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Raymond L. Ocampo Jr. is president and chief executive officer of Samurai Surfer LLC, a private investment and consulting company, and is a board member of PMI Group, CytoGenix, Intraware, Keynote Systems and VitalStream Holdings. He retired in November 1996 as senior vice president, general counsel and secretary of Oracle Corporation after serving as its chief legal counsel for more than a decade. Before joining Oracle Corporation in 1986, Ray specialized in antitrust and complex litigation with various law firms in San Francisco. He also taught professional responsibility, trial practice, and legal writing and research at Hastings College of the Law. After retiring from Oracle Corporation, Ray co-founded the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the top-rated intellectual property program in the United States, and served as its executive director for two years. He was the 2001-02 chair of the American Bar Association’s Section of Science & Technology Law. Ray has served as a mediator and arbitrator and as an expert witness in software, Internet and other technology-related disputes and has published two books in the field, Surfing the Law and Technology Tsunami (American Bar Association 2001) and Negotiating and Drafting Software Consulting Agreements (Glasser LegalWorks 1996). He also has spoken frequently on issues related to diversity in the legal profession and has been recognized for his work with minority communities. He served on the California Judicial Council Advisory Committee on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Courts (1992-96) and on the American Bar Association Commission on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Profession (2000-03). He currently serves on the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession. Ray has served on the boards of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology, the Computer Law Association, Crystal Springs Uplands School (Hillsborough, Calif.), Earthjustice, KQED, and The Tomas Rivera Policy Institute. He co-founded and served as president of the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California. Ray was born in the Philippines and received his undergraduate degree from UCLA and his law degree from Boalt Hall School of Law at UC Berkeley.
Mona Lisa Yuchengco is the founder and chair of the board of Philippine International Aid, a non-profit organization that provides educational assistance to approximately 1,000 needy children in the Philippines every year. She is also the founder and former publisher of Filipinas Magazine, the only nationally-circulated Filipino American monthly publication. She serves on the boards of numerous community and non-profit organizations, including the University of San Francisco's Center for Pacific Rim, the Center for Asian American Media (formerly NAATA), Leadership Education for the Asian Pacifics (LEAP, Inc.), and the Asia Society (Northern California). She is a founding member of New California Media and is also on the President's Council Advisory Board of Skyline College. Lisa recently joined the board of Seton Health Services Foundation, the charitable arm of Seton Medical Hospital. She is currently a Kiriyama Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the University of San Francisco. Lisa received bachelor's degrees in Psychology and Education from Assumption College in Manila, Philippines. She also received a Master of Business Administration degree from Ateneo de Manila University.
John Chung is an attorney with more than 17 years of concentrated experience in corporate and securities law, with specialized expertise in SEC/SRO compliance and other areas of regulatory practice. John is the president of Gold Mountain Consulting, LLC, a securities law and regulatory compliance consulting practice, where he offers expert witness and litigation support services, and serves as an independent advisor to broker-dealers wishing to maintain and/or supplement the strength of their existing compliance and supervisory procedures. John has held a number of senior positions within the securities industry including chief compliance officer, general counsel and chief operating officer. Before starting his career in the securities industry, John served as an assistant district attorney in Kings County (Brooklyn), New York, where he was responsible for prosecuting felony and misdemeanor crimes. John is a former chairperson of the National Association of Securities Dealers' (NASD) District Business Conduct Committee (District 1), and has served as a panelist in disciplinary proceedings brought by the NASD's Enforcement staff against various member firms and associated persons. John's most recent NASD service was as a member of District One's Nominating Committee, which oversees the selection of candidates to the District Business Conduct Committee. John is admitted to practice law in both New York and California. He is a class of 2000 graduate of the Securities Industry Institute, which offers a three-year leadership training program sponsored by the Securities Industry Association (SIA) and the Wharton School of Business. John is a frequent panelist and commentator at regional meetings of the SIA's Legal & Compliance Division. He holds the following securities licenses: Series 7 (General Securities), Series 8 (NYSE Branch Manager), 14 (NYSE Compliance Officer), 24 (NASD Securities Principal), 55 (NASD Equity Trader) and 63 (NASD Uniform Securities Agent).
Thao Dang heads a leading real estate brokerage that represents many of the Bay Area’s most distinctive properties. Specializing in luxury homes, the THAO DANG Real Estate Group has over $2 billion in real estate sales and has received numerous awards from Century 21 as one of the world’s top sales teams. Thao’s team uses the latest technologies and multimedia venues to showcase properties, and it also taps its global network for potential buyers. Thao has extensive experience with Silicon Valley properties and is a recognized leader in the field for his deep understanding of the market, strong negotiating skills, and his many satisfied clients. Thao began his real estate career in 1982 and quickly distinguished himself. He has received the Centurion Award, Century 21’s highest honor, every year since 1985, and he was named Century 21’s Top California Salesperson in 1998. Inducted into the Real Estate Hall of Fame in 2001, Thao was Century 21’s Top U.S. Salesperson and Top World Salesperson in 2002. Thao has been able to transfer his personal success into admiration for the expertise of his entire team, and he also received the 2006 Structures Award from Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal as the Residential Real Estate Agent of the Year. In addition to serving on the Asian Pacific Fund Board, Thao gives back to the community by supporting the Salvation Army and the many other non-profit organizations.
Mohan Gyani is the vice chairman of Roamware. He is the former president and chief executive officer of AT&T Wireless Mobility Services. Mohan is a telecom and wireless industry veteran. He has played key roles in the $1.6 Billion IPO of AirTouch in 1993 and the $10.6 Billion IPO of AT&T Wireless in 2000. At AT&T Wireless, Mohan led the company's domestic voice and data mobility businesses, focusing on improving operating results and accelerating growth. He was instrumental in expanding the company so its reach stretches across the U.S. and in the build up of the next generation system for global mobile communications. He was instrumental in helping the industry set pace-setting growth and AT&T subscribers attain revenue while significantly improving profitability. Following the merger of Vodafone and AirTouch, Mohan was head of Strategy and Corporate Development and a member of the board of directors for Vodafone AirTouch PLC. Prior to the merger, Mohan was executive vice president and chief financial officer of AirTouch Communications. As executive vice president and chief financial officer of AirTouch, Mohan was a key leader in the $120 billion merger of AirTouch and Vodafone and the subsequent $70 billion joint venture with Bell Atlantic that resulted in the creation of Verizon Wireless. Prior to the merger, Mohan played a major operational and strategic role in the company's growth from an IPO to a $70 billion global company in five years. Mohan began his career in 1978 with Pacific Telesis Group/Pacific Bell where he held a number of financial and operational positions. He holds a Master of Business Administration in finance from San Francisco State University. Mohan was born in India and grew up in several countries before settling in San Francisco in 1970. Currently, Mohan is a board member of Keynote Systems, Safeway, SiRF Technology Holdings, Union Bank of California, and numerous other private firms and non-profit organizations. He is a former board member of the GSM Association and of the Cellular Telecommunications and Internet Association, and he has been a board member of numerous public and private enterprises in the past.
Bob serves on five corporate boards: Blue Shield of California (health insurance), Web.com (web hosting for the small and medium business market), Netopia (broadband gateways and web platform software for small and medium businesses), BroadVision (provider of personalized self-service web applications), and Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (for-profit post-secondary education). Bob retired from Pacific Bell in May 1998. At the time of his retirement, he was a corporate executive vice president and president of Business Communications Services. During his 26-year career at Pacific Bell, he also served as the chief marketing officer and the executive vice president of Operations. Bob has also been active in several non-profit organizations. He is the former chairman of the board of Youth Tennis Advantage, a non-profit group serving Bay Area inner-city kids with tennis and tutoring. He was also the chairman of Committee of 100, a non-profit group promoting the interests of Chinese Americans and improving U.S.-China relations. He continues to serve on its board of directors. Bob received his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Southern California in 1970 and his Master of Business Administration degree from UC Berkeley in 1972.
Andrew Cuyugan McCullough is the general counsel for Syufy Enterprises. He was the executive vice president for business affairs, general counsel and corporate secretary at Century Theatres, Inc. until October 2006. In this role, Andrew oversaw all legal affairs and major business transactions for the nation's largest independent motion picture exhibitor. Prior to joining Century Theatres in 1996, Andrew served as deputy city attorney for the San Francisco City Attorney's Office and, before that, was associated with Carroll, Burdick & McDonough, a general practice firm in San Francisco. Andrew currently serves on the board of directors for the Marin County Bar Association. Previously, he served on the boards of the Bar Association of San Francisco and the Asian American Bar Association, and he was president of the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California from 1997 to 1998. Andrew received his Bachelor of Arts from Yale University and his Juris Doctor from the Hastings College of Law, University of California. Andrew was born in Berkeley and raised in Singapore and London.
Catherine Buan Peterson is currently consulting at Cavalry Asset Management in San Francisco. Prior to that, she was the vice president of investor relations at Business Objects, and was in charge of planning and executing the company’s communication with investors around the globe. Catherine was in charge of developing financial marketing content, the analyst and financial press strategies, and institutional marketing plans that met the needs of each respective audience and were within the constraints of both U.S. and European securities laws. Catherine has spent more than 15 years in the enterprise software industry. She began her career in 1990 at Robertson Stephens and Co., a San Francisco-based investment bank, where she provided equity research on companies in the enterprise software sector. From 1994 to 1999, she directed and managed the global investor relations program at Oracle Corp., as the company's market value grew from $6 billion to nearly $60 billion. The company was commended for several achievements in investor relations during this period. Among those, Oracle was elected for three consecutive years as Best Investor Relations in the software and services industry from AIMR (Association for Investment Management and Research). Catherine was also a member of the Oracle Corporate Development team and one of three founding members of Oracle’s Venture Fund. Selected in 1998, the team invested in Oracle-related technology and applications companies, like Red Hat, Inc., among others. She was also responsible for identifying and evaluating acquisitions and licensing agreements for Oracle’s Enterprise Applications business. In 1999, Catherine joined Ariba as Vice President Investor Relations and Corporate Development. She was recruited to this position to be a key contributor in the company’s execution of their $800 million initial public offering, which grew to peak at $42 billion. She helped complete the 1999 acquisitions of Tradex and Trading Dynamics (approx. $2.5 billion). In 2000, she became vice president of corporate finance, and treasury was added to her responsibilities. Also during this time, Ariba was recognized by Barron’s Magazine for Best in Class Financial Media Relations. Currently, she serves on the board of the American Red Cross of Silicon Valley. Catherine holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Stanford University.
Thuy is an award-winning reporter at CBS 5/KPIX, reporting primarily for the 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. newscasts. She joined the station in December 2005. Prior to joining CBS 5, Thuy worked at KTVU-TV as a reporter and fill-in anchor and at KGO-TV as a weekend morning anchor and reporter. Thuy started her journalism career in public radio at KQED-FM in San Francisco. She later moved on to National Public Radio (NPR), where she first covered Congress and national politics in Washington, D.C., before returning to its San Francisco bureau. Thuy has won numerous regional and national awards, including a Best Serious Feature award from the Associated Press, Best Reporter award from American Women in Radio and Television, two national awards from the Asian American Journalists Association and honors from the Public Radio News Directors Association. She was also nominated for an Emmy Award for her investigation of safety problems at California's amusement parks. San Francisco's Focus magazine (now San Francisco magazine) named her one of the Bay Area's most talented people under 40 years old. Thuy has covered many major stories, including the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, the 1991 Oakland Hills fire, the O.J. Simpson trial and verdict in Los Angeles, and the mass cult suicide of Heaven's Gate members in Rancho Santa Fe. She traveled to Washington, D.C., in 2000 to cover the historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling on the contested Florida vote in the presidential election. She has also returned to her homeland of Vietnam twice for special coverage of that country's post-war life. Thuy emigrated from Vietnam in 1975, fleeing that country as a refugee at the end of the Vietnam War. She holds a bachelor's degree with honors in rhetoric from UC Berkeley.
Jerry Yang is co-founder, chief Yahoo! and chief executive officer of Yahoo!, the Internet's first online navigational guide. Jerry co-created Yahoo! in April 1994 and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Jerry, a leading force in the technology and media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the Internet's most recognized brands. As CEO and a member of Yahoo!'s board of directors, Jerry works closely with the company's president and management team to develop corporate business strategies and guide the direction of the company. Jerry holds Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program. Born in Taiwan, Yang immigrated to the United States with his family at the age of ten and grew up in San Jose, Calif.
Emerald Yeh is an award-winning television journalist who served as news anchor at KRON4 in San Francisco for 19 years. During her tenure at KRON4, she received numerous national and local awards for her reporting, including nine Emmys. Emerald also led KRON4's Contact 4 unit with reports that examined consumer issues and provided problem-solving information. She is currently hosting and producing public TV projects. Emerald's nine Emmy awards are for "The Rape of Nanking," "Who Owns Your Health?," "Consumer Reporting 2002," "Consumer Reporting 2001," "Grandparents' Rights," "Skipper Lynn," "David Laird: Transplant Pioneer," and the documentaries "Children of Courage" and "Lost Childhood: Growing Up in an Alcoholic Family." Emerald also received three awards from Radio and Television News Directors Association for "Summer Camp: Children of Alcoholics," Best 30-Minute Newscast and "Holocaust Heroes." She also won an award from the Associated Press Television and Radio Association for the week-long series "Sudden Wealth." National awards include a United Press International award for Best Feature, an award from the American Psychiatric Association for the documentary "Kids First: A Cry for Help," and one from the National Association for Children of Alcoholics for the documentary "Lost Childhood." Emerald and her Contact 4 team received the Consumer Excellence Award from the Consumer Action organization. Other honors include the Women Who Could Be President Award from The League of Women Voters of San Francisco, an outstanding achievement award from the Golden Gate Chapter of American Women in Radio and Television, and the Woman Warrior award from the Pacific Asian American Women Bay Area Coalition. Emerald has also received community awards from the State Attorney General, Youth Advocates, the Association of Children's Services, CASA (Court-Appointed Special Advocates for Foster Children), the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Asian Women's Shelter, Asian Perinatal Advocates, the Organization of Chinese Americans, Nihonmachi Legal Outreach, and the Chinatown Community Development Center. In addition to being a founding board member of the Asian Pacific Fund, Emerald has served on the boards of the United Way of the Bay Area and the Center for the Pacific Rim at the University of San Francisco. Prior to joining KRON in 1984, Emerald anchored for CNN in Atlanta. Before CNN, Emerald was weeknight anchor and co-producer of the nightly news program at KPTV, an independent station in Portland, Ore. She began her television career as reporter and weekend anchor at KITV, the ABC affiliate in Honolulu. A graduate of the University of Hawaii, Emerald majored in journalism and minored in political science. She earned a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
