Vince Fong | District Director, Congressman Kevin McCarthy. For nearly a decade, Vince has served as the district director to House Majority Leader and Congressman Kevin McCarthy. Vince started his career with Congressman Bill Thomas, Chair of the Ways and Means Committee, working on international trade policy to open up markets for our nation’s farmers and small businesses #young #asianamerican
Tyler Diep | State Outreach Specialist, CA State Board of Equalization. Tyler is an outreach specialist for the California State Board of Equalization, an agency responsible for collecting more than $50 billion dollars of sales and use taxes every year. Diep graduated from the California State University, San Diego (SDSU) with a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration. #young #asianamerican
Jason Chung | National Director for APA Initiatives, Republican National Committee. Jason leads the Republican National Committee’s media planning and strategy for the entire Asian and Pacific Islander media, while also overseeing the creation of an RNC Asian Pacific surrogate program. #young #asianamerican
Sam Chung | Manager of Strategic Public Relations, Western States Petroleum Association. The Western States Petroleum Association represents the largest companies within the petroleum exploration, production, refining, transportation and marketing industries within Arizona, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Sam’s core focus includes media relations, message strategies, and issue advocacy strategies. #asianamerican #young
Tami Bui | Manager of Philanthropy for Edison International. Prior to her promotion to managing Edison’s corporate and employee philanthropy, Tami was as principal advisor to Edison International and a regional manager for public affairs for Edison’s subsidiary, Southern California Edison #young #asianamerican
In 2014, Chen Kuan founded Infervision in Beijing. Chen, who holds a double Ph.D in economics and finance from the University of Chicago, is developing artificial intelligence-based algorithms and computer models to help doctors analyze medical scan images for early diagnosis of diseases related to heart and lungs, especially spotting early signs of lung cancer. #young #asian
Myunghun Cha is CEO of fintech startup Coinone, which runs one of South Korea's largest cryptocurrency exchanges. Despite uncertainty around regulations in the country, the exchange reaches monthly trading around $10 billion and earned over 70 billion won ($6.1 million) in 2017, thanks to the local crypto craze. #young #asian
Chang Le Cofounder, SoundAI Technology Founded in 2016, SoundAI is a developer of artificial intelligence-based voice interaction technologies. Its products include a toolkit for smart voice speakers, far-field voice recognition technology as well as providing tailored design for voice-based solutions in several industries, including education, robotics, security and surveillance. #young #asian
Bobby Bao is a cofounder and managing director of Monaco Technology, a payment and cryptocurrency platform founded in 2016. Bao and the team aspire to push local mass-market cryptocurrency adoption, and as part of that, have created the Monaco visa card and mobile app, which allows users to buy, exchange and spend cryptocurrencies at preferable interbank rates. #young #asian
Kunwoo Lee is hoping to achieve a breakthrough in medicine. The South Korean national has co-authored a paper showing CRISPR technology -- which forms the basis for genome editing -- could cure muscular dystrophy in mice. One big challenge is getting the gene editor into the body. His solution? Nanoparticles. His startup GenEdit has already raised $1.5 million. #young #asianamerican
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