NECINA 2012 Career SIG Seminar (April 19th)

[Hui Huang]

NECINA 2012 Career SIG Seminar Time: 6:30 pm - 9:00 pm, April 19th, 2012   Venue: IBM Innovation Center, 404 Wyman Street, North Entrance, MA   Cost: Free to NECINA members and VIP guests, $20 General publics Online Registration required: http://www.acteva.com/booking. cfm?bevaid=229504    Have you ever felt the need to enjoy your work? Do you want to know how those with Chinese educational background get advanced and break the glass ceiling in the American Corporate world? What kind of breakthrough do you need to make your next step right and closer to your goal? Does my ethnic background help or hurt my growth?   If you ever care about the answers to these questions, you cannot afford to miss the 2012 NECINA Career SIG Seminar!   NECINA commits to inspiring and helping Chinese professional community to create more leaders in America corporate. We host this event to provide them access to seek mentors and role models.  We invited senior leaders with similar ethnic backgrounds from different industries to be our speaker and panelists.  They will share generously and authentically their success stories and lessons learned to empower and encourage Chinese professionals to advance in the America corporate world.    The seminar will start with a key note, where VP of Taxation of Dunkin Brands will share his extraordinary career advancement.  In the subsequent panel discussion, we invite the audience to ask questions matters to their individual career situation and gain most out of the event.  Our speaker and panelists have different gender, different education background, comes from different industry.  Everyone can benefit from wisdom of these leaders.  This seminar also provides excellent networking opportunities that facilitate identification of career opportunities as well as sharing of career development.   Agenda:   6:30pm - 7:00pm  Pizza and Networking 7:00pm - 7:30pm  Keynote speech: "How to break the glass ceiling and achieve your career advancement in American Corporate World" by Mr. Yimin Zhang, VP of Taxation of Dunkin Brands 7:30pm - 8:30pm  Panel discussion "How to make my career enjoyable - does my ethnic background matter?" Panelists: Yimin Zhang, VP of Taxation of Dunkin Brands   Hanlan Liu,  Scientific Director, Genzyme, a Sanofi Company Daryl Luk,   Director, Technology Development, Concentric Pauline Mak, Partner, KPMG Biao Wang,   Director of Product Operations, Progress Software   About Speakers:   Mr. Yimin Zhang   Mr. Yimin Zhang is VP of Corporate Tax of Dunkin Brands.  Prior to Dunkin Brands, he worked as the VP of Taxes for Talbots, and he was the Taxes Director of Tax for Leapfrog.  Earlier in his career, he spent almost ten years in the Men's Warehouse Inc. in Texas, progressing to the Director of Tax.  Mr. Zhang received his BS degree in Renmin University in China and his MS degree in Accounting and Taxation from University of Texas, Austin.   Hanlan Liu, Ph. D./MBA   Dr. Liu is a Scientific Director at Genzyme, a Sanofi Company.  Throughout her almost ten years tenure at Genzyme, her group has increased significantly reflecting the broad area of her responsibility, mainly in the small molecule portfolio and expansion of the role and capabilities of the DMPK&Pharmaceutics organization including support of drugs on the market Hectorol®, Mozobil®, Clolar®, clinical development and discovery research programs in genetic rare diseases, oncology, and immunology areas.  Prior to working at Genzyme, Dr. Liu worked at Wyeth and Pharmavite Corporation, where she filed a US patent on "Composition for Increasing Bone Density". Dr. Liu received Ph.D. degree in Analytical Medicinal Chemistry from Purdue University and MBA with distinction in Corporate Finance from New York University. She was a recipient of McKnight Foundation Fellowship and of Proctor & Gamble Outstanding Graduate Research Award (2nd place) at Purdue University, and of Stern Scholar at New York University.  Dr. Liu has co-authored 3 patents and 25 scientific publications and given more than 32 presentations at scientific conferences. She has been the steering committee member of New England Drug Metabolism Discussion Group since 2007.