Business Council

Asia Society’s Business Council is made up of trustees, volunteers, representatives of the Society’s corporate members, and other friends of the Society from the business community, who are willing to inform corporations and businesses about the work of the Society and who will help encourage them to support the Society. Their role is to advise the Asia Society in the development of business and policy programs, to help build corporate membership of the Society, and to assist in securing corporate support and grants.

Co-Chairs:

  • David Chu, CEO, D.C. Design International LLC
  • Ambassador Carl Spielvogel, Chairman and CEO, Carl Spielvogel Associates, Inc.


Members:

  • Ronald Anderson, Consultant, Chartis
  • Mark Barnes, Partner, High Growth Markets, KPMG LLC
  • Partha Bose, Chief Marketing Officer, Oliver Wyman
  • J. Frank Brown, Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer, General Atlantic LLC
  • Katherine Choo, Chief Investigative & Anti-Corruption Counsel, GE
  • Edward Cloonan, Greenwich Point Group
  • Jonathan Colby, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
  • Henry Cornell, Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co.
  • Everett Cunningham, Regional President, Asia Pacific Established Product Business Unit, Pfizer Inc.
  • Rohit M. Desai, President, Desai Capital Management Inc.
  • Sandra Genelius, Vice President, Corporate Communications, Sony Corporation of America
  • Kiko Harvey, Vice President, Corporate Audit and Enterprise Risk Management, Delta Airlines, Inc.
  • W. Russell King, Senior Vice President, International Relations, Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
  • Ann Li, Managing Director, Center for Economic Transformation, NYC Economic Development Corp.
  • Sreedhar Menon, Chairman, Viteos Fund Services
  • Daniel R. Mintz, Founding Managing Director, Olympus Capital Holdings Asia
  • Patrick D. Mutchler, Company Group Chairman, Johnson & Johnson
  • Xiang Yu Ni, Vice Chairman, Tianjin Economic-Technological Development Area (TEDA)
  • Karen Peetz, Vice Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Financial Markets and Treasury Services, BNY Mellon
  • Stanley O. Roth, Vice President, International Government Relations, The Boeing Company
  • Deven Sharma, President, Standard & Poor’s
  • Manoj Singh, Global Managing Director, Operations, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited
  • Zarina Stanford, Vice President, Marketing & Power Systems, IBM
  • Hugh Stephens, Senior Vice President International Relations and Public Policy, Time Warner Inc.
  • Alan VanderMolen, President and CEO of Global Practices & Diversified Insights Businesses, Edelman
  • Enzo Viscusi, Group Senior Vice President, Eni SpA
  • John S. Wadsworth, Jr., Honorary Chairman and Advisory Director, Morgan Stanley
  • Nicholas C. Walsh, Vice Chairman, Chartis


Advisors:

  • Ronnie C. Chan, Co-Chair, Asia Society; Chairman, Hang Lung Group Limited
  • Vishakha N. Desai, President, Asia Society
  • Henrietta H. Fore, Co-Chair, Asia Society; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Holsman International