The 1st Annual Asian Leaders Worth Watching™ Awards
PDJ Salutes its Inaugural Class of Asian Leaders Worth Watching™ Award Winners
For more than two decades Profiles in Diversity Journal has honored outstanding individuals who have blazed new trails, welcomed challenges, mentored others, advanced diversity and inclusion in the workplace and the community, and excelled in their chosen fields. Now, PDJ is honoring Asian Leaders with our first-ever Asian Leaders Worth Watching Awards.
The 24 profiles that appear in this issue recognize and celebrate the hard work and impressive achievements of these Asian Leaders. Each award recipient has also provided us with the answers to some interesting questions and an essay that will give you, our readers, a chance to get to know these multitalented, multilingual, and trailblazing individuals a little better.
Welcome to PDJ’s first annual Asian Leaders Worth Watching Awards.
2021 Asian Leaders Worth Watching™ Award Winners
- Activision Blizzard – Ken Wee – Chief Strategy Officer
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP – Alison Chen – Partner
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP – Arshi Siddiqui – Partner
- Best Best & Krieger LLP – HongDao Nguyen – Partner
- Dechert LLP – Angela M. Liu – Partner
- EY – Sandra Baker Zarraga – Principal, Financial Services Consulting
- HARMAN International – Lily Guo – Vice President, Global Operations, HARMAN Lifestyle Consumer Audio
- HARMAN International – Kelei Shen – Chief Technology Officer
- Kelley Kronenberg – Harsh Arora – Partner
- Kindred Healthcare – June Dumaguet, MSN, RN, NE-BC – Chief Clinical Officer
- Latham & Watkins LLP – Lisa Kim Anh Nguyen – Partner
- Latham & Watkins LLP – Shagufa Hossain – Partner
- Moss Adams LLP – Annie Yuan Norviel – Audit Senior Manager
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP – Jeong-Hwa “June” Lee – Partner
- New American Funding – Karen Chiu – Builder Division Development Manager
- New York Life Insurance Company – Melissa Kuan – Chief Strategy Officer, New York Life Investment Management
- Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP – Gina N. Shishima – U.S. Chief Strategy and Operations Partner
- RBC Capital Markets – Nancy Huynh – Global Head of Business Architecture, Client Technology
- S&P Dow Jones Indices – Jaspreet Duhra – Managing Director, Head of EMEA ESG Indices
- S&P Dow Jones Indices – Aye Soe – Managing Director, Global Head of Product Management
- S&P Global – Karen Chu – Associate, Corporate Ratings
- S&P Global – Shahzeb K. Rao – Senior Director, Strategy and Strategic Initiatives
- Walmart Inc. – Ella Chan – Vice President, Business Initiatives–Sam’s Club
- Walmart Inc. – Parvez Musani – Vice President, Transportation and Last Mile Technology