Federal, state and local levels. Ms. Shea obtained an MA degree in Public Administration and Public Administration at Harvard University; she also has an MA degree in Public Policy from the American University, Washington, D.C. In addition, she has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley. She holds extensive experience in the field of workforce development at the Federal, state and local levels, as well as significant experience in strategic planning, program and policy development and administration and management.
Ms. Shea also brings significant experience in working with boards. She was a founding partner and board member of the National Leadership Institute, an initiative established jointly by the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Governor’s Association and the National Association of Workforce Boards to develop the leadership capacity of state and local workforce investment boards after the enactment of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998. Ms. Shea also has served on a number of boards and has a thorough understanding of how boards can operate at a highly effective level. Her background can be very helpful to the NYC WIB Board Chair and members in their leadership development efforts.

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Cheng Siwei was born in Beijing, ancestral home in Xiangxiang, Hunan Province. He is Vice Chairman of National People’s Congress of China, chairman of China Democratic National Construction Association (CDNCA); Chairman of the National Association of Vocational Education of China. He is a famous expert on economy, management, and chemistry. He is Prof., Systems Science Inst. of China Academy of Sciences and author of 20 books and over 150 academic articles. He played a critical role in promoting the development of venture capital in China, and is called as “father of China’s venture capital”. He graduated from East China Chemical Engineering Institute, 1956, and obtained MBA from University of California, Los Angeles, USA, 1984. He worked as technician, engineer, senior engineer and chief engineer in Chemical Engineering Research Institutes, and was vice minister of Chemical Industry, 1994-1997; He was elected, Dec. 1996 as chairman of 6th and 7th CDNCA Central Committees; elected vice chairman of 9th NPC Standing Committee, March 1998; elected vice chairman of 10th NPC Standing Committee, March 2003. Awarded National Award for Scientific and Technological Advancement (class 2 and 3); and award for Scientific and Technological Advancement from Ministry of Chemical Industry (class 1 and 2).

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Vivien Stewart was appointed Vice President, Education at the Asia Society in July 2001. She is responsible for Asia Society’s work with state and national policymakers to promote the study of Asia and other world regions and cultures in America’s schools. Ms. Stewart has had a long involvement with education and youth affairs. Over the course of a distinguished career at Carnegie Corporation of New York, she has been a leader in shaping reform agendas in early childhood education, urban school reform, teaching as a profession, adolescent development and higher education. In addition to grant-making, she was responsible for the management of a number of Carnegie task forces, which produced influential reports such as Turning Points, A Matter of Time, and Starting Points. Ms. Stewart serves as a trustee of the National Center on Education and the Economy, and the Longview Foundation for Education in International Understanding and World Affairs. She is also on the steering committee of the US-China E-Language Learning Project and is Senior Education Advisor to the Refugee Education Trust in Geneva. She has also been Senior Policy Advisor to the UN Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, and a Visiting Scholar at Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. She received her BA and M.Phil degrees from Oxford University.

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Betty Lee Sung is Professor Emerita and Chairperson of Asian American/ Asian Research Institute. She is the former Chairperson of Asian American Studies Department at City College, CUNY. Professor Sung has published innumerable articles and seven books on Chinese Americans including Mountain of Gold (1967), and Chinese American Manpower and Employment, which won an outstanding book of the year award for 1976.

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C. Mark Tang is Director of Biotech Commercialization Center, Rutgers Business School at the State University of New Jersey. He runs a venture investment firm, World Technology Ventures, and has been very active in working with Chinese Bio Tech companies through his leadership role in the World Bio Forum. He has also written a book titled “The Essential Biotech Investment Guide: How to Invest in the Healthcare Biotechnology & Life Sciences Sector.”

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Angelica O. Tang is Regional Representative of the US Department of Labor, appointed by President George W. Bush in October 2001. Ms. Tang is Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao’s chief spokesperson; intergovernmental and constituency liaison in Region II which includes New York, New Jersey, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands .
Prior to joining the U.S. Department of Labor, Ms. Tang was Senior Advisor at Emergent Capital, a venture capital firm in New York . She was executive director of New York City Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs and Language Services. As a cabinet official under the administration of Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, Ms. Tang developed and implemented effective initiatives including the creation of a cost-saving naturalization assistance program, Citizenship NYC. She is published on the subject of global migration and its impact on receiving countries. Her publications include “A Sensible Immigrant Policy in New York City ” ( University of British Columbia , Vancouver) and “Immigrants and the Economic Revitalization of New York City” ( St. John’s University , New York).
Ms. Tang’s previous appointments in the Giuliani administration include: director of international business at the NYC Commission for International Business and the United Nations, and director of marketing at the NYC Department of Business Services. Before joining the mayoral administration, Ms. Tang served as a policy advisor to the City Council President Andrew Stein.
Ms. Tang was elected term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and served on the Board of Directors of the International Center of New York. She has served as a trustee and Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. She is a founder of the Pan Asian-American Leadership Caucus. Fluent in Chinese and Spanish, she is a certified interpreter in both languages. She served as adjunct instructor at New York University and guest lecturer at the Dalton School and the Columbia School of Journalism. Ms. Tang is recipient of numerous civic and leadership awards. She is a graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy and Princeton University.

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John Kuo Wei Tchen is a historian and cultural activist. Since 1975, he has been studying interethnic and interracial relations of Asians and Americans, helping to build cultural organizations, and exploring how inquiry in the humanities and society can help deepen the quality of public discourse and policy. Dr. Tchen is currently the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific/American) Studies Program and Institute at New York University. He is an Associate Professor of the Gallatin School for Individualized Study and the History Department of the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. At NYU he has been hiring a new core faculty, developing an undergraduate major and minor, setting up an institute which sponsors conferences and events, and initiating a major new multi-media web site in their new offices designed by architect/sculptor Maya Lin.
Tchen is the chair of the Advisory Committee of the Center for Folklife and Cultural Studies, SI. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the New-York Historical Society and has just been appointed on the Editorial Board of the Journal of American History. In addition, he serves on the Blue Ribbon Commission, National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution. He has served on the Smithsonian Council, the primary intellectual advisory body to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and on the Visiting Committee of the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, SI. He has also served as a board member of the New York Council for the Humanities he chaired for two years. Dr. Tchen has spearheaded the formation of the first Asian/Pacific American office at the Smithsonian Institution that now engages in various regional, national, and international projects. He helped initiate the formation of the Asian/Pacific caucus of the Association of American Museums and the networking of local and regional Asian/Pacific American museums, historical societies, and archival collections. Dr. Tchen also serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of American History, the publication of the Organization of American Historians. He was elected onto the Nominations Committee of the American Studies Association (2000-03).
In addition to receiving an American Book Award, in 1991 Dr. Tchen was awarded the Charles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities (renamed the National Humanities Medal), and in 1993 he received the City of New York Mayor’s Award of Honor for Arts and Culture. In 1999, Tchen was named one of the “A 100 List” for A Magazine’ s list of the hundred most influential Asian Americans in the past decade. In 2000, New York before Chinatown received the John Hope Franklin Prize, Honorable Mention, American Studies Association; the Best History/Social Science Book, Association of Asian American Studies, and the Brendan Gill Award, Honorable Mention, Municipal Art Society, New York.

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Savio W. Tung is a Senior Partner at Investcorp and is currently the Managing Partner of the Global Technology Investment Group. He has been involved with most of the corporate buyouts carried out at Investcorp during his twenty years with the firm. Savio is a member of Investcorp’s Investment Commitment Committee. He is also a member of Investcorp’s Financial Risk Management Committee, which is responsible for $3 billion of the firm’s hedge fund investment portfolio. Mr. Tung hold a BSc in Chemical Engineering from Columbia University. He is a trustee of Columbia University and is on the board of the Columbia Investment Management Company, an endowment of over $4.4 billion. He chairs the Budget Committee of Columbia University and is a member of the Columbia University Medical Center (“Health Science”) Committee. He was the Class Day Speaker at the 2004 graduation of the School of Engineering at Columbia University.

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Kathleen Waldron was selected by CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein and the CUNY Board of Trustees, effective August 2, 2004, to be the president of Baruch College, the nation’s largest accredited business school and one of the most selective public colleges in the northeast. Before joining Baruch, Dr. Waldron was dean of the School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences of Long Island University Brooklyn Campus, where she was responsible for a student body of 1,000 with over 70 full-time and adjunct faculty.
Dr. Waldron worked at Citibank for fifteen years in several managerial positions. From 1996 to 1998 she was a member of the policy committee for Citibank’s Private Bank, which managed over $100 billion in assets of clients from over forty countries and offered a full range of investment, credit and corporate finance products. She was in charge of Global Strategic Planning for the Private Bank as the group achieved revenues of $1.4 billion. She also served on a transition team when Citicorp merged with Travelers Insurance to form Citigroup in 1998.
Prior to her position at Citibank, Dr. Waldron worked at Chemical Bank in the Argentine area of the Latin American Division, responsible for government and private sector lending.

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Erik F. Wang currently serves as the Deputy Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. In this capacity, he develops policies to improve the quality of life for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and increase Asian American and Pacific Islander participation in the Federal Government and the private sector. He also serves as counsel to the President’s Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. His previous positions include Business Development Manager with MissionFish, Director for Private Sector Initiatives and Corporate Relations at the Corporation for National Service and Special Assistant for Dr. Gail Wilensky at Project HOPE. Prior to that, Mr. Wang worked at the Republican National Finance Committee in the George H. W. Bush Administration. In addition, he founded Primus International, an international trade consulting company focusing on import/export and joint venture projects in Asia with offices in Washington, D.C. and China, and is a founder of Noodle-ism, a group developing Asian fusion restaurants and gourmet food products. Mr. Wang is an active member of the community and serves as a board member for several non-profit organizations in the Washington, DC area.

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John Wang is founder and President of the Asian American Business Development Center, Inc. (AABDC). The AABDC is a unique non-profit consulting organization established in 1994, its mission is to advance the capacity of Asian-owned businesses in areas needed to enable such businesses to compete in the mainstream marketplace. Mr. Wang was the Executive Director of the Chinese American Local Development Corporation. He is credited for developing the nation’s first economic development strategy for the Asian American business community and to use public and private sector resources to foster business growth. Mr. Wang has been an integral part of the economic, political and social development of the Asian American community for over twenty-five years. He is internationally recognized for his continued efforts and contributions. Some of his achievements in 2002 are as follows: identified by Newsday as an Everyday Hero, requested by The New York Times among 13 prominent New Yorkers to offer suggestions to Mayor Bloomberg, selected by Earth Times Monthly as one of the New York Influentials, honored by the N.Y.S. Federation of Hispanic Chambers of Commerce for his initiative to bring together African American, Hispanic and Asian American business communities, and for his advocacy; and he received the Minority Business Award from the Association of Minority Enterprises of New York at its 26th Annual Award Ceremony.

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Lynne Weikart is currently an Associate Professor at Baruch College School of Public Affairs and the former Executive Director of City Project, which seeks an equitable and cost-effective allocation of New York City’s resources. After finishing her undergraduate work at Case Western Reserve University, Lynne Weikart earned her Ph.D. at Columbia University with a study of the New York City public schools during the 1975 fiscal crisis.
Dr. Weikart, a professor of budgeting and fiscal management, specializes in urban budgeting and resource allocation, as well as school finance. She has had extensive experience in finance and management positions in education and social service agencies in New York City and State government. Her research interests, other than politics and civil rights, are in evaluation of government agencies in terms of resource allocation and the delivery of public services, particularly in education and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Weikart has written extensively on how budgeting, system design and new technologies affect the delivery of services in the public sector. She also addresses members of non-profit organizations around the City on interpreting the City’s budget and influencing the City’s budget process.

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Allan Wernick is a widely published author whose book, U.S. Immigration and Citizenship – Your Complete Guide , Revised 3rd Edition, is the leading popular guide on the topic of immigration. He is a visiting professor in Chicana/o Studies at UCLA, and a professor at Baruch College, CUNY where he teaches courses in immigration law to students pursuing degrees in Paralegal Studies and Public Administration. His weekly column, Immigration and Citizenship is syndicated by King Features Syndicate, and his column Immigration Advice appears every Thursday in the New York Daily News.
Prof. Wernick currently serves as Chair of the Citizenship and Naturalization Project of the City of New York (CUNY) and practices law as of counsel to the firm of Glenn Bank in New York City. He has served on the national Board of Directors of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), as Chair of the Immigration Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and as President of the New York Chapter of AILA.

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Richard Wong, professor, was educated at the University of Chicago and is Chair of Economics. He joined the University of Hong Kong in 1992, served as Director of the School of Business from 1997 to 2001 and founding Dean of the Faculty of Business and Economics from 2001 to 2004. Professor Wong’s main research interest is in economic policy analysis and regional economic development. He is principal investigator of the University Grants Committee’s Area of Excellence award for research in economic policy and business strategy. He is Vice-President of the Mont Pelerin Society, and a Member of the Board of Directors of the Western Economics Association (USA) and the East Asian Economics Association ( Japan). He had served on numerous public bodies and is currently a member of the Hong Kong SAR Government’s University Grants Committee, Exchange Fund Advisory Committee, Land and Building Advisory Committee, and Economic and Employment Council. He was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star in 1999 for his contributions in education, housing, industry and technology development and was appointed a Justice of the Peace in 2000 by the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region.

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Betty B. Wu, of New York, New York, is the Chair of the Commission. Ms. Wu is an executive with Bloomberg LP, a global news and information company that includes television, radio, publishing and internet operations worldwide. Prior to this, she served as Commissioner of the New York City Department of Employment (DOE) where she received acclaim for her leadership in redefining the scope of DOE as an economic development agency. She has also held several senior executive positions at Swiss Bank Corp. Investment, Salomon Brothers, Standard Chartered Securities and other financial institutions in Tokyo, Hong Kong and New York. Ms. Wu serves on the Judging Panel of Women’s Venture Fund Highest Leave Award. Previously, she served as a Board Member of the Workforce Development Council of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, a member of the New York City Workforce Investment Board, and a Board Member (NE region) for Teach for America. She is a member of the Asia Society, the Japan Society, the China Institute, the Heritage Foundation and a sponsor of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. Ms. Wu has received numerous awards including the 2003 Madam C.J. Walker Award and the 2002 Professional Achievement Award given by the Chinese American Academic and Professional Society. Ms. Wu received a Master’s of Public Administration from Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs and a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Yee-Ping Wu is Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Knoa Software. Ms. Wu is a graduate of Juilliard. As a pianist, after many years of concertizing Ms. Wu raised investment, and established M-Pen (now knoa Software Inc.) in 1987 to bring creative, innovative technology to the market.
During the 90’s Ms. Wu is noted for having grown the company into a dynamic and profitable company in the pioneering and emerging market of Multimedia. Recognizing the importance of strategic alliances, she has built marketing and distribution arrangements with global partners including Fujitsu, Time Warner, BMG, Virgin and Microsoft.
The company has successfully launched more than 40 multi-platform products. Many of these award-winning products have become industry top sellers including for the Microsoft’s Magic School Bus series. With Knoa Software the company has recently launched a suite of User Performance software products for the enterprise market.
Ms. Wu has received numerous recognitions and awards including the AWIB Entrepreneurial Achievement Award, Crain’s Top 40 under 40, Crain’s Top 100 Minority Executives, Award for Excellence in Science and Technology from former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, and the 2000 New York Women’s Agenda Star Award.
In addition to her accolades, Ms. Wu has been interviewed by various publications including Crain’s, Working Woman, Variety, Wired, Straits Times(Singapore), World Journal(China), Woman (Japan), Multimedia World, News Week, News Day, New York Software News, Success, Digital Software, World Street Reporter, Avenue Asia, AlleyCat News, Toronto Globe and Mail, Nikkei Japan, Entrepreneur, Business Week, New York Times.