The 3rd Annual Asian Leadership Awards
PDJ Salutes our Third Class of
Asian Leadership 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. We are honoring Asian Leaders with our third Asian Leadership Awards.
The 29 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 third annual Asian Leadership Awards.
2023 Asian Leadership Award Winners
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP – Stephen S. Kho – Partner
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP – Yujin Kim McNamara – Partner
- Axinn – Jason Murata – Partner
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP – Maya Yamazaki – Partner; chair of the Diversity Executive Council
- Dechert – Amisha R. Patel – Associate
- Eli Lilly and Company – Ling Liu, Ph.D. – Chief Scientific Officer of Biotechnology Discovery Research
- Epiq Global – Jenny Trang – Vice President of Client Solutions
- Freddie Mac – Naveen Naidu – Development Senior Manager
- Freddie Mac – Ling Xu – Vice President, Multifamily Investments and Portfolio Management
- Haynes and Boone, LLP – Tom Chen – Partner and member of the firm’s Executive Committee
- Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear, LLP – Sheila N. Swaroop – Litigation Group Co-Chair
- Kroll – Anju Chopra – Managing Director, Global Head of Product Development
- Latham & Watkins – Aaron Chiu – Partner
- Latham & Watkins – Elisabeth Martin – Partner
- Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP – Lillian Ficht – Patent Agent
- Morris, Manning & Martin, LLP – Dan Huynh – Partner, Chief Diversity Partner
- Moss Adams, LLP – Lu Zhang – Managing Director, International Tax
- New American Funding – Karen Chiu – Vice President, Builder Division
- New York Life – Alise M. Civello – Head of Sales and Guidance, Pacific Zone
- Northern Virginia Family Service – Clifford Yee – Executive Vice President & Chief Financial Officer
- Robins Kaplan LLP – Annie Huang – Partner and Deputy Managing Partner, New York Office
- Sanford Heisler Sharp, LLP – Qiaojing Ella Zheng – Managing Partner of Palo Alto and San Francisco Offices, Chair of Asian American Litigation and Finance Practice
- Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC – Josephine Kim – Director
- Union Pacific Railroad – Snigdha Ganta – General Director – Enterprise Systems, Technology Department
- Union Pacific Railroad – David L. Welch – General Director Corporate Strategy
- University of Washington, Tacoma – Rachel Endo – Dean and Professor, School of Education, UW Tacoma
- Webster Bank – Samantha Yang – Senior Managing Director, CIO Strategy & Governance
- WilmerHale – Haixia Lin – Partner
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati – Eva F. Yin – Partner
