NECINA 2012 Career SIG Seminar
Time：6:30 am - 9:00 pm, April 19th, 2012
Venue：IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, North Entrance, MA
Cost：Free to NECINA members and VIP guests, $20 General publics
Have you ever felt the need to enjoy your work? Do you want to know how those with Chinese educational background get advanced and break the glass ceiling in the American Corporate world? What kind of breakthrough do you need to make your next step right and closer to your goal? Does my ethnic background help or hurt my growth?
If you ever care about the answers to these questions, you cannot afford to miss the 2012 NECINA Career SIG Seminar!
NECINA commits to inspiring and helping Chinese professional community to create more leaders in America corporate. We host this event to provide them access to seek mentors and role models. We invited senior leaders with similar ethnic backgrounds from different industries to be our speaker and panelists. They will share generously and authentically their success stories and lessons learned to empower and encourage Chinese professionals to advance in the America corporate world.
The seminar will start with a key note, where VP of Taxation of Dunkin Brands will share his extraordinary career advancement. In the subsequent panel discussion, we invite the audience to ask questions matters to their individual career situation and gain most out of the event. Our speaker and panelists have different gender, different education background, comes from different industry. Everyone can benefit from wisdom of these leaders. This seminar also provides excellent networking opportunities that facilitate identification of career opportunities as well as sharing of career development.
Agenda:
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6:30pm - 7:00pm |
Pizza and Networking |
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7:00pm - 7:30pm |
Keynote speech："How to break the glass ceiling and achieve your career advancement in American Corporate World" by Mr. Yimin Zhang, VP of Taxation of Dunkin Brands |
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7:30pm - 8:30pm |
Panel discussion "How to make my career enjoyable - does my ethnic background matter?"
Panelists:
Yimin Zhang, VP of Taxation of Dunkin Brands |
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Hanlan Liu, Scientific Director, Genzyme, a Sanofi Company
Daryl Luk, Director, Technology Development, Concentric
Pauline Mak, Partner, KPMG
Biao Wang, Director of Product Operations, Progress Software |
About Speakers:
Mr. Yimin Zhang
Mr. Yimin Zhang is VP of Corporate Tax of Dunkin Brands. Prior to Dunkin Brands, he worked as the VP of Taxes for Talbots, and he was the Taxes Director of Tax for Leapfrog. Earlier in his career, he spent almost ten years in the Men's Warehouse Inc. in Texas, progressing to the Director of Tax.
Mr. Zhang received his BS degree in Renmin University in China and his MS degree in Accounting and Taxation from University of Texas, Austin.
Hanlan Liu, Ph. D./MBA
Dr. Liu is a Scientific Director at Genzyme, a Sanofi Company. Throughout her almost ten years tenure at Genzyme, her group has increased significantly reflecting the broad area of her responsibility, mainly in the small molecule portfolio and expansion of the role and capabilities of the DMPK&Pharmaceutics organization including support of drugs on the market Hectorol®, Mozobil®, Clolar®, clinical development and discovery research programs in genetic rare diseases, oncology, and immunology areas. Prior to working at Genzyme, Dr. Liu worked at Wyeth and Pharmavite Corporation, where she filed a US patent on "Composition for Increasing Bone Density".
Dr. Liu received Ph.D. degree in Analytical Medicinal Chemistry from Purdue University and MBA with distinction in Corporate Finance from New York University. She was a recipient of McKnight Foundation Fellowship and of Proctor & Gamble Outstanding Graduate Research Award（2nd place）at Purdue University, and of Stern Scholar at New York University. Dr. Liu has co-authored 3 patents and 25 scientific publications and given more than 32 presentations at scientific conferences. She has been the steering committee member of New England Drug Metabolism Discussion Group since 2007.
Daryl Luk, Ph.D.
Daryl Luk is currently the Director of Technology Development at Concentric. Prior to that Daryl served as Engineering Manager in SensAble Technologies in 2010 managing development activities of the company's flagship product FreeForm Modeling system. Prior to that, he was Director of Production Applications Development in PTC（www.ptc.com）, formally known as Parametric Technology Corp, one of the largest software companies in Massachusetts, USA. With more than 18 years of enterprise and engineering software development and management experiences, Daryl had been in charge of building a new development team in Shanghai, managed 6 new commercial software products development in PTC's product family that generates US$1B in annual revenue.
Daryl came from Hong Kong, holds a Mechanical Engineering Bachelor's degree from Taiwan National Chung Kung University and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from West Virginia University. Daryl has published several robotics technical papers in international journals.
Daryl was NECINA's President in 2009-2010 and 2005-2006. Prior to that, he served as Vice President in 2004-2005 and the chair of both NECINA eBusiness Special Interest Group and RFID Action Group. Daryl is also the founder of the NECINA Youth Entrepreneurship Service program（YES Program）.
In 2006, Daryl was appointed by the Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney to be a member of the Massachusetts Asian American Commission to advise the Governor on matters related to Asian American affairs. Currently Daryl serves as a member in the Asian American Commission's Economic Development Committee.
Pauline W.F. Mak
Pauline Mak is a partner in KPMG LLP's Boston federal tax practice. Pauline has over 21 years of experience in federal tax principally serving technology, life sciences and manufacturing clients. She is experienced in both transactional and operational tax issues for publicly and privately held companies with multi-state and multinational operations. Her experience also includes a rotational assignment with KPMG's Washington National tax Practice, where she advised on technical tax matters and wrote memoranda for firm wide distribution. Pauline has extensive experience with income tax accounting issues under US GAAP and IFRS, including tax issues related to business combinations and share based payments. She is a national instructor for KPMG on accounting for income taxes.
Pauline is president of the New England chapter of Ascend, a professional organization dedicated to enabling its members, business partners and the community to leverage the leadership and global business potential of Pan-Asians. Pauline is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Massachusetts Society of Certified Public Accountants. She is a graduate of California State University at Long Beach with a degree in finance and accounting. She earned her master's degree in business taxation from the University of Southern California.
Pauline grew up in Hong Kong and moved to the United States when she was 16 years old. She currently resides in Brookline, Massachusetts with her husband and two daughters.
Biao Wang
Biao is a Director of Product Operations in Progress Software. He has a Master's degree in Computer Science from BU. After graduation, he started as a developer and system administrator for a start up company called ICAD, moved to release management while at the company. Later Biao joined the technology center of Reed Elsevier, world largest scientific publishing company, as Release and QA manager during the e-commerce boom years. 12 Years ago, he joined Progress Software, advance his career steadily to Director of Product Operations. Biao also enjoys teaching. He has worked as part time faculty and technical director at BU's MIS/MBA program for almost 20 years.
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