董事会

Preeti has over two decades of experience scaling mission-driven organizations through growth, transition, and institutional maturation. An executive and civic leader, his work sits at the intersection of hospitality, design, and community impact.

Most recently, Preeti served as Chief Executive Officer of Kent Hospitality Group, a multi-Michelin-starred platform founded by the late Chef Jamal James Kent, where he led an ambitious phase of expansion through new concepts and acquisitions while advancing a long-term vision for the future of hospitality. In parallel, he is a founding partner of the architecture and design practice Modellus Novus, recognized for shaping some of New York City’s most celebrated cultural and dining destinations. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Asian American Policy Review at Harvard Kennedy School and is a co-founder of Central Queens Academy Charter School, the highest-performing public middle school in Queens. Preeti began his career in Paris working for Pritzker Prize–winning architect Jean Nouvel and holds degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Columbia University, and Harvard University. He has been honored with an Official Commendation from the City of New York for his leadership in the Asian American community.

Eric T. Lee 目前是索罗斯基金管理公司（Soros Fund Management）的投资组合经理，该公司总部位于纽约。在此之前，李先生是 Blockhouse Capital Management 的联席首席投资官和管理合伙人，该公司是一家专注于信贷和股权投资的对冲基金，业务范围涵盖宏观投资。在 Blockhouse 之前，李先生是 PointState Capital Management 的合伙人兼投资组合经理，主要负责高收益和不良信贷投资。李先生还曾担任 Duquesne Capital Management 的常务董事和投资组合经理，以及德意志银行高收益研究部的董事。李先生于 1998 年 5 月毕业于宾夕法尼亚大学，获得沃顿商学院经济学学士学位，辅修亚美研究。

Kathy 是大通数字公司（Chase Digital）的出口汇总主管，负责领导大通的第三方渠道。她负责消费者数据共享战略和产品路线图，以及与第三方和金融科技公司的合作。在加入大通数字公司之前，她在摩根大通担任过多个领导职务。在摩根大通工作之前，她曾在 IBM 商业咨询服务公司和普华永道管理咨询公司担任金融服务行业的首席顾问。

Kathy 拥有哥伦比亚大学工程与管理系统理学学士学位，辅修经济学。她于 1999 年加入 Apex，担任高中导师和 SAT 备考志愿者。她一直与她的学生保持着良好的关系，直到她高中毕业，同时继续负责 SAT 备考项目直到 2004 年。有趣的是，她以前的学生是凯西回到 Apex 加入董事会的关键因素；她们至今仍保持联系。Kathy 在纽约市出生长大，是纽约市公立学校系统的骄傲。

Blaise 是 Kennedys 律师事务所的合伙人。他的执业领域主要是商业诉讼和职业责任保险单分析。在这些领域，他的执业范围还包括因商业和雇佣纠纷引起的调解协商，这些纠纷既包括个人创业者，也包括中型和大型公司。Blaise 还为董事和高管辩护，包括违约、违反信托责任和民事欺诈等诉讼。他于 2001 年 4 月获得纽约州律师资格，1997 年获得罗切斯特大学学士学位，2000 年获得布鲁克林法学院法律学位。

Ray Chan is a Senior Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Alternative Credit Investment Team. In his role as co-head of the Asset Based Finance team within Alternative Credit, he is jointly responsible for the team’s efforts in non-corporate, private credit investments which are backed by financial or hard assets.

Before joining Blue Owl, Ray was a Partner at Atalaya Capital Management, the predecessor firm to Blue Owl’s Alternative Credit team, where he co-founded the ABF/Financial Assets Team and co-led the firm’s efforts in the space. Ray also sat on the firm’s Executive Committee, Risk Committee, DEI Steering Committee and the Investment Committees for multiple funds.  Prior to joining Atalaya, Ray was a Partner and Co-Founder of TTM Capital, LLC, an investment firm focused on acquiring and lending against portfolios of financial and other assets. Previously, he was a Managing Director and co-head of the Assets Group at Highbridge/Zwirn Capital Management. Earlier in his career, Ray was a member of the Principal Transactions and Principal Finance teams at Lehman Brothers and the Asset-Backed Securities Group at Salomon Brothers. He began his career as a consultant at Price Waterhouse, followed by internal consulting and operations roles at Lehman Brothers.

Ray is a member of the Board of Directors for Apex for Youth, a nonprofit providing mentoring, education, and after-school services to underserved Asian and immigrant youth.

Ray received a BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University.

Jeff Chen 是私募股权投资专业人士，也是 Enhanced Healthcare Partners 的创始成员。在加入 Enhanced 之前，Jeff 是高盛集团医疗保健投资银行部的一名经理，主要负责消费零售和医疗保健客户的并购以及股权和债务融资交易。在加入投资银行部之前，杰夫曾在高盛公司执行办公室客户战略部工作，主要负责为公司高级管理人员进行全球客户目标分析。杰夫以优异的成绩毕业于艾维商学院，获得工商管理荣誉学位。杰夫曾是 Apex 篮球教练、导师、志愿者和 Apex 协会董事会主席。

David Jar is a Managing Director at Blue Owl and member of the Technology Investment Team. In his role, he focuses on credit, equity, and structured capital investments in technology businesses, and leads Blue Owl’s efforts in cybersecurity and infrastructure software. He currently serves as a Board Observer for Arctic Wolf.

Before joining Blue Owl in 2019, David led the software/technology vertical at SLR Capital Partners, a credit-focused asset manager based in New York. Prior to that, he was a Principal at KKR in the Capital Solutions Group, and a Vice President at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Natural Resources Financing Group. David began his career as an Investment Banking Analyst at Lehman Brothers.

David is a member of the Board of Directors for Apex for Youth, a nonprofit providing mentoring, education, and mental health services to underserved, low income Asian American and immigrant youth. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors for the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a bipartisan research and policy institution focused on national security matters.

大卫拥有纽约大学斯特恩商学院金融和国际商务学士学位。

Aya Kanai is the VP of Enterprise Content at American Express. Previous roles include Head of Editorial and Creative for Shopping at Google, Head of Content and Creator Partnerships at Pinterest and Editor In Chief at Marie Claire. Aya also spent nearly twenty years as a Fashion Director at publications including Cosmopolitan, NYLON, Women’s Health and Teen Vogue. She was also a judge on Project Runway Junior on Lifetime. A native New Yorker, Aya lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

Roy is a design leader and strategist who has advised real estate developers across the US, helping to shape and form luxury residential and hospitality projects in New York, Miami and LA.

He has held leadership roles across Extell Development Company, Douglas Elliman and Corcoran Sunshine. Currently, he advises on new projects for Extell, ensuring that they achieve sales and marketing goals. As Chief Creative Officer at Douglas Elliman Development Marketing, he advised the nation’s most accomplished developers on matters related to design, development, construction and marketing.

Roy’s foundation in strategic design thinking began at the University of British Columbia, where he earned an M.Arch. It was honed at Eight, Inc., while working for clients like Apple and Nokia and where he was Principal of the NY office. 

Some of Roy’s projects include One57, the building that created Billionaire’s Row, as well as Deer Valley East Village in Park City, One Manhattan Square, Carlton House, The Park Hyatt New York, Central Park Tower, the Gem Tower, 432 Park, The Residences at the West Hollywood Edition, 87 Park, 152 Elizabeth Street, and 100 East 53 Street, to name a few.

他与丈夫克莱顿-克劳利（Clayton Crawley）和他们的爱犬乔治亚（Georgia）在纽约市和纽约州北部两地奔波。

Melody Lee is Chief Marketing Officer, Mercedes-Benz USA. In this role, she oversees brand
positioning and marketing strategy and execution with an aim to ensure long-term growth and
profitability for the Mercedes-Benz brand in the United States.

Previously, Melody was Senior Vice President, Global Brand & Product Marketing for the
Herman Miller and Knoll brands at MillerKnoll. In that role, she was responsible for ensuring a
cohesive brand-led strategy across the two marquee design brands’ products, channels,
messages and audiences.

Prior to joining MillerKnoll, Melody was Global COO and Principal, Americas for Camron, a
global design communications agency, where she led the agency’s New York and Los Angeles
offices.

She was, previous to Camron, the vice president for brand development at Shiseido, a 140-year
old global prestige beauty company. In that position, she led critical strategic initiatives across a
comprehensive remit of brand strategy, product development, marketing and retail planning for
one of Shiseido’s multinational prestige brands.

Prior to Shiseido, Melody spent six years with Cadillac. There, as head of brand marketing for
the iconic luxury car brand, Melody oversaw brand strategy, global planning, partnerships and
experiences and marketing innovation. She also led BOOK by Cadillac, the brand’s vehicle
subscription business, as a discrete business unit, with commercial responsibility for operations
and logistics, financial management, product development, branding and marketing, PR and
business development and corporate sales.

Before joining Cadillac, Melody was executive vice president at global PR agency Hill+Knowlton
Strategies from 2006 to 2012, where she led high-stakes communications campaigns for
Fortune 500 corporations.

Melody lives with her husband and two boys in Atlanta. She attended Georgia Institute of
Technology, receiving her B.S. and M.S. in International Affairs.

吉尔是 Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP 的合伙人，担任证券化和结构性融资业务部主管。Gil 擅长复杂深奥的证券化和结构性融资交易。这些交易包括 SolarCity 公司的首次太阳能资产证券化、政府能效合同的首次证券化以及各种知识产权证券化，其中包括摩城唱片公司 Holland-Dozier-Holland 歌曲创作团队的歌曲版税、数十部热门电视情景喜剧的国内和国际辛迪加版权以及与许多著名品牌（包括 The Athlete's Foot、Joe Boxer、Guess?他曾荣获全美亚太裔律师协会 40 岁以下最佳律师奖。他曾荣获 2014 年 "50 位杰出亚裔美国人商业奖"。

吉尔目前担任 Homerun Projects 董事会成员，这是一家支持纽约市青少年项目的非营利组织。他在哈莱姆 RBI 董事会任职超过 12 年，这是一家非营利组织，为纽约东哈莱姆的 1200 多名男孩和女孩提供社会、学术和体育服务。他还是法律服务志愿者组织的董事会成员。他参与了 Harlem RBI、DREAM Charter School、CAIPA Foundation、Chinese American Medical Society、American Cancer Society - Asian Initiatives、The Lowline、Broadway Barks、Infinite Variety Productions 和 Seido Juku Benefit Foundation 的公益事务和其他慈善项目。Gil 拥有密歇根大学学士学位和纽约大学法学院法学博士学位。

Patrick Lo is the Co-Chief Investment Officer at Saluda Grade. Mr. Lo has 20+ years of structured product experience as a portfolio manager, trader, and banker. Prior to joining Saluda Grade, he was a partner and Co-CIO of Waterfall Asset Management LLC, a specialty finance manager across asset backed, residential and commercial mortgage sectors. Prior to being named Co-CIO, he was Head of International and Private Asset Backed Finance team at Watefall. Prior to Waterfall, he worked in the Asset Backed Finance group at Citigroup Global Markets. Mr. Lo holds a BS in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Yukari 是 kindness.org 的董事会主席，她在多个行业和全球性公司积累了丰富的经验，包括丰田汽车公司、谷歌、推特、ngmoco 和 charity:water。Yukari 专注于提高运营效率，通过技术和产品创新扩大产品规模，以及实现多语言平台的国际化。除了在营利和非营利部门积累经验外，Yukari 还是 Twitter 和 charity:water 的首位亚裔女性高管。Yukari 拥有西北大学学士学位和麻省理工学院斯隆管理学院 MBA 学位。

Maxine Ng Dalio is the founder of Bodhi House Advisors, a development and philanthropic advisory organization that provides strategic planning, training, and implementation support for non-profit organizations and philanthropic entities across the United States, Singapore, and Southeast Asia. 

Maxine 曾担任位于布鲁克林红钩区的艺术与科学文化中心 Pioneer Works 的执行总监，帮助该组织度过了发展和稳定阶段，建立了可持续的收入模式、发展基础设施、运营系统，并启动了该组织的首次资本运作。她还曾在纽约市表演艺术机构公园大道军械库（Park Avenue Armory）任职，最近的职务是大额捐赠总监。

Maxine is a member of Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy and Co-Chair of Philanthropy Asia Alliance Next Gen Impact Collective.  Maxine splits her time between NYC and Singapore, where she resides with her husband Mark and their daughter and son.

GBA/Guilty By Association 是一个面向各代艺术家、设计师和消费者的数字市场和包容性社区。她在新美术馆（New Museum）任职 15 年期间，创立了艺术、设计和技术孵化器 NEW INC 和创意城市（IdeasCity），前者是以会议和节庆形式举办的创意场所建设活动，后者则是打破传统的活动。通过这两个项目，凯伦指导了众多艺术人才，并营造了良好的环境，促成了 NFT 和新的 VR/AR 创意企业的出现。作为一名讲故事和制作节目的专家，凯伦与苹果、奥迪、谷歌、诺基亚贝尔实验室和奥纳西斯基金会建立了数百万美元的合作关系。

Patrick is a Partner and the Chief Business Officer at World Team Tennis. He was previously Chief Marketing Officer at Callisto Media and Daily Harvest. Prior to Daily Harvest, Patrick was CEO of Laird & Partners, the luxury brand and creative agency, working with clients like Tiffany, Tommy Hilfiger, Soulcycle and Swarovski. Patrick was an early partner and the Chief Marketing Officer at Refinery29, where he led growth, marketing and strategy for 9 years. After graduating New York University, he started his career as an investment banker at Wasserstein Perella and an equity research analyst at Soros Fund Management.

At 31, Wen Zhou founded her third company and became CEO of 3.1 Phillip Lim. With her friend, the designer
Phillip Lim, they pioneered a cool, easy, chic style that paved the way for an entirely new market and redefined
the modern luxury space in the fashion industry.

3.1 Phillip Lim’s prescient wardrobe essentials are synonymous with an understated elegance that speaks to
today’s global citizens on the go. Equally important to the brand is the company’s commitment to social
change and sustainability, reflected in special projects, campaigns, and collaborations.

As a co-founder and sole investor in the privately held 3.1 Phillip Lim, Wen took on the roles of President and
CEO from day one and scaled the business from a 5-person team to its current position: a company with an
international footprint, including online, offline, and experiential marketing. The brand offers womenswear,
menswear, footwear, and accessories with offices in New York, Tokyo, Shanghai and distribution centers
worldwide.

Wen has trailblazed — from embracing inclusivity on the runway as early as 2007 to cultivating meaningful
collaborations, including Maya Lin designing a sustainable fashion show; the Brooklyn Nets celebrating
Lunar New Year; a three-year “at leisure off-court dressing” with Fila; sustainable material innovation with
Volvo; and clean beauty with Aveda. These partnerships represent a model for building communities and
actively promoting culture. Most notably, Wen and Phillip leveraged their global audience during the
pandemic to raise awareness and money for AAPI nonprofits. Wen thrives on a double bottom line —
balancing her business acumen with her passion for sustainability and social causes.

Wen demonstrates her soft power by mentoring young female leaders and investing in BIPOC-owned
startups. Additionally, she has chaired the Apex for Youth Gala the last four years, raising more than $10M+
in total, and co- founded the Taste of Asia Festival (2021 $1.2M raised, 2022 $1.6M raised), an outdoor Asian
food community event welcoming 100+ chefs to Madison Square Park for a joyous celebration of culture in
the heart of NYC.

Born in Ningbo, China, Wen arrived in NYC at 12 and settled in Chinatown. In true entrepreneurial style, she
juggled jobs at a fast food restaurant and garment factory while attending high school. After two years at FIT,
at 21, Wen independently founded a high-end fabric import company Aegis Group and never looked back.
Her dynamic, witty, personable, visionary leadership style has drawn accolades, including BOF500, EY’s
Entrepreneur of the Year, and “Top 60 Most Influential Chinese-Americans” by Forbes China.

Jumee Song is Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Siegel Family Endowment, where she leads internal strategy and operational infrastructure to advance the organization’s mission of understanding and shaping the impact of technology on society. She is one of the few Korean American women in C-suite leadership roles within large, staffed private foundations in New York’s philanthropic community. In 2022, Jumee was selected as a Council on Foundations Career Pathways Fellow and has been a member of the Philanthropy NY COO Roundtable since 2021. In 2024, she received a Fulbright Specialist grant to South Korea, partnering with the Asan Nanum Foundation in Seoul. She is currently an Advising Director at Nanro USA, a Korean culinary nonprofit, and serves on the board of the Korean American Family Services Center, and the Asian American Federation, and Northwestern University School of Education & Social Policy. Jumee previously served on the board of the Korean American Community Foundation, where she was a member of the Executive Committee and chaired the Governance and Nominating Committee. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University.

Elizabeth Yan is a Senior Director on the Consultant Relations team at First Eagle Investments. Prior to joining in June 2024, Liz was a Managing Director and a senior consultant relations executive at TCW. Before that, she was Head of Business Development at 1623 Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. Liz was previously Vice President managing consultant relationships at AQR Capital Management, where she was responsible for overseeing existing client relationships, advising on asset allocation and portfolio construction, and discussing AQR’s investment strategies. Earlier in her career, she was on the Credit Portfolio Group at JP Morgan and the Debt Capital Markets team at HSBC. Liz earned a BS in Finance and Accounting from Boston College and an MBA with a concentration in Analytic Finance and Economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She holds the Chartered Financial Analyst and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst designations. Liz is also deeply involved with the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM), a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing diversity and inclusion in investment management, and serves on a few committees including the Accelerate Program, the inaugural College Scholarship committee, and is co-host of the AAAIM HIGH ELI Podcast.

Allister Chan is a Director in the Investment Banking Division at Citigroup, where he is part of the Debt Capital Markets Asset Based & Transitional Finance team. He focuses on the origination, structuring, underwriting, and distribution of distressed, rescue, and asset-based financing transactions for companies across Metals & Mining, Power, Paper & Packaging, and Technology, Media and Communications.

A native of Vancouver, Canada, Allister earned his BA in Economics from New York University. He remains engaged with the NYU community as a mentor to students and as Senior Captain of Citi’s Capital Markets NYU recruiting team. In addition to being a member of Apex for Youth’s Board of Directors, Allister is a member of Futures and Options’ Advisory Council and supports the Committee of 100’s Asian American Careers initiative.

He lives in Tribeca with his wife, Angela, and their daughter. Outside of work, he enjoys traveling, discovering new restaurants and bars, skiing and playing golf.

Justin A. Chen, MD, MPH, is Vice Chair of Ambulatory Services, Vice Chair of Health Justice, and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medicine/New York-Presbyterian (WCM/NYP). In these roles, he leads ambulatory behavioral health strategy across NYP’s East Campus to ensure delivery of high-quality, accessible, and patient-centered care in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Westchester. Prior to moving to NYC in 2023, he was an Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital (HMS/MGH), where he co-founded the nonprofit volunteer-operated MGH Center for Cross-Cultural Student Emotional Wellness to promote the mental health of Asian American and international students and families. Dr. Chen completed his undergraduate and medical degrees at Yale University, his psychiatry residency at MGH/McLean, and his MPH at the Harvard-T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He also completed an HMS Dupont-Warren Research Fellowship focused on improving engagement of depressed Chinese immigrants into mental health care at South Cove Community Health Center in Boston’s Chinatown.