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Xiaochun Luo

President

Xiaochun is currently Vice President of New Technology & Product Innovation for Avon Products, Inc., a direct selling beauty company with $10 Billion revenue and a business presence in 120+ countries.  She is responsible for directing technology programs and major product innovations for the company for all key beauty product categories global wide.  Prior to Avon, Xiaochun worked close to ten years for Procter & Gamble Company in both international and US business units. Xiaochun was the founder and first president for Asian American Cosmetic Professional Association. She was a recipient of National Asian American Corporate Achievement Award in 2004.  Xiaochun received her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Purdue University.  She is married with two sons whom she enjoys spending her time with.  Xiaochun joined the OCA board in 2005.

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Wanda Eng

Exec VP

Wanda Eng is the Senior Director of Compliance at Actavis, Inc., a global generic pharmaceutical manufacturer with US headquarters located in New Jersey. Ms Eng travels the world as the in-house compliance consultant making sure that the manufacturing plants are in compliance with global regulations.  Prior to joining Actavis, Ms Eng worked at Alpharma, Inc. in the same capacity.  For over twenty years, Ms Eng was employed by the US Food & Drug Administration starting out as an Investigator and then into roles of increasing responsibility as Compliance Officer, Supervisor and finally as the Director of Investigations for New York State.   It was the first time in FDA history that an Asian woman was promoted to be the “Chief Inspector” of a District office.  Ms. Eng loves to travel and play poker. She lives in Scarsdale with her husband.  She has 2 grown children.

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Joan Jia

Exec VP

Joan has over 10 years professional experience in financial industry, with responsibilities including program management and product development. She is now serving as a Vice President of Investment Banking Technology for JPMorgan Chase, with global responsibilities across NY, London, Tokyo and Singapore. She is member of Asians & Pacific Islanders Reaching for Excellence, a JPMorgan internal group to promote diversity and culture.

Besides JPMorgan, Joan is a founder and director of Sino-American Language Center, a Westchester NY based language learning center specializes in promoting Chinese culture and teaching Chinese as a second language to the local community. Joan received her MS degree from the Columbia University, NY and BS from The University of Akron, Ohio. She was born in Sichuan China and came to US to continue her undergraduate education in 1992. She has been a Westchester resident for 10 years and is married with two children.

 

Lawrence Ng

Secretary/YOCAA

 

Shuyi Xiao

Treasurer

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Jeannette Wang

VP Finance

Jeannette Wang has been with OCA since 1997 and has been a board member since 1998.  She was a PTA President for her children’s school, the vice president of Irvington Chamber of Commerce and helped facilitate diversification and membership of the Junior League of Westchester.  She has been a board member of the Interracial Women’s Leadership Roundtable.  Jeannette has a BS in Chemical Engineering.  She owned a Real Estate business for many years and now is an Associate Broker and Executive Director to Prudential Rand Realty.  She is also served as Treasurer for the Board of Realtors in Westchester.  Jeannette’s communication skills are one of her strongest assets, marked by her fluency in French, English and three Chinese dialects (Mandarin, Cantonese and Shanghainese).

Jenny Kho

VP Membership

Jenny Kho plays a very active part in her community.  She is the Past President of the Philippines Chinese Association of America (Northeast) and the Philippines Chiang Kai Shek Alumni Association of America (Northeast).  Jenny has been a recipient of the national Women’s Insurance Financial Services Leaders Recognition Platinum Awards.  She is committed to helping her clients achieve their financial goals for themselves, their families and their business by providing those strategies for assets accumulation, preservation and transfer.  Jenny is a member of the New York Life’s Chairman’s Council, which is the highest level of achievement for a New York Life representative.  In addition, she has further demonstrated her dedication to serving the needs of her community by attaining Life Membership status in the industry’s prestigious Million Dollar Round Table.

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Xin Zheng

VP Membership

Web Master

Xin Zhang is Assistant Professor and Director of Bioinformatics Shared Resource of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Albert Einstein Cancer Center. He majored in Physics in Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He went to the International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA/ISAS) in Trieste, Italy for graduate study, received his Ph.D. in Biophysics in 1991. 

Xin volunteered for many community services. He served as PTA chair of Huaxia Chinese School, New York for two years and served as a member of board of director for three years.  He also served as a member of board of director for Westchester Chinese Association (WCA) for two years. He is also a maintenance committee member and board of managers of Apple hill condominium, Chappaqua, NY, where he is a resident for 9 years. 

He is married to Ling and they have two sons.

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Peggy Chen

VP Public Relations

Peggy Y. Chen was Financial Controller of Citigroup Technology North America.  She retired from Citigroup after 30 years of service.  Peggy volunteered for the Chinese Alliance Church of Westchester as Sunday school Teacher, Christian Education Director and Assistant Treasurer.  She got her B.B.A. from Pace University.  She and her husband, David, live in Scarsdale.  They have 2 children.

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Gary Guo

VP Public Relations

Gary Guo, MD, PhD, Attending Physician, Department of Medicine, Westchester Medical Center, New York Medical College.

He, currently, serves as Board of Director and Vice President of OCA/WHV; Chairman of Board of Directors, Huaxia Chinese School of New York; Board of Director of Huaxia Chinese School (Headquarter); Chairman of Committee of Development and Public Relation, Board of Huaxia Chinese School (Headquarter); and, Public Relations Director of Fudan University Education Development Foundation, Shanghai, China.

He also served as Principal and Vice Principal of Huaxia Chinese School of New York.

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RoseTan Kaung

VP Community Outreach

Rose has taught mathematics for over thirty years and holds the Joseph and Sophia Abeles Distinguished Chair for Mathematics at Westchester Community College.  She holds a Ph. D. from Syracuse University, a master’s degree from Cornell University and a bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of San Carlos.   Rose has published and presented papers and conducted workshops for teachers locally, nationally, and internationally.  She has received over forty awards such as the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence, New York State Mathematics Assoc. of Two Year Colleges’ Outstanding Contributions to Mathematics Education Award, and the Pi Lambda Theta International Honor and Professional Association in Education Outstanding Education Award.

 

Rose is a member of several professional organizations and has served on a number of boards such as the Syracuse University School of Education Advisory Board.  She serves as the Westchester Coordinator for the Philippine Library Materials Project Foundation’s annual collection of books and library equipment for twenty years.  As a lifetime member of the Organization of Chinese Americans Westchester and Hudson Valley Chapter, Rose has actively been involved and assisted in the organization’s many events.  She chairs the Scholar Selection Committee for the OCA Asian Student Scholarship Endowed Fund at WCC and mentors the scholars.

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May Lai

VP Community Outreach

May Lai has a Master Degree in Social Work (MSW) from the University of California at Berkeley.  She has dedicated many years of service to Asian Americans in the fields of mental health and substance abuse.  She is the director of Hamilton Madison House Asian American Recovery services in Chinatown, NYC.  She is one of the advocates and pioneers in Asian American substance abuse services.  She is a member of many New York City and national Committees.  Among the many awards she has received are the New York State Governor’s Award for outstanding Asian American and the 2002 OCA General Motors Unsung Hero Award.  May Lai loves music and has studied the Chinese instrument Zheng for about ten years.

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Helen Tang

VP Community Outreach

 

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William H.P. Kaung

VP Program

 

  

Li Lin

VP Program

Li Lin, VP Programs - Li Lin has over 10 years experience in Treasury and Risk management.  She is currently Director of Exposure Management and Hedging Advisory for GE Capital, managing the risk for over $500 billion assets.  Besides her demanding full-time job, she is actively involved in various volunteer groups.  She is a local Council Leader for GE Corporate Volunteer Advisory Council; a director for GE Corporate Treasury's "Kids to College" program; and she is on the Volunteer Committee for Asian Pacific American Forum (APAF), one of GE's diversity groups.  She also helps plan for many cultural events for General Huaxia Chinese School and served 2 years as Vice Principal and PTA's Vice Chairperson at New York Huaxia Chinese School.  She is married with two lovely kids.

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Meow Yee

VP YOCAA

Meow Yee currently holds the position of Project Executive, Business Development, in IBM’s Systems & Technology Group. She has responsibility for growing IBM’s mainframe business in the emerging countries, Brazil, Russia, India and China.

In her prior position, she has responsibility for developing and executing the Global Engineering unit’s inorganic growth strategy, which included assessing candidate companies for acquisitions and alliances, developing and managing partner relationships. She had lead responsibility for the Asia Pacific region, with a focus on China.

In her previous position, Ms. Yee was the Project Executive for Asian Initiatives, in Corporate Communications. She led and managed a ground breaking project to drive new levels of collaboration across multiple global companies to share best practices around business in the Asian marketplace and leveraging Asian talent, which included a benchmarking study. In her prior position, Ms. Yee led efforts across multiple business units to deliver IBM’s On Demand Business Strategy in 2003 and 2004. While in the IBM Software Group, Ms. Yee was the Program Director, Business Intelligence Product Marketing, with worldwide marketing and strategy responsibilities for the entire portfolio of BI products, which included delivering several new product releases as well as the launch of a brand new software product into the marketplace worldwide.  She has managed IBM’s relationships with several key business partners.  While in the Corporate CIO office, Ms. Yee was responsible for establishing a corporate wide strategy and architecture for information management and data warehousing, developed and delivered information delivery tools for worldwide use at IBM. Ms. Yee has been recognized within IBM with numerous excellence awards for delivering millions of dollars of savings and benefits to the corporation.

Ms. Yee started her career in IBM Canada as a systems software developer. Earlier in her career, she worked on expert systems/artificial intelligence research at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, held various positions in software architecture, design and development, and led projects in supply chain management and corporate-wide business transformation initiatives.

Ms. Yee is an IBM Certified Executive Project Manager and a Project Management Institute certified Project Management Professional. She received the National Women of Color Technology All Star award in October 2004, in recognition of her many technical achievements. In June 2007, she was awarded the Salute to Women and Racial Justice  Technology Award from the YWCA White Plains and Central Westchester. Recently, she received the President’s Volunteer Service Award.  Ms. Yee is actively involved in programs to encourage girls' interest in science and engineering. She is the President and co-founder of the Asian Women Leadership Network, a nation wide network, with  members from multiple corporations.

Ms. Yee graduated from Imperial College, University of London, England, with a Master of Science degree, in Computer Science, and a Bachelors of Science degree majoring in math (Second Upper Honors) and a Diploma of Education from University Malaya, Malaysia. She speaks English, Malay and the Chinese dialects of Mandarin, Cantonese and Hakka, and some German. She is married with a daughter and a son.

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Vincent Young

VP Communications

Vincent Young has served as a Past president of this chapter and currently serves as Vice President – Finance.  He received his BS in Electric Engineering from Polytechnic University and MBA from NYU.  Vincent was a Director of Public Policy and External Affair at Verizon.  He has retired this year.  He and his wife, Grace reside in White Plains.  They have 3 daughters.

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Pablo Cue

VP Communications

Pablo Cue was the Chapter president from 2002 to 2004.  Prior to his current career as a high school math teacher, he had several years of industrial experience - as a financial advisor with Morgan Stanley, as a Corporate Quality Manager with Nestle China in Hong Kong and Beijing, China, and as a Senior Quality Auditor and Senior Quality Engineer with Lederle Labs, Revlon Health Care Group, and Ross Labs.  His interest has always been in math and statistics. 

In his work with OCA Westchester & Hudson Valley Chapter, his prime interest had been in seeing a strong youth movement.  With help from Meow Yee and Lawrence Ng, he revitalized the YOCAs in 2002 and, in 2003, he established the Youth Leadership Recognition Program with the support of Franklin Chu.  In 2002, he expanded the Dynamic Achiever Award Program to include the recognition of outstanding Asian American community leaders.  During his term as president, the chapter earned the recognition for being "OCA Chapter of the Year" in 2003, and second place in 2002.  He was also the publisher and editor of OCA Westchester newsletter for many years.

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Shirley Koo

Director at large

Shirley Koo is a retired New York City High School mathematics teacher who is listed in “Who’s Who Among American Teachers.”  She received a BS in Mathematics from City College of New York where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.  She completed her Master Degree as a fellow at Teachers College, Columbia University.  She is a member of Hitchcock Presbyterian Church in Scarsdale where she presently is the leader of the Presbyterian Women’s Book Group and Bible Study Program.  She volunteers as a teacher in the “Living In America” program.  She is married to Robert (a past board member of OCA – WHV) and lives in Crestwood.  They have a son, Grant.

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Daisy Yau

Director at large

 

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Lani MaCane

General Counsel