C.B. Sung,  Chairman Emeritus 

        Since 1978, C .B. Sung, Chairman of Unison Group, with his wife, Beulah Kwok Sung as his business partner, has organized and launched 39 Sino-foreign joint ventures in China, including: the Great Wall Hotel of Beijing, the largest of the very first three Sino-foreign joint ventures approved in China, and the Beijing Jeep Corporation, the first automotive Sino-foreign joint venture in China. 

         Previously, Mr. Sung served as the Corporate Vice President of Engineering and Research at the Bendix Corporation in 1967 and subsequently as Corporate Vice President and Group Executive in charge of Advanced Technology Group consisting of seven divisions/subsidiaries from coast to coast. He was the first Asian American to have been elected a corporate officer in a Fortune 100 corporation.  In his 22 years with Bendix from 1952 to 1974, the following new industries/products have been developed under Mr. Sung’s direction: numerically controlled machine tools, second generation Channeltron night vision systems, automotive electronic fuel injection, computer graphics with free-cursor digitizer and image data processing systems.

        Mr. Sung is a co-founder and the founding Chairman of The 1990 Institute. He has been active in many other organizations. He is a co-founder and Director of UniControl Inc. and Communication Intelligence Corporation. He has served as a member of the Advisory council for the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and the U.S. National Committee of the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) and is a member of the Committee of 100. 

         Mr. Sung received a B.S. in Engineering from Chiao-Tung University in China, a S.M. in Engineering from MIT, and a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Wei-Tai Kwok,  Chairman of the Board

        Wei-Tai Kwok has been president of The 1990 Institute since January 2008. He previously served on the Executive Committee and was chair of the Publications Committee.

        Professionally, Wei-Tai is Vice President of Marketing for Suntech Power, the world's leading manufacturer of crystalline photovoltaic solar modules.

        Prior to Suntech, Kwok was with the digital consulting division of Aegis Group plc, was a Managing Director at Ion Global, a wholly-owned subsidiary of China.com, and was CEO of Dae Advertising, an Asian American advertising agency.  He is also currently a director of the U.S. China Green Energy Council.

        A native of Washington, D.C., Kwok earned his B.A. in Economics & Political Science from Yale University with a focus on China.

Rosalyn Koo, President

        Rosalyn (Roz) Koo was born and raised in Shanghai. Upon graduation from McTyeire High School she came to the U.S. to attend Mills College. After transferring to U.C.-Berkeley, she graduated with a B.A. in Economics (with honors).

        After a 30-year career, she retired as a business executive of a major San Francisco Architectural firm in 1988.

        A life-long volunteer and social activist, Roz has served on the Board of Self-Help for the Elderly for the past 25 years, leading the agency through phenomenal expansion. Simultaneously, she has dedicated herself to the betterment of impoverished girls through education—first in restoring her alma mater into the pre-eminent public girls’ school in China. Her Hope Project, launched in 1995, sent 84 girls through senior high school, 56 of whom completed college. In 2001, she began the Spring Bud project, which made it possible for 1,000 girls in Shaanxi Province to complete middle school. Through Roz’s 13-year commitment, almost 300 of these students are attending high school and are look forward to going to college.  

        Roz has received many awards for community service including her  induction into the Women’s Hall of Fame in San Mateo County.

Richard Chong, Executive Vice President

        Richard Chong is Chief Financial Officer for Amber Kinetics.   He has served as a General Partner of Sycamore Ventures and as CFO of JL McGregor & Co, a boutique investment bank focusing on investments in China. Prior to joining Sycamore, Richard directed investments for Oncidium Technology Investments, an investment fund dedicated to equity investments in publicly traded technology firms in the United States; as Managing Director for Acme Components Malaysia, a privately held electronic ferrites company; as Vice President of Strategic Planning for USI Far East, a publicly listed Taiwanese petrochemical manufacturer; and as Vice President of Finance for Luzon Petrochemical.

        Richard has also served as Chairman of the California Asia Business Council and as a member of the Board of Trustees of the World Affairs Council.  He received both a B.S. in Economics and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.

Daniel Chao, Vice President

        Daniel K. H. Chao was formerly the Chairman and President of Bechtel China and a Senior Vice President of Bechtel Group, Inc. Dr. Chao lived for three years in Shanghai and managed Bechtel’s activities in Greater China including establishing engineering and procurement centers on the mainland and all activities in its two joint venture companies and two wholly-owned companies.  Prior to joining Bechtel, Dr. Chao was a vice president of Citicorp Global Investment Bank and Chemical Bank, both in New York.

        Dr. Chao has spent 30 years in banking, finance, corporate management, project development, equity investments, and risk management. He established and managed Bechtel’s global aviation, water, and infrastructure companies and worked on numerous mega-projects including the Chek Lap Kok airport in Hong Kong, the Seoul-Pusan High Speed Rail project, and the privatized water distribution system in Manila.

        Dr. Chao holds a B.A. from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.A., M.A.L.D., and Ph.D from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and an Advanced Professional Certificate (Business) from NYU.      

        He is on the board of a number of other non-profit organizations. He is a member of the Committee of 100, the California-Asia Business Council, the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy’s International Management Advisory Council, and the Head-Royce School in Oakland.  Dr. Chao was a former member of the Export-Import Bank of the United States’ Board of Advisors and of the Board of the US-China Business Council.

James Caldwell,  Vice President

 James T. Caldwell, Ph.D., bilingual in Chinese and English, has been a Director of the 1990 Institute since 1990 and active in the Children's Art and the Environment Program committee and the Green Energy Conferences.

He is also a Director of the US-China Green Energy Council, Chair of its Green Building Task Force and editor of the Conference Programs.  As founder and president of E3 Regenesis Solutions, Inc., he specializes in building green energy alliances and energy systems integration for buildings and communities in the US and China. 

To facilitate multilingual publishing, Dr. Caldwell founded Pacific Rim Connections in the 1980's and was the first editor of the Unicode Standard (ISO10646) for multilingual computing. He later served as VP for Multilingual Computing at DAE Interactive Marketing (Ion Global, US). 

Dr. Caldwell  often travels to China and has worked in Beijing for several years.  He has taught university courses on the Politics of Energy and the Environment, Chinese Politics, American Politics, Comparative Politics and World History at SUNY Binghamton and Iona College, NY. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the U.C. Berkeley Institute of East Asian Studies and later Assistant Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University. He learned Chinese at Yale University,  did graduate work at Columbia University and Harvard and earned his Ph. D. from the University of Texas at Austin.    He is married to Jeannette Wei,  another Institute director.

Jeannette Wei, Vice President

Jeannette Wei has been an educator and has been adding to her own education all her life.  

In 1970, Jeannette helped found Ohlone Elementary School, an alternative public school in Palo Alto, with strong emphasis not only on academic achievement, but also on social/ emotional growth, and responsibility for self and others. She received an Outstanding Elementary Teacher Award in 1972. After her retirement in 1994, Jeannette returned to Ohlone School to mentor, train teachers, and in 2009, became the Coordinator for the Mandarin Immersion Program at Ohlone School.

Taking a year off from Ohlone School in 1980, Jeannette  went to China’s Beijing Languages Institute as a Foreign Expert to teach English and Sociology. Then she went on to earn a M.S. in Psychology (Marriage, Family, Child Counseling).

Jeannette’s community services included, over the decades, serving on various Bay Area boards of Educational, cultural and mental health organizations. For six years, she served on the Board of Directors for Donaldina Cameron House.  And since 2006, she has been the Educational Consultant for the Bilingual After-school Program (BAP) and the Bilingual Youth Program (BYP), serving Kindergarten through eighth graders at Cameron House, SF.

Jeannette spent her youth in Shanghai, received her B.A. degree in Music from Mills College, her teaching credentials from San Francisco College for Women (now University of San Francisco), an M.A. in Education with a specialty in teaching gifted and talented students at San Francisco State University (SFSU), and also an M.S. in Psychology from SFSU.   Jeannette is married to Jim Caldwell, also a director of The 1990 Institute.

Charles McClain, Secretary

        Charles McClain holds a Ph.D. from Stanford in History and a law degree from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. He is Vice Chair (emeritus) of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program and Lecturer in Residence at the School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall). His particular area of interest is American Legal History, with some special emphasis on the legal history of Asian Americans, and he has published widely in this field. Among his most important works are In Search of Equality: the Chinese Struggle for Civil Rights in Nineteenth-Century America and Asian Americans and the Law, a four-volume anthology which he edited. He has also written extensively on the history of the California Supreme Court. McClain has visited China a number of times to lecture, most recently in 2006, when he took part in the annual Summer Law Institute at the Kenneth Wang School of Law, Suzhou University.

Audie Chang, Chief Financial Officer

        Audie Chang is a financial professional who has served as Chief Financial Officer or Corporate Controller for over 25 years with Silicon Valley technology companies, including publicly traded companies Tele Atlas, Electroglas and IntelliCorp.   He began his career with Deloitte & Touche in New York City where he became licensed as a CPA. Audie holds an MBA from NYU Stern School of Business and a BA in history from SUNY Binghamton

         Audie was born in China and raised in Hong Kong and New York City. His father was a graduate of Huangpu Military Academy and his mother was the first woman from her village in China to graduate from college. He enjoys volunteering to better his community and has served on the audit committee of Foster City and the scholarship committee of Financial Executives International. He is also a co-founder of the Asian Business League and the San Francisco Chapter of OCA. Audie and his wife Susan have two adult children. In his spare time, he enjoys skiing, cycling, golf, and the performing arts.

James Luce, Executive Committee 

        Born February 1945 at Wright Field, Ohio (now Wright-Patterson Air Force Base); graduated Menlo School in 1962, graduated Yale University with a BA in Psychology in 1966, distinguished graduate from the US Air Force Officer Training School in 1967. Served as a Special Agent and later as Detachment Commander in the USAF Office of Special Investigations from 1967-1971 in New York City and Newark, Air Force Commendation Medal for Meritorious Service; married in 1971 resulting in two wonderful children, Kazia (1980) and Norman (1984); graduated Santa Clara University Law School, magna cum laude, 1974. Practiced civil trial law in northern California from 1974 to 2002; Member of the Board of Directors of the 1990 Institute from 1990 to present; married Melissa Johnson in 2001with whom I co-founded Second Home Stewards, SL in 2002; we have been permanent residents of northern Spain from 2003 to the present. Love history, geography, and poetry; I have travelled extensively in North and South America, China, Western Europe, and the Middle East from 1961 to the present.

Charles Schlangen, Executive Committee 

         Charlie Schlangen was born in Santa Rosa, California.  He is currently the President of Charmar, LLC, a commercial real estate investment firm.  Prior to launching a career in real estate, he was an attorney with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, LLP, practicing in the New York, Palo Alto, and Hong Kong offices where he focused primarily on securities and capital markets work for Fortune 500 companies and international clients.  He is a member of the New York and California Bars.  Before law school, he spent two years at D.E. Shaw & Co. in their Strategic Growth department.  

        Charlie is on the Board and Executive Committee of The 1990 Institute as well as being its Publications Editor.  As part of his passionate commitment to community service, he is on the Board of the Santa Rosa Symphony, on the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago Law School, an active volunteer for Stanford University, and is a member of the Steering Committee of the Morgan Library in New York.  He is also devoting energy to raising money for brain cancer research.    

        He earned his B.A. in International Relations, with departmental honors and academic distinction, from Stanford University.  Charlie went on to read law at the University of Chicago, where he served as Articles Editor and published work with the University of Chicago Legal Forum, as well as receiving the Bell, Boyd & Lloyd Best Advocates Award.  His interests include singing opera, tennis, skiing, and extensive foreign travel.     
     

Marsha Vande Berg, Executive Committee 

        Marsha Vande Berg is the chief executive officer of the Pacific Pension Institute (www.pacificpension.org), a San Francisco-based non-profit serving as an educational resource on the Asia Pacific investment environment for institutional investors with interest in alternative investments specifically, and in Asia and the Pacific Rim generally.

        Dr. Vande Berg oversees the activities and organization of PPI working with a Board of Directors and a full-time staff.  PPI’s membership engages institutional investors in the United States and Canada, Europe, and Asia. Core Asia members include the National Council Social Security; the National Pension Service, South Korea; GPF, Thailand; and Pension Fund Association, Japan.

        Dr. Vande Berg holds a Ph.D. in International Studies from Vanderbilt University and a Master's Degree from Duke University. In addition to her service as a member of the Executive Committee of The 1990 Institute, she has been named to the Advisory Board of the  RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy, is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London.  She is a former fellow of the American Academy, Berlin; the German Marshall Fund; and the American Council on Germany.

Katherine Xu, Executive Committee

Lucille Lee, Executive Committee

While still at graduate school, Lucille Lee was recruited to work for IBM, at a time when a single computer took up a room the size of a basketball court, with cables running underground connecting the various units, and programming was done with paper tapes and punch cards. However, this gave Lucille the chance to develop a number of "firsts" in computing, among them the U.S. satellite tracking program (remember Sputnik?), and the first computer based airline reservation system (for American Airlines). Lucille's career in advance technology with IBM spanned over 30 years, going from nascent real-time systems (60s-70s), to database (70s-80s) , to global communications systems (80s-90s).   Her roles span from architect, designer, implementer, manager, as well as  IBM representative to IBM technology conventions and to ISO (the International Standards Organization).

After retiring from IBM in the late 90's, Lucille and her son Prescott started one of the first social networking web sites called  eCircles.com. For this, Lucille was written up in a New York Times article titled "Mother, I'm the Boss Now".   They later developed two other web sites – PeopleGlue.com, used to build on-line newsletters with content supplied by group members; and filmloop.com, used to distribute photos.

Lucille received her B.A. in Mathematics from Hunter College in New York, and M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard/Radcliffe. She is married to Billy Lee, a founder of The 1990 Institute.