Conference Speakers

(* denotes Committee of 100 member)
Welcome Remarks and Luncheon
John L. Fugh*
Michael R. Bloomberg
Wei Christianson*
Jerry Yang*
Henry R. Kravis

Panel: On the Ground - Doing Business in China
Clarence Kwan* (Moderator)
Ronnie Chan*
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr.
Andy Solem

Panel: Investing in China - Opportunities and Risks
Wei Christianson* (Moderator)
Charles R. Kaye
Daniel S. Och
Richard C. Perry

Breakfast Keynote
Anla Cheng*
William R. Rhodes

Panel: Attracting the Best and Brightest in China
Robert Lee*
John L. Thornton (Moderator)
Michael Barbalas
Jia-Bin Duh
Kai-Fu Lee*

Panel: The Changing Face of China's Consumers
J. Michael Chu* (Moderator)
William J. Amelio
Bill Bradley
Fred Langhammer
Victor Yuan

Luncheon Keynote
Lulu C. Wang*
Henry M. Paulson, Jr.
Savio Tung*
Frederick Ma

Panel: China & Energy - Working Toward Common Solutions
Maya Lin*
Jim Rogers (Moderator)
Douglas Ogden
Victoria Chu Pao
Zhengrong Shi
John Sie*

Panel: China Going Green?
Robert W. Gee*
Joseph Kahn (Moderator)
Linda J. Fisher
Ashok Gupta
Wan Ling Martello

Panel: Just One Click - New Media in China
Anthony Sun*
John S. Wadsworth, Jr. (Moderator)
Kai-Fu Lee*
Mary Meeker

Dialogue: Technology and Partnership - NVIDIA and TSMC
Bernard Joei, Jr.*
Morris Chang*
Jen-Hsun Huang*

Luncheon Convesation:
Personal Journey with Steve Chen, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of YouTube
Anla Cheng*
Lynn Sherr
Steve Chen

Mentoring Program: Bridge to a Bright Future
David Henry Hwang*
Jenny Ming*

Speakers' Bios
John L. Fugh is the Chairman of the Committee of 100. He was The Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Army, retiring from the position in 1993 after 33 years of service. He was the first Chinese-American to attain general officer status in the U.S. Army. As The Judge Advocate General, General Fugh was legal advisor to the Chief of Staff of the Army. He directed the Army’s worldwide legal organization, consisting of 4,700 active duty, reserve, and civilian lawyers, and 5,000 paralegal and administrative personnel. After retirement from the Army, General Fugh joined as a partner at the law firm of McGuire, Woods, Battle & Booth in Washington, D.C. Later, for five years, he served as Chief Representative for several U.S. companies in Beijing, including McDonnell Douglas, which later merged with Boeing Company. As Chief Representative, he was responsible for the strategic direction of business development and projects in China. General Fugh graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and the George Washington University Law School. He attended the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, the Command and General Staff College, and the U.S. Army War College. He is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia.
Michael R. Bloomberg is the 108th Mayor of the City of New York. Bloomberg received an MBA from Harvard and was hired by Salomon Brothers to work on Wall Street in 1966. He quickly advanced through the ranks, and became a partner in 1972. He used his stake from the Salomon sale to start his own company, an endeavor that would revolutionize the way that Wall Street does business. He created a financial information computer that would collect and analyze different combinations of past and present securities data and deliver it immediately to the user. Twenty years after its founding, Bloomberg L.P. has over 165,000 subscribers worldwide and now employs more than 8,000 people in more than 100 offices worldwide. As the company enjoyed tremendous growth, Bloomberg dedicated more of his time and energy to philanthropy and civic affairs. He funded relief programs for victims of domestic violence in New York City, sponsored the Children’s Health Fund’s Mobile Medical Unit which serves the children of homeless families, and supported construction of new athletic fields at city high schools throughout the five boroughs. He also served on the Boards of twenty different civic, cultural, educational and medical institutions.
Wei Christianson is CEO and Managing Director of Morgan Stanley China. Prior to this position, she was Managing Director and Chairman of Citigroup Global Markets (Asia). Previously, she was Managing Director, Country Manager–China, and Head of China Investment Banking, Credit Suisse First Boston. Prior to joining CSFB in 2002, she was an Executive Director of the Resources, Power and Transportation Group and the Beijing Chief Representative at Morgan Stanley where she had worked since 1998. Christianson has been involved in, and led the executions of, several landmark privatization transactions involving restructurings and initial public offerings of PRC State-owned enterprises in the U.S., London and Hong Kong. She also led the execution of one of the most significant M&A transactions by an overseas listed PRC company to date. Previously, Christianson was an Associate Director in the Corporate Finance Department of the Securities and Futures Commission in Hong Kong where she helped to formulate the rules and regulations of the Hong Kong securities market in preparation for the listing of the first batch of Chinese companies in Hong Kong in 1993. Prior to joining the SFC in Hong Kong, Christianson was a lawyer in New York with Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe.
Jerry Yang, a Taiwanese native raised in San Jose, California., cocreated the Yahoo! Internet navigational guide in April 1994 with David Filo and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995. Mr. Yang, a leading force in the 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. A member of Yahoo!'s board of directors, he works closely with the company's president and CEO to develop corporate business strategies and guide the future direction of the company. Mr. Yang holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and is currently on a leave of absence from Stanford's electrical engineering Ph.D. program.
Henry R. Kravis founded, along with two partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm that pioneered the development of the management buyout. Kravis began his career as Vice President of Katy Industries. He then joined Bear Stearns & Co., where he became a partner. Kravis has been involved in some of the largest, most successful acquisitions via management buyouts, which have included RJR Nabisco, Beatrice, Safeway and Duracell. His firm has completed over 150 transactions with a total acquisition price of approximately $270 billion. Kravis has served on numerous corporate Boards, including RJR Nabisco, Safeway, Gillette, Borden and Owens-Illinois. He founded and heads the New York City Investment Fund, designed to create jobs and help small inner city businesses. He also serves on the Boards of the Partnership for New York City, where he was Co-Chairman of the Board, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Claremont McKenna College, Mount Sinai Hospital, Public Television Channel 13, where he served as Chairman of the Board, Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where he is Co-Chairman of the Board, and Rockefeller University.
Clarence T. Kwan leads Deloitte & Touche’s organization-wide efforts to assist U.S. companies investing or operating in China, as well as Chinese companies seeking to access U.S. markets. From 1995 to 2002, Clarence was based in Beijing as the Deputy CEO of Deloitte’s China practice. Prior to China, Kwan spent three years in Prague, Czech Republic, and has also worked in Houston, New York and Taipei since joining the organization in 1978. With his multi-functional and multi-cultural background, he is not only a trusted business advisor to clients but also a proven leader of fast growing operations in emerging markets. Kwan is active as Chairman of the U.S. Council for International Business – China Committee, and of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), China Task Force, Business & Industry Advisory Committee. He is Adviser to the Federation of Investment Promotion Agencies of China under the Ministry of Commerce and Adviser to the China Association of Chief Financial Officers. Kwan was named one of the 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business for 2005 by the Asian American Business Development Center.
Ronnie C. Chan is Chairman of Hang Lung Group and Hang Lung Properties. He co-founded the privately held Morningside group, which owns and manages private companies around the world. He is a former Director of Standard Chartered PLC and Motorola, Inc., and was a government appointed Non-Executive Director of the Securities and Futures Commission of Hong Kong. Chan is Vice Chairman of the Asia Society and Chairman of its Hong Kong Center, Chairman of the Executive Committees of the Better Hong Kong Foundation and the One Country Two Systems Research Institute, and Chairman of the China Heritage Fund, which restores cultural relics in the mainland of China. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the China Development Research Foundation of the State Council of PRC and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Chan is a former member of the Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum and of the governing bodies of the East-West Center, Pacific Council on International Policy, Eisenhower Fellowships, and the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Foundation. He is also the founding Chairman of the Asia Business Council and a former Chairman of the Hong Kong-United States Business Council. Chan has published numerous articles in The International Herald Tribune, The Financial Times, Newsweek, Fortune, The Asian Wall Street Journal, Far Eastern Economic Review and Japan Times.
Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. is the Chairman and CEO of WL Ross & Co. LLC. He has been involved in the restructuring of over $200 billion of defaulted companies’ assets around the world. In 1998, Fortune Magazine called him “the King of Bankruptcy.” In 1999, President Kim Dae Jung awarded Ross a medal for his help during Korea’s 1998 financial crisis. Ross is a former Chairman of the Smithsonian National Board. Earlier, President Clinton had appointed him to the Board of the U.S.-Russia Investment Fund, and he served as privatization advisor to Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. Ross serves on the Executive Committee of the New York City Partnership and of the Japan Society and is a member of the Chairman’s Circle of the U.S.-India Business Council. He is a member of the Business Roundtable and is a Board member of the Yale University School of Management, which has presented him with its Legend of Leadership Award. He is also a member of the Committee on Capital Markets Regulation.
Anders E. Solem became President & CEO of GE Infrastructure, China in 2006. He is responsible for GE Aviation, Energy, Oil & Gas, Transportation, and Water business operations in China, along with oversight of GE Capital’s Aviation and Energy Finance Services units China activity. After separating from the USAF as a Captain, Andy joined GE Aviation in 1993, became Director of Sales for Commercial Engines in Tokyo in 1995 and was named Regional Vice President for Services in 1997 with responsibility for Japan, Korea, and Greater China. He returned to GE Aviation in Evendale, Ohio in 1999 as President of On Wing Support (OWS), Inc. and subsequently held the role of GM, Services Marketing, for Commercial Services before his promotion to VP, Large Military Engines, Military Systems, from 2001–2004. Prior to his current role, Andy was President and CEO of GE Transportation, China, responsible for GE’s Aviation and Rail Business Operations in China. Solem holds a B.S. degree in Astronautical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a M.S. degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Tokyo.
Charles R. Kaye is Co-President of Warburg Pincus, which he joined in 1986. He is jointly responsible for the management of the firm, including the formulation of strategy, oversight of investment policy and decisions, leadership of the firm’s executive management group and the coordination of limited partner communications. During his 19 years at the firm, Kaye has worked across a variety of industry sector groups and lived in Hong Kong from 1994 to 1999. During that time he established Warburg Pincus’ operations in Asia, where the firm today is recognized as one of the leading private equity investors in the region. Kaye is a graduate of the University of Texas, a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, Chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council, and a director of the Asia Society and Jarden Corporation.
Daniel S. Och is the Senior Managing Member of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group. The firm, which he founded in February 1994, currently has offices in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and manages over $25 billion in assets. The firm’s investment objective is to achieve consistent positive absolute returns. Prior to this, Dan spent eleven years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he was a Vice President. He began his career in the Risk Arbitrage Department, and future responsibilities included Head of Proprietary Trading in the Equities Division and Co-Head of U.S. Equities Trading. Dan has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Finance from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Wall Street division of UJA, a member of the Board of the A.J.C., a member of the Board of the Robin Hood Foundation, a member of the Board of the Birthright Israel Foundation, a trustee of New York-Presbyterian Medical Center, and a member of the Undergraduate Board of the Wharton School.
Richard C. Perry, In 1988, he co-founded Perry Capital, which has grown to a $13 billion private investment management firm. Prior to 1988, Perry worked in the equity arbitrage area of Goldman, Sachs & Co. He was also an adjunct associate professor at the Stern School of Business at New York University, where he taught a course in the finance department. Perry serves on the board of directors of Sears Holdings Corporation, Capital Business Credit LLC, Endurance Specialty Insurance, Ltd. He is a member of the boards of trustees of the Allen Stevenson School, Milton Academy, Facing History and Ourselves, Harlem Children’s Zone and the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the Undergraduate Executive Board of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Perry earned an MBA at New York University’s Stern School of Business in 1980, and a BS at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in 1977.
Anla Cheng is CEO of Centenium Capital Partners, LLC. Cheng co-produced the “Becoming Chinese American” series with Bill Moyers, which discussed the plight and assimilation of Chinese immigrants in America. She is a Board Member of Facing History and Ourselves, an international educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. She is a member of the Asian Arts Council at the Metropolitan Museum and the China Institute. From 2001 to 2004, Cheng served as Chair of the ThinkQuest Advisory Board, an organization which rewards children around the world for designing websites of educational content.
William R. Rhodes is the Senior International Officer for Citigroup. He gained a reputation for international financial diplomacy in the 1980s because of his leadership in helping manage the external-debt crisis that involved developing nations and their creditors worldwide. Rhodes is a Director of ConocoPhillips; a Director of the Private Export Funding Corporation; First Vice Chairman of the Institute of International Finance; Chairman of the Americas Society and Council of the Americas; Chairman of the U.S.-Korea Business Council; Vice Chairman of the Board of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations; a Director of the U.S.-Russia Business Council; a Director of the U.S.-Hong Kong Business Council; etc. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Rhodes is a Governor and Trustee of The New York-Presbyterian Hospital; a member of the Lincoln Center Consolidated Corporate Fund Leadership Committee; and a Vice Chairman of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Business Committee and Chairman’s Committee. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Watson Institute for International Studies and Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of the Northfield Mount Hermon School. He has received decorations and honors from various governments and institutions, including an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from his alma mater Brown University.
Robert Lee was previously the Chairman of the Committee of 100. He has been a member of this organization since 1991. Additionally, Lee serves on the boards of three public high tech companies: Interland, Inc. (INLD), Netopia (NTPA), Broadvision (BVSN), and Blue Shield of California, an HMO. Lee retired from Pacific Bell in May 1998. At the time of his retirement, he was a corporate Executive Vice President (EVP) and President of Business Communications Services, which included responsibility for $3 billion in revenue and 15,000 employees. When he was first appointed an Executive Vice President in 1987, he was the highest ranking Asian American in a major telecommunications company in the U.S. He was also the youngest EVP in the company's history. Bob is also active in several other non-profit groups. 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 is also a board member of the Asian Pacific Fund, serving the Asian American non-profit community in the Bay Area. Additionally, he is a member of the Board of Councilors for the School of Engineering at the University of Southern California.
John L. Thornton is Professor and Director of the Global Leadership Program at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Thornton retired in July 2003 as President of the Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and as a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. Thornton is a Director of the Ford Motor Company, the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Intel, News Corporation and China Netcom Group Corporation. He is also Chairman of the Brookings Institution Board of Trustees, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a trustee or advisory board member of the Asia Society, China Institute, China Securities Regulatory Commission, the Eisenhower Fellowships, Financial Services Volunteer Corps, The Hotchkiss School, International Advisory Committee of the China Reform Forum, Morehouse College, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, Nelson Mandela Legacy Foundation (U.S.), Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (Beijing), and the Yale School of Management. Thornton received an A.B. in history from Harvard College, a B.A./M.A. in jurisprudence from Oxford University and an M.P.P.M. from the Yale School of Management.
Michael Barbalas is the President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Beijing. He previously served on the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and was Vice Chairman in 2005. Prior to joining AmCham, he was Managing Director, Andrew Telecommunications (China) Co. Ltd., from 1997 to 2006. Under his leadership the company grew to be the largest and a leading manufacturing and R&D site for Andrew Corporation globally. He previously worked in management positions in Tianjin, China for Management Technologies International, and in Hong Kong for Friends of China Foundation. Barbalas is a frequent speaker on operational excellence, leadership development and foreign investment in China. He currently also serves on the board of Soochow University. From 2001 to 2003 he chaired the Shanghai Manufacturers Business Council with executives of over 140 US manufacturers. Barbalas holds a B.S degree in Chemistry from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology and earned his Ph.D. in Chemistry from Cornell University. He reads and speaks Chinese.
Jia-Bin Duh is a veteran in the technology industry and, in the last two decades, has led the growth of three major IT brands, HP, Microsoft and Cisco from a nascent presence into market leaders in China. In 1998-2006, Jia-Bin was Corp. Vice President for Cisco Inc. and President of Cisco Systems China. Under his leadership, Cisco China had accelerated growth in each Cisco-focused sector, including Telecom Service Provider, Publics, Enterprise, and SMB businesses. Prior to Cisco, Duh was President of Microsoft China where he grew the revenue more than a hundred times within his service period from 1993 to 1998. He also worked at Hewlett-Packard for over 10 years and has held a variety of managerial positions in sales, marketing and engineering. With a strong passion in innovation and talent development, Duh was instrumental in the establishment of R&D centers for both Microsoft and Cisco in China.
Kai-Fu Lee is a Vice President of Engineering at Google, Inc. and President of Google China. He joined Google in 2005 to start Google’s operations in China. Prior to joining Google, Lee was a Corporate Vice President responsible for advanced natural language and user interface technologies at Microsoft. He joined Microsoft in 1998 and was the founder of Microsoft Research Asia, which has since become one of the leading research centers in the world with MIT Technology Review calling it “the hottest computer science research lab in the world.” From 1996 to 1998, Lee was the President of Cosmo Software, a subsidiary of Silicon Graphics (SGI). At SGI, Lee was responsible for several product lines and the company’s web strategy. Before joining SGI, Lee spent six years at Apple, most recently as Vice President of the company's interactive media group, which developed QuickTime, QuickDraw 3D, QuickTime VR and PlainTalk speech technologies. From 1988 to 1990, he was an Assistant Professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he developed the world’s first speaker-independent continuous speech-recognition system. That system was selected as the “Most Important Innovation of 1988” by BusinessWeek. While at Carnegie Mellon, Lee also developed a computer program that plays the game “Othello,” which defeated the human world champion in 1988.
J. Michael Chu is the Founder and Managing Partner of Catterton Partners, the leading consumer focused private equity investment firm with over $1 billion of funds under active management. Chu founded Catterton in 1990 and to date has raised five funds. Catterton is widely viewed as the premier investment group with a focus on the consumer industries, and investments in the past include, among others: PF Chang’s China Bistro, Odwalla Fresh Juices, Baja Fresh Restaurants, Case Logic, and Farley’s and Sathers Candy Company. Prior to founding Catterton, Chu was a senior officer at the First Pacific Company, a Hong Kong-based diversified investment and management company. His roles at First Pacific included: VP and Corporate Treasurer First Pacific Company, Hong Kong where he was responsible for the Company’s capital markets activities and acquisition and divestitures; Director of Finance, Hagemeyer N.V., Holland where he was responsible for all of the financial functions of this multi-billion consumer products marketing and distribution company; and Vice President and Treasurer, Hibernia Bank, San Francisco. Prior to joining First Pacific, Chu was in commercial banking with experiences at Allied Bank International in New York and London and Morgan Guaranty in New York.
William J. Amelio is President and CEO of Lenovo Group Ltd. Prior to joining Lenovo in 2005, he served as Senior Vice President, Asia-Pacific and Japan, for Dell Inc., with responsibility for strategy and operations across the region. He joined Dell in 2001 and during his tenure, sales more than doubled in the Asia-Pacific and Japan region and service levels improved significantly. From 2000 to 2001 Amelio was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of NCR Corp.’s Retail and Financial Group, one of its two businesses. From 1997 to 2000, Amelio was with Honeywell International and its predecessor, AlliedSignal Inc., where he was president and CEO of Honeywell’s transportation and power-systems divisions and head of the turbocharging-systems business at Allied Signal. Under Amelio, the turbocharging-systems business doubled in revenues to more than $1 billion. From 1979 to 1997, Amelio was with IBM, where he held a wide range of senior management positions, including general manager of Operations for IBM’s Personal Computing Division.
William W. “Bill” Bradley is a U.S. Senator from New Jersey. He is a Managing Director of Allen & Company LLC. From 2001-2004, he acted as chief outside advisor to McKinsey & Company’s nonprofit practice. He was a Senior Advisor and Vice Chairman of the International Council of JP Morgan & Co., from 1997-1999. During that time, he also worked as an essayist for the CBS Evening News and was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University, University of Notre Dame and the University of Maryland. Senator Bradley served in the U.S. Senate from 1979–1997 representing the state of New Jersey. In 2000, he was a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President of the United States. Prior to serving in the Senate, he was an Olympic gold medalist in 1964 and a professional basketball player with the New York Knicks from 1967–1977 during which time they won two NBA championships. Senator Bradley holds a B.A. degree in American History from Princeton University and an M.A. degree from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He has written five books on American politics, culture and economy. Currently, Senator Bradley hosts American Voices, a weekly show on Sirius Satellite Radio that highlights the remarkable accomplishments of Americans both famous and unknown.
Fred H. Langhammer is Chairman, Global Affairs at The Estée Lauder Companies. Langhammer served as CEO from 1999 through 2004. He served as Chief Operating Officer from 1985 and as President and Chief Operating Officer of the Company from 1995 through 1999. During this period, Langhammer was instrumental in developing overall growth strategy. Langhammer joined the Company in 1975 as President of Estée Lauder, Japan, which he developed into the Company’s largest international affiliate in terms of both profits and revenues. While in that post, Langhammer oversaw the launch of Clinique, which quickly rose to become the number one brand in Japan, a position it still maintains today. In 1982, he became Managing Director of Estée Lauder Germany. Prior to joining Estée Lauder, he was General Manager of Dodwell Japan’s Import Division, a subsidiary of Inchcape, a major British trading company and one of the first western consumer products companies to enter Japan. Langhammer serves on the Boards of The Walt Disney Company, Shinsei Bank, American International Group, and Co-Chairman of the American Institute for Contemporary German Studies at Johns Hopkins University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Association.
Victor Yuan is Chairman and President of Horizon Research Consultancy Group. He is also Vice President of China Marketing Research Association, President of Beijing Consulting Association, ESOMAR Representative and Chairman of China area, and Director of Board and Vice Chairman, Association of Management Consulting Firms. Victor has twenty years of experience in professional marketing, social research and policy analysis. He has published more than 400 research reports, papers, books, and translations on law, economics, sociology, political science and culture. Yuan also acts as long-run and strategic consultant for some multinational and domestic media and corporations. He earned his Ph.D. in Sociology from Peking University and an MPA from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Lulu C. Wang is the Chief Executive Officer of Tupelo Capital Management L.L.C., a New York-based investment firm. Ms. Wang has been engaged in professional money management since 1972. She had been a Director and Executive President of Jennison Associates Capital Corporation for ten years before founding Tupelo Capital Management at the end of 1997. While at Jennison, Ms.Wang managed assets for pension, endowment, and mutual funds. She joined Jennison Associates in 1988 from Equitable Capital Management where she held the title of Senior Vice President and Managing Director. She had been with Equitable since 1978 and prior to that, had been affiliated with Bankers Trust and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Ms.Wang received her B.A. from Wellesley College and subsequently earned an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst. Ms. Wang is a Trustee of Wellesley College, as well as of RockefellerUniversity and an overseer of Columbia Business School. She is also on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New York Community Trust and WNYC Public Radio. Ms. Wang serves the Shoreland Foundation as President, and the Rockefeller Family Fund as a member of the Finance Committee. Her professional as well as volunteer work have been honored by Asia Society, China Institute, Columbia Business School, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Girls Inc., New York Women's Agenda, Ernst and Young, and American Women's Economic Development.
Henry M. Paulson, Jr. is the 74th U.S. Secretary of the Treasury. As Treasury Secretary, Paulson is the President’s leading policy advisor on a broad range of domestic and international economic issues. Before coming to the Treasury, Paulson was Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1974 in the Chicago Office and became a partner in 1982. From 1983 until 1988, Paulson headed up Investment Banking Services for the Midwest Region and became Managing Partner of the Chicago Office in 1988. In 1990, he was named Co-head of the firm’s Investment Banking Division, and in 1994 he rose to the position of President and Chief Operating Officer. In 1998, he was named Co-Senior partner, and with the firm’s public offering in 1999, became Chairman and CEO. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Paulson was a member of the White House Domestic Council, serving as Staff Assistant to the President from 1972 to 1973, and as Staff Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon from 1970 to 1972.
Savio W. Tung is a Senior Partner at Investcorp and is currently the Head of the Global Technology Investment Group of Investcorp. This Technology Investment Group manages over US$500 million and is actively investing in technology venture capital investment. He has been involved with most of the corporate buyouts carried out at Investcorp during his twenty years with the firm. Savio is a member of Investcorp's Investment Commitment Committee. He is also a member of Investcorp's Financial Risk Management Committee, which is responsible for US$4 billion of the firm's hedge fund investment portfolio and all aspects of the asset and liability management. Before joining Investcorp in 1984, he was a senior banker with Chase Manhattan Bank and worked at its offices in New York, Bahrain, Abu Dhabi and London. He played a key role in establishing Chase's Bahrain office and its marketing presence in the Gulf. Tung had served on the boards of many of Investcorp portfolio companies, including Club Car, Circle K, Saks Fifth Avenue, Simmons Mattresses, Star Market, Stratus Computer and Utimaco. He is currently a board member of Dialogic, Magnum, Vaultus and Wireless Telecom Group (WTT). He is also a board member with the Committee of 100. He is also a board member and treasurer of the Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, an affiliate of Rockefeller University. Mr. Tung is an independent non-executive director of Bank of China, Hong Kong.
Frederick S. Ma is Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China. After graduating from the University of Hong Kong in 1973, Ma joined the Chase Manhattan Bank and worked for the Bank in Hong Kong, New York and Toronto until 1980. He joined Pitfield Mackay Ross in 1980 as a bank analyst and became one of the best known bank analysts in Canada. In 1985, he moved to Hong Kong to head Dominion Securities’ office there. He assumed the post of Managing Director in RBC Dominion Securities’ London office in 1989 and left the firm in 1990. Between 1990 and 1998, he was Deputy Chairman of Kumagai Gumi, a publicly listed company in Hong Kong. He re-joined the Chase Manhattan Bank as Area Executive (Asia) of its Private Bank in 1998, and joined PCCW Limited, a publicly listed telecommunications company in Hong Kong in 2001 as its Executive Director. He assumed the post of Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury in July 2002. Before joining the Government, Ma held a number of public service positions, including serving on the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing and the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.
Maya Lin is an architect and sculptor who virtually redefined the idea of monuments with her highly acclaimed Vietnam Veterans' Memorial in Washington, DC, Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama, and the Women's Table in New Haven, CT. From a Chapel and a library for the Children's Defense Fund in Clinton, TN, to the Greyston Bakery in Yonkers, NY, to private residences throughout the U.S., Lin's architectural work continues to gain national and international awards and recognition. In her large-scale environmental artworks, Lin continues to explore how we experience and relate to the landscape. She is also working on several private residences, an Environmental Learning Lab for Manhattanville College, and the design for the Museum of the Chinese in the America's new space in New York City. Her life and work were detailed in the Academy Award-winning documentary film Maya Lin: A Strong Clear Vision (1995). She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors. In 2005 she was inducted into the National Woman's Hall of Fame, as a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She currently serves on the board of the Natural Resources Defense Council, is a board member of the Yale Corporation, and is a member of the Committee of 100.
Jim Rogers, a native of Demopolis, Alabama, is an author, financial commentator and successful international investor. He has been frequently featured in Time, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Barron’s, Forbes, Fortune, The Wall Street Journal, and The Financial Times. After attending Yale University and Oxford University, Rogers co-founded the Quantum Fund, a global-investment partnership. During the next ten years, the portfolio gained 4200%, while the S&P rose less than 50%. Rogers then decided to retire – at age 37. Continuing to manage his own portfolio, Rogers kept busy serving as a professor of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and, in 1989-1990, as the moderator of WCBS’s “The Dreyfus Roundtable” and FNN’s “The Profit Motive with Jim Rogers.” In 1990-1992, Rogers fulfilled his lifelong dream: motorcycling 100,000 miles across six continents, a feat that landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records. As a private investor, Rogers constantly analyzed the countries through which he traveled for investment ideas. He chronicled his one-of-a-kind journey in Investment Biker: On the Road with Jim Rogers. Rogers also embarked on a Millennium Adventure. He traveled for 1101 days on his round-the-world, Guinness World Record journey. Passing through 116 countries, he covered more than 245,000 kilometers, which he recounted in his book Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip. His most recent book, Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably In The World's Best Market, was published in 2004.
Douglas Ogden is executive vice president of the Energy Foundation in San Francisco, and director of the China Sustainable Energy Program (CSEP) in Beijing, a partnership of major donors including the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, Bob and Randi Fisher, and others. CSEP focuses on energy efficiency and renewable energy policy development in the People’s Republic of China. Formerly, Doug coordinated the Energy Foundation’s renewable energy and integrated/federal energy policy grant-making. He practiced environmental law and litigation with the Seattle law firm Foster Pepper & Shefelman, and taught for two academic years at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China (1983-85). He has a masters of public administration from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government (1995), a juris doctor from the University of Washington (1989) (editor, Washington Law Review), a certificate in Chinese law from the East China Institute of Law and Politics (Shanghai, 1987), and a bachelor of arts from Stanford (1982). He serves on the boards of various for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.
Victoria Chu Pao is President of Platts, the global energy industry information leader. Pao is responsible for extending Platts’ market position and leading over 600 Platts employees in 15 offices around the world. Prior to her current position, Pao was Vice President of marketing and business development at McGraw-Hill Construction, where she introduced new business strategies, oversaw the creation of a new brand identity, and successfully led the project team that launched the McGraw-Hill Construction Network, the most successful product launch in over a decade. Pao’s success at the McGraw-Hill Companies began in 1997, when she joined the company through the prestigious Management Development Program, where her assignments included consulting projects in Standard & Poor’s, McGraw-Hill Education and Platts. In 1999, she became Director, business development, for the Information & Media Services business segment, creating an e-business strategy and also led the project team that launched aviationnow.com, a B2B portal. Pao was honored as a member of the YWCA-NYC Academy of Women Leaders in 2004. She was also the recipient of the annual Corporate Leadership Award from Asian Women in Business in 2006.
Zhengrong Shi is founder and CEO of Suntech Power, a company he established in 2001 to specialize in manufacturing silicon solar cells, modules and systems. Under Shi’s leadership, Suntech has grown at a phenomenal rate, increasing its manufacturing capacity by more than an order of magnitude in less than three years. According to Photon International in 2005, Suntech’s silicon solar cell production volume was ranked tenth in the world. Shi’s impressive achievements have been honored with many awards from China’s Central government, including the National Prize for Excellent Achievements by Homecoming Chinese. Shi has also been acknowledged by Chinese President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao. In 2005, Suntech had a successful IPO on the New York Stock Exchange and the company raised the largest amount of funds among Chinese companies in the New York Stock Exchange. Shi received his Ph.D. from the University of New South Wales in Australia in 1991. After graduation, he worked as a senior research scientist at UNSW, and later worked as Deputy Research Director at Pacific Solar. Shi has published numerous scientific papers and holds many patents for his innovations in solar cells.
John Sie is Chairman and CEO of Starz Encore Group. He established the Institute for Sino-American International Dialogue (ISAID) at the University of Denver, which provides the platform for high-level dialogue on the issues of energy, water and the environment. He is also Founder and Chairman of Encore International and Chairman and CEO of the International Channel Networks. Sie is one of the television industry’s leading figures, serves on various industry committees, and is consulted regularly by the media on programming, marketing and technology issues. Before founding Starz Encore, Sie served as Senior Vice President at TCI with responsibilities in strategic planning, new business development, programming and public policy. Sie was the founding Chairman of PrimeStar Partners, cable television industry’s DBS entity. In 2001 Sie was honored by the National Association of Minorities in Communications with the Stanley B. Thomas Lifetime Achievement Award for working to promote diversity in the cable industry. Also in 2001, The AURA Fund and aMedia, Inc. awarded Sie the Bridge Builder Asian American Leadership Award for his contributions to the Asian American community and the Denver Business Journal awarded Sie its “Bill Daniels Business Leader of the Year” award. In 2002, the University of Denver honored him with its “Bridge Builder” award for his work to promote international understanding.
Robert W. Gee is President and Founder of the Gee Strategies Group LLC, a policy analysis and advocacy firm for the energy, utility and critical infrastructure industries based in metropolitan Washington, D.C. He has a twenty-seven year record of achievement as a seasoned Washington and Texas-based senior public official, attorney, and executive performing complex assignments involving resolution of major energy and telecommunications issues at the state, national, and international levels. Gee served as Vice President for Development and Partner Relations for the Electricity Innovation Institute (E2I), an affiliate of the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where he urged increased efforts to enhance and digitize the electric utility infrastructure of the United States to address reliability and homeland security priorities. From 1997 to 2000 Gee served as Assistant Secretary for Policy and International Affairs and as Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy of the U.S. Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He was responsible for the timely completion of the Department's 1998 Comprehensive National Energy Strategy and for leading its Caspian energy strategy in Central Asia. He also oversaw the operation of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, and the national research program to develop and demonstrate advanced natural gas, petroleum, and coal technologies.
Joseph Kahn became a Bejing-based correspondent and chief of the New York Times’ China bureau in 2002. Prior to that he was stationed in Shanghai. In 2006, Kahn and his colleague, Jim Yardley, won the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting for their series of stories about China’s legal system. In 2003, Kahn won an Overseas Press Club award and a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Journalism Award for coverage of work safety issues in China. He previously covered international economics and trade as a reporter in the Washington Bureau. Before joining the New York Times in 1998, Kahn spent four years as a China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal. He and two other correspondents for the Wall Street Journal received an Overseas Press Club award for coverage of China in 1995. Kahn also worked for the Dallas Morning News as a city desk reporter and foreign correspondent. Kahn was part of a team of reporters at the Dallas Morning News that was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting in 1994 for stories on violence against women around the world. Born in Boston, Kahn graduated from Harvard College with a cum laude degree in American History and also received a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.
Linda J. Fisher is Vice President and Chief Sustainability Officer for Dupont. She has responsibility for advancing DuPont’s progress in achieving sustainable growth, DuPont environmental and health programs, the company’s product stewardship programs, and global regulatory affairs. Prior to joining DuPont in 2004, Fisher served in a number of key leadership positions in government and industry including: Deputy Administrator of EPA; EPA Assistant Administrator-Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances; EPA Assistant Administrator-Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation; and Chief of Staff to the EPA Administrator. Fisher, an attorney, was also Vice President of Government Affairs for Monsanto and was “Of Counsel” with the law firm, Latham & Watkins. She received a law degree from Ohio State University, an MBA from George Washington University and a B.A. from Miami University. She is a member of the DuPont Health Advisory Board, the DuPont Biotechnology Advisory Panel and serves as liaison to the Environmental Policy Committee of the DuPont Board of Directors. Fisher serves on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute, on the Board of Trustees of the National Parks Foundation, on the Board of Directors of RESOLVE, and on the Board of Directors for Resources for the Future.
Ashok Gupta is Director of the Energy Program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), a national, non-profit organization of specialists dedicated to protecting public health and the environment. His work focuses on global warming, electric utility regulation, clean air issues, energy efficiency, renewables, sustainable building design and reducing petroleum dependence. Gupta received Environmental Advocates’ 2001 Advocate Award for leadership in support of clean air and energy and in 2003 the Environmental Professional of the Year from the Association of Energy Engineers. He is NRDC’s representative on Mayor Bloomberg’s Sustainability Advisory Board and Energy Policy Task Force and was co-chair of the energy and environmental policy advisory committee for Governor Spitzer’s transition. Gupta also serves on the Boards of Directors of Hudson River Foundation, Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies, U.S. Green Building Council-New York, Clean Air-Cool Planet, Citizen’s Union Foundation, Earth Pledge, and the Low Impact Hydropower Institute.
Wan Ling Martello is Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Strategy for Wal-Mart International. Before joining Wal-Mart, Martello was U.S. President of NCH Marketing Services, Inc. Prior to NCH, Wan Ling spent most of her career with consumer packaged goods companies. She was Corporate Controller for Borden Foods. She also spent ten years with Kraft in diverse financial roles. Born and raised in the Philippines, Martello is a Chinese American and speaks multiple languages including Chinese and Tagalog. She is a CPA and has a MBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Minnesota. Martello is a board member for Royal Neighbors of America, and also plays an active role in Care For Children, an organization that helps disabled and orphaned children in China.
Anthony Sun is managing general partner and co-CEO of Venrock Associates, a venture capital fund associated with the Rockefeller Family office in New York. Venrock has offices in New York, Menlo Park and Cambridge. He invests primarily in the information technology industry with a focus on the communications and Internet infrastructure sectors. Since joining Venrock in 1979, he has been instrumental as a lead investor or board member in over two dozen companies that have completed public offerings or successful mergers. His previous experience was with Hewlett-Packard, TRW and Caere Corporation. He currently sits on the boards of numerous companies in the Venrock portfolio. Sun is currently a Commissioner and Trustee of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, where in the past he held positions of Vice Chairman and member of the executive committee. He is a past member of the board of the steering committee for the California Research Center of the Harvard Business School and a former board member of the National Venture Capital Association. Sun is also a member of the Corporation and Trustee of MIT, serving concurrently on the investment committee and visiting committees of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Material Science.
John (Jack) S. Wadsworth, Jr. is Chairman of Ceyuan Ventures. He is also Honorary Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and Advisory Director of Morgan Stanley globally. Wadsworth joined Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in 1978. In 1987, he moved to Japan as President of Morgan Stanley Japan, Chairman of its Executive and Operating Committees and Head of the firm’s investment banking business in Asia. In 1992, he moved to Hong Kong as Chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia. Wadsworth is Vice Chairman of the Asia Society; a Trustee of Williams College; a board member of the Guggenheim Museum; a member of the International Advisory Board of Walden International; a General Partner of Manitou Ventures; Chairman and Co-Founder of Ceyuan Ventures; a member of the International Advisory Council of the China Securities Regulatory Commission; a Director of the University of California San Francisco Foundation; a Director of Shinsei Bank, Ltd and a Director of Diversified Credit Investments. Wadsworth began his investment banking career with The First Boston Corporation in 1963, where he was Executive Vice President, a member of the Management Committee and the Board of Directors and Co-head of the Investment Banking Department.
Mary Meeker is a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and serves as leader of the Firm’s global technology research team. Meeker, along with David Joseph, covers Internet and consumer software companies. She has an impressive track record of understanding emerging technology trends and companies and was an early and consistent believer in opportunities related to the development of the Internet. She was one of the first Wall Street analysts to cover Microsoft, Dell, Intuit, AOL, Netscape, CNET, Yahoo!, Amazon.com, VeriSign, eBay and Google. Meeker joined Morgan Stanley in 1991. Previously, she was a technology research analyst at Cowen and at Salomon Brothers. She is co-author of the industry defining books, The Internet Report and The Internet Advertising Report and co-author of The Internet Retailing Report, The Online Classified Advertising Report: It's About Search/Find/Obtain (SFO), The China Internet Report and The Technology IPO Yearbook. All in, hundreds of thousands of copies of these reports are in circulation. Meeker attended DePauw University where she earned Bachelor of Arts and Doctor of Letters degrees and she received a MBA from Cornell University.
Bernard Joei, Jr. is the Founder of Cathay Financial Inc, an employee-owned, independent research firm and institutional broker-dealer based in New York. Its product encompasses fundamental equity, special situations including spin-offs, orphan equities and mergers. Prior to starting his own firm in 1992, Joei was Managing Director and Member of the Management Committee of Swiss Bank Corporation (SBCI) (predecessor firm to what is now UBS) where he co-headed U.S. Equity Research, Sales and Trading. He began his career at Kidder, Peabody & Company in 1979, where he was elected Principal and Senior Vice President in 1988 at the age of 31. Joei was principally engaged in developing institutional equity derivative sales in the domestic and international markets. He holds both a BA and an MBA from the University of Southern California. Joei was born in Taiwan and educated in England.
Morris Chang is the Founder and Chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). TSMC pioneered the “dedicated silicon foundry” industry and is the largest silicon foundry in the world. Prior to his career in Taiwan, he was the President and Chief Operating Officer of General Instrument Corporation from 1984–1985 in the U.S., and before that, worked at Texas Instruments for 25 years, where he was Group Vice President responsible for worldwide semiconductor business. He received the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Award for Exceptional Contributions to Microelectronics Industry, and the “Exemplary Leadership Award” from the Fabless Semiconductor Association. He was selected by BusinessWeek as one of the “Top 25 Managers of the Year” and “Stars of Asia” in 1998. Chang is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the MIT Corporation. He is also on the advisory boards of NYSE, Stanford University, and the University of California at Berkeley. Chang received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from M.I.T. and his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Jen-Hsun Huang co-founded NVIDIA Corporation in April 1993 and has served as President, CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors since its inception. Under his leadership, NVIDIA has become one of the largest fables semiconductor companies in the world. NVIDIA has received numerous business and technology awards during Huang’s tenure, including Fortune’s Fastest Growing Companies, Wired magazine’s Top 40, and Stanford Business School’s Entrepreneurial Company of the Year. Huang has served on the Board of Trustees of the RAND Corporation since 1999 and is often invited to speak on technology and business trends at industry events. Prior to founding NVIDIA, Huang was Director of Coreware at LSI Logic and a microprocessor designer at Advanced Micro Devices. Huang holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Oregon State University and an M.S.E.E. degree from Stanford University.
Lynn Sherr has been a correspondent with the ABC Newsmagazine 20/20 since 1986. She has covered a wide range of stories, specializing in women's issues and social change, as well as investigative reports. In 2000, Sherr traveled to India to report on midnight in Bombay for the ABC News Millennium Special, which received numerous awards. She has also received an Emmy, two American Women in Radio and Television Commendation awards, and, among other honors, a George Foster Peabody Award. Prior to her assignment at 20/20, Sherr was a national correspondent for ABC News, where she was also part of the network's political team. Before coming to ABC, Sherr was a reporter for WNET-TV in New York and WETA-TV in Washington, D.C., both public television stations. Prior to that, she reported for WCBS-TV in New York, and The Associated Press in New York and Conde Nast Publications. She is the author of Outside the Box: A Memoir and of Failure Is Impossible: Susan B. Anthony in Her Own Words and co-author of Susan B. Anthony Slept Here: A Guide to American Women's Landmarks, and 10 editions of "The Women's Calendar." Her best-selling book, Tall Blondes, offered a perceptive and highly praised look at one of wildlife's most endearing but little-understood animals-giraffes. She also wrote the best-selling book, America the Beautiful: The Stirring True Story Behind Our Nation's Favorite Song.
Steve Chen is Chief Technology Officer of YouTube and co-founded the company in 2005 after he and Chad Hurley resolved to provide a more simple way to share videos online. Steve has been instrumental in building YouTube into a viral video phenomenon and helped lead YouTube through the Google acquisition for $1.65 billion less than a year after launching the site. As the company's key technologist, Steve is credited with developing the company’s massive data centers and helping build YouTube into a premier entertainment destination and one of the most popular Web sites on the Internet today. He oversees all areas of both engineering and product development, including managing site operations, and developing features and services that are compelling and easy to use for everyone. Since the rise in popularity of YouTube, the site has been awarded "Best Invention of the Year" by Time magazine and was the first Web site to receive "Entertainer of the Year" by Entertainment Weekly. Both Chad and Steve have received several prestigious honors and acknowledgements from the business and entertainment communities including: Business 2.0's "50 Most Influential People," GQ's "Men of the Year," and Fortune's "Most Powerful People in Business." Before YouTube, Steve was one of the first product engineers at PayPal. He led development efforts and served as an engineering manager on a variety of critical projects. Steve studied computer science at the University of Illinois.
David Henry Hwang is an internationally renowned playwright and writer. He was awarded the 1988 Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics, and John Gassner Awards for his Broadway debut, M. Butterfly, which was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. His play Golden Child received a 1998 Tony nomination and a 1997 OBIE Award. His new book for Flower Drum Song premiered at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum, and later ran on Broadway. Other plays include FOB (1981 OBIE Award), The Dance and the Railroad, Family Devotions, The Sound of a Voice, and Bondage. For opera, he has written libretti for two works by composer Philip Glass, 1000 Airplanes on the Roof (International Tour) and The Voyage (Metropolitan Opera), as well as The Silver River (Lincoln Center Festival) with music by Bright Sheng, and The Scarlet Princess (Canadian Opera Company) for Alexina Louie. Hwang penned the screenplays for the feature films M. Butterfly, Golden Gate, and Possession (co-writer). Hwang serves on the Dramatists’ Guild Council and was appointed by President Clinton to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities.
Jenny Ming was President of Old Navy, a division of Gap Inc. from 1999 to September 2006. In this role, she oversaw all aspects of Old Navy, supporting more than 950 stores in North America. Jenny joined Gap Inc. in 1986 as Merchandise Manager of Gap brand activewear. Since that time, she has held the positions of Vice President and Divisional Merchandise Manager for Gap brand activewear and Senior Vice President of Merchandising for Old Navy responsible for production, planning and distribution. In recognition of her achievements, Jenny was included in Fortune magazine's 2003 and 2004 list of 50 Most Powerful Women in American Business. She was also named 1999 Top 25 Managers of the Year by BusinessWeek magazine. In 2006, Jenny received the Merage Foundation Award for Leadership in Business a nd Community Service. Jenny serves as a board member for Kaiser Permanente, the Committee of 100, and the Merage Foundation for the American Dream. She also sits on the Cornell University College of Human Ecology Advisory Board. Jenny graduated from San Jose State University with a B.A. in clothing merchandising and a minor in marketing.