The 2nd Annual Asian Leaders Worth Watching™ Awards
PDJ Salutes our Second 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 second Asian Leaders Worth Watching Awards.
The 23 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 and trailblazing individuals a little better.
Welcome to PDJ’s second annual Asian Leaders Worth Watching Awards.
2022 Asian Leaders Worth Watching™ Award Winners
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP – Shiva Aminian – Partner
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP – Z.W. Julius Chen – Partner
- Bazaarvoice – Zarina Lam Stanford – CMO
- Berea College – Nicholas D. Hartlep, PhD – Robert Charles Billings Endowed Chair in Education & Education Studies Department Chair
- Blizzard Entertainment – Walter Kong – General Manager, Overwatch
- Cornerstone Research – Rahul Guha – Chief Executive Officer
- Dechert LLP – Nitya Kumar Goyal – Partner
- DentaQuest – Hyon Chu Leon – Director, Data Analytics & Underwriting
- Freddie Mac – Kathy Sheng – VP, Assistant General Auditor
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP – Magan Pritam Ray – Shareholder and Co-Chair of the Global Employee Benefits & Compensation Practice
- HARMAN – Jennifer Liang – Director, Global Marketing
- Latham & Watkins LLP – Kuan Huang – Partner
- Moss Adams LLP – Jennie Ly – Innovation & Strategy Senior Manager
- New American Funding – Karen Chiu – Builder Business Development Manager
- New York Life – Helen Wei – Vice President, CFO of Wealth Management Solutions
- Norton Rose Fulbright – Scarlet McNellie – Norton Rose Fulbright’s U.S. Head of Corporate, M&A, and Securities
- Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP – Qiaojing Ella Zheng – Co-Managing Partner–San Francisco, Chair of Asian American Litigation and Finance Practice
- Sestina Bio, LLC – Bruce Wu, PhD – Chief Legal Officer
- TransUnion – Ann H. Chen – Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel
- Veo – Candice Xie – Co-founder and CEO
- WilmerHale – Brenda Lee – Partner
- Wilson Turner Kosmo LLP – Parada K. Ornelas – Partner
- Withum – Peter Kim – Principal, Practice Leader for Financial Crimes
