BOARD OF GOVERNORS

Joyce Chen Shueh '96 S '97

Joyce practices law in Princeton, NJ, focusing on estate planning and administration and litigation.  Graduating with an A.B. in East Asian Studies, she worked as a Business Analyst in the internal management consulting group at Bankers Trust Company before obtaining a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Following law school, she clerked for a federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and worked as a litigation associate for Latham & Watkins and Dechert LLP. As an undergraduate, Joyce was active in the Taiwanese American Students Association and the Asian American Students Association, and while in law school, she was Chair of the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and on the steering committee of the National Asian Pacific American Conference on Law and Public Policy. She is the current Chair of the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton and serves as a member of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council at Princeton.

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Sue-Jean Lee Suettinger '70

Sue-Jean has more than twenty years of professional experience as a management consultant specializing in the areas of strategic planning, international trade and investment, market entry strategies, organizational review and assessment, cost analysis, and project and contract management. She is currently an independent consultant working with an education and corporate training company. She also works as an escort interpreter for the National Committee on United States-China Relations. Sue-Jean was previously with Coopers & Lybrand for almost ten years, first as a senior associate of Strategic Management Services, then as a manager and director of international business services, responsible for coordinating the firm's client engagements in the U.S. and Asia. Sue-Jean's professional career has also included the positions of internal cost analyst with The Chase Manhattan Bank, manager of business advisory services with The U.S.-China Business Council, director of enterprise analysis with Automation Research Systems, and Asia business consultant with Primewell Capital. Sue-Jean attended Princeton as a Critical Languages student in her junior year. When the University became coed in 1969, she transferred into the class of '70 and received an A.B. in East Asian Studies. At Princeton, Sue-Jean participated in Asian American Student activities, worked in the winter-in-the-cities program for local teens and served on the 1970 Class Day Committee. She was also active in the Triangle Club, appearing as the club's first female cast member in the 1968 show "A Different Kick."

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Mo Chen '80

Mo graduated from Princeton in 1980, majoring in the Woodrow Wilson School and earning a certificate in the East Asian Studies Program. Then she went on to earn a MALD from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1982. Career wise, she had been in the financial field engaging in foreign exchange and domestic bond management. Since focusing full-time on raising children, she has worked part-time for Berltiz International and Princeton University. Mo has volunteered for Cub Scouts, Girl Scouts, Princeton Area Junior Women's Club, West-Windsor Plainsboro School District, Princeton University, Princeton United Methodist Church, Princeton Ballet School, and the Lawrenceville School.

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Rebecca Choi '00

Rebecca graduated from Princeton with a B.A. in Political Economy as well as a Certificate in East Asian Studies. She has a background in finance and private equity investments. Rebecca currently works with a private equity firm called M2 Holdings LLC, focusing on investments in the lower middle market. Prior to M2 Holdings, Rebecca worked for Fox Paine & Company, focusing on middle market investments in US and Europe, Newbridge Capital (TPG), focusing on private equity transactions in Asia, and JPMorgan’s Financial Sponsors Group. As an undergraduate, Rebecca was Treasurer of the Undergraduate Student Government and Co-Chair of the Projects Board, USG’s funding arm for student organizations on campus. She was also active with a variety of Asian American organizations on campus and co-chaired the Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at Princeton. Rebecca is the current secretary of the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P).

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Youngsuk "YS" Chi '83

Youngsuk became Vice Chairman of Elsevier in June 2005, prior to which he served as Chairman of Random House Asia. He graduated with an Economics degree and proceeded immediately to Columbia Graduate School of Business where he earned his MBA in finance. After 8 years of international banking career with American Express International Bank in New York, Mexico City, London, Paris and Singapore, he joined the privately-held Ingram Industries for the next 10 years. He spent half of his tenure managing the rapid growth of Ingram Micro in Europe and Asia, and the other half managing various entities of Ingram Book Group from Nashville, TN. In 2001, YS moved to Random House as its President. He currently serves as a Trustee of Princeton University. He has also served as trustee, director or a member of Princeton U niversity Press, McCarter Theatre, Chair of Schools Committee in Belgium, Tennessee and Korea, CTNAT (Committee to Nominate Alumni Trustees), Advisory Council of East Asian Studies Department and Ivy Club Graduate Board. He also serves on numerous charitable boards outside of Princeton.

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April Chou '96 S' 95

April graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School with Certificates in American Studies and East Asian Studies. In 2001, she completed a MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and an MA from the School of Education. April currently works NewSchools Venture Fund, where she focuses on building the NewSchools Network, a community of education, nonprofit, policy, and business leaders working to accelerate the pace of K-12 education reform. Prior to NewSchools, April worked for McKinsey & Company as a management consultant in their San Francisco, Beijing, and Washington, DC offices. As an undergraduate, April was President of the Asian American Students Association and an active advocate for the creation of an Asian American Studies program at Princeton. She is the current chair of the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton (A4P) and a member of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council.

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Yeiichi "Kelly" Kuwayama '40

Kelly was in the U.S. Army's (Japanese American) 442nd Regimental Combat Team during WWII where he was awarded a Purple Heart and Silver Star (as a medic). After completing his MBA at Harvard, he joined Nomura Securities where he became General Manager in the U.S. Thereafter, he worked for the U.S. Office of Foreign Direct Investment and the SEC. He was on the Board of the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund and a member of the Board for the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation. He established the Kuwayama Student Aid Fund to promote diversity and believes Princeton is a world University that should pursue social, economic, national, and ethnic diversity as a goal. Kelly also attended the Asian Alumni of Princeton organizational meeting in 1978.

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Rika Nakazawa '95

With almost 10 years of professional experience in Europe, Asia and the United States, Rika brings to Shvo an international breadth and depth of experience, having executed various marketing communications responsibilities with tier-one multinational companies. As Director of Marketing with Shvo, Rika is managing a team of marketing, focusing on bringing breakthrough branded thinking and partnership to the luxury real estate arena. Prior to Shvo, Rika spent 4 years executing strategic initiatives within the marketing group at Accenture, specializing in global marketing strategy for Accenture's Communications, High Tech and Media & Entertainment clients. Previous to Accenture, Rika cultivated her skills and business insight with experience in the field of strategic alliance marketing and marketing consulting with Sony and chinadotcom respectively.

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Qui Vuong '84

Qui spent his entire professional career working in various capacities in the investment management industry: as a portfolio manager, private investor, financial advisor, small business entrepreneur, investment fiduciary, community volunteer/activist, and industry advocate. Qui is a graduate of the Operations Research and Financial Engineering (ORFE) program in 1984. Qui was elected to serve as Sophomore class Secretary-Treasurer, and also joined the '84 section of the Ivy Club. Summer internships with Procter & Gamble led to his senior thesis: Quantitative Methods for Test Marketing New Consumer Products. After working at Procter & Gamble, Thomson McKinnon Securities, and Legg Mason, Qui established his own investment company in 1995. From 1996 to 1998, Qui served as elected Chairman of the Asian-American Coalition of Houston, after having been elected to serve 3 consecutive terms as Vice President of the Vietnamese-American Community Association from 1990 to 1996. From 1998 to 2001, Qui took a sabbatical from managing money to serve as the Mayor's representative and trustee on the Board of the Houston Police Officers' Pension System, a $2 Billion public pension fund. In 2001, Qui was elected to serve as Chairman of the National Association of Investment Fiduciaries, a private not-for-profit peer association advocating volunteerism and activism through investor education and the establishment of best practices in institutional investment management. Qui also serves on the founding advisory board of the CAIA association, the members of which hold the Chartered Alternative Investment Management Analyst professional designation. Qui regularly appears as a speaker, moderator, and panelist at major institutional investment conferences held in the U.S, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Qui is married to Keiko Nishimura, and they have one daughter, Angelina Mai.

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David S. Wu '79

David S. Wu is a Virginia and Illinois CPA and a Registered Investor Advisor with over 20 years of general management, business development and financial management experience in both US and US-established Chinese companies. He has been among the highest ranking Asian American employee in several Fortune 500 companies for over 10 years. He is also the author of the book Organizing for Profit in China which is available at www.amazon.com. Mr. Wu sits on many Boards and/or advises Boards of for-profit and non-profit entities including, but not limited to EMD-China, the former Locomotive Division of General Motors, Jervis Webb-China, the material handling specialists in both automotive and airport systems, China Team International, an executive search firm, Ambleside Advisory Services, a consulting firm based in China, as well as Governor and Officer of Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton University. Mr. Wu was, until September 2002, Regional Manager of Greater China for Tyco Fire & Security Asia where he delivered 80% profit growth and restructured operations to include transparent financial reporting. Tyco is a NYSE listed global conglomerate with leading brand names such as ADT, Sensormatic, Simplex, Ansul, etc. Between 1994 and 2000, Mr. Wu negotiated the only profitable investment and became the President and Chief Financial Officer of AlliedSignal (now Honeywell)'s Shanghai joint venture, introduced Danaher's Continuous Improvement culture in their Instrument and Controls Group, and transitioned RRDonnelley's printing operation into a High Technology Enterprise in China. Mr. Wu was responsible for the implementation of the Productivity business performance measure in the $12 billion AlliedSignal that was first introduced in the 1992 Annual Report, before he became Asia Aerospace Systems Business Development Director. He started his career establishing the Strategic Planning Department at the Helicopter Division of The Boeing Company and was the Planning and Analysis Assistant Controller for BFGoodrich. Mr. Wu coordinated the first Asian Alumni of Princeton Career Conference and Organization event in 1978, and is exploring ways to increase the contribution of Princetonians interested in Asia and Asian American affairs (such as Asian Alumni of Princeton Foundation). He has been active in Alumni Schools Committee, various Princeton Clubs, Careers Committee, and Princeton Entrepreneur Network. Mr. Wu obtained his BSE from Princeton University in 1979, MBA from The Wharton School of Finance and MSE from University of Pennsylvania in 1982. Mr. Wu reads and writes Chinese, and is fluent in the Cantonese and Mandarin dialects.

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