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The 2005 “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business” Awards Dinner is a celebratory tribute to those Asian American entrepreneurs and professionals who demonstrate personal and professional commitments in making a real difference in the community.

We are proud of the accomplishments made by our 50 Asian Americans in business and the 3 recipients of the Young Entrepreneur Award which is presented for the first time. We are equally honored to have Y.S. Chi, Vice Chairman of Reed Elsevier Worldwide, accept this year’s Pinnacle Award. They are not only ideal representatives James Wohn of our Asian American community, but they are great Americans who happen to be Chairman, Dinner Committee Asian.

We received a record number of qualified nominations this year than in previous years, and the quality of the nominations has been high. Reading through all of the nominations was truly inspiring and uplifting for me and the Committee Members. However, it was not easy picking only 50! This year, we are fortunate to see even greater diversity among our Asian American winners. Chinese, Japanese Korean, Indian, Thai, Cambodian and Filipino communities are proudly represented in our Outstanding 50.

Tonight’s special event is a culmination of the tireless efforts of many individuals. I would especially like to thank our fearless leader John Wang, our Planning Committee members and volunteers. Our corporate sponsors have been vitally instrumental, including HSBC (Platinum Sponsor), IBM, The New York Times, Verizon, Con Edison McGraw-Hill, AXA, Time Warner and Colgate-Palmolive. I want to especially thank my new bank, North Fork Bank, for supporting my efforts in making this dinner the premiere Asian American event of the year.

Most of all, it is a great honor to have the well-respected New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer as our keynote speaker. I hope you will enjoy tonight’s celebration with your friends and family . . . and CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL!

Kindest Regards, James Wohn Chairman, Dinner Committee Message from AABDC

I wish to extend my congratulations to recipients of the “Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business,” “Young Entrepreneur Award” and “Pinnacle Award” and to express my heartfelt thanks to many corporations who have made this event possible through their generous support.

It is our objective to highlight the achievements and contributions of Asian American businesses to the economy, and to recognize some of the Asian American executives who have made a difference in corporate America. John Wang The honorees represent a microcosm as well as the best of Asian American President, AABDC entrepreneurship with a pool of diverse and multi-talented individuals engaging in a wide range of business interests. The depth and breadth of their business undertakings clearly demonstrate that Asian Americans are increasingly an integral part of the larger economy.

Given the globalization of business and trade, coupled with a greater rate of economic growth in Asia than in Europe and the U.S., Asian American executives, with their multicultural background and entrepreneurial talents, could be a key to helping American companies stay competitive in the world market.

By initiating this project, the AABDC not only hopes to document Asian Americans’ accomplishments in the field of business and industry and to recognize their individual achievements, but also through public engagement to enhance the Asian American’s voice and role in the economic arena of public policy.

AABDC is proud to be the organizer of the “Outstanding 50 Chinese Americans in Business” award dinner and the opportunity to present this distinguished group of entrepreneurs and professionals to the public.

Sincerely yours, John Wang President, AABDC Keynote Speaker

Eliot Spitzer became the state’s 63rd Attorney General on January 1, 1999. Since that time, he has advanced initiatives to make New York a national leader in investor protec- tion, environmental stewardship, labor rights, personal privacy, public safety and criminal law enforcement.

He served as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan from 1986-1992, rising to become Chief of the Labor Racketeering Unit, where he successfully prosecuted organized crime and political corruption cases. He also worked at the New York law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, and was a partner at Constantine & Partners. Eliot Spitzer New York State Attorney Spitzer has contributed great time and energy to community service, serving on the General boards of various not-for-profit organizations.

Spitzer is a 1981 graduate of Princeton University and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Spitzer and his wife, Silda, also a Harvard Law School graduate, live in Manhattan with their three daughters, and also maintain a home in Columbia County.

HSBC Bank USA, N.A. HSBC Bank USA, N.A. offers its 3 million customers access to global markets and services. The Bank provides a full range of commercial banking products and services to individuals, corporations, institutions and governments, through its personal financial services, private banking, commercial banking and corporate investment banking and markets segments. The Bank is also an international dealer in derivative instruments and has mortgage banking and brokerage operations. With 14,000 employees, HSBC has nearly 400 branches in New York State, as well as 11 branches in Florida, six in California, and one branch each in Delaware, Pennsylvania, Oregon, Washington State and Washington, D.C. The Bank's holding company, HSBC USA Inc., is headquartered in New York City. The headquarters of HSBC North America HSBC Bank USA Holdings Inc. is Prospect Heights, Illinois. Platinum Sponsor About HSBC North America Holdings HSBC North America Holdings Inc., the holding company for all of HSBC's U.S. and Canadian businesses, including the former Household International businesses, is one of the top 10 financial services organizations in the U. S. with assets approaching $300 billion. The company's businesses serve more than 60 million customers in five key areas: personal financial services, consumer finance, commercial banking, private banking, and corporate investment banking and markets. Financial products and services are offered under the HSBC, HFC and Beneficial brands. For more information, visit www.hsbcnorthamerica.com. Mistress of Ceremonies As general assignment reporter, Lee has covered all issues facing the city, from the financial district’s economic status, to housing concerns in Harlem, to political situations throughout the area. Following September 11th, Lee has concentrated numerous reports on the cultural impact of the attacks, including reactions from the Arab and Muslim community on anti-terrorist measures, the Korean American community’s opinions on the tension between North and South Korea over nuclear weapons, and the financial industry fallout. Lee came to WNBC from CityTV in Toronto, Canada, where she had served as the station’s federal affairs correspondent from 2001-2002. Reporting directly from Ottowa’s Parliament Hill, the seat of the Canadian federal government, Lee covered stories regarding the changes made to Canada’s domestic policy after September 11- immigration policy, the new role of the Armed Forces, changes in the Vivian Lee Canadian constitution and the changing responsibility of the Canadian Air Defense sector of NORAD. Reporter of WNBC News- She also served as a general assignment reporter for CityTV from 2000-2001. Prior to her career at CityTV, Lee was Channel 4 an anchor and reporter at A-Channel, a start-up television station based in Calgary, Alberta, from 1997-2000. She started her reporting career in 1995 as a general assignment reporter at CJOH-TV in Ottawa. Lee graduated from Carleton University in Ottawa with a Bachelor’s degree in Journalism. She is devoted to many causes, volunteering her time to aid youth programs in anti-racism and media literacy. A native of Toronto, Lee currently resides in Manhattan. Pinnacle Award

Youngsuk Chi was appointed in June, 2005, as Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Academic and Customer Relations at Elsevier, the leading global publisher of scientific, technical and medical information products and services. He had been the Chairman of Random House Asia since November 2001, after serving as the President of Random House, the largest general interest book publisher in the world. Mr. Chi, known as Y.S., had been responsible for its expansion into Asia by seeking new areas of growth.

Mr. Chi graduated from Princeton University with a BA in Economics cum laude and Youngsuk Chi earned his MBA in Finance at Columbia University. Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Academic and Mr. Chi serves as a trustee of Princeton University and a board member of Princ- Customer Relations of eton University Press, Korean American Community Foundation, Asian American Elsevier Alumni Association of Princeton, the Ivy Club and Montgomery Bell Academy. At Princeton University, he also serves as a member of the Council of Princeton University Community, East Asian Studies Department Advisory Council and National Schools Committee. In the past, he served at McCarter Theatre, Watkins College of Art and Design, Family & Children Services, New York Academy of Science and Community Foundation of Belgium. Outstanding 50 Asian American in Business Award

Isabelita Marcelo Abele, President and CEO of the family-owned and Southern New Jersey-based U.S. Lumber, Inc. has successfully positioned her lumber and building materials company as a regional leader in sales. In 1999, the Philadelphia Business Journal recognized this firm as in the top 50 woman-owned firms in Southern Jersey. In 2000 and 2001 respectively, U.S. Lumber, Inc. was ranked by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of the top 25 fastest growing companies in the region. In 2003, sales topped over $5 million in sales.

Ms. Abele serves as one of the 45 Commissioners on the New Jersey Asian-American Commission. She is one of the founders of the New Jersey Asian-American Chamber of Commerce and serves as its Executive Vice President and has a seat on the Board of Directors. Isabelita Abele Ms. Abele is a member of the US Pan-Asian Chamber of Commerce, and has received President/CEO of certification for US Lumber as a minority business. In 2004, she was appointed to serve as a U.S. Lumber Inc. 2004 member of the NJ Development Authority for Small Business, Minorities & Women Enterprises.

Ms. Abele is a recipient of the Asian-American Heritage Council 2002 Asian-American Professional and Business Achievement Award.

Munish Agrawal is the Vice President in-charge of a corporate wide program, tasked with optimizing and leveraging content and technology across the various Thomson businesses worldwide. He joined Thomson as Chief Technology Officer of Thomson & Thomson, a Thomson Legal business, and then was the CTO of the Investment Management Group at Thomson Financial. He was also Senior Vice President of the Content Technology Group for Thomson Financial. Mr. Agrawal has been with Thomson Corporation for 8 years in various capacities.

Prior to joining Thomson, Mr. Agrawal spent several years in the financial services industry. He was with Putnam Investments for nine years as a Vice President in Technology, and was a Product Manager at Financial Times-Interactive Data Corp for Munish Agrawal six years before that. Vice President of Information Solutions, The Thomson Mr. Agrawal has an MBA from Northeastern University, Boston; and a BE in Civil Corporation Engineering from University of Indore, India. Albert Chan, a timid, soft-spoken, ethical, and astonishingly friendly individual who founded IKU Worldwide Ltd. eight year ago in New York. He grew his food and bever- age empire from three staff members to seventy with an ambitious and entrepreneur mentality. IKU has become an umbrella corporation that provides products & services including event planning, catering, fine dinning, seafood import, and its own brand of package goods. IKU has thirty chefs preparing 240,000 pounds of ready-to-serve Asian gourmet per day and importing more than a million pounds of food per year.

Mr. Chan’s restaurants are fan favorites and have earned an exceptional reputation from critics like the Greenwich Village Gazette and the Daily News. As being part of the Asian community, IKU constantly provides pro-bono services to the Asian community and associations so as to propel and harmonize the synergy of cultural and Albert Chan youth activities. President of IKU Worldwide Ltd. Mr. Chan started his career fourteen years ago as a 7-Eleven Franchisee in Hong Kong while practicing his hobby "cooking" everyday. In 1996, he decided to leverage his retail experience and skills by opening his first restaurant in Greenwich, New York and slowly evolving it to become a chain. Married to a pharmacist, providing a healthy diet is Albert everyday domestic job.

Khalid Chaudhry migrated from Pakistan in 1978. Mr. Chaudhry is a veterinarian and he earned the degree of “Doctor of Veterinary medicine” from the University of Agriculture Faisal Abad, Pakistan, passed ECFVG Exam in 1980.

Mr. Chaudhry started his business of medical supplies in 1985. He worked hard and brought the business to the next level. Now, Cen-Med Enterprises is one of the largest medical and Lab equipment and reagent supply company in the New York tri-state area.

Khalid Chaudhry CEO, Cen of Med Enterprises, Inc. In his current position, Mr. Chin is Con Edison's principle lobbyist to New York City. He is responsible for advocating the company's interest to the city government. Mr. Chin is in charge of management in developing corporate positions and advocating before legislative bodies and the public. Often time Mr. Chin is Con Edison's representative testifying before the City Council and at various public hearings.

Mr. Chin maintains relationships with elected and appointed officials and their staffs and serves as a contact and the public face of Con Edison for these officials. He also maintains relationships with other organizations involved with the business and social fabric of the city, including many Asian-American groups.

Mr. Chin has represented Con Edison on committees and task forces that have impacts on the quality of life of all New Yorkers. He served on Mayor Giuliani's Midtown Mobility Task Force that was a public-private partnership to study both vehicular and pedestrian mobility of the Andrew Chin midtown area. Mr. Chin also participated in Cooper Union Infrastructure Institute and The Manager of Urban ITS Executive Advisory Board. He is currently a member of the New York City Buildings Government Relations, Department Risk and Safety Advisory Committee involved in the overhaul of the city's building code. Con Edison He is licensed professional engineer in the states of Maryland, New Jersey and New York. He currently serves on the Board of Managers of the Chinatown YMCA, where he chairs the Finance Committee and the Board of Trustees of the Government Affairs Professionals, where he co-chairs the Membership Committee.

Jeff is an Audit partner in the Retail Consumers Product Group of Ernst & Young’s Metro New York Office. In his twenty-seven plus years of experience, Jeff has served as the coordinating partner for numerous clients, providing critical services such as: assurance, SEC advisory, due diligence, general business advice, consulting services and tax services. Jeff’s current clients include Jarden Corp., Lazare Kaplan Interna- tional, Information Holdings, Inc., Cosi, Inc., NY & Co Inc., Alexander Doll Company, American Retail Group (Comprising EMS and Maurices), Grand Expeditions, Inc., Diesel, GFT USA Corp., Joseph Abboud, Rizzoli Publications, Ferragamo USA Inc., Classic Media, 1199 National Health & Human Services Employee Benefit Funds, and many others.

Jeff Chin In addition to being an accomplished business executive, Jeff is a recognized leader in Partner of Ernst & Young the Asian Community, both within and outside of Ernst & Young. As an active advisory council member for E&Y’s NY Tri-State Ethnicity Task Force, Jeff promotes diversity at an enterprise-wide level by helping to develop and implement the area’s diversity strategy. Jeff’s clear commitment to E&Y’s Asian community earned him E&Y’s 2004 Corporate Fellows Award.

Jeff graduated from Pennsylvania State University in 1973 with a Bachelor of Science degree and St. John’s University in 1976 with a Masters degree. As Senior Vice President, Programming and Production, Peilin Chou is responsible for the channel’s programming strategy, scheduling and on-air promotions, as well as the development and production of AZN TELEVISION original programming.

Prior to joining AZN TV, Ms. Chou was the Vice President of Original Series for Spike TV. She was part of the original team that launched the network in September of 2003. At Spike TV, Chou was responsible for the development and production of all original series from inception through air. Most notably, she was responsible for the groundbreaking program The Joe Schmo Show, which originated a new television genre -- the faux reality show - and was one of Spike TV top-rated programs.

Peilin Chou Ms. Chou attended college at UCLA where she graduated magna cum laude, majoring Senior Vice President of in Communication Studies with a specialization in mass media. Programming & Production, AZN Television

Jeannie Diefenderfer is senior vice-president - National Services for Verizon's Network Services Group, a position she held since August 2004. She is responsible for service delivery for Enterprise and Wholesale customers, network surveillance, and centralized network operations for voice and data.

Prior to her current assignment, Ms. Diefenderfer was vice president - Provisioning and Maintenance Support for Verizon's Network Services Group, responsible for methods and procedures, systems and process support for network provisioning and maintenance functions.

Ms. Diefenderfer serves on the board of Citizens Funds, the International Center in New York and Tufts University Schools of Engineering and the Medical School. Internal to Jeannie Diefenderfer Verizon, she has served on the boards of the Minority Multicultural Association of Senior Vice President of NYNEX, Women's Association of Verizon Employees, and the Asian Focus Group. Mrs. Verizon Diefenderfer was featured in the 1999 Crain's New York Business "40 under 40," as one of 40 young "rising stars" and was a member of the 1999 class of the David Rockefeller Fellows Program. In addition, she received the 1999 Corporate Achievement Award from the Organization of Chinese Americans and the 2001 Star Award from the New York Women's Agenda.

She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Tufts University, and an MBA from Babson College. Mynoon Doro currently works as a Merrill Lynch Financial Advisor in the Global Private Client Group. Her practice is to promote a systematic approach to planning and investing consistent with each client’s investment goals and risk/reward tolerance. She is particularly focused on Estate Planning, Pension Plan structure, Portfolio Management, Charitable Foundation, Business Financing, Residential & Commercial Mortgage, Equipment Leasing, Working Capital etc.

Ms. Doro was born in Taiwan and has lived abroad (Hong Kong, Beijing, Shanghai, and Wuhan, China & Taiwan) and in the US (Florida, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey) in the past. She is currently serving as a board member for the Society of Women Engineers, Zonta International –NY chapter, Co-Chair for Gotham Asian Mynoon Doro Networking, a mentor at Women Venture Fund, Yale Asian American Association, and Financial Advisor of a member of Manhattan Institute. Merrill Lynch Ms. Doro has been married to a physician for the past 25 years and has twin sons. She holds a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from Columbia University and a Masters Degree in Administrative Sciences from Yale University.

Kin On Fu is the president of Equals 4, Inc., located in the middle of the fashion district.

In December 1993, Mr. Fu established Equals 4, Inc. and began his garment business in the United States. Over the next twelve years, Equals, Inc. became one of the most prominent fashion companies in the garment district under Kin On's leadership. Equals 4, Inc. has over 35 employees working in three divisions: "Due Per Due”, women sportswear collection, "Due Per Due Veste", women dress line and the private label. Kin On's dedication to work is only surpassed by his devotion to his wife Amy, children Janice and Jaden, and family.

Kin On Fu President of Equals 4 Inc. Jin Sheng He, originally comes from Fuzhou City, Fujian Province, China. Mr. He is a graduated from ChongQing Architecture College of China, and he came to the US in 1997. In 2000, he established Pan-Pacific Enterprises, Inc. He has been in the electronic communication network’s language, data, image and multi-media information. Its network covers 50 states of the US, and serves 220 countries all over the world. The company’s annual business gross income is $3,600,000. The company has 87,000 clients who use cellar phones for international long-distance phone calls.

The company also invests in the real estate market. At 60 E. Broadway, New York, NY, 10002, the company owns a mini mall. Currently, there are 9 companies running Jin Sheng He business in the mall, include: cellar phone, health products, jewelry, cosmetic, clothes, President of Ephone Group hair salon, etc. The mall creates more than 30 job opportunities. Inc.

Zhan (Jan) He is a Registered Investment Advisor at AXA Advisors. She has received a number of career and achievement awards during her 10 years of service with the company. AXA Group is currently listed as the 13th largest Fortune 500 companies with assets under management over $1 trillion. She is also very active to help the company to get back to the community.

As a Board member of Chinatown YMCA, Ms. He has participated in organizing the annual fundraising dinners. Through her connections with Chinese media, Ms. He has also helped to publicize the Y programs and events to the local Chinese community. Ms. He 's extensive and active community involvement has opened up new opportunities for immigrant youth and improved the lives of senior citizens in New Zhan (Jan) He York City. She co-founded the USA Chinese Women Federation to promote active Registered Investment Advisor community involvement among Chinese American women. Ms. He also led the of AXA Advisors Federation in raising money to build a school in Inner Mongolia for hearing and visual impaired children. Grace Hu started her business career in the mid-seventies as a door-to-door salesperson. She went into the real estate business in 1979 and now owns or co-owns three real estate firms, two loan companies and three escrow companies. Her 2004 total gross income was 12.2 million dollars.

Ms. Hu is always a very active member of the community. For over ten years, she served on the board of local Red Cross and YWCA organizations. She started the Cerritos Chinese Education and Culture Foundation and had sponsored annual youth leadership training, health and tax seminars, home safety meeting and family relationship counseling. For fifteen years, she has sponsored scholarships in local high schools and encouraging high school graduates to a high education. In 1992, she was Grace Hu elected to the Cerritos City Council as the first minority woman ever has been President of Remax of elected. She served in the council for nine years and had been the Mayor of Cerritos Cerritos twice, in 1995 and again in 2000. In February of 1996, she was invited to the White House and met with the President.

Lichun Hu is the chairman of Fujian Trading Association, Inc., and president of Golt International Group Inc. Born in Fujian Province, China, Mr. Hu immigrated to the United States in 1995 to seek a better life. Mr. Hu is the founder and owner of Golt International Group Inc of USA, a major cooking ware company in New York City. And, he is instrumental in developing the company to more than 50 employees within three years.

In 2004, Mr. Hu established a factory, named Fuzhou Gao Te Industial Park in his hometown in China, produced cooking ware and exported most of the products to the United States.

Lichun Hu Mr. Hu is also actively involved in Chinatown business development. He is the President of Golt Trading Chairman of Fujian Trading Association, Inc, devoting himself in promoting trade Group, Inc. between China and the United States. Ed Ikeguchi is one of the founders of Medidata Solutions, a software company servicing pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies to streamline clinical processes in medical research.

Since its inception in 1999, Medidata Solutions has become a global leader in the field of Electronic Data Capture and other e-Clinical Solutions. Medidata Solutions currently employs approximately 200 people, with offices in New York, London, and Tokyo. 2004 was highlighted by revenues of $36M and also a $20M financing from Insight Venture Partners. Dr. Ikeguchi is responsible for all aspects of the business in Asia Pacific.

Edward Ikeguchi Dr. Ikeguchi received his MD from Columbia University College of Physicians & Chief Medical Officer of Surgeons, where he also completed surgical internship, subspecialty training and Medidata Solutions, Inc. fellowship. Ed has engineered several patented medical devices that have been through the clinical development process themselves.

Cin Kim is the President/CEO and founder of Peacock Apparel Group, Inc., a New York based Men's leading apparel company. Founded in 1990, Peacock has entered a manufacturing role in Men's neckwear with a vision to provide consumers with the top quality neckwear. Known as one the fastest growing and diverse men's apparel companies in the Unites States, Peacock has expanded extensively, providing variety range of men's apparel with the top quality across the United States.

Peacock Apparel is one of the dominant brands in the men's market, acting not only as a single privately owned company but also as a major force in men's apparel industry across the United States. A splendid showroom at 236 5th Avenue New York signifies vital presence of Peacock Apparel Group, Inc. in the center of New York Cin Kim City. President/CEO of Peacock Apparel Group, Inc. Hyon Sak Kim is the founder and president of Skyliner Travel & Tour Bus Corp. Mr. Kim started off the company very small with only one bus and the company is been growing and expanding ever since. Today Skyliner Travel & Tour Bus Corp. is a diverse company thanks to the customers that we work with as well as the different kinds of service that we Skyliner provide. Besides sightseeing tours and technical visits, Skyliner also provides their services to three major international airlines as well as a Line Runs to Atlantic City every single day. Skyliner Travel & Tour Bus Corp. provides services to the Chinese, Japanese and Korean markets as well as the ever-growing European market.

In 2004, Skyliner Travel & Tour Bus Corp. growth sales total 10 million dollars. Hyon Sak Kim Mr. Kim received an award from the Japan Travel Industry Association in 2002. President of Skyliner Travel & Tour Bus Corp

Peter Koo was born in Shanghai, China. Within three months of his birth, his family moved and took refuge in Hong Kong. Mr. Koo came to study in the U.S. when he was seventeen years old. He earned a B.Sc pharmacy degree from College of Pharmacy, University of New Mexico.

After practicing pharmacy in hospitals in New Mexico and New York, he decided to practice Community Pharmacy in Flushing downtown. He opened his first store in 1991 and within a span of thirteen years; he operates a total of four stores in the Flushing area. His motto in business is "serve your community".

Mr. Koo is the President of Flushing Chinese Business Association (FCBA), a board Peter Koo member of Community Board 7 Queens, Queens General Hospital, La Guardia President of Flushing Chinese Community College Foundation, the Chinese Unit of America Cancer Society, and the Business Association Downtown Flushing Transit HUB Business Improvement District (BID). Clarence Kwan has over 26 years of assurance and advisory experience in the US, China, and Eastern Europe. From 1995 to 2002, Mr. Kwan was based in Beijing as the Deputy CEO of the China practice. Prior to Beijing, he spent three years in Prague, Czech Republic, advising extensively on the restructuring of state-owned enterprises. Mr. Kwan has also worked in Houston, New York, and Taipei since joining the firm in 1978.

With his multi-functional and multi-cultural background, he is not only a trusted business advisor to our clients but also a proven practice leader of fast growing operations in emerging markets.

Clarence Kwan National Managing Partner of Chinese Svc Group, Deloitte & Touche

Founder of Xtential Corporation, Tom has created and managed a broad range of new media projects for both the public and private sectors. Tom Kwon has more than fifteen years experience in the technology-based Marketing and Communications industry. Tom has been involved with the Web since its advent, and his experiences range from connecting every school and library in the state of CT to the Internet and establishing the White House's Web presence to launching two of the top four IPOs in the history of the stock market. Additionally, Tom secured strategic investments with the largest Asian conglomerates, Mitsui Japan and Doosan Korea, both resulting in joint venture endeavors in their respective countries. Tom co-founded Avon Computing Company in central Connecticut, where he was responsible for the company's corporate identity, marketing, communications and service offerings. At Enock, a NY based advertising firm, Tom was Director of Account Management and Business Development for such companies as The NASDAQ Stock Market, Borden Candy Products, and Shukovsky, English Entertainment. Thomas Kwon Chief Executive Officer of Today, Tom runs two companies, Xtential Services and Xtential products. The service Xtential Corporation organization provides custom technology-based marketing communications solutions to the fortune and global companies around the world. The product organization is building Search Engine Optimization software that will revolutionize the way people find and obtain information on the World Wide Web. Tom was also the finalist for Ernst and Young's Entrepreneurial of the Year Award and the Chairman of the Multimedia Curriculum Board for CUNY colleges and BMCC. Jonas Lee is a Managing Partner and founder of Redbrick Partners, LP, a real estate investment management firm whose mission is to institutionalize equity investment activity in single-family housing.

Responsible for acquisitions and investment strategy, Mr. Lee brings to the firm over twelve years of experience in building entrepreneurial organizations. In 1997, Mr. Lee became founder and CEO of GiftCertificates.com, where he managed a staff of more than 500, secured over $100MM in venture financing, purchased two competitors and established a Japanese spin-off. GiftCertificates.com is the leading marketer of gift certificates to both corporations and consumers. Its current annual revenue is more than $100MM. Jonas Lee Managing Partner of Previously, Mr. Lee was founder and general manager of Integrated Computing Engines, Redbrick Partners a provider of supercomputer-based hardware and software tools for the creation of special effects. Prior to his entrepreneurial activities, he worked as a management consultant with Bain & Company. Mr. Lee was graduated with honors from Harvard Business School and Brandeis University.

Born in Taiwan, Michael Lee immigrated to the United States in 1983, and established F&T International (and affiliates) in 1984. As founder and visionary of F&T, Mr. Lee rapidly expanded the company: It develops and participates in large-scale projects-- some totaling over 30 million square feet of commercial and residential space-- in the United States and internationally.

In his early career, Mr. Lee quickly rose to the position of CEO for the Taiwan-based Tafa Shipping Company and was instrumental in Tafa’s growth from a regional to an international company.

Mr. Lee is honorary Co-Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Michael Lee Committee's Business Advisory Council. He holds a Law Degree from Fu Jen Catholic Chairman/CEO of F&T University in Taiwan. International Group Dr. Li has been working for The Coca-Cola Company for eleven years; four and a half of which have been spent in China where he has been responsible for the nationwide training programs for Coca-Cola China. Dr. Li has several board affiliations: As a board member of the Asian American Cham- ber of Commerce of Georgia since 2000, his exceptional leadership is recognized in two areas: The Chamber’s membership now includes additional major corporations and its services reach a greater number of Asian American businesses. Dr. Li has been on the board of Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council since 2002, and first vice chairman since 2003. He also chairs GMSDC's Long Range Planning Committee and the Capital Investment Committee. Dr. Li has been Chair of the Board of the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce-Southeast since May of 2004. Rengen Li Supplier Diversity Manager of Dr. Li is also a member of the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce the Coca-Cola Company (Washington, DC), the Coalition of Asian American Business Organizations (under formation), Asian Women in Business (New York), Asian Pacific American Chamber of Commerce (Michigan). Dr. Li is a frequent presenter and speaker at local and national conventions.

Ann Liang knew that crucial to educate herself for the challenges that she may face ahead. She furthered her college education by attending many workshops and seminars. During her free time, she enjoys reading books written by successful entre- preneurs and floods herself with entrepreneurial material pertinent to running a profitable business. She perceived every job that she retained throughout her career as an opportunity to train and prove herself. Judging her own personality Ms. Liang believed that she had the leadership qualities and motivation to succeed in the business. She, therefore, was adamant and aspired to become an Asian American entrepreneur.

Ms. Liang moved to Chicago in June of 1996, to established Crystal Windows & Door Ann Liang IL MFG with a partner. The Company purchased a 25,000sq.ft. building with a plot of Vice President of Crystal land. Production of vinyl and aluminum windows began when a manufacturing facility Windows and Doors IL MFG of 60,000sq.ft. was constructed. The company's sales reached $6 million in 2004. Currently employs 46 employees. Mei-Hua (Margaret) Liu is the President of Mega Academy and the Merica Learning System for supplemental education.

Ms. Liu has encouraged her staffs to be firm believers in providing children with the brightest possible futures. Mega Academy’s enthusiastic instructors and innovative teaching style has consistently drawn students to its classes. Mega Academy offers its student body of over 700, a wide array of tutoring services, meeting their various needs. Since 1991, supplemental education has been offered to thousands of New York City children.

The programs, administered by Ms. Liu, have total revenue of $1,500,000 per year. Mei-Hua (Margaret) Liu President of Mega Academy

Actor-producer, Tirlok Malik has his feet in both film worlds - that of films made in New York where he is based, and that of Indian films being shot in the United States. Since writing and producing the cross-cultural film “Lonely in America”, in which he also acted, Mr. Malik has become a pioneer in making films based on the immigrant experience. “Lonely” is considered a study in the Indian immigrant experience, was shown in more than 74 countries and participated in more than 37 international film festivals where it won many awards. Mr. Malik has portrayed over 40 different multi-cultural characters. He speaks English, Hindi, and Punjabi and uses all three as an actor, as the role demands.

Mr. Malik has professional training at the New York Academy of theatrical Arts, The Actors Institute, The Weist Barron School of Television and the New School of Social Research. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Fine Arts. Tirlok Malik President of NRI TV Film Club Mr. Malik, also has proven business expertise. He has successfully created and executed restaurant concepts for more than twenty years, including that of Indian Café and Ayurveda Café, located in Manhattan. His restaurants have been reviewed in the New York Times, Network Magazine, Time-Out Magazine, The Daily News, local newspapers and other media. Hsi-Hua Yang McCartney is founder, Chairwoman and CEO of Black Tiger Co., Inc., an importer and distributor of seafood delicacies primarily found in Asia. The company was the first to introduce the now-popular fish tilapia and hybrid striped bass into supermarkets on the East Coast of the United States.

Black Tiger, which began as a small minority- and woman-owned company in Ms. McCartney’s basement, has become a national supplier with annual revenues of over $10 million. Customers include supermarkets, casinos, cruise lines and broad line distributors such as SYSCO and U.S. Food.

A native of Taiwan, Ms. McCartney began her career as a political reporter for the Hsi-Hua McCartney Tszu-Chiang Newspaper in Kaohsing. She then filled a number of academic positions, Chairwoman of Black Tiger including Teaching Assistant literature, in business and in Eastern Asian languages at Company, Inc. the University Of Wisconsin in Madison. She was also an Assistant Professor of English and Chinese at Tunghai University in Taiwan.

Ms. McCartney received an MA in Chinese Literature from Tunghai University, an MA in East Asian Languages and Literature also an MBA, from the University of Wisconsin.

Perry Mehta is the President and CEO of FutureNet Group, Inc., a Detroit-based organization providing professional services in Environmental, Engineering and Technology industries. His company has received certification, such as, US SBA certified 8(a), small Disadvantaged Business Enterprise, Minority Business Enterprise, Certified residential builder license, certified asbestos abatement contractor, certified lead abatement contractor and several others within very short period of time.

Mr. Mehta’s organization has progressed more than 100%+ growth continuously for the last four years and has reached revenues of more than 1,000,000+ in 2004, with more than 25 employees.

Perry Mehta Mr. Mehta is also founder and co-owner of Future Gyrations Compusystems PVT. LTD President & CEO of in India, which employees more than 150 employees and provides computer FutureNet Group, Inc. education services to more than 10,000 children per year.

Mr. Mehta has a BS in Civil Engineering from India and a MS in Environmental Engineering from University of New Haven, CT. Umesh Mody started his entrepreneurial career in 1975 when he took over Maya Cigarettes and Candy, a distributor to candy stores in New York. This distribution business evolved into an ethnic grocery business called Maya Overseas Foods, where Mr. Mody supplied South Asian grocery stores throughout the country. Maya Foods is based in New York, therefore supplying to stores on the East Coast with weekly service.

Mr. Mody’s goal was to provide his customers with groceries of the utmost quality. He developed his brand Maya, providing only quality products, so his customers never had to second-guess what was being provided. His successes were from his excellent marketing skills and his ability to get along with just about anyone, not to mention the Umesh Mody years of hard work. President of Maya Overseas Foods

Sareth Neak, 29, is Director of Sales for NASFT (National Association for the Specialty Food Trade), the producer of the International Fancy Food Shows. Mr. Neak is responsible for sales activity and strategy for the International Fancy Food Shows, the largest specialty food and beverage trade shows in North America, held in San Francisco, New York, and Chicago. Mr. Neak started his business career in investments and entered trade show management in 2000. In his five years in the trade show business, Mr. Neak has won numerous awards and recognitions for his efforts in sales and marketing.

In 2003, Mr. Neak headed the efforts to launch the All Asia Food Expo, the first and only trade show in North America dedicated to Asian food and beverages. The Expo provided a great platform for Asian food and beverage companies to network with Asian food buyers from the ethnic and mainstream markets. With NASFT, Mr. Neak remains Sareth Neak committed to helping Asian food and beverage companies expand their businesses and Director of Sales of reach the lucrative mainstream specialty market. NASFT - International Fancy Food Shows Mr. Neak and his family escaped from the Cambodian genocide and settled in the NY metro area in 1981. Mr. Neak attended the University of Connecticut majoring in Communications. Surendra Pai is the President and CEO of AuthentiDate Holding Corp., a leading provider of content authentication solutions, imaging software products and secure network services. AuthentiDate also provides the technology and infrastructure services to support the United States Postal Service Electronic Postmark (USPS EPM), the only Government-affiliated digital content authentication service available in the United States today.

Mr. Pai previously founded and served as CEO of Enquera, Inc., a provider of a high-speed data processing and analysis platform, catering to enterprise and scientific markets. Prior to that, he was the President and CEO of MobileQ, Inc., a provider of mobility middleware platforms to enterprises and carriers. Mr. Suren served as Surendra Pai President & CEO of Lucent Digital Radio prior to MobileQ,. CEO of AuthentiDate Holding Corp Mr. Pai received a B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India, a M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts, and a M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Kalpana Patel was awarded the "2005 Small Business Award of Distinction" by Mayor Bloomberg for her exemplary entrepreneurship.

Sponsored by the Rotary International Foundation to study in United States, under the Rotary's Graduate fellowship program in 1980, Ms. Patel was graduated from Adelphi University in 1982 with an MBA. She worked in the Trading Room Operations of Wall Street Banks/firms for twenty years and was Vice President, Treasury Operations at CIBC Oppenheimer.

During her career she had a dream to be an entrepreneur and when she saw an opportunity in Y2K to join a group of entrepreneurs utilizing her knowledge, skills and Kalpana Patel experience, she decided to take the challenge. As an entrepreneur, Ms. Patel developed President of Unique Comp, Inc. a business strategy to enter into financial markets servicing Wall Street clients in (UCI) supporting their system applications. She quickly developed relationships and a staff to support the business strategy, generating quick income for her firm from 1998 to September 2001. Mr. Patel is responsible for overseeing deployment of the core infrastructure technologies supporting the business strategy of Forest City Ratner and its subsidiaries. These technologies include enterprise software applications, local and wide area network topologies and telecommunications. He is continually seeking ways to improve and enhance quality and service of information technology to all Forest City stakeholders, in an effort to streamline business processes of the real estate asset lifecycle.

Mr. Patel has over twelve years of management consulting experience in the areas of strategic planning & analysis, business process improvement also information systems development for both the private and public sector. He has consulted with firms such Raj Patel as CVS, Sears Roebuck, Whirlpool, and Hewlett Packard in strategic areas such as site Senior Vice President and selection/relocation and the development of executive information systems. Prior to Chief Information Officer of joining Forest City, Mr. Patel was a Manager in the Management Consulting practice of Forest City Ratner Cap Gemini Ernst & Young in Manhattan.

Mr. Patel has an MBA from Georgetown University and a BA, Economics degree from the University of California at Berkeley.

James Pi's first company, Pi Trading, was established in 1976, as a wholesale business that sold film, batteries, picture frames and albums. In 1978, he opened his first discount retail store, offering photo developing and printing services, which he foresaw as a growing business opportunity.

Mr. Pi launched Photo Experts in 1981, a wholesale photo finishing business, providing same-day and overnight film developing service to over 2,500 stores throughout the New York metropolitan finishing business.

In 1987, Mr. Pi began to invest in multi-family residential space in Queens. Next, he became involved in the rehabilitation of commercial space in Manhattan. He currently James Pi owns and manages 20 properties comprising retail and office leases, plus four President of Victoria Cruises, multi-residential houses. Mr. Pi's next real estate ventures involve the construction of Inc. a new 12-story multi-use building (the highest in downtown Flushing), and a two-story retail building with outdoor parking in Elmhurst, Queens. James Pi looks forward to continued expansion in New York metropolitan area. Shoba Purushothaman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of The NewsMarket, Inc., a company she co-founded in New York City in 2000. The NewsMarket is her second entrepreneurial venture with the same co-founder. (A top-ten global marketing services group successfully acquired their first company in 2001.)

The NewsMarket is a pioneering broadcast news service that brings newsmakers and journalists together via a single Web-based platform, to create a more efficient environment for the exchange of video news content.

Ms. Purushothaman had a nine-year career as a business journalist for several Shoba Purushothaman services, including the Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones newswires in Washington CEO and co-founder of The D.C., New York and London. NewsMarket Ms. Purushothaman holds a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Japanese language from Monash University (Melbourne, Australia), a MA in Economic Communication from American University(Washington D.C.) and is a 2000 graduate of the Owner-President Management program at Harvard Business School.

Benjamin Shu is the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Taylor Business Institute, a rapidly growing Nationally Accredited Associate Degree granting college in the heart of Union Square in Manhattan. Mr. Shu works closely with his brother, George Shu who's a recipient of the “2004 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award”. Together, they have revitalized a failing business into a successful Business Institution with expansion plans for a branch campus by the end of the year.

Mr. Shu was a Senior Associate at Pricewaterhouse Coopers in the Dispute Analysis and Investigations group before joining Taylor. Previously he was the Global Financial Manager for Shin Fu Corporation, a Taiwanese-based manufacturing company with offices in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, Holland, Australia and South Africa. Benjamin Shu Vice President / Chief Financial Mr. Shu received a Bachelor's degree from New York University. Officer of Benhem Company Inc. dba Taylor Business Institute Mimi So creates the designs all jewelry manufactured by Mimi So International. The company manufactures high-end women and men's fine jewelry.

Ms. So received a Communications degree from Parson's School of Design and opened her boutique in 1993. Since 2000, the Mimi So brand has continued to grow by 50% each year, and in 2002, Mimi So received an Entrepreneurial Leadership Award from New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg. The most recent accolade in her company’s short but esteemed existence, came in January 2004, when Mimi sold a stake of her company to the major luxury goods conglomerate, Compagnie Financiere Richemont, which counts Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels and Piaget in its brand portfolio.

Mimi So’s designs are worn by countless entertainment A-listers including Cameron Diaz, Halle Mimi So Berry, Beyonce Knowles, Diane Lane, Jennifer Lopez, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Catherine Designer & CEO of Mimi So Zeta-Jones. Mimi So’s fashion-forward designs can be found at 21 Neiman Marcus stores International, LLC nationwide, Stanley Korshak in Dallas, Bergdorf Goodman in New York City, and are slotted to open in ten of the most prestigious jewelry retailers nationwide in Fall 2005. Her first two international shop-in-shop stores launched in Fall 2004 are located in Tokyo: One at the famed Mitsukoshi department store, the other in Tokyo’s Isetan department store. Of particular note is the much-anticipated opening of the Mimi So Workshop & Design studios in Manhattan and west-coast flagship boutique in Beverly Hills scheduled for Summer 2005.

Sonix, a New York-based privately held company, is engaged in developing, owning and managing high technology out-patient diagnostic imaging, nuclear cardiac imaging and radiation oncology facilities.

Prior to founding Sonix in 1986, Mr. Soni held senior management positions at various Fortune 500 companies with a particular focus on strategic planning, sales, marketing, management consulting, financial management and the operation of large manufacturing facilities.

Mr. Soni holds a Bachelor's Degree in Chemical Engineering, a Master's Degree in Engineering Science, and a Master's Degree in Business Administration. Om Soni Chairman and CEO of Sonix Medical Resources, Inc. Munish Sood and his partner, Augustine SC Hong, are builders of businesses. In 2001, they founded Botree Investments, LLC ("Botree") with the intention of delivering sophisticated financial and investment advice to family offices and businesses with global reach that had an appetite for more than the traditional investment vehicles. Today, Botree and its affiliated companies provide asset management and consulting services globally to institutions, family offices, and individuals. Their total assets under management currently exceed $2.5 billion and it is anticipated to exceed the $4 billion mark by the end of 2005.

Mr. Sood also has the distinction of being one of the key-founding members of ImaginAsian Entertainment, Inc. (ImaginAsian, the nation's first 24/7 Asian American television network. ImaginAsian is a multi-media entertainment company headquartered in New York City with plans to provide cross-platform entertainment targeting the 12+ million Asian Americans Munish Sood residing in the United States and the growing mainstream audience of cosmopolitan, upscale, Founder and Managing urban professionals, drawn to "all things Asian." Member of Botree Invest- Mr. Sood currently serves as a board member for ImaginAsian and is a devoted proponent of ments, LLC promoting Asian presence in our mainstream entertainment, social infrastructure and political process.

Jay Srinivasan has over 28 years of experience in the field of IT strategy and hardware software product management. Mr. Srinivasan consulted with Fortune 500 clients at the CxO level as Director of IT strategy practice at PwC. He has managed several major IT consulting engagements for Fortune 500 organizations.

Mr. Srinivasan's career includes several major corporations such as Siemens, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Compaq, and TATA (Telco). Prior PwC, Mr. Srinivasan's was the Director & Senior Technology Consultant of the Internet group at COMPAQ Services(which was formerly Digital Equipment Corporation), where he was responsible for developing, managing, and growing COMPAQ Services' Internet solutions business. Mr. Srinivasan held various positions in Product Management & Jay Srinivasan Marketing for the Worldwide OEM Business Segment, and the position of Mechanical Sr. Director of Siemens CAD/CAM/CAE Product Marketing & Strategic Alliances Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation,.

Mr. Srinivasan holds an M.S.F. (Master of Science in Finance), an MBA in Marketing & Finance, an M.S.I.E. in Industrial Engineering, and an M.S.M.E. in Mechanical Engineering from Universities in India and United States. Mr. Suzuki started his career in banking with Dime Savings Bank and Citibank in the real estate division. In 1989, Mr. Suzuki left Citibank to start his development company. Vintage Group, LLC is currently developing $550 Million in projects on the East Coast and Southern Gulf. One particular project being developed is in Flushing. Vintage is constructing a $136 million 400-unit condo along the Flushing River. In Manhattan, Vintage is developing $75 Million of Loft condo in Chelsea.

Isamu Sam Suzuki Principal of Vintage Group, LLC

Wilson Tam joined North Fork Bank in June 2002, and is currently Senior Vice President of Middle Market Lending, covering New York City, the outer boroughs, and Westchester County. As one of two team leaders of a group of underwriters who provide credit facilities to businesses with revenues between $10 million-to-$100 million, he jointly built the team and grew the loan portfolio outstanding two and a half times.

Mr. Tam received his Bachelor of Arts in Economics from McGill University in 1992, and has served in the financial services industry ever since. He was a licensed insurance agent and financial planner in Canada, where he worked for an international insurance company before moving onto one of Canada's major banks. Recognizing Wilson Tam that New York is the financial capital of the world, Mr. Tam immigrated to the United Senior Vice President of States in 1999, where he served as senior loan portfolio manager for a major United North Fork Bank States bank before joining North Fork Bank as Vice President. Mr. Tam was promoted to Senior Vice President in September 2004. Sundeep Verma has a BA in Chemistry from Loyola University Chicago, and a MBA from the University of Iowa.

Mr. Verma is the Director of eCommunication Services at Merck, a leading pharmaceutical company, where he enjoys a 13-year sales and marketing career.

Mr. Verma has experience and a background in Sales Management, Sales & Marketing Planning, Product Launch, Market Development, Strategy Development, Cross-functional Leadership, Change Facilitation also Implementation and Execution.

Mr. Verma received the USHH Masters Club Award in 2000, the USHH Division Sundeep Verma Award in 2004, and the National Register of Who’s Who in Executives and Director of eCommunication Professionals – Recognitions for Professional Success in 2005. Mr. Verma is also a Services, Merck & Company, mentor in the Merck Mentor Program and a member of West Point Toastmasters Inc. Club.

Dr. Wang maintains and improves the performance leadership of IBM Systems in the on-demand business from an end-to-end perspective including software and applications.

Dr. Wang joined IBM's Research Division as a research staff member in 1978, at the division's Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York. Dr. Wang's research activities have concentrated on Chinese speech and language processing, e-business technologies and solutions, database management, parallel processing and distributed systems.

He held several IBM Research management positions and was named as the founding Director of IBM China Research Laboratory in December 1994. In January 1999, Dr. Wang established the IBM China Development Laboratory and became the head of the IBM George Wang Research and Development operations in China. He was named to his current position in VP Systems Performance of July 2004. Dr. Wang has been recognized for his technical accomplishments and has earned IBM Corporation IBM's Corporate Award, Outstanding Technical Achievement, Outstanding Contribution, and Outstanding Innovation awards.

Dr. Wang earned his Ph.D. degree in experimental physics in 1977, and his Masters of Science degree in computer sciences in 1978, both from Columbia University. Sung Chul (Sonny) Whang is Associate General Counsel to Olayan America Corporation, the United States arm of The Olayan Group, a private multinational enterprise that is both a major global investor and leading diversified business in Saudi Arabia. In addition to New York, where Mr. Whang is based, the Group has offices in Athens, London, Vienna, Riyadh, Al-Khobar and Jeddah.

Until 2004, Mr. Whang was a partner at the New York City law firm of Phillips Nizer LLP, where he advised emerging and growth companies and entrepreneurs on a range of corporate matters and represented them in corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions transactions. Previously, Mr. Whang was associated with Fulbright & Jaworski LLP in New York City and Bingham Dana & Gould (now Bingham McCutchen LLP) in Boston.

Sung Chul Whang Since 2002, Mr. Whang has been a founding director and President of the Korean American Associate General Counsel of Community Foundation, a foundation that provides assistance to social service organizations Olayan America Corporation servicing disadvantaged segments of the Korean American community. From 2000 until 2002, Mr. Whang was also a founding director of the New York City Taekwondo Foundation.

Mr. Whang received his A.B. degree in East Asian Studies from Dartmouth College in 1986, his J.D. from Cornell Law School in 1989, and his Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree from New York University School of Law in 1990.

Ms. Wong has been employed by Citigroup for 16 years. She is a member of Citigroup Global Chairman's Council that is a group of top Citigroup producers worldwide. Ms. Wong is also a member of the Citicorp Investment Services President's Advisory Council that includes only the top producers in sales, outstanding services and professionalism.

Ms. Wong has worked dedicatedly for community: She is the co-founder and advisory board member for the New York Chinese Cultural Center. She was also the patient advocate at Gouverneur Hospital in the 70's. She was an entrepreneur in China trade and China tour before joining Citibank in 1989. Ms. Wong was a pioneer in bridging culture between China and the United States. She is a leader among peers, a truly Helen Yau Wong compassionate and dedicated professional. Vice President - Financial Executive of Citigroup Ms. Wong has a Master degree from New York University. Investment Services Jiashu Xu is President of United Plumbing, Heating & Appliance Corp., a well-known wholesale and retail distributor of plumbing and heating supplies in Queens, New Yo r k .

In 1998, Mr. Xu established the New Millennium Construction Group, also known as C & G Construction. In just a few years, through his hard work and effort, he has successfully completed the development, construction, and management of a wide range of projects including residential houses, condominiums, day care centers, mixed-use retail/office development, hotels and commercial buildings.

Mr. Xu is actively involved in community and charity activities. He is currently the Vice Jiashu (Chris) Xu President of the New York Chinese Business Association. President of United Plumbing, Heating & Appliance Corp.

Anita Yeung is the Assistant General Counsel of Trademark & Copyright for Colgate-Palmolive, responsible for managing the Trademark Department. Ms. Yeung is also the principal legal advisor for trademark, copyright and related competition matters for Colgate’s oral care category.

Ms. Yeung joined Colgate in 1995, in the Trademark Department, where she provided services in the global clearance and protection of trademarks and copyrights for all personal care products. She was instrumental in the launch of many new personal care products. Ms. Yeung was later promoted and assumed global trademark and copyright responsibilities for Hill Pet Nutrition. In 2004, she was promoted to Assistant General Counsel, Trademark & Copyright, with responsibility for the oral care category and Anita Yeung eBusiness. Assistant General Counsel of Trademark & Copyright, Prior to joining Colgate, Ms. Yeung was a trademark and copyright lawyer with the law Colgate-Palmolive Company firm of Strook, Strook & Lavan. She is a graduate of Rice University and received her law degree from Boston College School of Law. Raymond Zhang came to the United States from his native Fujian Province, China in 1985. During the first few years of his arrival, Raymond spent some time studying and working at a number of jobs before decided to start his own company, Southeast Produce Ltd. After a careful study of food and produce distribution business in the tri-state area, he set up a modest 10,000 square feet of warehouse space to began purchasing and distribution of produce to a variety of business clients in the New York metropolitan area.

In 1997, foreseeing the potential of importing produce, especially broccoli, from Mexico into the U.S., Mr. Zhang contacted the then Governor of Guanajuato Province, Vincente Fox (present President of Mexico), to built a 30,000 square feet broccoli Raymond Zhang packing and processing plant, which is still in operation today. The success of this President of Southeast venture helped to develop a foundation for expansion into the China market. In 2001, Produce, Ltd. he acquired and built a 400,000 square feet food packing and processing warehouse in Tsingtao, China to handle produce processing for China domestic consumption as well as exporting to the USA.

Young Entrepreneur Award

Richard Lin is the co-founder and President of Nu-West Natural Products Corp (Nu-West), a Seattle-based manufacturer and distributor of natural health products in North America and Asia.

In 1995, at 21 years of age and while pursuing his undergraduate degree at the University of Washington, Mr. Lin co-founded Nu-West. He has since led the company through a rapid growth phase with his intensity, resourcefulness, and perseverance. Today, his company has over 30 employees and a vast distribution network worldwide.

Richard Lin Mr. Lin graduated in June of 2005 with a MBA from the Tuck School of Business at President of Nu-West Nutural Dartmouth College where he improved his ability to conduct financial planning and attract Products Corporation venture capital, broadened his understanding of strategic and organizational paradigms, and furthered his knowledge on growing his business in domestic and foreign markets. During his MBA education, Richard also spent a term at London Business School where he expanded his business network and analyzed the European markets for future growth opportunities. Prior to his MBA, Mr. Lin received his B.A. in Business Administration in 1997 from the University of Washington.

YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR Award Brian Ree is the co-founder and CEO of GoldenMine.com Inc., a leading online jewelry retailer offering 5000 items and attracting over a quarter million visitors per month. Mr. Ree co-founded GoldenMine.com Inc at age 20 while earning his BS in business administration from the Haas School of Business.

Under the helm of Mr. Ree, GoldenMine.com Inc. has grown from a two person start up in 2001 to a multi-million dollar company employing more than 15 employees in 2004. As a serial entrepreneur, Mr. Ree founded VisionRee LLC., an online media company offering high volume search engine traffic to businesses, in 2004. Currently, VisionRee LLC. owns and operates over 50 top ranking websites in Finance, Insurance, Brian Ree Travel, Real Estate, Computers, and Entertainment. CEO of GoldenMine.com Inc., VisionRee LLC

Stephen Wang is currently the Vice-President and Publisher of Rotten Tomatoes for IGN Entertainment, the Internet’s leading destination for video gaming and entertainment enthusiasts. Prior to IGN, Stephen served as Chief Technology Officer at Rotten Tomatoes (rottentomatoes.com), the premier web site for movie and video game ratings and reviews with over 5.6M unique visitors per month (MediaMetrix). He co-founded the company by helping to raise a little over $1 million in June 2000. Over the subsequent four years, Rotten Tomatoes grew to become one of the most popular movie destinations on the Internet with customers including Microsoft, all of the major movie studios, and The New York Times. In July 2004, Stephen aided in the acquisition of Rotten Tomatoes by IGN Entertainment.

Stephen Wang An avid film fanatic, he previously co-founded Design Reactor, a leading entertainment web VP/Publisher/Co-Founder site/games developer, where he served as Technical Director and client manager for top of Rotten Tomatoes (IGN brands including The Walt Disney Company, ABC, and Match.com. Entertainment) Altogether, he brings over ten years of professional and entrepreneurial experience in the entertainment/internet industry working across many aspects of each business. Mr. Wang holds a B.A. in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley where he also served as the Webmaster and Site Architect for the Haas School of Business. YOUNG ENTREPRENEUR Award

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