HYSTA Executive Program Distinguished Speaker Series

Breaking Glass Ceiling as an Asian American

HYSTA Executive Program proudly announces its August Distinguished Speaker Series event, “Breaking Glass Ceiling as an Asian American”.

With much more open culture to help Asian American break through the glass ceiling, far too many still remain trapped beneath it.  Any factors that prevent you from going all the way to the top?  Our speakers examine the factors that determine success or derailment in the corporate environment, reveal what’s behind the closed door of executive suites, and look at the old and new obstacles along the road to the top.

We welcome you to be up close and personal with four distinguished Asian American executives who have done it in their career.  Come listen as they share their insights, success and failures!

Moderator:

 •        Kevin Fong, Managing Director, GSR Ventures

Speakers:

•        Buck Gee, Former VP and General Manager at Cisco

•        Wesley Hom, Former VP at IBM

•        George Hu, EVP, Platform and Marketing, Salesforce.com

•        Wei Zhou, President and CEO, Centrillion Biosciences, Inc.

Event Details

Date & Time: August 18th, 2011 

                      6:00PM – 6:30PM: Registration, Network & Mingle

                      6:30PM – 8:00PM: Spearker Event

Location:        Microsoft

      1065 La Avenida, Bldg 1                      

                      Mountain View, CA 94043

Fee:               Free of charge by RSVP (limited seating), $10 at door

Registration:   RSVP at http://breakceiling.eventbrite.com

Event Host and Contact

Wayne Zhong, Project Manager, HYSTA Executive Program

E-mail: wayne.zhong@hysta.us

Moderator & Speakers Bios:

 Kevin Fong is a veteran Silicon Valley venture capitalist with almost two decades of experience. He has provided leadership to Mayfield Fund since 1988, during which time he has groomed a new generation of Mayfield leadership and mentored scores of CEOs. Kevin has a broad and deep investment focus in the communications, wireless, semiconductor, software, and consumer media sectors.

Kevin earned an M.B.A. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering form U.C. Berkeley.

Buck Gee retired from Cisco Systems in 2008 as Vice President and General Manager of Cisco’s Datacenter Business Unit.  He currently works on a number of projects for various nonprofit organizations in the Bay Area. He is also co-director of the Advanced Leadership Executive Education Program for Asian Executives at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Prior to his Cisco role, he was the President of Andiamo Systems, a storage area networking (SAN) switch supplier acquired by Cisco in 2004.  He has also held management positions in marketing, engineering, and operations at Com21, Crescendo Communications, 3Com, National Semiconductor, and Hewlett Packard. 

He received BSEE and MSEE degrees from Stanford University in 1972 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1980.

Wesley Hom is principal of Business Innovation Services, LLC. a management-consulting firm that helps investors and companies develop global strategies and plans to access next generation technologies and new business models. He was IBM Vice President in the Server & Technology Group, with global responsibilities for overall execution of IBM's mainframe investments, strategies, sales & marketing and emerging markets initiatives. He also served in Asia Pacific in various VP roles running industry solutions, software and networking lines of business. Today, he also serves on the boards of non-profit organizations helping them develop new corporate partnerships, leadership training, mentoring, and diversity programs.

 Mr. Hom is a graduate of NYU’s Stern School of Business with BS/CS and MBA degrees. He was also a member of IBM’s Certified Client Director Profession through the Advance Management Program at Harvard’s Business School.

George Hu leads the global platform and marketing organizations at salesforce.com, responsible for branding and communications, marketing strategy & programs, and alliances with service partners and independent software vendors. He joined salesforce.com in 2002 and has served in a variety of management roles including vice president of product marketing, senior vice president of applications, executive vice president of products, and chief marketing officer. Prior to joining salesforce.com, Hu held product management and strategic consulting roles at North Point Communications and Boston Consulting Group.

 He received a bachelor's degree in economics from Harvard College and a master's degree in business administration from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Wei Zhou is an executive and attorney with over 20 years of broad experience in life sciences and informatics.  He founded Centrillion Biosciences in 2009 to address critical market needs in genomics and bioinformatics.  Before founding Centrillion, he was a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati (WSGR), a top ranked global technology law firm, where he counseled life sciences and clean tech companies on intellectual property, corporate law and business strategy. Prior to WSGR, he served as Vice President of Intellectual Property and Advanced Technology and China Country Manager at Affymetrix, Inc., a pioneer in DNA chip technology.  In addition, he has served on boards of directors and advisory boards of a number of life sciences and digital media companies and non-profit organizations.

He received his postdoctoral training from Emory University School of Medicine, his Ph.D. from Virginia Tech and his J.D. from Stanford University.