Jordan Kang is a Sr. Strategic Project Manager with the Clorox Company.  He has spent the previous 20+ years in the Consumer Foods and Biotech Industries in various Operational Management and Process Excellence management roles.  He is also a Board member for Ascend and is involved in various non-profits that provide services to the Korean American and adoptee communities.  He attended Emory University for undergrad and the University of South Florida for grad school.  He resides in San Francisco with his wife and four children.

Kevin Kreider is an Actor, Speaker and Founder/CEO of Sans by Taejin Beverage Inc and Taejin Entertainment LLC. Starting off in the fitness industry, he was signed with one of the most prestigious modeling agencies in NYC. He left Philly in 2008 to navigate his way in entertainment as a Korean American adoptee. In 2014, the stress and non-stop nature of the modeling industry took a toll on his body and Kevin was diagnosed with Alopecia Areata. He took a few years off, got sober in 2015, and took a leap of faith by moving to Los Angeles. There he was offered a role in Netflix's international hit, "Bling Empire", the first all Asian and Asian American reality show.

Katherine Li is the Head of Ventures for propelland, a global strategy, design, and engineering firm and Co-Founder of Butterfly FX, a Malaysia-based social enterprise focused on promoting financial literacy for the underserved. In 2019, Butterfly FX was recognized by Fast Company for being a World Changing Idea in the Developing World Tech category. Katherine has 9+ years of leadership experience spanning innovation and design strategy, management consulting, university groups, and startups, setting strategies, launching new businesses, and building teams and capabilities. In doing so, she has brought transformative ideas to market with founders and executives in SF, Silicon Valley, Southeast Asia, UK, Malawi, and beyond.

Kelly is a Leadership Coach specializing in career development and negotiation & influence. She has 14 years of corporate experience, with leadership roles in product, learning & development, and customer experience, across Tech, Professional Services, and Food & Beverage industries. She holds an MBA from UC Berkeley and Executive Coaching Certificate through ICF.

Priscilla Lim has been a member of Ascend since 2017 and currently sits on the boards for the Northern California and LA Metro chapters.

Priscilla is an Executive Director for JP Morgan Chase and serves as the Site Leader for its San Francisco Chapter of Women on the Move, the company’s initiative to support and advance women. She has over 17 years of experience in commercial banking and law. Her previous experiences include working in seven different cities for HSBC Bank and Webb Farry Law Firm

In her spare time, Priscilla enjoys cooking and hosting friends and family for dinner parties. She also enjoys traveling and hiking with her husband.

Nicola is the IBM Alliance Manager at Deloitte, responsible for the Advisory practice’s relationship with IBM. Prior to this she worked in mergers & acquisitions advising on purchase price for technology clients, including Paypal, Alphabet, and Etsy. Nicola is the Hub Leader for Deloitte’s Women & Allies Community, focused on the growth & development and intersections of women. She is a Board member at Ascend NorCal and is presently standing up a women’s program with Ascend National. She spoken on numerous panels on topics such as anti-Asian violence, sponsorship, allyship, and AAPI mental health.

Kimberly Ocampo-Shah is a dynamic content creator, social media butterfly and co-founder of Emotional Content Productions. She is passionate about storytelling. Her innate curiosity and natural outgoing nature has given her the talent for connecting with a wide variety of people. She has the uncanny ability to disarm those she meets and form authentic connections. This skill allows her interviewees to share honest and heartfelt perspectives whether they be entrepreneurs, C-level executives, or everyday people.   Kim's intention is to continue building her storytelling company with an entrepreneurial spirit as she develops personal and corporate brand strategies for her clients. She is an activist at heart that champions representation and visibility. She founded and launched the very first API ERG at her previous organization and is excited to share her voice with the Ascend Leadership community.

Apur Patel is Vice President & Associate General Counsel at Clorox where he leads a global legal team responsible for supporting Clorox’s strategic partnerships and alliances, intellectual property, technology transformation, commercial contracts and legal operations.  Prior to joining Clorox, he was in the Cisco Legal Department where he led Cisco’s Legal Operations and Technology Acquisition groups.  He also built the first global Legal Operations function at Cargill.  Apur spent 14 years at UnitedHealth Group in Minneapolis, MN in a variety of roles leading the Intellectual Property & Technology legal teams and building the legal support for the Optum division’s Asian operations in India and the Philippines.  He has served as the Co-Chair and the Interim Executive Director of Twin Cities Diversity in Practice, a non-profit dedicated to attracting, recruiting, retaining and advancing attorneys of colour in the Minneapolis/St. Paul community.

Jamie Pan - Senior Regulatory Specialist – Regulatory compliance professional with 8+ years of experience in US and Asian markets in conventional food and dietary supplements.  She has a demonstrated history in product commercialization, cross-functional collaboration, Siemens & SAP Product Lifecycle Management, product labeling, business process optimization, import/export, graphic supply chain and product safety. 

Jen Wallner is a PwC Trust Solutions Director in the San Francisco Bay Area serving global clients in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications sector.  She started her career in Portland, Oregon and after a two-year tour at PwC Belgium, she moved to the Bay Area in January 2020. Jen has family and childhood roots in Vietnam, Hawaii, and Oregon and enjoys traveling to her various "homes" for food and beaches. She is also a sneakerhead and collects Nike shoes.

Nicole C. Wong's personal mission -- in work and in the rest of life -- is to inspire radical hope. She's made that impact on hundreds of people's lives throughout her three careers as a journalist for the San Jose Mercury News, Boston Globe, Washington Post, and other news organizations, as a global brand-marketing manager at Yahoo! Inc., and as a learning leader at Yahoo! and now at PwC.

David Zhong is research and development career focused with the Clorox Company.  He helps create and commercialize new products for households and consumers. He is curious about what drives people to enjoy a product. Motivated by learning new technologies, research methods and applying them to product development. He is experienced with bringing new concepts from basic drawings to large scale manufacturing and the store shelf.