4th Annual NAAMBA Leadership Conference & Exposition

Tomorrow's Leaders Today

Friday, September 14, 2012

Santa Clara Hyatt Regency

Grand Ballroom, Level 1

Mentoring & Networking Breakfast - 8:30 am - 9:30 am - Sponsored by Liberty Mutual Insurance

Connect, engage and be inspired at the Mentoring & Networking Breakfast. Take the first step towards building an impressive global network of peers and mentors!

The highly successful NAAMBA Mentoring Breakfast debuted at the 3rd Annual NAAMBA Leadership Conference & Exposition in 2011 followed by another successful installment at the Global MBA Leadership Conference & Exposition in Singapore earlier this year.

The mentees are given an exceptional opportunity to connect and engage with high caliber corporate representatives, diversity & inclusion executives, business & community leaders, educators and entrepreneurs. Our inspirational mentors represent diverse industries and possess exceptional leadership and advisory skills. They provide mentees unique career and professional advice and insights. Through this mutually rewarding experience, mentors are able to impart impressive knowledge to the mentees and help cultivate Tomorrow's Leaders Today!

Emcee: Lily Tang, Lead Director, NAAMBA Board of Directors 

Welcome Message by: Ann Nowak, Director of Recruiting Professional Programs, Liberty Mutual Group

Mentors*:

• Jim Chow, Head of Apps Global Partner Program, Google Enterprise - Table #1
• Panney Wei, C.Ht., CEO, Positive Changes Consulting; On-air Host, NBC News Radio - Table #2
• Andy Wu, Senior Manager, Foundational Cloud Services & Cloud Delivery Center of Competence, IBM - Table #3
• Chad Yoshinaka, Commercial Growth & Development Leader-Marketing, GE Capital Americas - Table #4
• Isis Wu, Director of Strategy & Operations-Global HR, Kimberly-Clark Corporation - Table #5
• Lo Li, Director, Revenue Management Technologies, InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG) - Table #6
• Wendy Xa, Executive Director, Presidio Knolls School - Table # 7
• Charlie S. Shin, Marketing Manager, Major League Soccer & Soccer United Marketing - Table #8
• Julia Rhee, Co-Founder, Retrofit Republic - Table #9
• Ivo Lukas, CEO & Founder, 24Notion - Table #10
• Amy L. Wakeham, VP, Investor Relations & Corporate Communications, Cricket Communications - Table #11
• Emily Chan, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®) Portfolio Manager, Portfolio Management Program, UBS Wealth Management US - Table #12
• Dilawar Syed, CEO, Yonja Media Group; Commissioner, President Obama's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders - Table #13
• Peter Weng, Director, Search Quality Evaluation, Google – Table #14
• Steven Pae, Managing Partner, Financial Technology Solutions - Table #15
• Professor Stanley Kwong, Managing Director/Term Professor, China Business Programs, School of Management, University of San Francisco - Table #16
• Karen Jaw-Madson, HR Director, Business Process & Technology/Global Shared Service Centers, SC Johnson - Table #17
  
• Cathy Peng, Chief Business Development Officer, Ethertronics, Inc. – Table #18
• Mark Szollar, Advertising Director - Recruitment & Diversity, The New York Times - Table # 19
• John Hotta, Senior Director (Retired), Microsoft - Table # 20 

Mentors on tables 1-12 are winners of the NAAMBA Global Emerging Leaders Under 40 Award 2012!

For a complete list of the Award Winners, click here. 

*Additional Mentors will be announced soon!

Mentoring & Networking Breakfast is open to all Full Conference & Exposition registrants.