The Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC) was established in New York City in 1994 to promote greater recognition of Asian American businesses’ contributions to the general economy.  AABDC encourages Asian American businesses to be more actively involved in issues and policies that directly affect them at the federal, state and city levels and provides capacity-building assistance to business entities that enables them to compete in the mainstream marketplace and expand business opportunities.

 

They will be holding an Asian American Business Roundtable and its inaugural Summit on January 29 – 30, 2016 at The Venetian.

 

The Asian American Business Roundtable (AABR) was created as a think-tank entity of the Asian American Business Development Center (AABDC). It is intended to leverage the collective knowledge, experience and networks of recognized industry leaders – many identified over the past 14 years as “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business” honorees – to provide a unique and unprecedented source of corporate business intelligence.

 

The mission of the Asian American Business Roundtable is to provide opportunities to inform and connect; build a collective message and voice; inspire continued successful business opportunities and to drive the development of groundbreaking solutions for social good. Objectives are to:

-Increase the visibility and presence of Asian Americans in the US business arena
-Address national and global business challenges of the 21st Century
-Assist global corporations seeking to expand their market presence in Asia
-Assist Asia-based entities seeking to develop partnerships with US companies
-Promote an understanding of game changer techniques that will serve to encourage continued new idea development and leadership in innovation through the Asian American business community
-Support social and philanthropic endeavors within our community as well as to address community issues integral to the well-being of a multicultural society

 

Here are the list of speakers*:

MEHMOOD KHAN
Vice Chairman and Chief Scientific Officer, Global R&D, PepsiCo

PHYLLIS CAMPBELL
Chairman, Pacific Northwest of JP Morgan Chase

JUE WONG
President of Elizabeth Arden brand

JON SPECTOR
President and CEO of The Conference Board

CID WILSON
President & CEO of Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility (HACR)

DEBORAH GILLIS
President & Chief Executive Officer of Catalyst

RONALD C. PARKER
President and CEO of The Executive Leadership Council

LINDA AKUTAGAWA
President and CEO of Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc. (LEAP)

DR. PETER LEE
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Research

DR. ROHINI ANAND
Senior Vice President Corporate Responsibility and Global Chief Diversity Officer for Sodexo

JANE HYUN
President and Founder of Hyun & Associates

ALBERT K. SHEN
National Deputy Director of the Minority Business Development Agency

DAN SCHWARTZ
Nevada State Treasurer

DILAWAR SYED
President of Freshdesk, Inc.

MAGGIE HSU
Chief of Staff to Tony Hsieh, CEO of Zappos.com and Founder of Downtown Project

KAMESH NAGARAJAN
Senior Vice President of Morgan Stanley

JOY CHIK
Distinguished Engineer & Partner Engineering Director, Microsoft

DR. KAREN ENG
President& CEO of CSMI

LORNA RANDLETT
Commissioner of the White House Asian and Asian Pacific American Initiative (AAPI)

BING CHEN
Co-Founder and Chief Creative Officer of Victorious

WENDA FONG
Co-founder and chairperson of CAPE

JERRI CHOU
Founder of The Feast Social Innovation Conference

JASON MA
Founder of ThreeEQ

GLENN SUGIYAMA
Managing Partner & Global Practice Leader of DHR

FRED S. TENG
Chief Executive Officer of China Newsweek Corporation

HANK WUH
CEO of SKAI Ventures

REBECCA FANNIN
Founder/Editor of Silicon Dragon News

KEVIN FONG
Adviser to GSR Ventures

DR. HINA W. CHAUDHRY
Founder, Chief Scientific Officer, and Chairman of the Board of VentriNova

PETER MOK
Co-Founder and Managing General Partner of KLM Capital.

NORMA TAN
Principal of Cora Group

JOHN WANG
AABDC Founder and President

 

For more information about the event please visit: www.aabusinessroundtable.org

 

*Speakers listed as of 11/16/15