Mr. Marlon Young Chief Executive for the Americas, HSBC Private Bank	Chairman
Mr. Benjiman Wu Technology Consultant	Vice Chairman
Mr. Kent A. Lucken Managing Director, Citi Private Bank, Boston	President
Ms. Mary Sue Bissell Executive Director, US-Asia Institute	Vice President
Mr. Norman Lau-Kee Kee & Lau Kee Attorneys-At-Law	Chairman Emeritus
Glenn Lau-Kee, Esq. Kee & Lau Kee Attorneys-At-Law	Secretary
Mr. David Craig Lew Vice President, Private Wealth Management, Morgan Stanley	Treasurer
Ms. Sumiye Konoshima Retired, East West Center	Trustee
Mr. Kaytaro C. Sugahara President & CEO, Fairfield Maxwell Ltd.	Trustee and Chairman Emeritus
Ms. Lisabeth Sugahara Vice President, Communications, Fairfield Maxwell Ltd.	Trustee
Ms. Nancy Tom Founder and Executive Director, Center for Asian Arts & Media, Columbia College	Trustee Emeritus

Co-Founders

• Mr. Joji Konoshima*
• Ms. Esther G. Kee

Chairman Emeritus

• Mr. Chan Tom*
• Mr. Kay Sugahara*
• Mr. Norman Lau Kee
• Mr. Kaytaro G. Sugahara
• Mr. Chan Tom III
• Ms. Nancy Tom

*- deceased

Biographies

Benjamin Wu

Vice Chairman

Ben Wu is Vice Chairman of the US-Asia Institute, a position he has held since January 2011. He concurrently serves as the Assistant Secretary of Business and Economic Development and Senior Advisor for Technology Policy for the State of Maryland. His primary responsibilities include advancing technology-led economic growth within Maryland's High Technology Corridor focusing on the development of life sciences and emerging technologies. He came to Maryland during former Governor Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr.'s Administration and was asked to remain in the Administration of current Governor Martin O'Malley. Ben serves as the highest-ranking Asian American Administration official in the State of Maryland. Previously, Ben was nominated by President George W. Bush to serve in the first and second terms of his Administration. He served as the U.S. Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology and as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Technology Policy. Prior to joining the Bush Administration, Ben held senior staff positions in the U.S. Congress for 13 years on the House Science Committee's subcommittee with jurisdiction over the nation's technology and competitiveness policy, as well as Counsel to Congresswoman Constance A. Morella of Maryland. Ben received his Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in both Politics and Metropolitan Studies from New York University, and his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh.

David Lew

Treasurer

Mr. David C. Lew is a Trustee with the US-Asia Institute. Mr. Lew is a vice president in the private wealth management division of Morgan Stanley, responsible for advising large international families and small institutions on their investment portfolios. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2002, Mr. Lew was a senior investment advisor at Barclays Bank. He worked at Citibank from 1985-1999. Mr. Lew holds an MBA in finance from Fordham University and a B.A. from New York University.

Esther Kee

Co-Founder, Pres Em.

Esther G. Kee is a co-founder, trustee and president emeritus of the US-Asia Institute. Mrs. Kee has a long history of community, political and international service and leadership. With the late Joji Konoshima, Mrs. Kee participated in the official White House ceremonies welcoming Deng Xiao Ping on his historic visit to the United States. Additionally, she coordinated his trip throughout the United States, and accompanied the delegation to the U.S. cities. More recently, she was a guest at the White House welcoming ceremony and luncheon honoring Chinese President Hu Jintao on his visit to the United States. In 1979, Mrs. Kee and Mr. Konoshima founded the US-Asia Institute to work more closely with Asian nations and to open an informal dialogue between government and private sector leaders with these countries, especially China. In the mid-1980s, Mrs. Kee worked with the Chinese People's Institute of Foreign Affairs to establish the Congressional staff delegations to the People's Republic of China. To date, 77 of these trips have been organized to China, 11 to Japan and 10 to ASEAN. Mrs. Kee has been active in a variety of community activities in New York City including the Chinatown Planning Council, the Chinatown YMCA, the YMCA Camp Council of Greater New York and other civic organizations. She has served on the Presidential Ambassadorial Selection Board, the Selection Board of the State Department, the Advisory Board for Channel 13, the Board of Directors of the Community Service Society of New York and the Executive Committee for the Democratic National Committee. She has raised millions of dollars for local, state and national organizations, candidates and causes. She organized the Asian/Pacific American Women's delegation to the International Women's Year conference in Houston, Texas and is active in numerous Asian American and women's groups.

Glenn Lau Kee

Secretary

Glenn Lau-Kee is a trustee of the US-Asia Institute. He was a founding trustee of the Institute and served for several years during the developmental stages of the organization. He rejoined the Board in 2009. Mr. Lau-Kee is a partner at Kee & Lau-Kee, LLP. Previously, Mr. Lau-Kee was a partner in the law firm of Koo Larrabee Lau-Kee & Lane LLP in White Plains, and was an associate in the Hong Kong and New York offices of the late international law firm of Coudert Brothers. He serves as a member-at-large of the Executive Committee of the New York State Bar Association. In addition to the state bar, where he is a member of its policymaking body, the House of Delegates, he is a Co-Chair of the Membership Committee, and a member of the Finance Committee. Lau-Kee serves on the boards of directors of The New York Bar Foundation and the Fund for Modern Courts. He also serves as a Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Greater New York and was named the YMCA of Greater New York’s 2008 Volunteer of the Year. As a member-at-large of the Association’s Board of Directors, Lau-Kee serves as a member of the Executive, Finance (past Chair) and Investment Committees, and he chairs the Audit Committee. He has been active in a number of organizations including: the Asian American Bar Association of New York where he was president (1997-99); the New York County Lawyers’ Association where he served on its board of directors (2001-2004) and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, where he was a member of its Civil Rights Committee. He also served as a member of the New York State Judicial Screening Panel for the First Department. Former New York State Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye appointed him to serve on the Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System, and on the Committee to Examine Solo and Small Firm Practice. He has served on the Board of Directors of Legal Services for New York City. For seven years Lau-Kee was a commissioner on the New York City Human Rights Commission (1984-90), a fellow of the David Rockefeller Fellows Program of the New York City Partnership (1996-97), and treasurer of the Network of Bar Leaders (1999-2000). Lau-Kee received his undergraduate degree from Yale University (1971), and earned his law degree from Boston University School of Law (1974). In his practice he provides counsel on commercial and corporate law, real estate, and bank financing transactions.

Joji Konoshima

Co-Founder, Pres Em.

Born in Tokyo, Japan, Mr. Konoshima's family immigrated to the United States when he was six years old. He was a student at the University of California - Berkeley, when he and his family were relocated to the Heart Mountain Relocation Center in Wyoming during World War II. After the war, he received a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1953, and a MA in Education from New York University in 1960. In 1976, he became the New York labor coordinator for the Presidential campaign of Jimmy Carter, and went on to join the national Carter-Mondale campaign as labor liaison. After the election, Mr. Konoshima became the National Director of the Asian Pacific Affairs Unit of the Democratic National Committee. He accompanied Vice President Walter Mondale to Japan, and traveled to Japan and Korea with President Carter. He played a key role in the historic visit of Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping to the United States in 1978, traveling with him to New York, Houston and San Francisco. In 1979, Mr. Konoshima co-founded, with his colleague Esther Kee, the U.S.-Asia Institute. During his tenure as President of the U.S.-Asia Institute, Mr. Konoshima personally escorted Members of Congress on visits to the People's Republic of China, as well as Congressional staff delegations. Mr. Konoshima led more than 85 Congressional staff and trade delegations to China, Japan, Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Brunei. He also hosted seven international conferences in cooperation with the U.S. Department of State, and a multitude of briefings on issues of interest and concern to the U.S. and East Asian nations. Mr. Konoshima was an advisor to political, business and diplomatic leaders on both sides of the Pacific. Joji Konoshima passed away on September 17, 2003. The Konoshima Family established the Joji Konoshima Memorial Fund to continue his legacy with the US-Asia Institute.

Kaytaro Sugahara

Chairman Emeritus

US-Asia Institute Trustee and Chairman Emeritus Kaytaro G. Sugahara (K.G.) graduated from California Institute of Technology in 1961 with a Bachelor of Science in Engineering. He worked for the Douglas Aircraft Corporation in their Missiles and Space System Division until 1966 when he joined Fairfield-Maxwell Ltd as Vice President of their newly formed Marine Division. Mr. Sugahara was promoted to Senior Vice president in 1970, to Executive Vice President in 1975, and became President in June of 1979. During the time K.G. has been with the company, Fairfield-Maxwell, which celebrated its 50th Anniversary in 2007, expanded its worldwide presence in both the shipping and geophysical industries. Fairfield's shipping business started with crude oil tankers, its crude fleet expanding to over two million tons deadweight. Through its subsidiaries, Fairfield has been in the refrigerated and bulk cargo businesses and currently is a major player in the chemical tanker business as well as a long-term carrier for Toyota Motors. K.G. also sits on the Board of Fairfield industries, the largest and oldest wholly American owned company in the geophysical industry. Fairfield Industries gathers seismic data using its self-designed and manufactured equipment, processes this data in its advanced computer facility and now dominates the shallow water Gulf of Maxico market. K.G. is a member of the State Department Far Eastern Advisory Committee, a Trustee of the US-Asia Institute, and a member of the President's Council of the California Institute of Technology. He is also Chairman of the Board of Hexagon Curling International which was the sponsor of the World Curling Championships. K.G. is also the oldest member of the Sugahara Clan started by his father, Kay Sugahara. Kay Sugahara was an early supporter of the US-Asia Institute and Chairman of the Institute's Board of Trustees from 1981 until 1988. Kay Sugahara led the Institute's first trade mission to the People's Republic of China in September of 1981 and put into place many innovative programs that increased understanding between the U.S. and Asia. Kay Sugahara's son, Kaytaro G. Sugara, and granddaughter, Lisabeth Sugahara, continue the family tradition into the third generation as trustees at the US-Asia Institute.

Kent Lucken

President

Mr. Lucken became a Trustee of the US-Asia Institute in 2004 and was elected President of the Institute in 2011. Mr. Lucken is a Managing Director of the Citi Private Bank in Boston, responsible for providing global wealth management services to international entrepreneurs and large privately owned companies. Mr. Lucken also oversees Citi Private Bank’s North American Financial Sponsor practice, which encompasses the firm’s relationships with leading private equity firms and their principals. Prior to joining Citi, Mr. Lucken worked at Robertson Stephens Investment Bank. He also served 14 years as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer, completing diplomatic assignments at the U.S. Embassies in Italy, Russia, Georgia, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia. He holds a master's degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School and completed his undergraduate studies at Iowa State University. Mr. Lucken is an Overseer at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art and serves on boards at Harvard Kennedy School’s Deans Alumni Leadership Council, Iowa State University’s Liberal Arts and Sciences College, and Tufts University’s Institute for Global Leadership. He has represented the U.S. as an international election observer at the national elections in the Republic of Georgia and Kyrgyzstan. Mr. Lucken has spoken on international affairs at Harvard, on National Public Radio and in the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

Lisabeth Sugahara

Trustee

Lisabeth Sugahara is Vice President of Communications at Fairfield-Maxwell, Ltd. (FML), an international shipping and oil services company based in New York, NY. The company has offices in Japan and Vietnam, and does significant trade in East and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining FML, she was a communications consultant at an insurance brokerage firm working with Fortune 100 clients. Lisabeth has a long interest in Asian economies. Her MBA studies at Thunderbird, the Garvin Graduate School of International Management, focused on Asian business environments and global development; she is also a student of Mandarin Chinese. The Sugahara family has been associated with the US-Asia Institute almost since its inception. Lisabeth is pleased to continue this tradition as a Trustee of the US-Asia Institute.

Marlon Young

Chairman

Marlon Young is Chief Executive Officer for HSBC Private Bank, Americas. In this role, he is responsible for management growth of the Private Bank’s businesses in the United States, Mexico, Central and South America. Young began his career with HSBC in 2006 as head of the company’s U.S. private banking operation and was appointed to his present role in September of the same year. He is a member of the HSBC Bank USA Executive Committee, and the HSBC Global Private Bank Management Committee. He joined HSBC after 27 years at Citigroup where he was Head of Private Client Lending at its Smith Barney division. While there, he held various leadership roles including Head of the Northeast Region for Citigroup Private Bank, Head of Investment Finance and Senior Credit Officer for the U.S. Northeast and Mid-Atlantic regions. His international banking experience encompasses assignments in the Philippines, Hong Kong, Singapore & Thailand. Young also has extensive corporate banking experience covering the commercial real estate, automotive and energy industries. Young has received numerous awards due to his dedication and volunteer work including the U.S. President’s Volunteer Service Award. He is an active volunteer in Junior Achievement and the Doe Fund. He is frequently invited to speak on diversity and leadership by not-for-profit institutions; including, the Asia Society, the International Leadership Foundation (ILF) and Ascend. He also serves as Chairman and Trustee of the US Asia Institute since November 2003. He holds a master’s degree in business management from the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, Philippines, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of South Dakota.

Nancy Tom

Trustee

In 1997, Nancy Tom founded the Center for Asian Arts and Media at Columbia College in Chicago in order to highlight the contributions of Asian Americans to America's culture and history. Nancy has dedicated her life to promoting awareness of Asian American issues, art and cultures. She is also committed to philanthropic activities and supporting other Asians in the arts. After the death of her husband in the early 80s, she founded the Chan Tom Memorial Fund Foundation. In 2001, Nancy established the Helen Fong Dare Scholarship for Columbia College students, in honor of her mother. Nancy is a long time crusader for social justice and an advocate for the arts. She is a trustee of Columbia College Chicago, a board member of the Illinois Humanities Council, a member of four Cultural Committees of the City of Chicago's Department of Cultural Affairs: Public Art, International Sister Cities, Multicultural Voices, and the International Program. In addition, she has served as a member of the Asian Advisory Council to former Governor George Ryan, the Council on Foreign Relations, Asia Society Committee, the Art Institute of Chicago's Education Department and on the advisory board of many nonprofit Asian organizations. In the 1980s, she served as a director and advisory committee member of the U.S. Asia Institute and organized the first National Asian American Conference Gala in Washington D.C. Then-President Jimmy Carter served as keynote speaker. Nancy has received numerous awards and honors for her community work in Chicago. In 1997, she received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Organization of Chinese Americans-Chicago. The OCA once again honored her in 2004 with the Woman Risk Taker and Enabler Award. In 1998, she was chosen by Today's Chicago Woman as one of the "100 Women Making a Difference." In 2003 she received a milestone award from the Asian American Institute. She is a grant recipient of the Chicago Artists International Program in 1999. She has spoken at numerous conferences, symposiums and panel discussions hosted by organizations such as the U.S.-Asia Institute, the U.S. Army, the NSFRE Arts and Humanities Network, and the International Women's Associates. Most recently, she was the Keynote Speaker at the Working Mother Media's annual women of color conference and a selection panelist for the 2005 Thomas Jefferson Awards. Nancy's early passion for painting developed into an interest in collecting artwork, particularly "outsider" art. She is an independent curator and has handled special arts events for the City of Chicago and various Asian-American organizations.

Norman Lau Kee

Chairman Emeritus

Born in New York City in 1927, Mr. Norman Lau Kee is one of the founding trustees and former chairman of the US-Asia Institute. He earned a B.S in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1948 and a J.D. from Fordham University in 1955. Mr. Kee is senior partner in Kee and Lau Kee, LLP law firm. The firm represents HSBC, Citibank, Chase Manhattan, and Bank of New York in commercial mortgages, home equity loans, and co-op loan documentation and closings. Mr. Kee also specializes in commercial and residential property transactions, estate administration, as well as immigration matters. Norman Lau Kee is Vice-President of the Elizabeth Broome Realty Corporation, a New York City-based real estate development firm. He is also the Vice President of another real estate development firm, Tai Ming Development Corporation. Mr. Kee is the President and CEO of the New York-based Capital Investors and Management Corporation, a minority small business investment company. From 1969 to 1973 he served as a commissioner on the New York City Human Rights Commission, and he was also Chairman of the Federal Advisory Commission to the Immigration and Naturalization Service from 1979 to 1980. He is a Life Member of the YMCA and recipient of the Order of the Red Triangle, an accolade bestowed on him by the Greater New York City YMCA. He is an active member of many New York City Chinatown community organizations.

Sumiye Konoshima

Trustee

Sumiye Konoshima is a Trustee for the US-Asia Institute, and sister of the Institute's co-founder, the late Joji Konoshima. Ms. Konoshima retired from the East-West Center as Head of Research Information Service after 35 years. While at the East-West Center, she planned, organized and conducted workshops, training programs, conferences and projects on documentation, information dissemination/use with domestic and international organizations in Asia and the U.S. Program. Project subject areas included mass media, communication, telecommunication, information technology, rural/community economic development, population, education.