Bela Bajaria was named Head of Global TV in 2020, overseeing English language and local language scripted and unscripted series around the world. Bajaria leads the team for all of television, responsible for hit series including Bridgerton, The Queen’s Gambit, Lupin, and Cobra Kai.

Previously, she oversaw local language originals, managing the teams behind shows such as La Casa de Papel (Spain), The Witcher (Poland), Lupin (France), Dark Desire (Mexico), Sacred Games (India), Kingdom (Korea), Blood & Water (South Africa), and Sintonia (Brazil).

Bajaria joined Netflix in November 2016 to oversee Netflix’s push into unscripted programming including the critically acclaimed Queer Eye, Nailed It!, and Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, as well as talk series with David Letterman and Hasan Minhaj. Bajaria also oversaw some scripted originals such as the hit series Never Have I Ever and YOU.

Previously, Bajaria was President of Universal Television, where she made history as the first woman of color to oversee a studio. There she shepherded creative programming including the Emmy-nominated Netflix comedy Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, as well as hit primetime broadcast series Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mindy Project, and Chicago Fire. Earlier, she held two key posts simultaneously: Senior Vice President, Cable Programming for CBS TV Studios, and Senior Vice President of Movies and Miniseries for CBS Network.

Bajaria has been honored by THR’s Women in Entertainment list, Variety’s LA Women’s Impact Report, and named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women in 2020.

She currently serves on the LA Board of Governors for the Paley Center and the Board of LA’s Saban Community Clinic; she was honored with its Lenny Somberg Award in 2018. Bajaria has been honored by the “I Have a Dream” Foundation of LA, The March of Dimes Foundation, and was given the Industry Leadership Award from the LA Indian Film Festival.

Neal Mohan is the CEO of YouTube. Mohan joined YouTube in 2015 as Chief Product Officer. During his time at the company, he managed a number of its marquees throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, including YouTube Music, YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, YouTube Shorts, and YouTube NFTs.

Radhika Jones is Editor-in-Chief of Vanity Fair magazine and the first person of color to be named to the post since the magazine was founded in 1913. She formerly served as the editorial director for the books department at The New York Times, deputy managing editor of TIME (where she managed the TIME 100 and Person of the Year efforts), and the managing editor of The Paris Review. A cultural omnivore who’s deeply versed in books, art, politics, and more, Radhika holds a B.A. from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia.

Shohei Ohtani is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher, designated hitter and outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Beginning his pro baseball career in Japan, he was drafted by and played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball from 2013 until 2017.

Breaking records and stereotypes, Ohtani had a standout year in 2021, garnering global acclaim and recognition from everyone, including the MLB commissioner for his gameplay during the season. He became the first two-way player in the history of Major League Baseball with 10+ home runs and 20+ stolen bases as a hitter and 100+ strikeouts and 10+ pitching appearances as a pitcher in the same season while also holding at least a share of the major league lead in home runs in fourteen starts. During the 2021 All-Star Game, he also became the first player in MLB history to be an All-Star as both a pitcher and a hitter.

After making his vivacious and commanding comeback to the entertainment arena, Academy Award-winner Ke Huy Quan has proven he is here to stay.

He recently returned to acting full time in 2022, starring alongside Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Stephanie Hsu as the supporting role in A24’s critically-acclaimed and award winning cultural phenomenon EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. Directed and written by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, the film centers on an aging Chinese immigrant (Michelle Yeoh) who is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what’s important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes. Quan plays Yeoh’s distanced, yet undeniably good-hearted husband, “Waymond”. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE made history as A24’s highest grossing film of all time, crossing $100 million at the global box office. Quan has made an astounding impact on the awards landscape on behalf of his performance. This performance has garnered Ke an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Critics Choice Film Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Independent Spirit Award, Hollywood Critics Association Award and the Gotham Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance. The film was the most decorated film at the 95th Oscars, with a staggering eleven nominations and seven wins, including Best Picture.

On the feature front, Quan will next be seen in the Russo Brothers’ THE ELECTRIC STATE for Netflix, based on the popular graphic novel of the same name and starring alongside Chris Pratt, Stanley Tucci, Billy Bob Thornton, and Giancarlo Esposito, among others. The film follows an orphaned teenager, played by Millie Bobby Brown, as she traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother.

Sandra Oh is receiving the SeeHer Award in 2023 for artists who advocate for gender equality, portray characters with authenticity, defy stereotypes, and push boundaries in front of and behind the camera.

The daughter of Korean immigrants, Oh started her performance career as a child. She attended the National Theatre School of Canada, and at age 19 had her breakthrough role in the television biopic “The Diary of Evelyn Lau” (1993). Her performance garnered a Gemini nomination and the 1994 Cannes FIPA d’Or for Best Actress. In 1996, Oh moved to Los Angeles to join the cast of HBO’s comedy “Arli$$”. Roles in films like “Under the Tuscan Sun” (2003) and “Sideways” (2004) followed.

Oh then landed the role of Dr. Cristina Yang in the hit TV series “Grey’s Anatomy” (2005), which garnered her numerous award nominations over the course of her 10 years on the show. And just this year, she hosted an episode of “Saturday Night Live.”

Oh just finished starring as the lead actress in BBC America’s spy drama, “Killing Eve,” for which she has won numerous awards at the Critics’ Choice, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Iman Vellani is receiving the New Gold Award, in addition to her A100 honor, for a rising leader who will redefine canon for the Asian Pacific community. 

Vellani recently made her acting debut in Disney+’s critically acclaimed TV mini-series MS. MARVEL as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel. MS. MARVEL won the Golden Tomato Award for being the Best-Reviewed Series of 2022 as well as the Favorite Kids TV Show award at the 2023 Kid’s Choice Awards. Following her debut in MS. MARVEL, Iman took part in A FAN’S GUIDE TO MS. MARVEL and ASSEMBLED: THE MAKING OF MS. MARVEL, two documentaries about the production of the series. In November 2023, she will be seen reprising the role in the film THE MARVELS alongside Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Samuel L. Jackson. While playing Ms. Marvel, Iman was nominated for Best Actress in a Superhero Series at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Super Awards, won Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Streaming Series at the 2022 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Films, and won the Best TV Actress Jury Prize award at the 2022 LifeArt Festival. In May 2023, Iman will be honored at the 2nd annual Gold House Gala by receiving the first-ever New Gold Award. She is a Canadian actress from Markham, Ontario who is thrilled to be the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Muslim superhero character!

Andrew and Peggy Cherng received the Gold Legend Honor for a lifetime of indelible contributions to the success and representation of the Asian Pacific community.

For over 50 years, Co-founders and Co-CEOs of Panda Restaurant Group, Andrew and Peggy have combined their talents to propel Panda to become the world leader in Asian dining experiences.

Under Andrew and Peggy’s leadership, Panda Restaurant Group was named one of America’s best employers by Forbes and ranked the number one Asian quick-service concept for over a decade by QSR Magazine. Additionally, the founders have been inducted into the National Restaurant Association’s Hall of Fame and recognized by Carnegie Corporation of New York as Great Immigrants.

With a mission of inspiring better lives, the Cherngs are deeply committed to giving back to the communities in which Panda restaurants operate through Panda Cares Foundation, the company’s philanthropic arm that has donated more than $375 million to non-profit organizations, schools, and children’s hospitals since its founding in 1999. In 2021, the Panda established the Panda CommUnity Fund — a five-year $10 million community investment and response program that supports immediate and sustainable solutions from national and local organizations to uplift diverse groups, including people of color and other marginalized communities.

Dominic Ng is receiving the Gold Legend Honor for a lifetime of indelible contributions to the success and representation of the Asian Pacific community.

Dominic Ng is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of East West Bank (NASDAQ: EWBC), the largest publicly listed independent bank headquartered in Southern California. Since joining the Bank in 1991, Mr. Ng transformed East West from a small savings and loan association with $600 million in assets, into a global full-service commercial bank today with assets over $64 billion. Its 3,000+ employees serve more than 600,000 customers worldwide. Bank Director ranked East West Bank the No.1 Performing Bank in 2021 and the bank with the Best Board in 2022.

Lea Salonga is receiving the Gold Legend Honor for a lifetime of indelible contributions to the success and representation of the Asian Pacific community.

Multiple award-winning actress and singer Lea Salonga is renowned across the world for her powerful voice and perfect pitch. She is best known for her Tony Award winning role in Miss Saigon. In addition to the Tony, she has won the Olivier, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle and Theatre World Awards, in the field of musical theatre. She was also the first Asian to play Eponine in the musical Les Misérables on Broadway and returned to the beloved show as Fantine in the 2006 revival. Many fans of all ages recognize Lea as the singing voice of Princess Jasmine from Aladdin and Fa Mulan for Mulan and Mulan II. For her portrayal of the beloved princesses, the Walt Disney Company bestowed her with the honor of “Disney Legend”.

Most recently, Lea starred in the critically acclaimed Sony musical-drama YELLOW ROSE and stars in the Netflix animated series CENTAURWORLD. She is currently filming the first season of Pretty Little Liars: Original Sin (a reboot of the popular series) for HBO Max. In August 2020, Lea released her single “Dream Again” and in November Lea Salonga: Live with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra from Sydney Opera House aired as part of Great Performances on PBS. A live album of the performance was subsequently released by Broadway Records.

Lea’s 2019 The Human Heart Tour saw sold-out audiences and record-breaking sales across North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. On Broadway, Lea most recently starred in the 2018 Broadway revival of Once on This Island as the Goddess of Love, Erzulie. The show’s return to the Broadway stage earned a Tony Award for “Best Revival of a Musical” and also garnered Lea and the cast a Grammy nomination for “Best Musical Theater Album.”

Lea has toured all over the world, performing sold out concerts in such locations as the Sydney Opera House, 02 Arena, Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, Singapore’s Esplanade , Kuala Lumpur Convention Center, Hong Kong Cultural Center ), Queen Sirikit Convention Center in Bangkok and Carnegie Hall in New York.She was also the first artist to sell out two shows at Brigham Young University’s deJong Concert Hall in Provo, Utah since The Kings Singers in 2009.

An avid techie and gamer, Lea divides her time between Manila, Philippines with her family and the United States.

Everything Everywhere All At Once is receiving the Gold Icon Honor for a transformational moment for the Asian Pacific community.

​​Everything Everywhere All at Once is a 2022 American absurdist comedy-drama film written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, who produced it with Anthony and Joe Russo and Jonathan Wang. Michelle Yeoh stars as Evelyn Quan Wang, a Chinese-American immigrant who, while being audited by the IRS, discovers that she must connect with parallel universe versions of herself to prevent a powerful being from destroying the multiverse. The film also stars Stephanie Hsu, Ke Huy Quan, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jenny Slate, Harry Shum Jr. and James Hong in supporting roles.

Everything Everywhere All at Once premiered at South by Southwest on March 11, 2022, and began a limited theatrical release in the United States on March 25, 2022, before a wide release by A24 on April 8. The film’s portrayal of philosophical concepts such as existentialism, nihilism, and absurdism, as well as its approach to themes such as neurodivergence, depression, generational trauma, and Asian American identity, have been widely analyzed. The film grossed over $140 million worldwide, becoming A24’s highest-grossing film.

Everything Everywhere All at Once garnered widespread critical acclaim and is now the most awarded film of all time, winning a leading seven awards out of eleven nominations at the 95th Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress (Yeoh), Best Supporting Actor (Quan), Best Supporting Actress (Curtis), Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing. It also won two Golden Globe Awards, five Critics’ Choice Awards (including Best Picture), a BAFTA Award, a record four SAG Awards (including Best Ensemble), a record seven Independent Spirit Awards (including Best Feature), and swept the four major guild awards (DGA, PGA, SAG, and WGA).

The Joy Luck Club‘s cast and creators are receiving the Gold Generation Honor for a moment with ongoing cultural impact that is felt across generations

The Joy Luck Club (simplified Chinese: 喜福会; traditional Chinese: 喜福會; pinyin: Xǐ Fú Huì) is a 1993 American drama film about the relationships between Chinese-American women and their Chinese immigrant mothers. It was directed by Wayne Wang and stars Tsai Chin, Kieu Chinh, Lisa Lu, France Nuyen, Rosalind Chao, Lauren Tom, Tamlyn Tomita, and Ming-Na Wen. The film is based on the 1989 novel of the same name by Amy Tan, who co-wrote the screenplay with Ronald Bass. The film was produced by Bass, Tan, Wang, and Patrick Markey, while Oliver Stone served as an executive producer. Four older women, all Chinese immigrants living in San Francisco, meet regularly to play mahjong, eat, and tell stories. Each of these women has an adult Chinese-American daughter. The film reveals the hidden pasts of the older women and their daughters, and how their lives are shaped by the clash of Chinese and American cultures as they strive to understand their family bonds and one another.

Alex Chang serves as Chief Marketing Officer for the San Francisco 49ers. In his role with the team, Chang leads all areas of marketing including brand strategy, creative, media, social, digital, content production, game presentation, events and corporate communications.

A veteran of more than two decades in major brand marketing, Chang is an influential player in the sports marketing industry. Prior to joining the 49ers, he served as the Head of Partnership Marketing for Samsung. Prior to that, Chang worked at elite marketing agencies. He was Vice President at Wasserman where he advised global brands on their sports and entertainment partnerships. He also served as Vice President at IMG College.

Chang became an industry expert while at American Express, where he spent 13 years in various marketing roles including vice president of sports and entertainment marketing and vice president of U.S. advertising. He also served on the executive leadership team at American Express which created Small Business Saturday. Chang began his career at Ernst & Young as a senior strategy consultant.

Chang was named to the Sports Business Journal’s “”Forty Under 40″” list, recognizing the most promising executives in the sports industry. He’s also been named to SBJ’s Power Players list. Most recently, Chang was awarded an Adweek CMO Vanguard Award. His work has been underscored by multiple awards from organizations including the Cannes Lions, Effies, CLIOs, Event Marketer and Business Marketing Association. Chang is currently on the board for PRO Sports Assembly, a non-profit trade group focused on increasing diversity and inclusion across professional sports.

Chang is a native of North Carolina and earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Emory University in Atlanta. He and his wife, Menaka, have three children and reside in Silicon Valley.

Alexandra Wagner (born November 27, 1977) is an American journalist. She is the host of both Alex Wagner Tonight on MSNBC and Netflix’s The Mole reboot, as well as the author of FutureFace: A Family Mystery, an Epic Quest, and the Secret to Belonging (One World/Random House). She was a contributor for CBS News and is a contributing editor at The Atlantic. Previously, she was the anchor of the daytime program Now with Alex Wagner (2011–2015) on MSNBC and the co-host of The Circus on Showtime. From November 2016 until March 2018, she was a TV co-anchor on CBS This Morning Saturday. She has also been a senior editor at The Atlantic magazine since April 2016.

Alfred Chang is the CEO of Fear of God and former co-CEO of Pacsun. Chang joined Pacsun in 2006 as a senior buyer for men’s merchandising. He went on to serve as chief brand officer, executive vice president of marketing and senior vice president of men’s merchandising and design.

Ali Wong
Ali Wong is an American stand-up comedian and actress. She is best known for her Netflix stand-up specials Baby Cobra (2016), Hard Knock Wife (2018), and Don Wong (2022). She starred in the film Always Be My Maybe (2019), on which she also served as a writer and producer. She voices the title character Roberta “Bertie” Songthrush on the animated series Tuca & Bertie and Ali on the animated series Big Mouth.

Steven Yeun
Yeun Sang-yeop, known professionally as Steven Yeun, is a South Korean-American actor. Yeun initially rose to prominence for playing Glenn Rhee in the television series The Walking Dead (2010–2016). He earned critical acclaim for starring in the thriller Burning (2018) and drama Minari (2020). The latter earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor, becoming the first Asian American actor to do so.

Lee Sung Jin
Lee Sung Jin was born in Seoul, Korea. He is a writer and director, known for Beef (2023), Undone (2019), and Dave (2020).

Amanda Nguyen is the founder of Rise, a 2019 Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, and a 2022 TIME Woman of the Year. Amanda’s 2021 viral video ignited a wave of collective action in the anti-Asian hate movement. She made history by drafting and unanimously passing both the Sexual Assault Survivors’ Bill of Rights through the United States Congress and the Survivors’ Resolution through the United Nations General Assembly. Amanda’s directorial debut, Everything I Ever Wanted To Tell My Daughter About Men, won Best Feature at the 2022 Cannes Independent Film Festival. She is the lead of Emmy-nominated mini-documentary “Rise Above” by Money Magazine. She served the White House, Department of State, and NASA, and is currently an Astronaut-Scientist Candidate at the Astronautical Science Institute. Amanda graduated from Harvard University. For her work, Amanda has been named a Heinz Laureate, Forbes 30 Under 30, Foreign Policy 100, Frederick Douglass 100, TIME 100 Next, BBC 100, Marie Claire Woman of the Year. She loves bunnies and dogs.

Breakout actress Amber Midthunder was recently named one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch this year for her critically acclaimed performance as the star in PREY, the prequel to the Predator franchise. Midthunder leads the cast as Naru, a skilled warrior of the Comanche Nation, who fights to protect her tribe against one of the first highly evolved Predators to land on Earth. The film broke records as the most-watched premiere for Hulu for both film and TV on the streaming service.

Next up, Midthunder will be seen in Netflix’s live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender as Princess Yue, the compassionate spiritual leader of the Northern Water Tribe.

Midthunder was last seen in THE WHEEL, for which she produced and starred in. She was also recently seen as the female lead in Netflix’s thriller THE ICE ROAD opposite Liam Neeson for director Jonathan Hensleigh, which Netflix acquired in a record-breaking $18 million EFM domestic deal. Midthunder plays Tantoo, an ice road expert tasked with the dangerous mission of driving across an ocean of thin ice in an eighteen-wheeler truck to save her brother who’s trapped in a mine.

Additionally, Midthunder can be seen on the small screen on the hit CW reboot of ROSWELL, NEW MEXICO. The fan favorite series premiered its third season this past summer 2021. Also on the TV side, Midthunder recently starred in the Marvel series, LEGION for FX, where she captivated audiences with her role as Kerry Loudermilk.

Midthunder is one of a handful of Native Americans in the industry, and one of the first to lead a franchise film. She is an enrolled member in the Fort Peck Sioux Tribe and a huge supporter of her community. Her philanthropic efforts are focused on representation in the industry, environmentalism, and the humane treatment of animals.

Amna Nawaz is an Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist, and currently co-anchor of the PBS NewsHour.

She reports on a wide variety of topics — including politics, foreign affairs, race and justice; interviews administration officials, lawmakers and newsmakers; and anchors special coverage for PBS.

Her documentaries include a look at life post-incarceration (Life After Lockup), an examination of America’s childcare crisis (Raising the Future), and the Peabody-award winning global look at plastic pollution (The Plastic Problem). She has co-hosted a podcast on criminal justice and the public defender system (Broken Justice), and hosts the primetime arts and culture series, “”Beyond the Canvas.””

In 2019 Nawaz became the first Asian American and Muslim American to moderate a presidential debate in U.S. history. In 2023, she became the first Muslim American woman to lead a national newscast.

Prior to joining the NewsHour in April 2018, Nawaz was an anchor and correspondent at ABC News, anchoring breaking news coverage and leading the network’s livestream coverage of the 2016 presidential election. She hosted the documentary “Roberts County: A Year in the Most Pro-Trump Town,” as well as “Uncomfortable” – a podcast series featuring one-on-one conversations with thought leaders about the issues dividing America.

Before that, she served as a foreign correspondent at NBC News, reporting from Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, Turkey, and the broader region. She is also the founding editor of NBC Asian America. In 2022, Nawaz was the recipient of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies’ Vision Award and the Media Award from the Muslim Affairs Public Council’s Media Award. In 2018, she was awarded the American Muslim Institution’s Excellence Award.

Nawaz is a contributor for NBC News, appearing regularly on Meet the Press and MSNBC. She lives with her husband, Paul, and their two daughters in the Washington, D.C. area.

Anjula Acharia is the founder and CEO of A-Series Investments and Management. Acharia works as a talent strategist and strategic investor and advisor to a multitude of consumer tech and CPG startups, including two early stage investments which have grown into billion-dollar unicorns: ClassPass and Bumble. An entrepreneur herself, Anjula co-founded DesiHits!, a digital entertainment platform, in which she pioneered the merging of global cultures by introducing artists like Lady Gaga, Britney Spears and 50 Cent into India and returning the favor by launching Priyanka Chopra’s career in America. She is still Chopra’s manager to this day. Anjula also joined BuzzFeed’s board of directors in the Fall of 2021.

Ann Mukherjee has nearly 30 years of experience in marketing and sales functions. She holds two degrees from the University of Chicago – a double Bachelor of Arts in Economics and in Religious Theology as well as an MBA in Finance from the Booth School of Business. Ann started her career in 1992 at Citibank Diners Club in the New Product Department. In 1994, she joined the Kraft Foods Group where she spent nearly 11 years managing a number of key brands such as Kraft Mac & Cheese, Kraft Singles, Taco Bell and Minute Rice, to name a few. In 2005, Ann joined PepsiCo in New York where she worked for ten years. First appointed Marketing Vice President for Quaker Snacks, Ann then became SVP and Chief Marketing Officer of Frito-Lay in 2009, and President of Global Snacks and PepsiCo Global Insights five years later. In November 2015, Ann joined S.C. Johnson & Son as the company’s first-ever Global Chief Marketing Officer. Then later nominated as Global Chief Commercial Officer, she has been responsible for the $12 billion consumer global business division that is present in more than 90 markets. Ann has received many honours throughout her career, notably, she was named as one of Forbes Top 50 most influential CMOs and also as “Marketer of the Year” by Brand Week.

She was appointed Chairwoman & CEO of Pernod Ricard North America in December 2019.

Anna Sui is an American fashion designer. She was named one of the “Top 5 Fashion Icons of the Decade,” and in 2009 earned the Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA), joining the ranks of Yves Saint Laurent, Giorgio Armani, Ralph Lauren, and Diane von Furstenberg. Her brand categories include several fashion lines, footwear, cosmetics, fragrances, eyewear, jewelry, accessories, home goods and a gifts line.

Anne Jakapong Jakrajutatip is the CEO of the publicly-listed JKN Global Group Public Company Limited (JKN) and the first non-American woman to own the prestigious Miss Universe Organization. Her sharp business acumen has transformed her family’s humble business into a successful content distribution organization that owns and operates a 24-hour Digital Terrestrial TV (DTT) channel, produces TV programs, live events, and distributes Thai dramas around the world.

The phenomenal success of JKN Global Group under Anne Jakrajutatip’s leadership resulted in her becoming the first billionaire transwoman in Thailand.

Despite struggling with gender identification throughout her youth, Anne transformed into an inspiring and beautiful businesswoman and Thailand’s most-watched business celebrity, with 20 million social media followers. She also has two lovely children, Andrew and Angelica.

As Chief Brand Officer, Asad Ayaz is responsible for managing the Disney brand globally across The Walt Disney Company’s entire ecosystem of touchpoints and consumer experiences. This includes holistic brand marketing campaigns leveraging and synthesizing the company’s full suite of content and consumer experiences, activating the brand internally and externally, guiding the company’s digital and social strategy and presence, and setting corporate synergy and franchise priorities. Additionally, he leads global consumer research and analytics for Disney’s brands and franchises with a primary focus on delivering more personalized and dynamic consumer experiences.

In his role as President of Marketing for The Walt Disney Studios and Disney+, Ayaz oversees all aspects of global marketing – encompassing strategy, creative advertising, media, digital, research, special events, promotions, publicity, and synergy – for Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Studios, along with all aspects of brand and performance marketing for Disney+, along with content marketing for all Studio films and series on both Disney+ and Hulu.

An 18-year Disney veteran, Ayaz has developed and led marketing campaigns for some of the most successful film releases in history, including Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” Marvel’s “Black Panther” and the global phenomenon “Avatar: The Way of Water.” Additional campaigns Ayaz has spearheaded include Disney’s live-action hits “Aladdin” and “The Lion King,” Disney Animation’s Academy Award-winning “Encanto” and “Frozen 2,” Pixar’s “Toy Story 4” and “Turning Red,” and 20th Century Studios’ “Free Guy” and “Prey.” Ayaz has led the campaigns for the most watched films on Disney+ and Hulu, and 13 of the top 15 box office debuts of all time, including six opening weekends over $200 million, as well as the biggest worldwide debut of all time for “Avengers: Endgame,” which earned over $1.2 billion in five days.

Ayaz also oversees marketing for series and specials produced by the Studios’, including the Emmy Award-winning “The Mandalorian,” “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” Marvel Studios’ hit series’ “WandaVision” and “Loki,” and the five-time Emmy winning “The Beatles: Get Back.” Global campaigns underway for Ayaz and his team are Disney’s “The Little Mermaid,” 20th Century Studios’ “The Boogeyman,” Marvel Studios’ “Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3,” Pixar’s “Elemental” and the highly anticipated “Indiana Jones and The Dial of Destiny.” In addition, Ayaz is leading the Disney100 brand campaign celebrating The Disney Company’s 100th milestone.

An award-winning marketing leader, Ayaz has been the recipient of multiple industry honors, including Variety’s Marketing Visionaries Award and The Clio Marketing Mastermind Award. He was recently named one of Forbes Most Influential CMOs, and one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.

Ashley Park
Ashley Park is an American actress, dancer, and singer who is best known for her portrayal of Mindy Chen on Netflix comedy series Emily in Paris, and for originating the role of Gretchen Wieners in the 2018 Tony Award-nominated musical Mean Girls. She has received several awards including nominations for a Tony Award and a Grammy Award.

Sherry Cola
Named “One to Watch” by People Magazine and “11 Asian American Comics Who Need to Be on Your Radar” by Entertainment Weekly, Sherry Cola is taking the world by storm. She currently stars as Alice in Freeform’s hit series “Good Trouble” which airs Season 5 this March. In film, Sherry stars in Randall Park’s dramedy “Shortcomings” alongside Justin H. Min, which made a big splash at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. This summer, Sherry will also star in Adele Lim’s R-rated Lionsgate comedy “Joy Ride” with Ashley Park, Stephanie Hsu, and Sabrina Wu. The film, produced by Seth Rogan, follows four friends who travel through Asia in search of one of their birth mothers – set to release on June 23. Sherry has also finished production on “Sick Girl” with Nina Dobrev, and will appear in Netflix’s upcoming Nicole Kidman/Zac Efron rom-com “A Family Affair” opposite Joey King, streaming this November. In animation, Sherry will voice a main character in Paramount’s “The Tiger’s Apprentice” opposite Henry Golding, Michelle Yeoh, and Sandra Oh. Other animation credits include Disney/Pixar’s “Turning Red,” and Nickelodeon series “Transformers” and “Baby Shark.” In addition to her time on set and on stage as a stand-up comedian, Sherry has done work with the ACLU and the National Women’s Law Center (Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund) for AAPI Equal Pay Day, to discuss the inequalities that exist within her Asian and LGBTQ+ communities.

Stephanie Hsu
Stephanie Hsu can be seen in the A24 Oscar winning and BAFTA nominated film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” from the directing team Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). Stephanie stars in the dual role ‘Joy/Jobu.’ The story follows the mother/daughter relationship through a multiverse with infinite versions of their lives also starring Michelle Yeoh, Key Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film debuted at SXSW and released in theaters April 2022 to rave reviews. The film has reached box office records for an indie arthouse film crossing the $100 million mark in global ticket sales, the first A24 film to hit that benchmark. Stephanie earned individual Oscar and SAG Award nominations in the category of Best Supporting Actress. She won the Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards and has been honored at the Hamptons Film Festival as their Breakthrough Artist honoree, the Middleburg Film Festival as their Rising Star honoree, the Newport Film Festival as one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch, the San Francisco Film Festival with The George Gund III Award for Breakthrough Performance and at the Santa Barbara Film Festival as one of their Virtuosos honorees. The film won a Gotham Award and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Feature, a SAG Award for Cast in a Motion Picture and has been recognized as AFI’s Movie of the Year. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards winning Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing and was also nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards.”

Sabrina Wu
Sabrina Wu is an American writer, comedian, and actor. They were a staff writer for the Disney+ series Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. Wu acts in a lead role in the upcoming Adele Lim film Joy Ride. They were named one of 2022 Just for Laughs New Face of Comedy.

Adele Lim
Adele is a Writer-Director whose screenwriting credits include Crazy Rich Asians (Warner Bros) and Oscar-nominated Raya and the Last Dragon (Disney Animation Studios). A Malaysian native of Chinese descent, she came to the States at 19 and graduated from Emerson College, Boston. She has written and produced multiple primetime network TV dramas, including One Tree Hill (The CW), Private Practice (ABC) and Lethal Weapon (FOX), and was co-showrunner and Executive Producer of Starcrossed (The CW). She mentors emerging writers through the WGA (Writers Guild of America) and CAPE (Coalition of Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders in Entertainment) to promote equity and representation in entertainment. In 2021 she made her feature directorial debut with Joy Ride for Lionsgate Films and Seth Rogen’s Point Grey productions (world premiere at SXSW, opening summer 2023).

Cherry Chevapravatdumrong
Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, also known as Cherry Cheva, is an American author, screenwriter, comedian, and producer. She serves as an executive producer of Family Guy and a co-executive producer of The Orville and Resident Alien.

Teresa Hsiao
Teresa Hsiao is an American television writer and producer best known for her work on the animated series Family Guy and American Dad! and for co-creating the sitcom Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens.

Ben Wang
Ben Wang is an actor, best known for his starring roles in the coming-of-age film Chang Can Dunk and the Disney Plus original series American Born Chinese. Ben also works in New York theater and has performed in productions off-Broadway, regionally, and in developmental labs for Broadway-bound works.

Jimmy Liu
Jimmy Liu is an actor. He is best known for American Born Chinese (2023)

Gene Luen Yang
Gene Luen Yang is an American cartoonist. He is a frequent lecturer on the subjects of graphic novels and comics, at comic book conventions and universities, schools, and libraries. In addition, he was the Director of Information Services and taught computer science at Bishop O’Dowd High School in Oakland, California. In 2012, Yang joined the faculty at Hamline University, as a part of the Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts in Writing for Children and Young Adults (MFAC) program. In 2016, the U.S. Library of Congress named him Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. That year he became the third graphic novelist, alongside Lauren Redniss, to receive a MacArthur Fellowship.

Kelvin Yu
Kelvin Yu is an actor, producer, and Emmy-winning writer. He is the Series Creator and Showrunner of the upcoming Disney Plus show AMERICAN BORN CHINESE as well as a writer and Executive Producer for FOX’s long-running animated series BOB’S BURGERS. As a performer, he has appeared in over 60 television series and films, including MASTER OF NONE, MILK, WONDER WOMAN 1984, and THE AFTERPARTY.

Destin Daniel Cretton
Maui-born Destin Cretton, is fresh off the release of Marvel Studios’ film, Shang Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, starring Simu Liu, Michelle Yeoh, Awkwafina, and Tony Leung. This is the first film in the MCU that is led by an Asian actor, and mostly Asian cast. Destin’s feature film debut, “I Am Not a Hipster”, premiered at Sundance in 2012. And was followed by Short Term 12, which won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival in 2013, featuring early performances by Brie Larson, Lakeith Stanfield, Rami Malek, Kaitlyn Dever, and John Gallagher Jr. His third feature, an adaptation of the NY Times best-selling memoir, The Glass Castle, starred Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, and Naomi Watts and was released in 2016 by Lionsgate. Following this, Destin directed Just Mercy for Warner Bros, the adaptation of the NY-Times best-selling memoir by civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson. The film starred Michael B. Jordan, Jamie Foxx and Brie Larson. He is currently in post-production for a new Disney+ series, American Born Chinese based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, starring Ben Wang, Michelle Yeoh, Daniel Wu and Ng Chin Han.

Melvin Mar
Melvin Mar is a television and film producer. He and director Jake Kasdan have a deal at Twentieth Century Fox Television developing comedies and dramas for cable and network television. Mar has produced the films The TV Set, Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story, Bad Teacher,andSex Tape. His television credits include “New Girl,” “Fresh Off the Boat,” “The Grinder,” and “Weird Loners.” He executive produced the upcoming Twentieth Century Fox pilot “Speechless” and acted in “Walk Hard” and “Bad Teacher.” Mar began his career as an intern at Kopelson Entertainment, got his first job at Dreamworks SKG, and then moved to Scott Rudin Productions.

Bernard Kim is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Director of Match Group (NASDAQ: MTCH), a leading provider of digital technologies designed to help people make meaningful connections. With over 20 years of leadership in the mobile, entertainment and gaming industry, Bernard manages the portfolio of brands including Tinder, Hinge, Match, Meetic, Hyperconnect, OkCupid, Pairs, Plenty of Fish, BLK, Chispa, The League, Stir and OurTime.

Bernard also sits on the Board of Directors of Five Below (NASDAQ: FIVE), a leading high-growth value retailer, and serves as interim CEO of Tinder.

Prior to Match Group, Bernard served as Zynga’s President. Over 6 years, Bernard was instrumental in Zynga’s turnaround and sale to Take-Two for $12.7B. Bernard helped grow Zynga’s market cap by 300%, navigating unprecedented market conditions while expanding to new platforms, markets and audiences. In 2020, he was honored as a ‘Mobile Legend’ at Pocket Gamer’s Mobile Games Awards.

Prior to joining Zynga, Bernard spent nearly 10 years at Electronic Arts Inc. as the company’s Senior Vice President of Mobile Gaming. During his tenure at EA, Bernard also led EA’s games division in Asia and helped bring EA franchises to billions of players.

Bernard holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in both Economics and Communications from Boston College.

Raised in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, Robinson’s interest in issues of social justice was sparked at an early age by his parents. His Chinese-American mother retired after a long career in public service, much of it in support of low-income families through the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program. Robinson’s father was one of the first Black consultants for the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC), where he investigated allegations of racial, gender and age discrimination in housing and employment. Race, equality and civil rights were frequent topics at the Robinson dinner table and those discussions continue to inform and drive his commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion today.

In partnership with the company’s business leaders, Robinson works to define and build a culture that embraces and values diversity in its workforce, culture, content and perspectives. Additionally, alongside Comcast Chairman and CEO Brian Roberts, Robinson is leading Comcast’s $100 million commitment to fight injustice and inequality, and to accelerate company efforts in all areas of diversity, equity and inclusion. In this role, Robinson spearheads social justice efforts across Comcast, NBCUniversal and Sky to build programs, allocate resources and partner with international, national and local organizations to drive meaningful change against racism and inequality.

Robinson also oversees the company’s nine Employee Resource Groups with over 80 global chapters, co-chairs the industry-leading Comcast NBCUniversal Joint Diversity Advisory Council and serves as the main liaison between NBCUniversal and key local and national advocacy organizations.

The company has been acknowledged for its leadership in diversity & inclusion, with repeat recognition on the Forbes list of Best Employers for Diversity, the Fortune list of 50 Best Workplaces for Diversity, and the DiversityInc list of Top 50 Companies for Diversity.

On the secret to success:

I think you’ll find that any successful person will tell you the same thing – there is no substitute for hard work and a positive attitude. I’m inspired by people who approach each day with gratitude, kindness and compassion for others, even when faced with difficult circumstances. The best advice I’ve ever received was from my parents. To treat everyone--no matter their station in life--with respect. The leaders I admire the most put this into practice every day and it’s a true indicator of their confidence and humanity.

On the personal impact of being Asian:

My Chinese American mother and African American father emphasized early on that there are particular challenges that can come with being a person of color and to maximize every single opportunity that came my way.

On how Asians can amplify society:

My advice to everyone is to build on your own inherent strengths – don’t emulate someone else’s style that isn’t a natural fit for you. Authenticity will win every time.

David Lee

David Lee is the Chief Creative Officer of Squarespace, leading their award-winning brand team whose work encapsulates all creative, design and production efforts for the company. David was recently honored in 2022 as Brand Chief Creative Officer of The Year by Ad Age. He was also featured in the Adweek Creative 100 List as a Branded Content Innovator, raising the bar for storytelling and artistic integrity. He has been named as one of the Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company and has led his team to be honored as Ad Age 2020 A-List In-House Agency of the Year. Since joining Squarespace, David has masterminded nine Super Bowl campaigns and won an Emmy Award for most Outstanding Commercial of the year. Prior to Squarespace, David served as the Worldwide Digital Executive Creative Director of TBWA in New York, as a Creative Director at Wieden+Kennedy London and AKQA San Francisco, and started his career as a Designer and Art Director at Sid Lee in Montréal. David graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and now currently serves on the Board of Trustees at RISD.

Kinjil Mathur

As the Chief Marketing Officer of Squarespace, Kinjil leads the company’s world-class marketing and PR teams. Prior to joining Squarespace in 2017, Kinjil served as CMO at Foursquare where she successfully repositioned the company’s brand to accelerate growth in both the consumer and enterprise location intelligence businesses. Kinjil spent the previous decade building technology competencies for retail giants, most notably as Vice President of Digital Marketing for Saks Fifth Avenue. She has been named to Adweek’s ranking of the top 20 Tech Savvy CMOs driving innovation and one of Adweek’s Young Influentials, along with Forbes’ inaugural CMO Next list. Kinjil holds a bachelor’s degree with Honors from the University of Texas at Austin in Management of Information Systems and Finance.

David Tran, 77, founded Huy Fong Foods in southern California after fleeing Vietnam in 1978 with his wife and son, with his life savings of $20,000 worth of gold hidden in cans of condensed milk.

He is the sole owner of Huy Fong, which was recently valued at $1 billion by research firm IBISWorld, based on estimated sales of $131 million in 2020.

Debby Soo is the CEO of OpenTable, bringing expertise in product-first commercialization, strategic partnerships and international growth. She is also a founding member and co-head of Booking Holdings’ Diversity & Inclusion Steering Committee. Prior to OpenTable, she spent 10+ years building KAYAK’s travel commercial team, establishing the APAC business, and then overseeing global business development for both KAYAK and OpenTable. She started her career at Citi as an investment banking analyst for the technology sector before joining Google’s Strategic Partnership Group where she focused on global content acquisition and partnerships for Google Maps. Debby is a graduate of Stanford University and has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management. She currently holds a board member role with EverCommerce.

Deborah Chow is a filmmaker of Chinese-Australian descent who recently directed the limited series Obi-Wan Kenobi, which was nominated for a DGA, PGA and numerous other awards. She also directed on the inaugural season of The Mandalorian, in addition to numerous other shows such as Mr. Robot, Jessica Jones, and American Gods. She won a NAACP Image Award for Better Call Saul, and was recently honoured with a DGC Visionary award.

Devika Bulchandani became Chief Executive Officer of Ogilvy North America and Global Chairwoman of Advertising in November 2020. Devika is responsible for driving all aspects of Ogilvy’s core business across the United States and Canada which spans Advertising, Brand & Content, Public Relations & Influence, Experience, Growth & Innovation, and Health. In her role as CEO she also supports Ogilvy’s advertising business across the global network.

Diep Tran is the Editor in Chief of Playbill. Diep has spent her career championing diversity in the arts. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, NBC Asian America, New York Magazine, and many other publications. She was previously the features editor of Broadway.com and the senior editor of American Theatre magazine. She is one of the creators of VietFactCheck, a bilingual fact-checking website for the Vietnamese American community. Diep is a contributor to the book “RISE: A Pop History of Asian America from the Nineties to Now,” from Harper Collins. She once interview Keanu Reeves and was the first journalist to ask him about being Asian, she did that for the culture.

Dr. Lisa Su is an American business executive and electrical engineer, who is the president, chief executive officer and chair of AMD. Early in her career, Su worked at Texas Instruments, IBM, and Freescale Semiconductor in engineering and management positions. She is known for her work developing silicon-on-insulator semiconductor manufacturing technologies and more efficient semiconductor chips during her time as vice president of IBM’s Semiconductor Research and Development Center.

Su was appointed president and CEO of AMD in October 2014, after joining the company in 2012 and holding roles such as senior vice president of AMD’s global business units and chief operating officer. She currently serves on the boards of Cisco Systems, Global Semiconductor Alliance, and the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association, and is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Recognized with a number of awards and accolades, she was named Executive of the Year by EE Times in 2014 and one of the World’s Greatest Leaders in 2017 by Fortune. She became the first woman to receive the IEEE Robert Noyce Medal in 2021.

Eileen Feng Gu (born September 3, 2003), also known by her Chinese name Gu Ailing (Chinese: 谷爱凌), is an American-born freestyle skier. She has competed for China in halfpipe, slopestyle, and big air events since 2019.

At age 18, Gu became the youngest Olympic champion in freestyle skiing after winning gold medals in big air and halfpipe and a silver medal in slopestyle at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. She is the first freestyle skier to win three medals at a single Winter Olympics. Owing to geopolitical tensions between the U.S. and China and questions around nationality, her switch from Team USA to China drew international attention at the beginning of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

She is the first naturalized Chinese free-skier, the first American with Chinese ancestry to win a gold medal in any Winter Olympic event (accomplishing this feat on 7 February 2022), and the second Chinese free-ski Olympic gold medalist after Han Xiaopeng. She is the first female Chinese free-ski Olympic gold medalist and joins the list of previous Olympic Chinese female free-ski medalists that include Xu Mengtao, Li Nina, and Xu Nannan.

Time named her as one of the 100 most influential people in the world under the ‘Pioneers’ category on its annual list in 2022.[9] Forbes listed her as the third-highest paid female athlete in the world in 2022.

Emilie Choi is President and COO of Coinbase. Prior to Coinbase, she spent more than eight years running M&A at LinkedIn, and also worked on digital strategy and operations at Warner Bros.

With a distinguished career in the federal government, politics, and non-profit advocacy, Erika L. Moritsugu has dedicated her personal and professional life fighting for social justice and the empowerment of underserved and marginalized communities and individuals.

She currently serves as Deputy Assistant to the President and the first-ever Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander (AA and NHPI) Senior Liaison at the White House, where she supports the Biden-Harris Administration on a wide array policies and outreach to advance the President’s priorities, and engage with a cross-section of communities to promote equity, justice, and opportunity for AA and NHPIs.

Her past government service includes serving as the Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations at the Department of Housing and Urban Development under the leadership of Secretary Julián Castro in the Obama Administration and was the first-ever Senate Deputy Legislative Director at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

On Capitol Hill, she was a senior representative of Senator Tammy Duckworth of Illinois, Senator Daniel K. Akaka of Hawai‘i, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, and served in various roles at the Senate Democratic Policy Committee.

In the non-profit sector, Erika managed two teams at the National Partnership for Women & Families that focused on economic justice and congressional relations, advocating for gender and race equity in workforce and health policies. Erika has also led the Government Relations, Advocacy and Community Engagement teams at the Anti-Defamation League, which included championing its interreligious and interfaith work.

Erika attended Brandeis University, the College of William and Mary, and George Washington University Law School. Born in California and raised in Hawaiʻi, Moritsugu lives on Capitol Hill with her spouse, Brian, their two children, Vianne Leilani and Chester Likeke, their two cats, and one dog.”

Garry Tan is the founder of Initialized Capital. He previously co-founded Posterous and Posthaven. He was also an early employee at Palantir Technologies and currently the President and CEO at Y Combinator.

Hannah Yang is the Chief Growth Officer at The New York Times Company, leading its global subscription business. She co-leads a cross-functional organization consisting of product development, engineering, data, design, marketing, research, and sales to drive The Times’s subscription growth across its expanding portfolio of products. She is proud to have been at The Times when it sold its very first digital subscription in 2011, and to see it soar to almost 10 million subscribers from every corner of globe.

Prior to joining The Times, she was a corporate attorney at the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett and a management consultant at Katzenbach Partners LLC (now a part of Strategy&).

She is on the Board of the Art & Writing Awards, Scholastic’s nonprofit that has been supporting creative teens since 1923. She is also on the Board of The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, a nonprofit organization that has helped support people in dire financial circumstances for more than 100 years.

Hannah graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Social Studies and has a Doctor of Law degree from Harvard Law School. She is a graduate of the Juilliard Pre-College Division, where she studied classical piano.

Hannah immigrated to the United States from Korea at the age of nine. She lives in New York with her husband and two sons, Michael and Luki.

Hidetaka Miyazaki (宮崎 英高, Miyazaki Hidetaka, born c. 1974–1975) is a Japanese creative director, designer, scriptwriter, and president of the video game company FromSoftware. He joined the company in 2004 and was a designer for the Armored Core series before receiving wider recognition for creating the Dark Souls series. Miyazaki was promoted to company president in 2014 and also serves as its representative director. Other games he has directed include Demon’s Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, and Elden Ring, which have all received critical acclaim.

Miyazaki’s influences range across the works of various novelists, manga artists, and game designers such as Fumito Ueda and Yuji Horii. His games often invoke the use of high difficulty and narratives presented largely through flavor text and environmental cues as opposed to dialogue. Regarded as an auteur of the video game medium, his work has often been cited as highly influential and has led to the creation of the Soulslike genre of games.

HONG CHAU is best known for her breakout role in the Paramount film DOWNSIZING (2017, dir. Alexander Payne) as Vietnamese amputee and political activist Ngoc Lan Tran. For her performance, she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role, among many others. This past year, she received critical acclaim for her roles in Darren Aronofsky’s THE WHALE (A24), opposite Brendan Fraser, and THE MENU (Searchlight), for both of which she received numerous critics group nominations and recognition. She will next star in Netflix’s series The Night Agent, A24’s SHOWING UP (dir. Kelly Reichardt), and Wes Anderson’s ASTEROID CITY (Universal).

Chau is also known for her roles in the Amazon series Homecoming and HBO’s Emmy Award winning limited series Watchmen. She has also appeared in the HBO television series TREME and the Warner Bros. film INHERENT VICE (2014, dir. Paul Thomas Anderson), and has guest starred in several TV series, including Netflix’s BOJACK HORSEMAN and HBO’s BIG LITTLE LIES, amongst others. Her performance in DRIVEWAYS (2019, dir. Andrew Ahn), which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, earned her a Best Female Lead nomination for the 2020 Independent Spirit Awards.

Ida Liu is the Global Head of Citi Private Bank and a member of the Citi Global Wealth Leadership team. Ida leads the Private Banking activities in 52 offices across 20 countries and delivers wealth management solutions to ultra-high net worth families and their businesses globally. Before becoming the Global Head, she was the Head of Citi Private Bank North America and held numerous other leadership roles. Prior to Citi, Ida was at Vivienne Tam, a women’s wear design house, where she was Global Head of Sales, Marketing, Public Relations and Business Development. Prior to this, Ida spent seven years in investment banking with Merrill Lynch’s mergers and acquisitions and technology, media and telecommunications investment banking groups in New York and Hong Kong.

Ida has received many industry accolades including Barron’s 10 Most Influential Women in Wealth Management, Barron’s 100 Most Influential Women in U.S. Finance, Crain’s Notable Women on Wall Street and American Banker’s 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance. Additionally, Ida is a Young Global Leader (YGL) of the World Economic Forum, a member of The Committee of 100 (C100) and Young Presidents’ Organization (YPO). Ida serves on the UCLA Health Advisory Board as well as the Asia Society Board of Trustees. Ida holds a BA with honors from Wellesley College and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Iman Vellani recently made her acting debut in Disney+’s critically acclaimed TV mini-series MS. MARVEL as Kamala Khan/Ms. Marvel. MS. MARVEL won the Golden Tomato Award for being the Best-Reviewed Series of 2022 as well as the Favorite Kids TV Show award at the 2023 Kid’s Choice Awards. Following her debut in MS. MARVEL, Iman took part in A FAN’S GUIDE TO MS. MARVEL and ASSEMBLED: THE MAKING OF MS. MARVEL, two documentaries about the production of the series. In November 2023, she will be seen reprising the role in the film THE MARVELS alongside Brie Larson, Teyonah Parris and Samuel L. Jackson. While playing Ms. Marvel, Iman was nominated for Best Actress in a Superhero Series at the 2023 Critics’ Choice Super Awards, won Best Performance by a Younger Actor in a Streaming Series at the 2022 Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Films, and won the Best TV Actress Jury Prize award at the 2022 LifeArt Festival. In May 2023, Iman will be honored at the 2nd annual Gold House Gala by receiving the first-ever New Gold Award. She is a Canadian actress from Markham, Ontario who is thrilled to be the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first Muslim superhero character!

In 2022, singer and producer Jackson Wang (Hong Kong, China) released his sophomore album MAGIC MAN (TEAM WANG records/88rising Records/Warner Records/RYCE MUSIC GROUP), which quickly became his highest charting album, debuting at No. 15 on the Billboard 200. It also debuted at No. 3 on Billboard’s Top Current Album Sales & Top Album Sales. The album was met with widespread critical acclaim from NPR, UPROXX, Consequence, The Daily Beast, Vulture, and more. It features the standout singles “Blow,” “Cruel,” and “Blue.”

Jackson made history at the 2022 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival as the first-ever Chinese solo artist to perform on the Coachella main stage as part of 88rising’s ‘Head In The Clouds Forever’ set. Jackson also headlined this year’s 88rising ‘Head In The Clouds’ Festival at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, CA.

The release of MAGIC MAN follows the successful release of 2021’s singles “Drive You Home” and “LMLY,” which have garnered over 50 million and 93 million streams respectively. Both singles charted on the U.S. Top 40 chart. In the Fall of 2019, Jackson released his critically acclaimed debut solo album, MIRRORS, which debuted at No. 32 on the Billboard 200. With MIRRORS, Jackson became the highest-charting solo artist debut from China.

Jackson is also a fashion designer, creative director, founder of TEAM WANG, and member of the hugely successful K-Pop group, Got7. Jackson has collaborated with multiple global brands including MAC, Fendi, Cartier, Armani Beauty, Rayban, L’Oreal, Pepsi, and BMW.

As a globally acclaimed artist and a creative director, Jackson’s goal is to showcase a Chinese-influenced sound on the international music stage and highlight Chinese and Asian culture worldwide.

Jameela Jamil
Jameela Jamil is an actress, writer, host, and founder of I-Weigh. Jameela was first seen on American television starring as Tahani in Mike Schur’s Golden Globe-nominated NBC sitcom The Good Place, opposite Ted Danson and Kristen Bell. In 2022, Jameela joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, where she originated the first on-screen role of the Marvel villain Titania in the series She Hulk: Attorney at Law, currently streaming on Disney+. She also joined the cast of DC Comics animated feature film DC League of Super-Pets voicing the role of Wonder Women, as well as the Star Trek spinoff series Star Trek: Prodigy voicing the role of Ensign Asencia, streaming on Paramount+. In November 2022, she joined the cast of Peacock’s comedy series Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin in the role of up-and-coming pop star Gisela, which just got picked up for a second season. Most recently, Jameela was a guest star in Poker Face, a murder mystery series directed by Rian Johnson currently streaming on Peacock. Up next, she will also host and executive produce Bad Dates, an original SmartLess Media podcast series in partnership with Amazon Music and Wondery, premiering March 2023 on all streaming platforms.

Off-screen, Jameela is a powerful mental health activist. In 2018, Jameela launched a movement and allyship platform called I Weigh — a platform and community of change makers who come together to share ideas, experiences and ultimately mobilize activism; exploring social issues that stem from mental health to climate change to the representation of marginalized groups. In April 2020, the I Weigh with Jameela Jamil podcast launched with Earwolf in which Jameela speaks to a variety of thought-leaders, performers, activists, influencers, and friends about their own experiences and stories with their mental health.

Ginger Gonzaga
Ginger Gonzaga is an actor, writer, improvisor and director. She is currently the lead of the new CBS/Paramount+ action-drama series True Lies, playing Helen Tasker, the anxious, albeit capable new spy. She also stars as Nikki in the Disney/Marvel series She-Hulk: Attorney at Law and with her comedic timing and improvisation, she has turned Nikki into a beloved new MCU fan favorite.

Gonzaga starred in memorable performances for HBO’s groundbreaking original series Togetherness from The Duplass Brothers and their musical for Room 104. After playing Maggie, the impressionable free spirit on Showtime’s I’m Dying Up Here, she joined the Michel Gondry directed series “Kidding” as Vivian, a sardonic but soulful cancer patient.

For Hulu’s Chance, she played the bilingual coyote Lorena (opposite Hugh Laurie and Ethan Suplee) and for Netflix’s Space Force, a satirical version of AOC dubbed “AYC” (opposite Steve Carrel and John Malkovich). Gonzaga was a regular on ABC’s Mixology and TBS’s Wrecked, as well as the host of Hulu’s comedic daily pop culture recap show The Morning After, for which she also wrote. Other television credits include recurring roles on FX’s “Legit,” Netflix’s “Grace and Frankie,” and “Blindspotting” on Starz.

Gonzaga’s film debut was in Seth MacFarlane’s popular 2012 comedy “Ted,” followed by Demetri Martin’s dramedy and Tribeca Film Festival Winner “Dean” (opposite Demetri Martin and Gillian Jacobs).

As a writer she has sold shows to Warner Brothers and HBO and made her directorial debut with the short film “Your Day” starring herself and Jason Ritter, which she also wrote.

Gonzaga received a B.A in Political Science/International Relations and a minor in Chinese from the UCSB, and trained at The Groundlings, Second City and the Upright Citizen Brigade. She’s proud Filipina member of the AAPI community and is forever grateful to represent her culture on screen.

Malia Arrayah Nahinu
Malia Arrayah Nahinu is from the Bay Area, CA and has a passion for storytelling that she hopes will lead her into many experiences within the creative fields of art and television.

Trevor Salter
Trevor Salter is best known for his scene stealing portrayal of “Josh” in Marvel’s She-Hulk, where he played the love interest to Tatiana Maslany. He became one of the first Filipino-American actors to enter the Marvel universe with this memorable role. His recent TV credits include guest star roles on Blue Bloods (CBS) and The Equalizer (CBS). Trevor is also an accomplished stage actor, having previously starred in Soft Power (The Public Theater) and Here Lies Love (The Public Theater). He is currently in rehearsals for Keiko Green’s Exotic Deadly: or the MSG Play (The Old Globe). Originally from San Diego, Trevor graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and was one of 16 actors chosen in the 2020 ABC/Disney Television Discovers Showcase.

Benedict Wong
Benedict Wong came to prominence in Stephen Frears 2002 feature film Dirty Pretty Things in which his acclaimed performance as Guo Yi earned him a nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the 2003 British Independent Film Awards. He went on to give notable big screen performances in Danny Boyle’s Sunshine, the Frank Cottrell-Boyce penned Grow Your Own, as well as Ridley Scott’s The Martian and Prometheus.

In recent years, Wong has become widely recognised for his performances as Sorcerer Supreme Wong in Doctor Strange, Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, and in 2021 reprised the role for the year’s two highest grossing movies, Shan-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, and Spiderman: No Way Home. 2022 saw Wong back again in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and most recently giving notable comedic performances in Marvel’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law on Disney+.

Outside of the MCU Wong starred as Kublai Khan in Netflix’s historical epic series Marco Polo, and later as Master Lin in the Russo Brothers’ Deadly Class. He has also portrayed Mr. Wickfield in Armando Ianucci’s The Personal History of David Copperfield, lent his vocal talents to the lovable warrior Tong in Disney’s Oscar nominated Raya and the Last Dragon and earned a Film Independent Spirit award nomination for Best Supporting Actor in his role as Kyo in Edson Oda’s directorial debut Nine Days.

Most recently Wong has been working on David Benioff and D.B. Weiss’ highly-anticipated sci-fi series The 3-Body Problem, and has voiced his second animation as the Magician in The Magician’s Nephew. He is also slated to once again return as Wong in Avengers: Secret Wars.

Anu Valia
Anu Valia is an American television and film director, writer, actress, and producer best known for writing and directing the short film Lucia, Before and After, which won the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Jury Award.

Jessica Gao
Jessica Gao is a Beijing-born, Los Angeles-raised writer/producer. She is the Creator, Executive Producer, and Head Writer of Marvel’s SHE-HULK: ATTORNEY AT LAW. Jessica previously was a writer for RICK & MORTY and won the 2018 Emmy Award for “Outstanding Animated Program” for writing the “Pickle Rick” episode. She is currently writing an art heist feature with Jimmy O. Yang and Ken Cheng for Warner Bros. Additionally with Jimmy O. Yang and Ken Cheng, she co-founded the production company Crab Club. Previously, Jessica has written on Comedy Central’s CORPORATE, HBO’s SILICON VALLEY, and ROBOT CHICKEN.

Jason Robertson, nicknamed “Robo”, is an American professional ice hockey left winger for the Dallas Stars of the National Hockey League (NHL). The Stars selected him in the second round, 39th overall, of the 2017 NHL Entry Draft.

Robertson was born in Arcadia, California, but his family moved to Northville, Michigan, at the age of 10 to increase his opportunities for ice hockey. He played for the Little Caesars and Detroit Kings minor ice hockey teams in Michigan before he was drafted by the Kingston Frontenacs of the Ontario Hockey League in 2015. Robertson’s 18 goals in his first season with Kingston were the most of any rookie since Anthony Stewart, and in the next two years, he became the first Frontenac to record back-to-back 40-goal seasons since Mike Zigomanis. Robertson was traded to the Niagara IceDogs partway through the 2018–19 OHL season, during which he recorded 117 points in 62 games to win both the Eddie Powers Memorial Trophy and the CHL Top Scorer Award.

Joining the Stars for the 2019–20 season, Robertson spent most of the year with the Texas Stars, Dallas’s American Hockey League affiliate. He was included in Dallas’s quarantine bubble for the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs but did not appear in a game. Robertson made Dallas’s opening night roster the following season, where he was the Calder Memorial Trophy runner-up with 17 goals and 28 assists in 51 games. Robertson continued his offensive production during the 2021–22 season, becoming the first player in Dallas Stars history to record hat-tricks in consecutive games.

Jeanne Yang is widely recognized to be the top Hollywood fashion stylist in the world. Jeanne’s photo credits include covers and editorials for GQ, InStyle, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Time, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire and Vogue. Her cutting edge ability to define emerging trends has led Jeanne to be hired as a consultant by the world’s top movie studios, fashion designers, cosmetic and jewelry companies.

Jeanne is the trusted confidante to every major leading man and has amassed an unparalleled styling client list including Christian Bale, Rege-Jean Page, Robert Downey Jr., Keanu Reeves, Jason Momoa, Alfonso Cuaron, Taika Waititi and Jamie Dornan.

Jeanne consults for major fashion and cosmetic companies on their national advertising campaigns. After graduating from Scripps College, Jeanne began working as Managing Editor and Associate Publisher at Detour Magazine. Jeanne’s talent and foresight put then unknowns Leonardo DiCaprio, Sandra Bullock and Cameron Diaz on covers. An expert at branding, Jeanne created Holmes & Yang with friend and actress Katie Holmes – which became must have garments for every jet set woman and a wardrobe staple for top female CEO’s across the country. Holmes & Yang was sold at the most exclusive boutiques in the world including Barneys New York, Selfridges London, Montaigne Market in Paris, and Maxfields Los Angeles. Holmes & Yang became the go-to line for actresses and rock stars including Penelope Cruz, Amy Adams, Jennifer Garner, Olivia Wilde, Jessica Alba, Taylor Swift, Rhianna, Gwen Stefani and Pink. Jeanne has continued styling Hollywood’s top men and consulting with major global brands.

In her new role at Anonymous Content, Jeanne manages directors and actors, develop and produce tv and films and she continues to consult with major brands and style her top clients.

Jen Wong is Reddit’s Chief Operating Officer, overseeing business strategy and related teams from Reddit’s New York office. Previously, Jen was Chief Operating Officer and President of Digital at Time, Inc., where she led the company’s digital and interactive strategies as well as its operations, consumer marketing, and revenue teams.

Prior to Time, Jen worked as Chief Business Officer for PopSugar and Global Head of Business Operations for AOL. Jen earned her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, her M.S. in Engineering Economic Systems & Operations from Stanford University, and her B.S. in Applied Mathematics from Yale University.

Recently listed at number 1 on Fast Company’s Queer 50, Jen was also included in the Gold House’s A100 List that honors the most impactful Asians and Asian American & Pacific Islanders (APIs) in culture every May for API Heritage Month. When Jen is not working, you’ll likely find her listening to live music, experimenting with Polaroid photography and vintage cameras or deep within her favorite Reddit community, r/oldschoolcool.

Jen Yamato is a film reporter and critic for the Los Angeles Times, where she has written about movies and the people who make them since 2017. Prior to the L.A. Times, she wrote for outlets including The Daily Beast, Movieline and Deadline. A member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, she’s a lifelong lover of genre cinema and is the co-creator and co-host of “Asian Enough,” an award-winning L.A. Times podcast dedicated to spotlighting stories and unpacking personal experiences across the Asian American diaspora. A master of claw machines, she’s been in her Celine Dion karaoke era for several years running and has no intention of ever stopping.

Jessica Pegula (born February 24, 1994) is an American professional tennis player. She has a career-high WTA rankings in singles and doubles of world No. 3, both achieved on October 24, 2022. She has won two singles titles and seven doubles titles on the WTA Tour, one WTA Challenger doubles title, and seven ITF doubles titles. She is a five-time Grand Slam quarterfinalist in singles, having reached this stage thrice at the Australian Open (2021–2023), once at the 2022 French Open, and once at the 2022 US Open. She is also a major finalist in doubles, achieving this feat at the 2022 French Open with teammate Coco Gauff.

Jinny Howe
Jinny Howe is Vice President of Drama Series at Netflix. She is responsible for setting the strategic direction for original scripted dramas and licensed programming, leading a team focused on acquiring, developing and greenlighting a rich slate of series.

Howe has played an integral role on such critically-acclaimed and culture-defining shows as Bridgerton, Maid, and Inventing Anna; with recent breakout hits including The Lincoln Lawyer and From Scratch. Coming up on the slate are BEEF, The Diplomat, The Abandons, and XO Kitty – the series spinoff to the All To The Boys film franchise.

Prior to Netflix, she was Executive Vice President of Television at John Wells Productions where she spearheaded drama and comedy projects via a first-look deal with Warner Bros. Television. Throughout her 13-year tenure at John Wells, Howe worked on renowned series, Shameless, Southland, and Animal Kingdom.

Having emigrated to the US from South Korea, Howe is focused on championing emerging underrepresented voices in television. She holds a B.A. in Theater, Film and Television from UCLA.

Brandon Riegg
Brandon Riegg is Vice President, Unscripted and Documentary Series at Netflix. Riegg joined Netflix in November 2016 to help create and manage the company’s first push into original unscripted content. His team has quickly established Netflix as a home for critically acclaimed and beloved series such as Queer Eye, Nailed It!, Selling Sunset, Love is Blind, Formula 1: Drive to Survive, and The Circle, among many others. He now also oversees the team responsible for Netflix’s vast and diverse slate of original documentary series such as Chef’s Table, Cheer, Last Chance U, Crime Scene, Harry & Meghan, and The Last Dance. In 2020, Riegg was named one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business.

Prior to Netflix, Riegg was Senior Vice President and co-head of NBC’s alternative programming department, responsible for notable series The Voice, America’s Got Talent, American Ninja Warrior, The Biggest Loser and Hollywood Game Night. In 2011, he was featured on The Hollywood Reporter’s 18th annual Next Gen list. Before NBC, Riegg was the Executive Director of Alternative Series & Specials at ABC, where he oversaw development, production and on-air current programming for series, including Dancing with the Stars, Wife Swap and Extreme Makeover: Home Edition. He also developed Wipeout, Shaq Vs. and I Survived a Japanese Game Show. In addition to early stints at Mark Burnett Productions and Carsey-Werner-Mandabach Television, Riegg was Director of Series Development & Original Programming for VH1. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Joanna Gaines is the co-founder of Magnolia, a New York Times bestselling author, editor-in-chief of Magnolia Journal, and creator and co-owner of Magnolia Network. Born in Kansas and raised in the Lone Star State, Jo graduated from Baylor University with a degree in Communications.

Jocelyn Aloha Pumehana Alo is an American professional softball player for the Oklahoma City Spark of the Women’s Professional Fastpitch (WPF). She played college softball player for the Oklahoma Sooners. As a freshman in 2018, she was named NFCA National Freshman of the Year, and named USA Softball Collegiate Player of the Year in 2021 and 2022. She is the NCAA Division I career leader in home runs. Alo was drafted first overall by the Smash It Vipers in the inaugural WPF draft.

Joel Kim Booster is a South Korean-born American actor, comedian, producer, and writer. He co-produced and wrote for Big Mouth and The Other Two and as an actor has appeared on Shrill, Search Party, and Sunnyside. In 2022, he wrote, produced, and starred in the Hulu romantic comedy Fire Island, a modern adaptation of Pride and Prejudice with a main cast of Asian American actors.

Jonathan Wang is a Taiwanese-American film producer best known for Swiss Army Man (2016) and Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022). He is the long-time producing collaborator of the director duo known as the Daniels (Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan). Wang began his career in music video production and later pivoted to feature films with his debut feature Swiss Army Man, which won the Sundance 2016 U.S. Dramatic Directing Award. Since then, he has produced multiple feature films, including Everything Everywhere All at Once, which has become A24’s highest-grossing film of all time, and for which Wang won the Academy Award for Best Picture.

Daniel Kwan has been writing and directing for over a decade as a part of the duo DANIELS with Daniel Scheinert. They got their start with a slew of viral music videos, commercials, and short films, before breaking into the feature film and TV space.

They’ve developed a reputation for combining absurdity with heartfelt personal stories. Oftentimes they incorporate a unique brand of visual effects and visceral practical effects into their genre-blending projects. They wrote and directed the feature film Swiss Army Man starring Paul Dano and Daniel Radcliffe, which went on to win the Directing Award at the Sundance Film Festival, received multiple nominations, and gained a large cult following. Their new movie Everything Everywhere All at Once, a kung fu sci-fi dramedy starring Michelle Yeoh, has received multiple award nominations and wins this past year, including the DGA Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film and 11 Academy Award nominations.

Most recently, Daniel made his publishing debut with a pair of children’s books released by A24, which explore existentialism and time travel. I’ll Get to the Bottom of This! and 24 Minutes to Bedtime! are available now.

Jose Antonio Vargas is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and Tony-nominated producer. A leading voice for the human rights of immigrants, he founded the non-profit narrative change organization Define American, named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. His best-selling memoir, “Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen,” was published by HarperCollins in 2018. His second book, “White Is Not a Country,” will be published by Knopf in 2024.

In 2019, he co-produced Heidi Schreck’s acclaimed Broadway play “What the Constitution Means to Me,” which was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play and is streamable on Amazon Prime Video. His second Broadway production, a staging of David Byrne and Fatboy Slim’s groundbreaking musical “Here Lies Love,” will open at the Broadway Theatre in summer 2023.

In 2011, the New York Times Magazine published a groundbreaking essay he wrote in which he revealed and chronicled his life in America as an undocumented immigrant. A year later, he wrote a follow-up story and appeared on the cover of TIME worldwide with fellow undocumented immigrants. He has produced and directed two documentaries: “Documented,” an autobiographical documentary feature film that aired on CNN and received a 2015 NAACP Image Award nomination for Outstanding Documentary; and White People, an Emmy-nominated television special for MTV on what it means to be young and white in a demographically-changing America

Passionate about promoting equity in education for all students, he serves on the advisory board of TheDream.US, a scholarship fund for undocumented immigrant students; and, in 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed him to the Board of Trustees of California State University, the largest four-year public university system in the United States.. An elementary school named after Vargas opened in his hometown of Mountain View, California in August 2019.

Joseph Bae joined KKR in 1996 and is its Co-Chief Executive Officer. Prior to his current position, he served as Co-President and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 2017 to 2021, and he has been a member of the board of directors of KKR & Co. Inc., since July 2017. Mr. Bae has held numerous leadership roles at KKR. He was the architect of KKR’s expansion in Asia, building one of the largest and most successful platforms in the market. In addition to his role developing KKR’s Asia-Pacific platform, he has presided over business building in the firm’s private markets businesses, which included leading or serving on all of the investment committees and implementing the firm’s modern thematic investment approach. Mr. Bae serves on the firm’s Inclusion and Diversity Council. He is active in a number of non-profit educational and cultural institutions, including co-founding and serving on the board of The Asian American Foundation, serving as a member of Harvard University’s Global Advisory Council and serving as a member of the Board and Executive Committee of the Lincoln Center.

Joseph(Youn Joong) Chang
Executive Vice President & Global Strategy Officer, Kakao Entertainment Corp.
CEO, Kakao Entertainment America Corp.
CBO/Chief Business Officer, SM Entertainment

Highlights of achievements and recent developments:
Oversees the global expansion strategy and business of Kakao Ent., whom are Korea’s largest integrated entertainment company and the No.1 market share leader in Korea’s music industry. Also playing a pivotal role in their established K-pop acts such as IVE, The Boyz, STAYC, IU, Jay Park and many more’s road to global superstardom and reach a wider global audience.
Recently established Kakao Ent. America Corp. in the U.S to oversee and manage the global rollout of their K-pop artists starting with the girl group IVE in partnership with Columbia Records.
Recently acquired SM Entertainment(now serving as member of the board and CBO), the behemoth major K-pop label & management company, home to K-pop groups/artists such as aespa, NCT DREAM, NCT 127, EXO, Red Velvet and many more.

Company info:
Kakao Entertainment Corp is Korea’s largest integrated entertainment company and is the No.1 market share leader in Korea’s music industry.
Kakao Ent. holds distribution rights of over 70,000+ tracks stemming from partnerships with over 200+ music rights holders.
Kakako Ent. also owns and operates Korea’s No.1 music platform ‘Melon’ and has secured its leading position in the K-pop industry through its multi-label/management system.
From Kakao Ent’s multi-label & management system through EDAM Ent, Starship Ent, IST Ent, Antenna, MORE VISION, High Up Ent and many more, it owns/operates/manages 50+ artists consisting of K-pop groups(IVE, Monsta X, The Boyz, STAYC, Weekly and many more), solo artists(IU, Jay Park and many more), entertainers and producers from subsidiaries and affiliates, producing contents across all various genres.

Juju Chang is an Emmy® Award-winning co-anchor of ABC News’ “Nightline.” She also reports regularly for “Good Morning America” and “20/20.”

Chang has been recognized for her in-depth personal narratives set against the backdrop of pressing national and international news. From mass shootings to the Opioid Epidemic, Chang is a veteran journalist with a wide-ranging body of work. Chang reported on the recent rise of hate crimes toward the Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) community as anchor of the ABC News Live special “Stop The Hate: The Rise In Violence Against Asian Americans” and the “20/20” special “Murder In Atlanta” following the Atlanta mass shooting.

Chang’s decades-long career has been recognized with numerous awards, including multiple Emmy’s, Gracie’s, a DuPont, a Murrow and Peabody awards. In 2017, she was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Front Page Awards.

Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in Northern California, Chang graduated with honors from Stanford University. A former news anchor for “Good Morning America,” Chang joined ABC News just after college. Chang is a co-founder of the Korean American Community Foundation and a recipient of the Justice in Action Award from the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund. She is a pandemic gardener, devoted wife and mother to 3 sons who identify as “50% Korean and 100% Jewish.”

Kathryn Kai-ling Frederick is currently the Chief Marketing Officer at the Los Angeles Rams. In this role, Frederick leads all areas of marketing and media including brand strategy, experiential, creative, game presentation, social, digital, performance analytics and content. Since joining the Rams in 2021, Frederick’s work has spanned an award winning 2022 Draft Film featuring Hollywood’s own Scott Eastwood, Josh Holloway and Tyrese, innovative, first of its kind gameday AR programming and most recently, a black history month film celebrating the untold story of Kenny Washington. Under her leadership, the Rams Marketing team continues to chart the course for sports marketing and cultivate the next generation of fans.

Prior to joining the Rams, Frederick was Chief Marketing Officer at Live Nation Entertainment where she helped connect over 300 million global live event fans to music, theater, and sporting events through robust CRM and digital marketing and data centric programs. Frederick evolved the Ticketmaster Marketing and Product organizations to enrich the fan engagement experience by bringing together data, technology and the magic of live events to acquire, inspire and engage fans. Frederick was honored as a Billboard Power Player in 2018 and 2019.

Prior to Live Nation and Ticketmaster, Frederick held several senior roles leading digital and business transformation at brands such as Yahoo!, Modern Luxury Media and Pricegrabber. She is an advisor and investor in a number of early-stage consumer technology companies and participated in the 2016 White House Summit of the United State of Women.

Frederick was born and raised in Los Angeles. She earned her BA from Bryn Mawr College, her MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, and her MPA from Harvard Kennedy School. She currently lives in Inglewood with her husband Chris, and her two daughters, Kylie and Charlotte.

After making his vivacious and commanding comeback to the entertainment arena, Academy Award-winner Ke Huy Quan has proven he is here to stay.

He recently returned to acting full time in 2022, starring alongside Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis, and Stephanie Hsu as the supporting role in A24’s critically-acclaimed and award winning cultural phenomenon EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE. Directed and written by Daniel Scheinert and Daniel Kwan, the film centers on an aging Chinese immigrant (Michelle Yeoh) who is swept up in an insane adventure, where she alone can save what’s important to her by connecting with the lives she could have led in other universes. Quan plays Yeoh’s distanced, yet undeniably good-hearted husband, “Waymond”. EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE made history as A24’s highest grossing film of all time, crossing $100 million at the global box office. Quan has made an astounding impact on the awards landscape on behalf of his performance. This performance has garnered Ke an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, Critics Choice Film Award, Screen Actors Guild Award, Independent Spirit Award, Hollywood Critics Association Award and the Gotham Award for Outstanding Supporting Performance. The film was the most decorated film at the 95th Oscars, with a staggering eleven nominations and seven wins, including Best Picture.

On the feature front, Quan will next be seen in the Russo Brothers’ THE ELECTRIC STATE for Netflix, based on the popular graphic novel of the same name and starring alongside Chris Pratt, Stanley Tucci, Billy Bob Thornton, and Giancarlo Esposito, among others. The film follows an orphaned teenager, played by Millie Bobby Brown, as she traverses the American West with a sweet but mysterious robot and an eccentric drifter in search of her younger brother.

Ken Ohashi is Chief Executive Officer of Brooks Brothers, the iconic 204-year-old brand with $800M in global sales across 600-plus retail doors worldwide. Ohashi has led Brooks Brothers’ highly publicized acquisition and transformed the company to profitability in less than two years.

Ohashi previously served as President of International and Global Retail for Authentic Brands Group (ABG), leading the brand management, business development and marketing of ABG’s $4 billion portfolio of brands outside the U.S. Additionally, Ohashi oversaw the formation of SPARC Group, a joint venture between ABG and Simon Property Group that supports 4,000-plus retail doors and shop-in-shops, a leading e-commerce platform and $4.7 billion in global retail sales annually. Ohashi previously served as Senior Vice President of International and Global Licensing for Aéropostale, where he oversaw the brand’s business development, merchandising, planning, corporate and store operations.

Ohashi’s work has been recognized by some of the nation’s most prestigious institutions, including Institutional Investor Magazine, Bloomberg, Investor Relations Magazine, the Asian American Business Development Center, and Outstanding, an initiative of Yahoo Finance U.K.

An advocate for equity and the right to education, Ohashi has formed partnerships between Brooks Brothers and Braven, an organization that helps first-generation students gain college readiness skills, GLSEN, an organization that ensures LGBTQ+ students a school environment free from bullying, and Gold House, an organization that elevates Asians and Pacific Islanders to lead and thrive through investment opportunities and promotion. Ohashi is a member of YPO, the worldwide organization for CEOs under 45, and an active member of the group’s LGBTQ+ CEO network. He lives in Brooklyn with his husband, Adam Freed, and their two children.

KJ Apa
KJ Apa is a New Zealand actor, singer and musician. He has received various accolades, including a Saturn Award and nominations for an MTV Movie & TV Award, two People’s Choice Awards and two Teen Choice Awards, and was appointed the matai title of Savae chief of his village Moata’a in September 2022.

He began acting playing Kane Jenkins in the New Zealand primetime soap opera Shortland Street from 2013 to 2015. In 2017, Apa was cast in the lead role of Archie Andrews in the CW drama series Riverdale. In film, Apa has starred in A Dog’s Purpose (2017), The Hate U Give (2018) and I Still Believe (2020). In 2021, he released his debut solo album, the indie folk-rock album Clocks, which received some attention on Spotify and TikTok.

Charles Melton
Charles Melton is one of Hollywood’s most versatile actors who continues to captivate audiences with his charismatic performances on film and television.

Melton recently wrapped production on May December directed by Todd Haynes and starring opposite Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman. The film centers on a married couple whose lives begin to buckle under pressure when an actress arrives to do research for a movie about their past – including the couple’s notorious May-December tabloid romance that once gripped the nation.

His past feature credits include the Paramount+ comedy Secret Headquarters opposite Owen Wilson and Sony’s Bad Boys for Life, in the highly successful third installment of the Bad Boys franchise. In 2019, he played the lead role of ‘Daniel Bae,’ in the Warner Bros.’ feature, The Sun Is Also a Star, opposite Yara Shahidi. Directed by Ry Russo-Young and based on the New York Times best-seller by Nicola Yoon, the film chronicles the whirlwind romance between ‘Daniel,’ the son of Korean immigrants, and ‘Natasha,’ played by Shahidi.

On television, Melton is currently shooting The CW’s series, Riverdale. In its seventh and final season, the series is a modern-day reimagining of the Archie Comics. He can be seen in the Peacock mystery-drama series Poker Face opposite Natasha Lyonne.

In 2021, he was announced as a Special Olympics Global Ambassador.

Laura Lee is a seasoned tech and media executive, advisor, and board director. Driven by her commitment to help all streamers thrive, Laura is known for galvanizing teams to action, her creative approach to problem solving, and her ability to operationalize a strategic vision – even and especially amidst sensitive and difficult challenges. Laura revels in moving fast, while thoughtfully bringing products to market that unlock new opportunities for live entertainment and the entire content community Since 2022, Laura has been the Chief Content Officer at Twitch, the premier live streaming service for primarily gaming creators, owned by Amazon.

She previously advised growth companies like Patreon and McKinsey and has served on public and private boards. Laura has also held senior positions at various media, tech, and consumer companies including NBCU, Margaritaville, and YouTube.

At YouTube, Laura oversaw North American Content, the top revenue-generating division of YouTube (>$5BN) and created the Global Top Creator team. Prior to YouTube, Laura held various roles at Viacom from 2003-2007, including VP of Business Development and Operations at MTV Networks.

Laura enjoys being an impact-driven director on public and private boards. She currently serves on the board of The Arena Group (NYSE: AREN), a hybrid media/tech company where she chairs the Audit Committee and sits on the Compensation Committee. She previously served on the board of MediaCo (NASDAQ: MDIA), American Apparel, and WatchMojo.

Laura proudly serves as a class officer for her Brown University class, is an active alumna of Harvard Business School, the President of her Condo Board, and is Co-Chair of the Packer Asian Families Alliance (the Asian affinity group at her children’s school in Brooklyn Heights). She is a lover of karaoke (especially soul/R&B hits), avid tennis player, aspiring doubles squash player, and proud squash mom.

Laxman Narasimhan is an Indian-American business executive and CEO of Starbucks. He was the chief commercial officer (CCO) of PepsiCo and the chief executive officer (CEO) of Reckitt. He joined Starbucks as interim CEO in October 2022 and succeeded Howard Schultz as CEO in April 2023.

Lester Chen
Lester Chen is a Wisconsin-born venture capitalist who built his career in videogames. He started his career competing professionally in the videogame franchise Halo while studying Journalism at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Lester moved to Los Angeles to work at the early YouTube startup Machinima where he worked alongside the first generation of career Youtubers. Shortly thereafter, Lester transitioned to lead several business teams at YouTube where he eventually led the Global Gaming Partnerships team. At YouTube, Lester closed some of the largest landmark Gaming deals in streaming/content including working with Riot Games, Activision/Blizzard, Epic Games and Tencent. Among these deals were streaming deals with some of the largest gaming personalities/streamers like Ludwig, Valkyrae, Sykkuno, TimTheTatMan, and many more. Lester is currently a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he leads Gaming Creators and Content initiatives for the firm’s first Gaming fund, GAMES FUND ONE. While not playing and watching videogames, Lester enjoys spending time in Los Angeles with his wife and English bulldog. (Lester was named Forbes 30 under 30 Class of 2018 and The Hollywood Reporter’s 35 Rising Executives under 35 2022).

Andrew Chen
Andrew Chen is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, investing in early stage consumer startups — focused on the themes of games/entertainment, marketplaces, and next-gen social products.

Li Li Leung became the President and CEO of USA Gymnastics in March 2019. Since then, she has led the organization through an ongoing cultural transformation while emerging as a leader with the Olympic and international gymnastics movements. Leung immediately began the work of reshaping USAG’s organizational culture, working collaboratively to institute new norms and standards at all levels of the sport, particularly in matters related to athlete safety. Established in December 2020, USAG’s Athlete Bill of Rights was among the first of its kind in sport. Leung was voted vice chair of the NGB Council of U.S. Olympic sport governing bodies in October 2020 and was elected to the Executive Committee of the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) in November 2021.

Prior to joining USAG, Leung served as a Vice President at the National Basketball Association (NBA), where she was responsible for building, leading, negotiating and managing key partner relationships around the world. Previously, she was a managing director at the global sports management firm Helios Partners, where she launched and managed their China and UK offices and helped clients break into emerging markets.

Leung began her gymnastics career at age 7. She competed in many USA Gymnastics events, was a member of the U.S. junior national training team and represented the U.S. in the 1988 Junior Pan American Games. She was a four-year member of the four-time Big 10 champion University of Michigan gymnastics team and was an NCAA Championships participant.

She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in psychology, at Michigan. Leung earned both of her advanced degrees – Master of Science in sports management and Master of Business Administration – at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Lisa Chang is the global chief people officer for The Coca-Cola Company, overseeing the company’s talent and people strategies, culture, and diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts. In her role, which she has held since 2019, she is responsible for leading the company’s global people strategy, aligned to the company’s purpose of refreshing the world and making a difference. Chang and her team are focused on creating an environment where employees can thrive and equips the organization to win.

Prior to joining Coca-Cola, Chang served as senior vice president and chief human resources officer for AMB Group, LLC in Atlanta, a privately held sports and entertainment conglomerate.

Chang has held HR roles at various companies, including Equifax, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. and The Weather Channel Companies. Chang serves on the Board of Advisors for Catalyst, a non-profit organization with a mission to accelerate progress for women through workplace inclusion. She also serves as a Board member for the Coca-Cola Scholars Foundation, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and on the Board of Directors for Frontier Communications. Chang has a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Virginia. She earned an MBA from the Stetson-Hatcher School of Business and Economics at Mercer University.

Mala Gaonkar is an American businesswoman, former portfolio manager at investment firm Lone Pine Capital, and the founder of hedge fund SurgoCap Partners.

MARGARET ZHANG 章凝  is the Editor-in-Chief of VOGUE China. At 29, the Australian-born- Chinese multi-hyphenate is VOGUE’s youngest Editor-in-Chief. With a diverse background in film, creative direction, photography, writing, and sometimes modeling, Zhang’s dynamic visual perspective on the world, eclectic sense of style, and vivid blue hair have garnered a massive audience of more than 1.9 million on Instagram. Before joining VOGUE in 2021, Zhang co-founded BACKGROUND, a global consultancy company in which she specialized in bridging Western and Chinese cultures for a range of luxury, lifestyle, and brand initiatives. Zhang obtained both a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Laws at the University of Sydney, before going on to be listed in Forbes Asia’s 30Under30 and TimeOut’s 40Under40. Her work has been recognized as shaping the international fashion industry by the Business of Fashion BoF500 Index for the past four consecutive years. In 2023, Margaret has been selected as a 2023 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader.

Melanie Perkins is CEO and co-founder of Canva, an online visual communication and collaboration platform with a mission to empower the whole world to design. Since launching in 2013, Canva has grown to over 110 million users across more than 190 countries, with more than 15 billion designs created.

Melanie started her first company at the age of 19, creating an online design tool for creating school yearbooks. As the company grew and design became an increasingly universal need across almost every industry, Melanie went on to launch what would later become the first version of Canva.

In 2021, Melanie launched the Canva Foundation, announcing her commitment to donate the vast majority of her wealth and equity in Canva for philanthropic causes.

Melissa King, Chef Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, She/Her/They/Them

Melissa King is an American chef and television personality. King is known for their appearances on the reality competition series Top Chef. They first appeared on the twelfth season of Top Chef: Boston, placing fourth; they then returned for the seventeenth season, Top Chef: All-Stars L.A., which they won. They specialize in modern Californian cuisine with Asian flavors.

An advertising industry veteran, Michelle currently serves as the Chief Growth Officer of McCann, one of the most preeminent creative agencies in the world. Since her arrival, Michelle has orchestrated partnerships with global brands such as Prudential and Smirnoff. With nearly two decades of experience driving growth leading agencies, her ability to find the intersection between client challenges and agency strengths has enabled her to successfully deliver business impact at a variety of agencies from creative to digital to media.

Michelle also serves as a Board Member of Ascend, the largest professional membership organization focused on supporting the API community throughout their careers. She has been instrumental in bringing visibility to the incredible work the Ascend does.

Previously, Michelle was Chief Marketing Officer at Digitas where she lead the agency to be named Data Agency of the Year by Advertising Age, and Digital Network of the Year and Media Network of the Year by Campaign. In addition, Sephora, iRobot, Mizkan, and Walmart, among others joined the Digitas roster of clients during her tenure. Prior to Digitas, Michelle held growth roles across a variety of holding company agencies including Organic, FCB, and Wunderman Thompson, winning an impressive roster of clients including Ford, Levi’s, Best Buy, and Clorox.

Son to Van Dam Van and Chau Tran, Mike’s parents immigrated to Sacramento California in 1975 as refugees from the Vietnam War. Born shortly after in Sacramento, then raised on the West Side of Oahu while spending his summers in Los Angeles, Mike ended up living in both Los Angeles and New York while making his career in Advertising, Media, and Marketing at world renowned brands such as TBWA/Chiat Day, Complex, Electronic Arts, and Pandora. 25 years later, Mike became the President of Billboard who is responsible for the entire brand that includes all aspects from revenue operations to global IP expansion. In his previous role as Executive Vice President of Global Brand Partnerships Mike oversaw global monetization across all of Billboard’s revenue channels. He is an avid fan of all genres of music, currently resides in Sherman Oaks CA, is father to twins Mila and Luca, and married to Julie who in her own right is a successful executive at E-Sports team 100 Thieves.

Mina Fedor is the Founder and Executive Director for AAPI Youth Rising, a student organization composed of middle-school and high-school students, whose mission is to take small actions to make positive change. AAPI Youth Rising first came together by organizing a stop-AAPI hate rally in Berkeley, California that to their surprise drew over 1200 attendees. AAPI Youth Rising is now a national organization with over 60 Chapters across the country. AAPI Youth Rising believes in fighting for inclusive education, promoting safe and healthy communities, civic engagement, and raising our youth voices. AAPI Youth Rising developed a lesson about the untold histories of Asians in America and volunteers to teach this lesson across the country.

President Biden named Mina as an ‘Uniter’ at the 2022 ‘United We Stand Summit’ held in Washington DC., a bi-partisan effort to combat the rise in hate-fueled violence in America. She is the 2022 Robert Wood Johnson Health Equity Award recipient for Society for Science Broadcom MASTERS, Act to Change’s 2022 Changemaker of the Year, and a Top 5 Finalist for the 2022 Time Kid of the Year.

AAPI Youth Rising is the 2022 American Girl partner organization for the first Chinese-American Girl of the Year Doll. The partnership announcement reached 1.3 billion impressions online. AAPI Youth Rising is Asia Society West’s Game Changer of the Year for 2023.

AAPI Youth Rising appeared before the White House Commission on AANHPI – Health Equity subcommittee and continues to partner with Dignity.us, a bi-partisan effort led by four Presidential centers.

AAPI Youth Rising has been featured on Good Morning America, the Today Show, NPR, TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Teach for America, and many others. Mina is a 9th grader attending school in Oakland, California. She enjoys creating and unpacking the mysteries of the human mind.

Nancy Lee is the Chief of Staff to Robert A. Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Company. In addition, she is EVP of Disney’s International Business Operations.

Ms. Lee served on the board of directors of National Geographic Partners from 2019-2022. She currently sits on the board of APIA Scholars, the US’s largest non-profit organization devoted to providing greater access to higher education for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, as well as the Georgetown University Law Center Alumni Board.

She holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management, a JD from Georgetown University Law Center, and a BA from the University of Chicago, majoring in Environmental Studies and Geophysical Sciences.

Ms. Lee grew up in Guam, Seoul, Korea, and Utica, Michigan. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband, Ryan Graham, and their rescue dog, Ripley.

Natalie Nakase joined the Aces coaching staff as the team’s First Assistant in February of 2022, helping lead the Las Vegas to its first WNBA Championship.

Prior to joining the Aces, Nakase worked with the Los Angeles Clippers organization for 10 seasons under Tyronn Lue, Doc Rivers, and Vinny Del Negro. She started as a video intern under Vinny Del Negro, where she became close to players like Chris Paul, Jamal Crawford, & JJ Redick. A few years later, she was able to climb the ladder to assistant video coordinator with Doc Rivers. In 2017, she spent a year as Agua Caliente assistant coach under Casey Hill, before becoming the player development/assistant coach for the LA Clippers for three seasons.

Nakase was a walk-on at UCLA, and worked her way into the starting lineup at point guard and team captain for three seasons.

After graduation, she played professionally for two years in the NWBL with the San Jose Spiders and San Diego Siege. Nakase also spent one season in Germany, but a knee injury ended her playing career.

She chose to remain in Germany, beginning her coaching career as the head coach of the Wolfenbüttel Wildcats (2008-10), and later traveled to Japan to be an assistant coach for a professional men’s team, the Tokyo Apache (2010-11) lead by Bob Hill.

The following season, Nakase joined the Saitama Broncos staff, taking over as head coach midway through the year, making her the first female head coach in the league’s history.

Neal Mohan is the CEO of YouTube. Mohan joined YouTube in 2015 as Chief Product Officer. During his time at the company, he managed a number of its marquees throughout the late 2010s and early 2020s, including YouTube Music, YouTube TV, YouTube Premium, YouTube Shorts, and YouTube NFTs.

Neha is a first generation American, lover of orange Tic Tacs and Taco Bell, and a prior Wheel of Fortune champion. She is also a global technology leader who has most recently held roles as CEO of Waze and President at Expedia Group. Neha has deep experience growing, scaling and reinvigorating teams and businesses, and fiercely believes that real magic happens when you work on something you love with people who make you better. Neha was named as part of the inaugural ‘Forbes CEO Next 50 Leaders Set to Revolutionize Business’ and is a passionate advocate and speaker who is committed to helping others through her own journey.

Neha also sits on the Board of Directors of Carvana, a leading e-commerce platform and Fortune 500 company with the mission to change the way people buy cars. She holds a Bachelors of Business degree from The University of Texas at Austin (hook ‘em!) and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University (go Cats!). Neha currently resides in New York City (by way of Houston, Austin, Dallas, Chicago, London and San Francisco!) with her awesomely supportive husband and a nearby Taco Bell Cantina.

NewJeans (MINJI, HANNI, DANIELLE, HAERIN, and HYEIN) are the first group to debut from ADOR, an independent label under HYBE led by Min Hee Jin. The quintet aspires to push the limits of K-pop with honest and authentic music that exudes youth. Just like a pair of jeans that has been a staple of every wardrobe for generations, NewJeans aim to allure the listeners with timeless music to be kept in your daily music playlist. The act released New Jeans on August 1, 2022, instantly captivating the global audience and becoming the first K-pop band to achieve the million-seller milestone with its debut album. NewJeans continue to amaze the world with groundbreaking records while staying true to their musical flair and intrinsic charm, recently making their Billboard Hot 100 debut with global smash hits “Ditto” and “OMG.”

Pablo Torre is an award-winning host, writer, and commentator for Meadowlark Media and ESPN, where he regularly appears on TV shows such as Pardon the Interruption and Around the Horn. In 2022, he won the Edward R. Murrow Award for Sports Reporting for his work hosting the ESPN Daily podcast. He was previously a staff writer at Sports Illustrated, which he joined after graduating magna cum laude with highest honors from Harvard University.

Patrick Ta is an American makeup artist born and raised in San Diego, California. He started his career as a freelance makeup artist after his nail salon in Arizona went bankrupt.

Ta started by posting his work on Instagram, which boosted his popularity, but everything changed when Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell reached out to him, which skyrocketed Ta’s profile, making him the makeup artist of choice for some of today’s top celebs.

Ta quickly turned his passion into a cosmetic line, Patrick Ta Beauty. Since its founding two years ago, the brand has been spotlighted in such major publications as Forbes, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New York Times. Some of his most famous clients include Ariana Grande, Gigi and Bella Hadid, and the Kardashians family.

My parents came to America from Hong Kong in the late 1960s after the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended de facto discrimination against immigrants from Southern Europe, Eastern Europe and Asia. My father became a professor of astrophysics at UMass-Amherst, which is where I grew up. My mother and her two sisters became computer programmers after college in the 1970s, and my mother worked as a programmer for over 30 years. My mother’s appreciation for tech is what led me to study computer science at Stanford.

I started my career in technology investment banking as the Internet was just taking shape. I had the opportunity to join Morgan Stanley’s Menlo Park team where I spent 22 years, running the bank’s global internet and software business and then, the West Coast technology team. That continuity allowed me to see firsthand what world-class tech companies do to create enduring value whether through strategic, financial, operational or cultural means. Helping Spotify create the modern day direct listing and selling Livongo for the highest multiple ever paid in public technology M&A were two of my career highlights, as well as taking companies public from all 6 inhabited continents.

At General Catalyst, I’m passionate about mission-driven software-driven companies that are category-defining in their own unique way. Whether it’s redefining the defense industry like Anduril or enabling a whole new market for connected operations like Samsara or creating a modern way to drive employee recognition and behavior like AwardCo. We are still in the very early innings of technology transformation. What will be critical is to drive that transformation with an intentional focus on responsible innovation; accountability, inclusivity, sustainability, respect, diversity, and promotion of a healthy society.

Peggy Roe is Executive Vice President and Chief Customer Officer for Marriott International, Inc., where she oversees development and execution of all aspects of Marriott’s global consumer strategy. In this role, she is focused on maximizing customer engagement with Marriott’s 30 leading brands spanning 138 countries and territories and award-winning Marriott Bonvoy® loyalty program, bringing together the global brand, marketing, and design strategies, along with data, insights, and personalization to enhance the customer experience.

Since joining Marriott in 2003, Peggy has held various leadership roles focused on growth and innovation. In her prior role as Global Officer, Customer Experience, Loyalty, and New Ventures, she was focused on increasing member enrollment and engagement with the Marriott Bonvoy portfolio of travel offerings, including new businesses such as Homes & Villas by Marriott Bonvoy, The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection, and Marriott Boutiques.

Peggy previously spent six years as the Chief Sales and Marketing Officer in Asia Pacific, where she was responsible for adapting Marriott brands and growing the Marriott Bonvoy member base. She managed $100 million in sales, digital and marketing spend, led a workforce of over 5,000 associates, and drove the company’s distribution and pricing strategy across 21 countries.

Prior to joining Marriott, she worked for GE Capital, Amazon.com, and Homestead.com in Silicon Valley. Peggy is passionate about education and supporting the development of women. She co-founded the Marriott Women in Leadership initiative in Asia Pacific in 2014 and is a board member of the Hong Kong chapter of the Asian University for Women. She currently leads the Women’s Associate Resource Group at Marriott International.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She sits on the Board of Directors for Simon Property Group. She resides in Bethesda, Maryland with her family.

Prakash Janakiraman is Co-Founder Emeritus at Nextdoor where he most recently served as Chief Architect and Head of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging. Nextdoor’s purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on. Every day, Nextdoor connects millions of neighbors from eleven countries around the world, including one out of every three US households. In addition to leading strategy for the company’s technology platform, Prakash also led the company’s efforts to build a welcoming platform for all neighbors to create a sense of belonging in communities across the globe. Prior to Nextdoor, Prakash spent nearly three years at Google, where he managed engineering teams for Google Maps and Google Base. Prakash is from Hayward, California, and is currently completing his B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley.”

R’Bonney Nola Gabriel is an American fashion designer, model, and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 2022, becoming the ninth delegate from the United States to win the title, as well as the oldest entrant to be crowned, surpassing Andrea Meza of Mexico. Gabriel was previously crowned as Miss USA 2022.

Actor, writer, director and producer Randall Park is the beloved star of ABC’s FRESH OFF THE BOAT. Having wrapped its sixth and final season, it is the first broadcast comedy in over 20 years featuring an all Asian American cast. He also co-wrote, produced and starred in the critically-acclaimed Netflix romantic comedy ALWAYS BE MY MAYBE with his good friend Ali Wong. Randall is also known for playing two pre-existing Asian American comic book characters Detective Jimmy Woo and Dr. Stephen Shin, in Marvel’s ANT-MAN AND THE WASP and DC’s blockbuster hit AQUAMAN, both in the same year.

Throughout his career, Randall has played a wide range of roles in tv and film such as Minnesota Governor Danny Chung in VEEP, Kim Jong Un in the controversial Seth Rogen film THE INTERVIEW, and internet favorite Asian Jim in THE OFFICE. Randall, along with producer Hieu Ho and writer Michael Golamco (his college friends from UCLA), has formed IMMINENT COLLISION, a production company focused on creating comedy-forward stories from an Asian American perspective. In a competitive situation, they landed a rich producing deal at 20th Century FOX Studios. Randall can next be seen reprising his role as Jimmy Woo in the upcoming Disney Plus series WANDAVISION and alongside Ed Helms in NBC’s primetime storytelling series TRUE STORY.

Randall received his BA in English, Creative Writing, and completed the Masters Program in Asian American Studies at UCLA. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his wife Jae Suh Park and their daughter Ruby.

The devil works hard, but Rina Sawayama works harder. Currently on her headline world tour, which sold out Brixton Academy in London and saw five-star reviews from The Guardian and NME, the newly minted British-Japanese pop star has followed up her celebrated debut album SAWAYAMA with sophomore LP Hold The Girl. A colossally ambitious record marrying intimate storytelling with arena-sized tunes, the album reached #3 in the UK charts, the highest ever for a Japanese artist. In between TV performances for Jimmy Kimmel, Seth Meyers, Strictly Come Dancing and Graham Norton, starring alongside Keanu Reeves in John Wick: Chapter 4, sparking a change in the BRITS and Mercury Prize eligibility criteria, and with a BRIT nomination for Best New Artist, you’d be forgiven for wondering when she even sleeps.

Rob Bonta is the 34th Attorney General of the State of California and is the first Filipino American and the second Asian American to occupy the position.

Attorney General Bonta’s passion for justice and fairness was instilled in him by his parents, who served on the frontlines of some of America’s most important social justice movements. Instilling in him the lessons they learned from the United Farm Workers and the civil rights movement, Attorney General Bonta’s parents lit a fire inside him to fight against injustice — to stand up for those who are taken advantage of or harmed. It’s why he decided to become a lawyer — to help right historic wrongs and fight for people who have been harmed. He worked his way through college and graduated with honors from Yale University and attended Yale Law School.

In the State Assembly, Attorney General Bonta enacted nation-leading reforms to inject more justice and fairness into government and institutions. As the People’s Attorney, he sees seeking accountability from those who abuse their power and harm others as one of the most important functions of the job. In elected office, he has taken on powerful interests and advanced systemic change — pursuing corporate accountability, standing up for workers, punishing big polluters, and fighting racial injustice. He has been a national leader in the fight to transform the criminal justice system, banning private prisons and detention facilities in California, as well as pushing to eliminate cash bail in the state. He has led statewide fights for racial, economic, and environmental justice and worked to further the rights of immigrant families, renters, and working Californians.

Born in the Philippines, Attorney General Bonta immigrated to California with his family as an infant. He is the son of a proud native Filipino mother and a father who taught him the value of public service to his community. He is married to Mia Bonta, and they are the proud parents of three children.

Rosalie Chiang
Rosalie Chiang made her feature debut in Disney/Pixar’s Turning Red, being Pixar’s first Asian lead and first female lead of color. Directed by Domee Shi and co-starring Sandra Oh, this acclaimed animated feature was nominated for an Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film in 2023. For her performance she was nominated for several awards, including by the Hollywood Critics Association for Best Voice or Motion-Capture Performance. Following the release of Turning Red, Chiang was a presenter in the Critics Choice’s Celebration of Asian Pacific Cinema & Television, as well as the Unforgettable Gala in 2022. In spring 2023 Chiang will guest star in the Disney+ series American Born Chinese, an adaptation of Gene Luen Yang’s Eisner Award winning graphic novel of the same title. She has also written and illustrated two children’s poetry books, of which A is for Albatross: Birds A to Z won the Skipping Stone Honor Book Award in 2017 as the youngest winner in its 25-year history. Chiang is born to Singapore and Taiwan parents and is currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Sandra Oh
Sandra Oh had a groundbreaking year being the first Asian American Host of the Golden Globe Awards in addition to sweeping wins as the lead actress in BBC America’s spy drama, “Killing Eve,” at the Critics’ Choice, Golden Globes, and Screen Actors Guild Awards.

The daughter of Korean immigrants, Oh started her performance career as a child. She attended the National Theatre School of Canada, and at age 19 had her breakthrough role in the television biopic “The Diary of Evelyn Lau” (1993). Her performance garnered a Gemini nomination and the 1994 Cannes FIPA d’Or for Best Actress. In 1996, Oh moved to Los Angeles to join the cast of HBO’s comedy “Arli$$”. Roles in films like “Under the Tuscan Sun” (2003) and “Sideways” (2004) followed.

Sandra then landed the role of Dr. Cristina Yang in the hit TV series “Grey’s Anatomy” (2005), which garnered her numerous award nominations over the course of her 10 years on the show. And just this year, she hosted an episode of “Saturday Night Live.

Domee Shi
Domee Shigraduated from the Bachelor of Applied Arts Animation program at Sheridan College in 2011, and began shortly after as a story intern at Pixar Animation Studios. She was soon hired as a story artist on the Academy Award®-winning feature film “Inside Out”, and from there she worked on “The Good Dinosaur,” “Incredibles 2” and the Academy Award®-winning “Toy Story 4.”

In 2015 she began pitching ideas for short films, and soon was green lit to write and direct “Bao” which won the Academy Award® for Best Animated Short Film in 2019. In her role as a Creative VP, Shi is involved in key creative decision-making at the studio and consults on films in both development and production. Shi most recently made her feature film directorial debut on “Turning Red,” which released in 2022.

Shi was born in Chongqing, China and resided in Toronto, Canada most of her life. She currently lives in Oakland, California and notes that her love of animation is only rivalled by her love of cats.

Julia Cho
Julia Cho is a screenwriter (Turning Red) and award-winning playwright who was born and raised in Southern California and Arizona. After receiving an MFA from NYU and a fellowship at The Juilliard School, Julia launched herself into the New York theater scene. She soon landed residencies at the Sundance Lab and New Dramatists and productions at theaters in NYC and across the country. Published plays include “The Language Archive” (Susan Smith Blackburn Award), “Aubergine” and “Office Hour.” For her body of work, she received the 2020 Windham-Campbell Literary Prize for Drama which wrote: “Alternately lyrical and sharp, rigorous and whimsical, Cho’s plays demand that we listen.”

Julia has also cultivated a career as a writer and producer for a broad range of television shows from cult sci-fi (“Fringe”) to character-driven drama (“Big Love,” “Halt and Catch Fire”). She also adapted the critically-acclaimed novel The Madonnas of Echo Park for HBO and Starz, which showcased her ability to transform eloquent fiction into dynamic and propulsive narrative.

Driven by keen curiosity and a passion for language, Julia strives to create work that expands our worlds and sparks our deepest empathies. She’s currently developing a series for FX and is a Senior Creative at Pixar Animation Studios.

SANA AMANAT is currently an executive of production and development at Marvel Studios. Over her lucky 13 years at Marvel, Amanat has worked as an editor, content creator and producer. She’s worked on story and character development for much of her career, from books to animation, games and live action series. Her credits include comic book titles like “Captain Marvel,” “Miles Morales” and “Hawkeye,” and streaming series like “Marvel Rising” and “Marvel’s Hero Project.” Amanat is most known for co-creating Muslim-American female Super Hero Kamala Khan — the new Ms. Marvel—which gained worldwide media attention and sparked excitement and dialogue about identity and the Muslim-American narrative. She’s championed representation in storytelling, striving to cultivate new voices within the entertainment industry. As a part of her larger efforts to bring in broader audiences to Marvel, she helped launch the Women of Marvel platform that has activated and excited a new generation of fans. Sana has appeared on various television programs like the Late Night with Seth Meyers, and gave an acclaimed TedxTeen talk about Kamala’s origin story and the impact of representation in storytelling. She was a part of Marie Claire’s New Guard of America’s 50 most influential women, as well as featured in Vogue’s American Women special. She also had the distinct honor of representing Marvel at the White House and introducing President Barack Obama, who called Sana a “real life superhero.” She is currently the executive producer of the Ms. Marvel live action series on Disney Plus which is one of Marvel’s most critically-acclaimed series ever and Rotten Tomatoes’ best reviewed super hero series of 2022. Sana also serves as an advisor for Pillars Foundation Artist Fellowship for rising Muslim filmmakers.

As a dynamic powerhouse, Saweetie continues to solidify herself as a multifaceted artist with her chart-topping songs, successful collaborations, philanthropic endeavors, and captivating on-screen performances. Born Diamonté Harper in Northern California, Saweetie was raised in a multi-ethnic household with her father being of African-American descent and her mother being of Filipino-Chinese descent. Saweetie was exposed to a wide range of music genres, which would later influence her own sound and identity as a trailblazer for young, culturally diverse individuals around the world. After attending USC and earning a Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Saweetie began to focus on her music career. Since then, Saweetie has accumulated over 5.4 billion career streams from her chart-topping hits such as the RIAA certified platinum “Tap In” and 4x platinum “My Type” and “Best Friend,” featuring Doja Cat, which also earned two GRAMMY® Award nominations. In addition to numerous awards and accolades in the music space, Saweetie has also launched her own jewelry line “ICY” while also solidifying herself as a global brand through her brand partnerships and campaigns with companies such as McDonald’s, MAC, Crocs, Quay, Revlon, Champion, and PrettyLittleThing to name a few. With a comprehensive portfolio spanning so many different avenues, Saweetie’s global influence continues to grow with each subsequent project. 

Selena Deckelmann is the Chief Product and Technology Officer at the Wikimedia Foundation. She brings more than 20 years of experience in open source technology, product management and engineering leadership.

Previously, Selena was Senior Vice President at Mozilla, where she led a team of 400 people responsible for all Firefox product and technology functions including desktop, mobile, web platform, and browser services. She oversaw some of the company’s greatest achievements including infrastructure projects like Quantum Flow and Project Fission, key features like Enhanced Tracking Protection, and services such as Firefox Monitor. In her nine years at Mozilla, Selena held various other roles including Vice President for Firefox Desktop, Senior Director for Web Platform Engineering and Gecko Runtime, and Senior Manager for Gecko Security Engineering.

Selena also brings experience from her previous roles as co-founder of Prime Radiant, a software as a service business that explored how to improve business processes at scale with checklist automation software, and as Consulting Director of Development for The Ada Initiative, an organization dedicated to increasing the participation of women in open source and technology communities. She was a major contributor to PostgreSQL, one of the largest free and open source databases in the world. She is a Python Foundation Fellow and former Major Contributor to PostgreSQL. She is on the board of Eequal, a youth-led non-profit that gives grants to youth experiencing homelessness.

Selena graduated from the University of Oregon. She lives in Portland Oregon with her family.

Shannon Ashley Garcia “Shay” Mitchell (born April 10, 1987) is a Canadian actress and model. She rose to prominence for her role as Emily Fields in the mystery thriller drama series Pretty Little Liars (2010–2017), which earned her nominations for a People’s Choice Award and six Teen Choice Awards. She has garnered wider recognition for starring as Peach Salinger in the psychological thriller series You (2018) and as Stella Cole in the Hulu comedy series Dollface (2019–2022). She currently voices Alexandra Trese in the Netflix animated series Trese (2021–present).

After appearing in a series of short films, Mitchell made her feature film debut starring as Nicole in the musical drama film Dreamland (2016). She went on to appear as Tina in the comedy film Mother’s Day (2016), and headline the horror film The Possession of Hannah Grace (2018) as Megan Reed. Aside from her acting, she is recognized for her media image and activism. In 2014, Esquire magazine dubbed Mitchell the “Sexiest Woman Alive”, and in 2015 she appeared on the Maxim Hot 100 list.

Shohei Ohtani is a Japanese professional baseball pitcher, designated hitter and outfielder for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Beginning his pro baseball career in Japan, he was drafted by and played for the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters in the Pacific League of Nippon Professional Baseball from 2013 until 2017.

Breaking records and stereotypes, Ohtani had a standout year in 2021, garnering global acclaim and recognition from everyone, including the MLB commissioner for his gameplay during the season. He became the first two-way player in the history of Major League Baseball with 10+ home runs and 20+ stolen bases as a hitter and 100+ strikeouts and 10+ pitching appearances as a pitcher in the same season while also holding at least a share of the major league lead in home runs in fourteen starts. During the 2021 All-Star Game, he also became the first player in MLB history to be an All-Star as both a pitcher and a hitter.

Stephanie Hsu can be seen in the A24 Oscar winning and BAFTA nominated film “Everything Everywhere All At Once” from the directing team Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert). Stephanie stars in the dual role “Joy/Jobu.” The story follows the mother/daughter relationship through a multiverse with infinite versions of their lives also starring Michelle Yeoh, Key Huy Quan and Jamie Lee Curtis. The film debuted at SXSW and released in theaters April 2022 to rave reviews. The film has reached box office records for an indie arthouse film crossing the $100 million mark in global ticket sales, the first A24 film to hit that benchmark. Stephanie earned individual Oscar and SAG Award nominations in the category of Best Supporting Actress. She won the Best Breakthrough Performance at the 2023 Film Independent Spirit Awards and has been honored at the Hamptons Film Festival as their Breakthrough Artist honoree, the Middleburg Film Festival as their Rising Star honoree, the Newport Film Festival as one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch, the San Francisco Film Festival with The George Gund III Award for Breakthrough Performance and at the Santa Barbara Film Festival as one of their Virtuosos honorees. The film won a Gotham Award and Critics’ Choice Award for Best Feature, a SAG Award for Cast in a Motion Picture and has been recognized as AFI’s Movie of the Year. The film was nominated for 10 Academy Awards winning Best Film, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Film Editing and was also nominated for 10 BAFTA Awards.

Stephanie Wu is the editor-in-chief of Eater, overseeing a national food publication, 20+ city sites, and an Emmy Award-winning video program. She is also the co-founder of MochiMag.com and the author of The Roommates: True Tales of Friendship, Rivalry, Romance, and Disturbingly Close Quarters. She grew up in Taipei, Taiwan, and now lives in New York City.

Steve Thomas Lacy-Moya is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He gained recognition as the guitarist of the alternative R&B band the Internet. In 2017, he released his self-produced debut EP, Steve Lacy’s Demo. Following this, Lacy was featured alongside Frank Ocean on the song “911 / Mr. Lonely” by Tyler, the Creator; and co-wrote songs for artists such as Solange Knowles, Chloe x Halle, and Kendrick Lamar, the latter of whom he worked with on the song “Pride.”

His debut studio album, Apollo XXI (2019), earned him a nomination for Best Urban Contemporary Album at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. That same year, he was featured on the single “Sunflower” by Vampire Weekend. He then collaborated with Calvin Harris (under the moniker Love Regenerator) on the song “Live Without Your Love”, which earned him a chart entry in the United Kingdom.

His second studio album, Gemini Rights (2022), peaked within the top ten of the Billboard 200 chart. The album spawned the single “Bad Habit”, which became Lacy’s first song to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 after going viral on TikTok, where a snippet of the song was used as the soundtrack for over 400,000 videos on the platform. It earned him two Grammy Award nominations for Record of the Year and Song of the Year, with its parent album winning Best Progressive R&B Album. He was named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time magazine in 2023.

Steve W. Chung oversees all international business (outside of Korea) for CJ ENM as its inaugural Chief Global Officer, based in Los Angeles. Steve joined CJ ENM from FOX Corporation, where he was the Chief Growth Officer and led strategic initiatives to help position FOX for long-term growth. He launched its first OTT FAST channels, LiveNOW (news) and FOX SOUL (Black entertainment), and drove FOX’s transformation of its digital and OTT businesses.

Prior to FOX, Steve was the Founder and CEO of Frankly, an OTT and digital media platform company serving ABC, CBS, NBC and FOX affiliates. After incubating the company at Stanford’s StartX accelerator, Steve took the company public on the TSXV stock exchange through a reverse IPO.

Steve began his career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York and then served as Executive Producer for a flagship talk show “21@21” for Shanghai Media Group’s Dragon TV. Since then, Steve has held various executive roles in entertainment, investments and technology spanning Silicon Valley, Asia and Europe. He was a venture capitalist for BlueRun Ventures (formerly known as Nokia Venture Partners) and COO of the social media company We Heart It.

Steve is an author of two Stanford business school case studies on US market entry of global companies and a member of the Board of Directors at the National Asian Pacific Committee on Aging (NAPCA). He has also previously served on a Stanford University Board of Trustees subcommittee as a graduate representative. Steve also served in numerous public service internships including at the CIA, The White House (West Wing), U.S. Senator John Kerry’s office and the UK Parliament.

Steve graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. from Harvard University, and received his M.B.A. from Stanford University.

A leading player and presence in the music industry, Sulinna Ong is the Global Head of Editorial, at the helm for all curation and programming for Spotify. Together with her teams she is responsible for the biggest and most influential playlists in the world, such as Today’s Top Hits, Rap Caviar, New Music Friday, and many more.
In a diversified career, Sulinna started her journey in A.I. and robotics, moving on to work in almost every major sector of the music industry, spanning artist management, record labels, the live concert business and streaming. This background makes her uniquely positioned to inherently understand the convergence of entertainment and technology coupled with deep experience in music and artist development.
As the daughter of a Chinese father and Persian mother who fled the Iranian revolution when she was a baby, Sulinna is committed to using her position and experience to bring equality to the industry, in terms of both the artists promoted and those working behind the scenes, and to push for greater representation in the music industry. Sulinna’s values – diversity, creativity, innovation, collaboration, critical thinking, integrity, and being direct and transparent – are a critical part of her leadership.

A career-long champion of new and developing artists, Sulinna’s contributions to the music industry were recognized on a mainstream scale in 2021 when she was deemed one of Vogue’s 25 Most Influential Women, and received Music Week’s Women in Music – Music Champion Award , which shines a light on women working in a public-facing capacity who encourage the use of music as a force for change, inclusion, education or improvement.

Susan Li is chief financial officer at Meta, where she leads the finance and facilities teams. Prior to becoming CFO, Susan served as the company’s vice president of Finance and led the teams focused on Finance & Business Planning and Treasury. She joined the company, then called Facebook, in 2008. Previously she was an investment banking analyst at Morgan Stanley. She holds a B.A. and B.S. from Stanford University. Susan serves on the Board of Alaska Airlines.

Tammy Henault is currently the Chief Marketing Officer of the NBA where she leads all global marketing efforts for the NBA and its affiliate leagues to engage fans and further the organization’s mission to inspire and connect people everywhere through the power of basketball. Additionally, she plays a leading role in the development of the NBA’s Next Gen platform, working hand-in-hand with the product and content teams on the NBA App and NBA ID, the league’s global membership program offering fans benefits and rewards.

Prior to joining the NBA in November 2022, Henault worked at Paramount Global, most recently as Senior Vice President, Marketing, Streaming of Paramount+. She managed a team of more than 150 employees responsible for brand, partnership and performance marketing as well as audience development, customer acquisition and retention. In 2021, Henault led the marketing strategy for the global launch of Paramount+, which was named the year’s No. 1 fastest growing brand in America by Morning Consult and drove record subscriptions. During her tenure at Paramount Global, she led award-winning campaigns for more than 100 original and exclusive shows and movies, including 1883, Halo, Star Trek: Discovery and The Good Fight, live sports programming and other original library content.

Henault previously served as Managing Director of Consumer Marketing for Digital Products at The New York Times, where she led the acquisition and retention marketing team for the publication’s highly successful digital subscription business. She also held various direct-to-consumer and performance marketing positions at PEOPLE, TIME and InStyle magazine divisions. A 2021 Ad Age 40 Under 40 honoree, Henault earned her MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

Tariq M. Shaukat
Tariq M. Shaukat has served as President of Bumble since July 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Shaukat served as President for Google Cloud at Google LLC from June 2016 to July 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Shaukat served in various roles for Caesars Entertainment, including as Executive Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer from October 2014 to May 2016 and Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer from March 2012 to October 2014. Prior to joining Caesars Entertainment, Mr. Shaukat was a Partner at McKinsey & Company, and worked in a variety of roles in the technology industry. Since July 2019, he has been a member of the Board of Trustees of Public Storage. Mr. Shaukat holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and an M.S. in Technology and Policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Anu Subramanian
Anu Subramanian has served as Bumble’s Chief Financial Officer since September 2020. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Subramanian served as Chief Financial Officer, Digital at Univision Communications Inc. from February 2018 to September 2020. Prior to that, Ms. Subramanian served as Chief Financial Officer, Digital at VICE Media during 2017. Prior to that, Ms. Subramanian served in various roles at Scripps Networks Interactive from August 2010 to January 2017, including most recently as the Head of Finance, Digital. Prior to Scripps Networks, Ms. Subramanian worked in investment banking at Citi as part of the Media and Telecom group. Ms. Subramanian began her career at Ernst & Young in the assurance division. Ms. Subramanian holds an M.B.A from the Yale School of Management and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) from Delhi University and is a Chartered Accountant in India.

Tesa Aragones is the President of AKQA North America, has more than 25 years of brand leadership experience and a proven track record for cultural contribution and celebrated innovation with organizations including Nike, Volkswagen, Apple, Xbox, Bacardi and Universal Studios. Tesa had a ten-year career at Nike, holding director-level marketing roles, including Senior Brand Director Global, Women’s Training. An inventor on 12 patents filed by Nike, Tesa’s assignments included Nike+, NikeID and the Nike+ Training Club.

A champion for diversity, equity and inclusion, Tesa is an accomplished team builder, guiding many new-generation companies through pivotal periods of creativity, collaboration and significant growth. Most recently, Tesa served as Chief Marketing Officer at the most prominent gaming social media platform Discord, and CMO at the premium photo and video editing app VSCO. Earlier in her career, she held leadership positions at agency David & Goliath and automotive leader Volkswagen Group of America.

In addition to her responsibilities as President, North America at AKQA, Tesa Aragones is on the Board of Directors for Tillys (NYSE: TYLS), a leading specialty retailer and the Board of Directors at banking app Dave (Nasdaq: DAVE). She is a Board Member of Polaroid and an Advisor, Adjunct Speaker at Stanford Community College, part of the Stanford Design School designed for and by brown and black community members. She is a member of the Advisory Council for the Cranbrook Academy of Art and an Advisor, Adjunct Instructor and Speaker at the College for Creative Studies. A recipient of Ad Age 40 Marketers Under 40 award, Tesa has won over 40 international awards, including Cannes Lions, Grand Clios, The One Show, Webby and Effies. Tesa is a contributing writer for AdWeek and has been awarded Ad Age’s Top 40 Marketers Under 40, AdWeek CMO, and Business Insider CMO.

Tilane Jones is the President of ARRAY, the multi-platform arts and social impact collective dedicated to narrative change founded by filmmaker Ava DuVernay in 2011. Jones leads ARRAY Alliance, the non-profit group, as well as programming and production hub ARRAY Creative Campus. She continues to oversee ARRAY Releasing, the company’s film distribution arm, where she is responsible for the acquisition, booking and marketing of more than 40 independent feature films. Jones was recently honored with the Slamdance Founders Award, the film festival’s highest accolade. She is the fifth recipient and first woman and person of color to receive the award which is bestowed on an individual that supports the filmmaker community of Slamdance throughout their career. Jones is also a member of the executive branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and honored to be on the advisory board of Illuminative and the 2022 Gold Open Advisory Council.

Tim is currently the Founder and CEO of FiscalNote. The company owns news and information company CQ Roll Call Group, which it acquired from The Economist Group in 2018 and creates a technology platform that provides access to large quantities of data, news, and analysis about governments around the world. The global company with offices across DC, NYC, Baton Rouge, Brussels, India, and Seoul has now grown to become the largest tech employer headquartered in DC, and powers almost 5,000+ of the world’s largest and most influential law firms, companies, and governments.

FiscalNote has raised over $230 million in venture capital and acquisition financing from the likes of The Economist, S&P Global, Mark Cuban, Jerry Yang, Steve Case, NEA and others. The company announced its public offering on the NYSE in 2021, becoming the youngest AAPI Founder/CEO of public company.

Hwang is also the Chairman/Board member of multiple companies including: Nitra (a smart finance platform and fintech company for the healthcare industry), Ownerific (a platform for companies to offer a homeownership benefit to their employees), Amber (digital insurance for electric vehicles), and Jericho (a cybersecurity firm for the AI age). Hwang’s companies have collectively delivered billions of dollars of value for shareholders, built cutting edge products, and made dozens of acquisitions across every major continent.

Prior to founding FiscalNote, Hwang started his career in politics in the Obama ’08 campaign, assisting in the election of the first Obama Administration. He was elected to the Montgomery County Board of Education a year later at the age of 17, overseeing a budget of over $4 Billion for 22,000 public employees.

He is a graduate of Princeton and attended Harvard Business School. He is also a World Economic Forum (WEF) Technology Pioneer, a Trustee on the Board of the Greater Washington Community Foundation, The After School Alliance, and the Meridian Institute.

Romulus is the Chief Brand Officer at KKW Brands, the company that oversees KKW Beauty, Skims and KKW Fragrance. She joined the team in September 2017. Prior to her current gig, she worked as Kelly Cutrone’s assistant and as a publicist. She launched her own boutique agency, Industry Public Relations, in 2006.

Dr. Vivek H. Murthy was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2021 to serve as the 21st Surgeon General of the United States. He previously served as the 19th Surgeon General under President Obama. As the Nation’s Doctor, the Surgeon General’s mission is to help lay the foundation for a healthier country, relying on the best scientific information available to provide clear, consistent, and equitable guidance and resources for the public. As the Vice Admiral of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, Dr. Murthy commands a uniformed service of over 6,000 dedicated public health officers, serving the most underserved and vulnerable populations. He is also the host of House Calls with Dr. Vivek Murthy, a podcast highlighting the healing power of conversations. The first Surgeon General of Indian descent, Dr. Murthy was raised in Miami and is a graduate of Harvard, the Yale School of Medicine, and the Yale School of Management. A renowned physician, research scientist, entrepreneur, and author, he lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Dr. Alice Chen, and their two children.

As Chief Operating Officer, Esports at Riot Games, Whalen Rozelle is responsible for developing and implementing new approaches that create sustainable business practices across each of Riot’s esports products, including League of Legends (LoL) Esports, VALORANT Esports, Wild Rift Esports, and Organized Play (TFT, LoR, and other games). He provides high-level management, guidance, and mentorship to a diverse global team and strategic acumen to regional leagues and personnel.

As COO, Rozelle is charged with implementing a unified strategy across all regions, ensuring each sport operates at the highest levels of competitive operations, broadcast, fan engagement, and more. To that end, he restructured esports regions into broader territories (Americas, APAC, China, EMEA) to enhance oversight, and fosters cross-regional collaboration to advance esports’ strategic priorities within Riot. Under Rozelle’s leadership, Riot has continued to expand its industry-defining impact within esports, with League of Legends continuing its reign as the world’s most-watched esport, and the VALORANT Champions Tour catapulting to one of the fastest-growing esports in the world.

Prior to his current role, Rozelle served as the Global Head of VALORANT Esports, where he built the sport’s competitive ecosystem and championed the Game Changers platform, which creates and supports opportunities for women to compete at the highest levels.

Since joining Riot in 2012, Rozelle has led the launch of LoL Esports leagues in multiple regions, ushered in a new era of stability with the adoption of a permanent partnership model, and grew League of Legends into the largest esports property in the world.

Prior to joining Riot, Rozelle held leadership roles at Goldman Sachs, Cornerstone Research, and Google. He was named one of SBJ’s 50 Most Influential People in Sports Business in 2017 and to SBJ’s Forty Under 40 Classes of 2019 and 2022.

Yuta Watanabe is a Japanese professional basketball player for the Brooklyn Nets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball in the United States for the George Washington Colonials, becoming the first Japanese-born student athlete to secure an NCAA Division I basketball scholarship. He was named Atlantic 10 Defensive Player of the Year in 2018. He has also represented the Japan national team, helping them win the bronze medal at the 2013 East Asia Basketball Championship.

Before moving to the collegiate level, Watanabe attended Jinsei Gakuen High School in Zentsūji, Kagawa. He later transferred to St. Thomas More Preparatory School in Oakdale, Connecticut in 2013. Watanabe rose to fame in his high school program, and was one of their most valuable players in the National Prep School Invitational as a senior in 2014. In college, he became the fourth Japanese-born Division I basketball player of all-time.