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Julie Xiong
Chair CAPA Advisory Board Global Diversity Manager General Motors Company |
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Katherine M. Lee, Vice Chair, Advisory Board
In addition to her outstanding accomplishments in the business sector, Ms. Lee balances her career with a strong devotion in making a difference to the community. She was recognized in 2005 as one of the most influential Asians in Michigan by “Corp!”, one of Michigan’s largest business magazine; Her passion and countless volunteer hours in promoting, inspiring support and greater awareness of cultural diversity in the corporate world have earned her the honor as one of 2007’s “Diversity Champion” by the Race Relations and Diversity Task force in the Metro Detroit area. She was also voted as the 2009 honoree by the International Women’s Day Association for her outstanding leadership in Michigan Asian American community. Ms. Lee was knighted in 2008 with the honourable title “Dame Katharina” by the Royal Papal Knights of the Vatican, His Holiness Pope BENEDICT XVI, and by the Secretariat of State, His Eminence Tarcisio Cardinal Bertone for her devotion and service to medical communities worldwide. Affiliations: Public Appearances & Presentations: Education: Vice Chair CAPA Advisory Board President, Health Secrets, Inc. Past President, CAPA |
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Stephanie Beau
DTE Principal Account Manager Founder, CAPA |
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Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, Advisory Board
Prior to his current role, he served as Executive Directors of GM Global Technology Management, R&D Centers, and Advanced Manufacturing Center. Dr. Hsu earned his Ph.D. and M.S. in Solid Mechanics from Brown University, and B.S. in Civil Engineering from National Taiwan University. He has served as leaders and advisors in many civic and technical organizations such as: Dr. Hsu is a frequent speaker and blog-writer on topics ranging from Career Development, Entrepreneurship, Eastern-Western Cultures, and Leadership. At his spare time, he enjoys golf, jogging, and visiting the 4 grandchildren with his wife Tina. Past CAPA Advisory Board Vice-Chair Chairperson, MAPAAC Professor of Management, Lawrence Technological University |
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Fouad Ashkar
Past CAPA Advisory Board Chair Manager, DTE Energy Ethnic Marketing |
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Sook Wilkinson, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist Member, Board of Trustees, Northern Michigan University Past President, CAPA |
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Roland Hwang
Attorney, State of Michigan |
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Grace Lee
CFO, Logic Solutions, Inc. |
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Mark Heusel
Director, China Practice Group, Dickinson Wright PLLC |
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Randall Faber, Ph.D., Advisory Board
A Steinway Artist, Faber has given recitals throughout the United States, Canada and Asia. He has appeared on international television and on public radio in live recital broadcast. Dr. Faber holds three degrees from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in Education and Human Development from Vanderbilt University. His research on motivation and talent development has been featured in journals and media in South Korea, China, Australia, and at the 9th International The Fabers are co-founders of the Faber Piano Institute. President and CEO of Faber Piano Adventures Inc. |
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Joe Grimm
Recruiting and Development Editor Detroit Free Press |
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Jacoub Mansour, M.D.
President Arab and Chaldean Festival |
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Henry Tanaka
Appointed in 2012 as a State Commissioner on the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission (MAPAAC). He has served as a board member for the Rochester Regional Chamber of Commerce and Leadership Oakland. He is currently Board member of the Japanese-American Citizen’s League (JACL), National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP), Council for Asian Pacific Americans and Paint Creek Center for the Arts. Henry is a fourth Generation Japanese-American. Henry has been a practicing artist for 20 years, exhibiting locally and nationally. He has served as President of the Michigan Ceramic Art Association from 2003-2007. He has presented workshop and seminars on his personal art work nationally. He received his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Kansas City Art Institute and his Master of Fine Arts from the New York State School of Ceramics at Alfred University. He currently resides in Auburn Hills, Michigan. Dean of Arts, Design and Humanities Oakland Community College |
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Ernie Mac, M.D.
President
Philippine American Foundation |
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Jeff Jenks
Chair of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG) City Commissioner in Huntington Woods Vice Chair of the Metropolitan Affairs Coalition |
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Dominic Pangborn, Advisory Board
The language and culture barriers were formidable at first for Dominic; however, those same barriers might have been what ultimately led him to art. He discovered at that early age that art allowed him to express himself to the fullest without the need for words. He bought his first set of paint and boards at the age of 12. Quickly grasping the medium, he sold his first painting for $145 to a colleague of his father. It was there his art career was born. Audiences were quick to embrace his new revolutionary styles. He held his first show in 2007, selling out almost immediately. The popularity of his work only continued to soar. Major League Baseball’s Miami Marlins franchise commissioned Dominic to create a 30-foot 3D art sculpture as a feature in their new $500 million stadium in 2012. In 2014 he was voted a top-five finalist in ArtPrize – the international public art competition—among 1,500 entries. Additionally, the Ella Sharp Museum of Michigan held a summer-long career retrospective (“Evolution of Art & Design Through Revolution”) which highlighted all of Dominic’s achievements in art, design, and invention. Of course, his crowning artistic achievement would come in 2015, when he was asked to create an artwork for the White House Fellows’ 50th Anniversary. President Obama and the First Lady will unveil the piece at a special White House luncheon on October 22, 2015. RECENT AWARDS RECENT CAREER HIGHLIGHTS CURRENT AND PAST BOARD MEMBERSHIPS Pangborn Design |
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Mi Dong, Past President (CAPA)
Mi was a co-founder of Pfizer’s Career Development Committee, the founder of Pfizer’s Asian Network in Ann Arbor, and has served as a member of the advisory committee for Cultural Diversity, as well as chaired the subcommittee of the advisory committee for expatriates. She also was one of the founding team members of the mentoring program at Pfizer as well as implemented the legal mentoring program for Pfizer Global Research & Development. Mi is the past-president (2007-2008) of the Council of Asian Pacific Americans in Michigan (CAPA). She was honored with two service awards in 2009 by community based not for profit organizations for her contribution to community. She is currently volunteering/serving at the Korean American Community Center of Michigan (KACCM) as an executive director, as an advisory board member of the Council of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA), as a board member of the American Citizens for Justice, and serve as a board of trustee at the Henry Ford Hospital West Bloomfield. She is also serve the not for profit organization “miRcore” as a COO and a board member as well. Mi frequently delivers motivational speeches to middle school and high school students. She has served as a panelist at the Women in Science conference in Washington D.C. as a speaker at the Diversity Conference in New York City, and was a panelist at University of Michigan business school on the topic of “Rising Force of Asia Health Care.” Past President, CAPA |
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Nancy Fox
Executive Director Americans for International Aid and Adoption |
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Iqbal Singh
Ethnic Marketing Executive, DTE |
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Arcie Gemino, Past President (CAPA)
Arcie’s involvement in community work spans more than 25 years. She had been president of some organizations in the Filipino community of Michigan, the highlight of which was her four year presidency of the Filipino American Council, FILAMCCO, the umbrella organization overseeing more than 50 professional and social member organizations in the Filipino community. She’s the immediate past president of Kiwanis, Club of Metropolitan Detroit, past Vice-President of the FILAMCCO Foundation, Past President of Michigan Circulo Pampangueno of Mi, current board member of the Philippine American Community Center of Michigan, the Philippine American Foundation and the Filipino American Political Association of Michigan. She networks with other Asian leaders and organizations serving as board member of the Council of Asian Pacific Americans CAPA working with the Education Committee, the American Citizens for Justice, ACJ, chaired the 2009 Asian American Immersion sponsored by New Detroit, member of the APIA Vote-MI. and has collaborated with numerous humanitarian, civic, and cultural projects and programs with the various ethnic communities. Past President, CAPA |
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Andrew Humphrey
Meteorologist and Reporter, WDIV-TV Local Channel 4 |
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Dr. Virinder K. Moudgil, Ph.D., Advisory Board
President Moudgil’s education and professional training includes: His prior professional experiences include: President Moudgil’s board affiliations include the Vice President Michigan Education Trust; Board of Directors: Detroit Regional Chamber of Commerce; Detroit Economic Club; Detroit Athletic Club; Detroit Zoological Society; Thomas Cooley Law School – Professional Advisory Committee; American Red Cross Southeast Michigan Region Executive Board; Skyline Club of Southfield; Honorary Chairperson, 2013 Multiple Sclerosis Campaign; Association of Independent College and Universities of Michigan; Chair, Association of Independent Technological Universities Inc. (AITU), 2017; member of the Executive Committee, Japan Center for Michigan Universities (2005-10), and the Michigan Campus Compact. President Moudgil has a special interest in advancing cultural understanding and globalization. In 2013 he founded LTU’s Global Village Project promoting student awareness and cooperation. He has led the hosting on LTU’s campus of such leaders as Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, and numerous government officials. He was a team member (or a leader) for arranging and hosting campus visits at Oakland University for current and former heads of state: Lech Walesa (Poland, 2001), George W. Bush (U.S.) and Aleksander Kwasniewski (Poland, 2002); Vicente Fox Quesada (Mexico, 2004) and Dr. Abdul Kalam (India, 2009). A member of the American Delegation in Adult Endocrinology to the People’s Republic of China, 1983; and has been chair or invited speaker at scientific sessions at international conferences/symposia in China, India, France, former Yugoslavia, Canada, former Czechoslovakia, the Netherlands, Spain, and Israel. His awards and honors include: President Moudgil’s scientific work has appeared in some 250 publications, including nine books, 110 papers or reviews, and 112 abstracts. His research are steroid hormone action, and hormones and cancer was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health. He was a panel member of the National Institutes of Health Physiological Sciences Study Section 1987-94. President and CEO, Lawrence Technological University |
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Jenny Wang, Advisory Board
Wang joined DTE Energy in 2002 as a senior strategist in the Energy Distribution’s president’s staff organization. Garnering positions of greater responsibility throughout her tenure at DTE, she also served as the manager – strategy & special projects group prior to being named to her current position of director – Strategy & Planning in 2008. Prior to joining DTE Energy, Wang was the project lead of the manufacturing systems department at Ford Motor Company. She was a strategy consultant at Mayflower Vehicle Systems in Farmington Hills, MI, and she was a research assistant at the Center of Engineering Polymers in Changchun, China. Wang earned a bachelor of engineering degree at the Dalian University of Technology (China); a master of science degree from the Chinese Academy of Sciences; a master of engineering degree from the University of Detroit; and an MBA from the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Wang serves on the DTE Energy Women of Finance Advisory Committee and the Women’s Leadership Forum Planning Committee. She serves as the liaison for DTE Energy for the Council of Asian Pacific Americans (CAPA) and a member on the Planning Committee for SOS Community Services in Washtenaw County. Director, DTE |
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Bridget Hurd
BCBSM |
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Matthew Gibb, Advisory Board
State Campaign Director at Calley for Governor |
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Aneesa I. Rashid, Ph.D., Past President (CAPA)
Aneesa is originally from India and has a Ph.D. in Economics from Fordham University, New York. She is an Economic Analyst at the Bureau of Labor Market Information and Strategic Initiatives, State of Michigan. Her prior experience in Michigan includes teaching Economics courses at the University of Michigan, Dearborn and Oakland University. She also conducted cross cultural training for corporations interested in doing business in India. She has published and presented several papers on India and S.E. Asia. Aneesa is also the past president of the International Community Club which is a non-profit organization sponsored by The Community House of Birmingham. She volunteers at the Global Trade Mission (GTM) as a presenter and Cultural Ambassador. GTM is sponsored by Automation Alley to train students with the skills for global citizenship. Past President, CAPA |
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Connie Tingson-Gatuz, PhD, Advisory Board
Dr. Connie is the first Asian Pacific American in the Executive Council and President’s Cabinet at Madonna University. For over a decade, she has served as Vice President for Student Affairs & Mission Integration. She co-developed the Higher Education Administration Master’s program, preparing graduate students for future administrative careers in colleges and universities. Previously, she served in administrative roles at Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Michigan (UMICH)- Ann Arbor. One of the founding members of the Midwest Asian American Student Union, MSU’s Philippine American Student Society (PASS), and the Council of Racial Ethnic Students (CORES); she has orchestrated community partnerships across numerous college student organizations local, regionally, and nationally. As a Lead Consultant for the national Gates Millennium Scholarship Program, she trained reviewers to select America’s best and brightest across the nation to receive college scholarships, for over a decade. Passionate about developing community leaders, she developed the curriculum for a national college leadership program, based in Washington DC. A national Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute (APAWLI) Fellow and National OCA Pioneer Community Educator Awardee, her career has been dedicated to educating and developing people in organizations for over two decades. Contributing author in Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Higher Education: Research and Perspectives on Identity, Leadership, and Success, she highlighted the importance of mentoring leaders. In addition to joining the Advisory Board of the Council of Asian Pacific Americans, she serves as a Board Member of the Michigan American Council on Education Women’s Network and the Advisory Board of the Philippine Nurses Association of Metro Detroit. Dr. Connie received her doctorate of philosophy in higher education administration, a master of arts in college and university administration, and a bachelor of arts in political science, all from Michigan State University. Madonna University |
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Angela Wang Beasinger, Advisory Board
Currently Angela Wang Beasinger serves as president of WeAct Inc., a creative service provider, headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan with partners throughout the United States and China. Founded and managed by a special team who are well connected and versed in both U.S. and China cultures and business environments, WeAct is specialized in serving U.S. and China business development initiatives, and in promoting US-China business, culture and education exchanges and collaborations. Staffed by professionals and industry experts with decades of operational experiences, WeAct provides customized services to meet your short-term and long-term cross-Pacific business development needs in PR marketing and branding, business contact development, event planning, translation, cultural and business etiquette training, and much more…WeAct strives to provide affirmative, effective, productive and innovative services to our clients; and build a multiculture work environment for professionals to achieve their personal and professional goals, and reach their fullest potential. WeAct is your first resource and your best alliance, and WeAct delivers beyond your expectation! Utilizing her knowledge, experience and passion to foster global innovative collaborations and to build a multi-culture work environment for professionals to achieve their personal and professional goals, and reach their fullest potential, she made significant contribution in bringing together people with different backgrounds and in promoting businesses collaborations among different cultures. Angela Wang Beasinger holds a Master degree in Computer Information System and a MBA degree. Past President, CAPA |
Dr. Jamie Hsu is currently Adjunct Professor of Management at the Lawrence Technological Univ, specializing in strategic management, leadership development, technology management, innovation, and global collaboration.
Dominic Pangborn is a well-known Korean-American artist and graphic designer. Dominic credits his constant evolution to his unique childhood. He was a born in Korea in 1952 – a product of the Korean War. His father an unknown American G.I., his mother a poor Korean villager. She was left to raise him — and his two full-Korean siblings — on her own in a post-war country that was devastated economically, physically, and emotionally. When Catholic missionaries visited their village she sent him to the United States at the age of 10 to be adopted by the Pangborn family of Jackson, Michigan.
Mi has more than 30 years of experience in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry. She served as a director of Intellectual Property Strategy Management in the Patent Group for Pfizer as well as in Licensing and Development department. She served as a senior project manager in Global Project Management at Parke-Davis and Company prior to its acquisition by Pfizer. At Parke-Davis, Mi was involved in all phases of many projects including gabapentin pediatric formulation (Neurontin®) from submission, approval and launching. She also managed pregabain (Lyrica®) development from the lead compound status to the NDA filing. She is proud of winning the naming contest for the winning tradename “Lipitor®”