Asian American Leaders In Business & Industry

Phyllis Campbell

CEO for JP Morgan Chase in the Northwest.  Ms. Campbell has spent nearly a career in local banking before serving as CEO and President of the philanthropic Seattle Foundation for the past six years. Ms. Campbell has also served on Toyota's Diversity Advisory Board.  In addition, she serves on the boards of Horizon Air, Nordstrom, and the Joshua Green Corporation. Ms. Campbell is also chair of the Board of Trustees of Seattle University.

Chairman, CEO, and President, Sybase, Inc., recognized as the industry leader in enterprise mobility infrastructure.  Forbes Magazine named Mr. Chen one of the Top 25 Notable Chinese Americans in Business.  He was also named 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in Northern California.

Taiwanese American founder of Nautica, men's designer clothing company. He started in 1983 with 6 sailing jackets, and 20 years later, sold the company for $1 billion to VF Corporation. He made $100 million from the sale. He then started another label, called "Lincs David Chu," which is a modern traditional sportswear line. The Lincs David Chu label can be found in select Lord and Taylor stores and will be launching spring 2009 in Dillards and Nordstroms.

Source: Wikipedia

CEO and co-founder Aquent, a global professional service firm that delivers Creative and IT solutions.  Aquent (aquent.com) is a global professional service firm that delivers Creative and IT solutions. Through a network of nearly 70 offices in 12 countries, Aquent provides staffing, consulting, and outsourcing services in the areas of print and Web design and production; application and database development; and project management. In its fifteen-year history Aquent has made over 200,000 matches of independent professionals with client companies worldwide. Aquent is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts and is privately held.

Mr. Gupta has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Rohm and Haas Company, a Fortune 500 Company and worldwide producer of specialty materials, from 1999 to the present. Mr. Gupta also is a director of The Vanguard Group and  joined the board of Hewlett-Packard Company in January 2009.

Keiko Harvey

Ms. Harvey has been Senior Vice President of Video Network Services for Verizon Communications since December 2004.  She is responsible for video operations, engineering and planning, and video services such as content management, subscriber management and performance assurance.  She was named one of the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business (2002) by the Asian American Business Center (AABDC).  Ms. Harvey has also received numerous other awards for her contributions to the business community. These accolades include the Tribute to Women in Business Award, the New Jersey Women of Achievement Award, the Union County, New Jersey Commission on the Status of Women Award, the Asian American Achievement Award, from the Asian American Heritage Council of New Jersey and the 2004 Asian American of the Year Award from the Asian Americans for Equality.

Andrea Jung, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Avon Products, is responsible for developing and executing all of the company's long-term growth strategies, launching new brand initiatives, developing earnings opportunities for women worldwide, and defining Avon as the premier direct seller of beauty products.  In 2008, Ms. Jung was appointed Chair of the World Federation of Direct Selling Associations, (WFDSA). She became the first woman elected chair of the Cosmetic, Toiletry, and Fragrance Association in March 2001, a role she held until early 2005. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the General Electric Company and Apple.  In 2008, Ms. Jung was ranked #19 on the Forbes list of "The World's 100 Most Powerful Women", and #6 on Fortune magazine's "50 Most Powerful Women in Business" list, which she has been on since the list's inception. In addition, she was one of only 18 executives included in U.S News & World Report's "America's Best Leaders 2007.

Source:  Avon website

New York accessories designer best known for her line of hats which can be found in over 100 boutiques around the world, including major department stores such as Bloomingdales and Barneys of New York.  Winner of the Perry Ellis Award for Accessories Design from the Council of Fashion Designers of America after launching her shoe line in 2004.

CEO and Chairman Amkor Technology, Inc., the world's leading independent fabricator, making chips and ICs for the likes of Texas Instruments, Motorola, Philips and Toshiba.

President; Bell Labs.  Mr. Kim earned his bachelor's degree in only three years. While still a student, he became excited by the possibilities of the computer revolution and began to work for a start-up company called Digitus. Kim quickly became a partner in the company and believed he was well on his way to making his first million in the computer business when, upon graduation, he left the company to join the U.S. Navy. He believed it was time to repay his adopted country for the opportunities it had already given him. Jeong Kim spent seven years as an officer on a nuclear submarine and watched from the sidelines while the company he helped build fell victim to the accelerating consolidation of the computer industry. In 1992, he borrowed against his house and his credit cards to start Yurie Systems, Inc. His company soon became a world leader in advanced data transmission, one of the fastest-growing companies in America. In 1998, Jeong Kim reached an agreement to sell Yurie Systems to Lucent Technologies for over $1 billion. He is now President of Bell Labs at Alcatel-Lucent.

Source:  Academy of Achievement

Founder of Bugle Boy Industries, clothing manufacturer. During the 1980s the company enjoyed much growth. Sales approached $1 billion, making Bugle Boy one of the largest privately owned apparel companies in the United States, but the company fell into troubled times in 2001, declared bankruptcy, and was sold that year for $68.6 million dollars.

Indra Nooyi is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo. Mrs. Nooyi leads one of the world's largest convenient food and beverage companies, with 2008 annual revenues of more than $43 billion.  Its principal businesses include Frito-Lay snacks, Pepsi-Cola beverages, Gatorade sports drinks, Tropicana juices and Quaker foods. In total, the PepsiCo portfolio includes 18 brands that generate $1 billion or more each in annual retail sales. She has directed the company's global strategy for more than a decade and led PepsiCo's restructuring, including the divestiture of its restaurants into the successful YUM! Brands, Inc.; the spin-off and public offering of company-owned bottling operations into anchor bottler Pepsi Bottling Group (PBG); the acquisition of Tropicana and the merger with Quaker Oats that brought the vital Quaker and Gatorade businesses to PepsiCo. In addition to being a member of the PepsiCo board of directors, Mrs. Nooyi serves as a member of the boards of the International Rescue Committee, Catalyst, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. She is a Successor Fellow of Yale Corporation and member of the Board of Trustees of Eisenhower Fellowships, and she currently serves as Chairman of the U.S.-India Business Council.

Source:  Pepsico Website

American fashion designer known for her wedding gown collection, among other specialties. Ms. Wang was a senior fashion editor for Vogue for sixteen years. In 1985, she left Vogue after being turned down for the editor-in-chief position and joined Ralph Lauren as a design director for two years. In 1990, she opened her own design salon in the Carlyle Hotel in New York which featured her trademark bridal gowns.  Wang has expanded her brand name through her fragrance, jewelry, eyewear, shoe and houseware collections. On May 27, 2006, Ms. Wang was awarded the André Leon Talley Lifetime Achievement Award from the Savannah College of Art and Design. Source:  Wikipedia

A Billionaire American entrepreneur, Mr. Yang served as Chief Executive Officer of Yahoo! Inc. from June 2007 to January 2009. Mr. Yang, a leading force in the Internet media industry, has been instrumental in building Yahoo! into the world's most highly trafficked Web site and one of the world's most recognized brands. While he studied Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, in April 1994 he co-created with David Filo an Internet website consisting of a directory of other websites called "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web". It was renamed "Yahoo!".  Mr. Yang and Mr. Filo realized the business potential and co-founded Yahoo! Inc. in April 1995.  Mr. Yang is currently on the Board of Directors of Alibaba, the Asian Pacific Fund, Cisco, and Yahoo! Japan, and is also on the Stanford University Board of Trustees.  In February 2007, Jerry Yang and his wife gave $75 million to Stanford University, their alma mater, the bulk of which went to building the Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Environment and Energy Building.

Sources:  Wikipedia and Yahoo! website

Scott Oki is the Founder and Chairman of Oki Golf and Oki Developments, Inc. and is a professed entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist and community activist.  His personal mission statement is "to marry my passion for things entrepreneurial with things philanthropic in a way that encourages others to do the same." Prior to founding Oki Developments, Inc., Mr. Oki retired after 10 years with Microsoft Corporation where he served as Sr. Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Service.  Mr. Oki serves on dozens of advisory boards and boards of directors for both for-profit and not-for-profit companies.  He has founded or co-founded over a dozen non-profit organizations.  In addition to his philanthropic activities through the Oki Foundation, he has taken leadership roles in many other organizations.

Billionaire CEO and President of Tang Industries, a privately held diversified holding company that includes industrial steel, scrap metal, aluminum, office furniture, and pharmaceuticals. It employs 3,400 people at 40 locations in the U.S., Canada, China, and Mexico.  Mr. Tang is also a philanthropist who has contributed $150 million to worthy causes.

Co-founder of Linksys (wife of Victor Tsao).  In 1988, Janie quit her job to pursue an idea. She was a programmer and her husband Victor was an IT executive. Together they had a notion for a product that would let several computers share a single printer. Using personal savings, they launched Linksys, LLC in the garage of their home and never looked back. Since 1996, nearly one million of the company's networking kits have been sold, giving Linksys the largest installed base of such kits sold through the retail channel. Today, Linksys is the number one provider of networking hardware sold through consumer retail in North America and the leading vendor of wireless, broadband routers, USB and networking hardware in both retail and e-commerce sales. 

Source:  Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology

Mr. Tsao was co-founder (husband of Janie Tsao), and served as president and CEO of Linksys for 15 years prior to its acquisition by Cisco in June 2003. As president and CEO, Mr. Tsao led Linksys to become the leading provider of networking gear for the home and small business with a market share to date of over 50 percent. Linksys was also listed on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing private companies in the U.S. seven consecutive years. Mr. Tsao was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" in January 2004 by Inc. Magazine.  By 2003, when the company was acquired by Cisco, it had 305 employees and revenues of more than $500 million.