Established in 1994, the Asian American Business Development center (AABDC) is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization that helps Asian American business proliferate in the mainstream market.

AABDC organized the "Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business" to recognize and award accomplishements of Asian American entrepreneurs and corporate executives. In doing so, AABDC carries out its mission to enhance the roles and voices of Asian Americans in public policy.

Pinnacle Award Recipient
Michael Chen
President & CEO of Media, Communications, and Entertainment, GE Commercial Finance

Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Honorees

Pat Berberabe
President
Phil-Am Trading, Inc

Feng (Michael) Gao
President
Seafood Expert Inc.

Sameer Mittal
President & CFO
UK West Inc.

Rafe Totengco
President
Rafe

Neeta Bhasin
CEO/President
ASB Communications

Sunil Garg
Executive Director
Union County Utilities
Authority

Karen Na
Branch Manager, VP
JPMorgan Chase

Peter Yu
President
Yu & Associates, Inc.

James Eng
VP Store Manager (Flushing)
Macy's

Esther Kim
President & CEO
Dynamics World, Inc.

Benjamin Santos
President & CEO
United Staffing Registry, Inc.

Aixia Zhan
President
Golden Global Travel, Inc

Jim Flock
SVP Technology
Home Box Office

Shu Lin
Vice President & Actuary
Chubb & Son

Se-Min Sohn
Business Development Manager
UPS

Philip Xuan Zhang
Partner, Corporate & Securities
Practice Group
Hodgson Russ LLP

Yao (Helen) Fu
Partner
Menaker & Herrmann LLP

Anna Lo
Partner
Fortune Capital USA

Lihui Zhang
President & CEO
Great Wall Supermarket
Group

Sung Min Kim
President
Cesna Group Inc.

Arun Sampanthavivat
President, Executive Chef, &
Owner
SJL, Inc.

Yong Cui
President & CEO
USA Auto Group LLP

Robert Yi
Operations
Vice President, CPCU
State Farm Corporation


Kamalpreet S. Virdi
Executive Vice President
Aequor Technologies, Inc.

Michelle Bunting
President
Horizon Pediatric
Systems, Inc.

Ambuj Goyal
General Manager, Information
Management Software, IBM
Software Group
IBM

Shan Nair
Co-Founder & President
Nair & Co, Inc.

Sarbari Gupta
President & Founder
Electrosoft Services, Inc.

Chung Ng
COO
ROKKAN

Neil Horikoshi
Director, Global Business
Development
IBM

Pudchong Nil
MD
Barnet Hospital

Nancy Pak
Marketing Director
Colgate-Palmolive Company

Hubin Jiang
President & CEO
Ecompex, Inc.

R.Ravisankar
Vice-Chairman
i-flex solutions

Rachel Vorobyev
Head, Local Market
Improvement & Targeted Growth
Markets
Aetna

Vichai Charalaivan
Vice President
Vasinee Food Corp.

Ajay Waghray
CIO
Verizon Wireless

Grace Chiu
Owner
GC Global, LLC

Alexis Wong
President & CEO
AGI Capital Group, Inc.

Won Choe
Department Manager of Distribution
Engineering, Engineering &
Planning
Con Edison

Songlin Xue
Vice President
Novartis Pharmaceuticals
Corporation

Steve Chon
CEO
Inspa World

Jinsoo Kim
CEO/president
Image Solutions, Inc.

Sean D. Reyes
Litigation Partner
Parsons Behle & Latimer