About this Event
Dear Friends,
We are pleased to invite you to attend the thirty-ninth Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative event. This will be a new program under the title of “Master Classes: Asian American Career Lessons” where we will feature experts who will conduct tutorials on various topics related to how individuals can overcome Asian American Career Ceiling Obstacles.
Our first Master Class will be on the topic of "Master Classes: Asian American Career Lessons - Overcoming Bias and Stereotypes” and will feature two executives who will provide a tutorial.
Our two instructors will be Fred Hassan, former CEO of two large pharmaceutical companies, Pharmacia and Schering Plough, and now a director at Warburg Pincus and Buck Gee, former Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit, Cisco and Committee of 100 member.
We have purposely selected instructors who were successful in their corporate leadership careers, but can speak freely about the career challenges in their corporate lives because they are now retired and can give candid advice. In addition, both instructors have been successful mentors to help others succeed.
Peter Young, Chair of the Initiative and a Committee of 100 Member, will be the moderator. After the conclusion of the fireside chat, there will be a Q&A session during which members of the audience may ask questions. The webinar will be held on December 13, 2024 from 4:00 pm Eastern Time to 5:00 pm Eastern Time. There is no fee for the webcast. Please register at https://c100-12-13-2024.eventbrite.com
We hope you will join us. Thank you!
Best regards,
Committee of 100
Committee of 100
Asian American Career Ceilings Initiative
December 13, 2024 Webcast
▦ Topic: " Master Classes: Asian American Career Lessons – Overcoming Bias and Stereotypes”
▦ Speakers: Fred Hassan, Former CEO of Pharmacia and Schering Plough
Buck Gee, Former Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit, Cisco
▦ Moderator: Peter Young, CEO, Young & Partners, Committee of 100 ▦ Time: 4:00 pm Eastern Time
During this webcast, our two instructors will briefly summarize their careers, but will focus on providing advice and lessons to the audience on how to overcome bias and stereotypes in corporate America. They will cite examples from their own careers and their observations about other Asian Americans that they have worked with or mentored.
The master class will be moderated by Peter Young, Committee of 100 member and Chair of the Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceiling Initiative. The webinar will be one hour long. The audience will have the opportunity to ask questions during the last ten minutes of the webinar.
There is no fee and you can register at: https://c100-12-13-2024.eventbrite.com
▦ Speaker Bios:
FRED HASSAN
FORMER CHAIR & CEO
PHARMACIA, SCHERING-PLOUGH
Fred Hassan has been associated with Warburg Pincus since 2009 as a Managing Director and presently serves as an advisor with the title of Director. In addition to Health Care as his core focus, he serves as an advisory resource across the firm. His 4 public company boards include BridgeBio, Cocrystal, EyePoint, and Precigen. Fred Hassan is the former Chairman of the Board and CEO of Schering-Plough. Prior to joining Schering-Plough in April 2003, Hassan was Chairman and CEO of Pharmacia Corporation – a company that was formed in March 2000 because of the merger of Monsanto and Pharmacia and Upjohn.
Hassan joined Pharmacia & Upjohn as CEO in 1997. Previously, Hassan was EVP of Wyeth, with responsibility for its pharmaceutical and medical products businesses. He was elected to Wyeth's Board of Directors in 1995. Earlier in his career, Hassan spent 17 years with Sandoz Pharmaceuticals (now Novartis) and headed its U.S. pharmaceuticals business. Hassan received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology at the University of London and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Hassan has chaired significant pharmaceutical industry organizations including The Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) and The International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (IFPMA). Hassan also chairs the selection committee for the CEO of the Year – the 23 and 24 honorees being Bastian (Delta) and Su (AMD) respectively. In 2014, a CNBC panel named Hassan to a list of those who have had the most profound impact on the world of business in the previous quarter century.
BUCK J. GEE
FORMER VICE PRESIDENT AND GENERAL MANAGER OF DATA CENTER BUSINESS UNIT OF CISCO
Buck Gee retired in 2008 from Cisco Systems, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit. He joined Cisco with its 2004 acquisition of Andiamo Systems where Mr. Gee was President and CEO.
In 2010, he co-founded the Advanced Leadership Program for Asian American Executives, an executive education program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He has published several Ascend Foundation research papers on the Asian glass ceiling and has written opinion pieces on that issue for the Harvard Business Review, New York Times, San Jose Mercury, and KQED public television.
He is an Executive Advisor to Ascend, the largest national network of Asian American professionals. He is board president of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and serves on the advisory board of the Asia Society/Northern California and the advisory board of the Asian Pacific American Leadership Institute.
Previously, he held management positions in engineering, marketing, and business development at Hewlett Packard, National Semiconductor, 3Com, Crescendo Communications, Com21, and Iospan Wireless. He has also taught computer and electrical engineering courses at Stanford University and Howard University. He holds BS and MS degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.
▦ Moderator and Chair of the Committee of 100 Asian American Career Ceiling Initiative:
Peter Young
CEO, Young & Partners
Committee of 100 Member, New York Regional Chair and Board Member
Peter Young is CEO of Young & Partners, a boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings. Under his leadership, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm serving the corporate strategy, M&A, restructuring and financing needs of clients worldwide. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders and Lehman Brothers, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co., the corporate strategy firm.
Mr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors, both corporate and non-profit and is a board member of Société de Chimie Industrielle, a leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive.
The Committee of 100
The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts founded 35 years ago.
The Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of:
- Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community;
- Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China.
To learn more about the organization, please go to https://www.committee100.org.
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