Thursday, May 20, 2021, 5:30 - 6:30  PM PST
 
Friday, May 21, 2021
8:30AM - 9:30 AM Taipei Time

Friday, May 21, 2021
06:00AM - 07:00 AM India Standard Time

Zoom link will be emailed to you 1 day prior to event.

Asians in America have long experienced bias and discrimination. Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, members of this community have increasingly become targets of verbal and physical attacks in the United States. The attacks in the first few months of 2021 grew more intense, tragic, even fatal. In response to thousands of reported hate incidents in the last year amid escalating violence, over 1,000 Asian business leaders and allies came together in March. They signed an open letter and published it in a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal. The open letter denounced anti-Asian hate, and leaders and allies pledged to fight to end “discrimination and violence against the Asian community and all marginalized communities.”

Speaking out publicly is only an essential first step. What are leaders doing, tactically and strategically, to take action to counter the bias, discrimination, and even hate against Asians in America that produce impactful solutions and sustainable changes?

Join this webinar to hear from three CEOs, Asians who graduated from Stanford, on their observations and personal experiences with bias and discrimination. Learn how they translate their anger with anti-Asianism into productive actions that will drive short and long-term impactful changes at home, at work, and in the community. The speakers will share their recommendations for what actions Asians and allies can take.

There will be time for Q&A with the panel speakers. Link to the webinar Zoom will be sent the day before the event to registered attendees.

Stanford Graduate School of Business Dean Jonathan Levin will give opening remarks.

Stanford Alumni Panelists
Dave Lu, MBA 2004,Co-founder of Pared; Managing Partner of Hyphen Capital; Leader of AAPI Enough Movement

Deb Liu, MBA 2002, CEO of Ancestry

Debby Soo, BA 2003, MA 2004, CEO of OpenTable

Panel Moderator
Tina Shah Paikeday, MBA 1998, Global Head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Advisory Services, Russell Reynolds Associates

Q&A Moderator
Adrian Kwok, MBA 2016, Associate Partner, McKinsey & Company

Panelist Bios:

Deb Liu:
Deb Liu joined Ancestry in March 2021 as President & CEO and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Prior to joining Ancestry, Deb was a senior executive at Facebook where she created and led Facebook's Marketplace. She also led the development of Facebook’s first mobile ad product for apps and its mobile ad network, in addition to building the company’s games business and its payments platform, including Facebook Pay.
 
Named by PaymentsSource as one of the most influential women in payments and one of Business Insider's most powerful female engineers, Deb has worked in the tech industry for over 18 years. Prior to Facebook, she spent several years in product roles at PayPal and eBay, including leading the integration between the two products.
 
Actively involved with promoting diversity and women in tech, she is the founder of Women in Product, a nonprofit to connect and support women in the product management field. Deb serves on the board of Intuit, and she’s a seed investor and advisor to several startups. She also holds several payments and commerce-related patents. Deb received a BS in Civil Engineering from Duke University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.

Debby Soo:
Debby Soo is the CEO of OpenTable, bringing expertise in product-first commercialization, strategic partnerships and international growth. She has spent the past ten years building KAYAK’s travel commercial team, establishing the APAC business, and then overseeing global business development for both KAYAK and OpenTable. In addition to managing the company’s revenue-generating activities and relationships with airlines, hotels and car rental agencies, Debby has worked in various roles across business development and product marketing, including launching KAYAK Brazil and KAYAK Canada, running KAYAK’s affiliate marketing program, and mobile marketing activities.

Prior to KAYAK, Debby worked at Google's Strategic Partnerships Group, obtaining mapping, transit data, satellite imagery, and review content for Google Maps/Local.  Debby started her career as a financial analyst at Citigroup's technology M&A investment banking group, focusing on deals in Greater China.  She holds a BA and MA in East Asian Studies with a minor in Economics from Stanford University and has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management.  She splits her time between New England and the Bay Area with her husband and son.  

Dave Lu:
Dave Lu is a veteran in the technology industry, having worked for over two decades at big tech companies including Yahoo!, Apple Cisco and eBay and founding two startups. In 2005, he bootstrapped his first company Fanpop, a user-generated community site for entertainment fans, to over 40 million monthly users. After Fanpop, he ran marketing for Luxe, a two-sided marketplace for on-demand valets. He leveraged his experience to launch his second startup, Pared, a venture-backed labor marketplace for the restaurant industry.

In 2011, Dave created a community called Asian American Founders Circle which has grown to over 300 founders including Tony Xu (DoorDash), Steve Chen (YouTube), Kevin Lin (Twitch) and many others. AAFC inspired the launch of Hyphen Capital, a syndicate focused on investing in Asian American founders. He most recently started a movement with a letter condemning hate crimes against Asians which he wrote and was signed by over 1,000 prominent business leaders that was published as a full-page ad in the Wall Street Journal. Dave received his bachelor's degree from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Moderator Bios:

Tina Shah Paikeday:
Tina Shah Paikeday is the global head of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion advisory services at Russell Reynolds Associates. In this capacity, she has advised global diversity and inclusion councils and executive leadership teams on the development of operating models for the formation and governance of D&I functions, data informed approaches to developing impactful D&I strategies and recommended action steps and programs to achieve D&I goals. Based in San Francisco, she advises public, private and nonprofit clients around the world.  Tina holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where she co-lead the South Asian Student Association and a B.S. in Commerce with Distinction from the University of Virginia.

Adrian Kwok:
Adrian Kwok is an Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, based in New York, and advises companies on design and innovation-related topics. At McKinsey, he co-founded the firm's "Asians at McKinsey" affinity group in 2013 and continues to lead it globally. In 2019, he published "Waiting For Corporate America's 'Crazy Rich Asians' Moment" in Fortune's raceAhead newsletter and last summer co-authored a report on COVID-19's impact on the Asian American community. He earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business in 2016 and an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.

Sponsored by the Stanford Graduate School of Business Asian Alumni Chapter