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“Conversations with Global Business Leaders” is a series of dialogues organized by the Asian Cultural Center and PLC Ltd. Inc. to help young professionals in various industries as well as college and graduate students. We will invite visionary business leaders to share their career experiences with attendees through dialogues with Andy Serwer, editor-in-chief of Yahoo Finance. In addition, we will invite six to eight senior professionals and HR advisors from different industries to exchange information and experiences with young people at the events. We hope that this series can not only provide a networking platform for young people, but also an opportunity to brainstorm on their future careers and lives. Media partners for the series include Yahoo Finance and the Hua Plus TV. Many other media will be invited to participate.

Featured Speakers

John J. Mack

Former Chairman/CEO of Morgan Stanley

John Mack is a senior Advisor and the former CEO and Chairman of the Board at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Mack entered Morgan Stanley in 1972 as a salesman and was named president of Morgan Stanley in 1993, Chairman and CEO in 2005. He retired at the end of 2011 as Chairman of the board. He was noted for stabilizing the firm and reenergizing its culture and client franchise, despite an economic downturn. In 2012, He joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts as a Senior Advisor. He also serves on the boards of NY-Presbyterian Hospital, Duke University, University Hospital of Columbia University, University Hospital of Cornell University, IMG, Bloomberg Family Foundation, China Investment Corporation, etc.

Gordon M. Bethune

Former CEO of Continental Airline

Gordon M. Bethune is a retired US airline executive. He was the CEO of Continental Airlines from 1994 until his retirement at the end of 2004. Under his leadership, Continental went from being ranked last in every measurable performance category to winning more J.D. Power and Associates awards for Customer Satisfaction than any other airline in the world. Continental's stock price rose from $2 to over $50 per share. BusinessWeek magazine named Bethune one of the top 25 Global Managers in 1996 and 1997. Fortune magazine ranked Continental 2004's No. 1 Most Admired Global Airline, a title it earned again in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Bethune’s success has won himself many awards and honors in the aviation industry. He currently serves on the boards of Honeywell, Sprint, and Prudential Financial. He also serves as a trustee of the New York Academy of Art and a CNBC Contributor.

Glenn Hutchins

Co-founder of Silver Lake Partners

Glenn Hutchins is an American businessman and investor. He is a private equity investor focused on the technology sector and co-founder of Silver Lake Partners, a $26 billion private equity firm. He was a Senior Adviser in the Bill Clinton presidential transition team, focusing on economic policy. After returning to private equity, Hutchins serves as chairman of Silver Lake portfolio companies SunGard and as a member of the board of NASDAQ OMX Group. Additionally, he has served on the board of such Silver Lake portfolio companies as TD Ameritrade, Seagate Technology, MCI, Inc., Gartner and Sabre Holdings, AT&T and many others, such as The Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Vice Chairman of the Brookings Institution, A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Partial owner of the Boston Celtics, etc..

Stacey Hadash

Managing Director and Metro New York Market Executive for Global Commercial Banking

at Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Stacey Hadash is managing director and the Metro New York Market Executive for Global Commercial Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. She oversees banking teams that cover New York City and Long Island, providing a full range of solutions to companies with revenues of $50 million to $2 billion. The business includes equity capital markets, investment grade capital markets, leveraged finance, corporate finance, and derivatives & foreign exchange origination. Prior to joining the firm in 2005, she was managing director and Head of Financial Planning at The New York Stock Exchange. Before that, she worked with Governor Ann Richards at Public Strategies, a communications consulting firm. She also worked at the mergers & acquisitions group at Goldman Sachs in both New York and London. She started in investment banking as an analyst at Morgan Stanley.

Henry T.A. Moniz

Senior Vice President /Chief Compliance Officer / Chief Audit Executive of Viacom Inc.

Henry T.A. Moniz is a Senior Vice President, Chief Compliance Officer and Chief Audit Executive of Viacom Inc., assists the Board of Directors in its governance oversight role, executive management on managing risk/opportunity and line management on creating/preserving value. He leads a handful of global teams engaged in assurance and consulting activities, and has performed work for Viacom in over 25 countries while serving in other significant roles, including: Deputy/Interim Head of Internal Audit; SVP for Global Compliance; Chairman, Viacom Compliance/Ethics Committee, and so on. Henry currently serves on the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees (and on its Executive Committee, Committee on Trustees and Audit Committee, which he chairs), on the Advisory Board of Harvard Law School’s Center on the Legal Profession and on the Board of Directors of The First Tee of Connecticut. He has served also on the Board of Managers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, among other boards.

Eric Haley

Managing Director of the OMERS Private Equity

Eric Haley joined OMERS Private Equity in its New York office in September 2011. Eric has over 20 years of experience in investment banking, over 15 years experience of private equity investment banking. After graduated from college, he began his career in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley. He was previously a Managing Director at Tailwind Capital, where he worked on several investments in the business services and media/communications sectors, and also worked for Boston Ventures. Eric Haley graduated from Bowdoin College and received the MBA degree from Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.

Benjamin Adams

Managing Director Co-Head of Healthcare IBD Americas at Nomura Securities

Benjamin Adams is the Managing Director for Healthcare Industry Group at Nomura Holding America, Inc. Mr. Adams has been working in the Healthcare Investment since he graduated from Columbia Business School in 1994 and has over 20 years experience in the industry. He worked as the Managing Director in the Healthcare investment field for BMO Capital Markets, Barclays Capital, Bear Stearns, and Credit Suisse First Boston.

Andy Serwer

Editor In Chief of Yahoo Finance

Andy Serwer is the editor in chief for Yahoo Finance, where he oversees all editorial content for Yahoo Finance from breaking news to in-depth stories to original video programming. Yahoo Finance is the number one financial news site, reaching more than 75 million unique users each month. Serwer is one of the world’s leading business journalists. Since the start of his tenure at Yahoo Finance in early 2015, his experience in the field of financial journalism has attracted such high-profile business leaders as Warren Buffett, Carl Ichan, Charles Koch, Larry Fink, Stephen Schwarzman, Jamie Dimon, Ford CEO Mark Fields, etc., as well as economic policy leaders such as Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew, Former Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Former FDIC Chief Sheila Bair. Before he joined Yahoo Finance, Serwer was the managing editor of Fortune magazine for eight years—the longest service of any editor since the 1980s—and worked at Time Inc. for 29 years.