Empowering Through Unity: AAPI Career Success Across Generations
Bridging Generational Success in Career and Leadership
Event Details
Date: Thursday, April 18, 2024
Time: 5:00 PM - 8:00 PM PT
Venue: Madarae I San Francisco
Admission: Member: $10 I Non-member: $30
Attire: Business Casual
Description
Please join Ascend NorCal, Accenture and Airbnb Career Panel and Networking on Thursday, April 18th 5-8pm PST.
Join us in bridging the generational success in career and leadership. Our event brings together diverse AAPI voices to foster understanding and collaboration. Through shared stories and discussions, we aim to inspire personal and professional growth, highlighting the strengths of each generation. Discover how embracing these differences can lead to collective success.
Plenary Speakers
Ana Luisa Aldana
Public Service Client Account Lead
Accenture
Ana Luisa Aldana is a Public Service Client Account Lead at Accenture, a global professional services company. She is responsible for overseeing Accenture’s activity in building trusted relationships with Local Government. She listens and works with client to understand their needs and bring the Accenture expertise, thought leadership and the best of the partner ecosystem to address and solve their most critical objectives. Ana Luisa is very involved and passionate about Diversity, Equality, and Inclusion, including recruiting for Accenture, mentoring Accenture’s diverse talent and advising clients in this area. Ana Luisa earned her Bachelor’s from Notre Dame de Namur University and her MBA from the University of San Francisco. Ana Luisa is a double immigrant from Guatemala and supports her widowed mother. She is blessed with husband Peter, and their two college-age daughters Victoria and Alexandra. Rescue cats Manjū and Miso round out the family home in the Peninsula.
David Bhattacharyya
Director, Corporate FP&A
Airbnb
David Bhattacharyya joined Airbnb in 2014, and now leads the Corporate Finance team. Over the years, David has partnered with various executives across the company to drive business expansion, and in 2020 had the opportunity to serve on the deal team responsible for Airbnb’s initial public offering. He is now focused on driving strategic and financial planning across the company, as well as communicating Airbnb's financial narrative to key stakeholders, both internal and external. Prior to joining Airbnb, David spent nearly a decade in the financial services industry, with experience in M&A investment banking, as well as equity research at the Capital Group. David is a proud Double Bruin, having earned both a BA from UCLA and an MBA from UCLA Anderson. He lives in San Francisco with Selin, his wife, and their dog Scout - on weekends, the three can usually be found taking family walks at Crissy Field.
Sabrina Lynch
Management Consultant
Accenture
Sabrina Lynch is a Management Consultant with Accenture based out of San Francisco, experienced in retail merchandising, change management, and project management. Outside of client engagement, Sabrina leads the Social & Cultural Pillar of the NorCal APA Employee Resource Group to foster a community, share and celebrate Asian cultures for cultural awareness, and just have fun! Sabrina received her undergraduate degree in Economics and Sociology at the University of California, Davis. She still engage with one of her clubs (Davis Consult Group), where she can serve as a mentor and share her career experience with students. Sabrina lives in San Francisco and previously volunteered and worked at her local non-profit, The Richmond Neighborhood Center, for food pantry and local community events. Sabrina also loves to bring people together for karaoke and board games.
Yiwei Tang
Director of Capital Markets
Airbnb
Yiwei Tang is a Director of Capital Markets at Airbnb, based in the Bay Area, where she leads various treasury and capital market areas, including foreign exchange, cash investments, and debt capital markets in the finance department. Passionate about social impact, she also leads mission-driven investment initiatives at Airbnb focusing on the empowerment of minorities and women. Prior to Airbnb, she held various roles in the asset management industry at AQR Capital Management and Penn Mutual Asset Management. Yiwei graduated from Cornell University with a master's degree in Financial Engineering and from Dalian University of Technology with an undergraduate degree in Mathematics.
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