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Asia Society Recognizes Winners of 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards

Discover Accepts Best Asian Employer Award 2019

Representatives from Discover Sara Breyfogle and Sugandhi Iyer accept the award for Overall Best Employer for Asian Pacific Americans at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

ATT Accepts Asia Society Diversity Award

Representatives from AT&T including Warner Media/HBO executive Meeka Bondy accept the award for Best Company Marketing to APA Consumers and Investors at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

BNY Mellon Accepts Award at Asia Society

Representatives from BNY Mellon, including Kathleen Wishashan, accept the award for Best Employer for Promoting APA Women at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

Buzzfeed at Asia Society Awards

Representatives from Buzzfeed, including Dao Nguyen, accept the award for Best Employer for Promoting APAs into Leadership Positions at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

Chevron accepts Asia Society Award

Representatives from Chevron, including Jirong Xiao, accept the award for Best APA Employee Resource Groups at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

Goldman Sachs accepts Asia Society Award

Silvia Velasquez Casado accepts the award on behalf of Goldman Sachs for Best Employer for LGBT Asian Employees at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

KPMG accepts Asia Society Award

Representatives from KPMG, including Manolet Dayrit, accept the award for best Employer for Sponsorship and Development of Workforce Skills for APAs at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

BNY Mellon Asia Society

Representatives from BNY Mellon, including Kathleen Wishashan, accept the award for Best Employer for Promoting APA Women at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

Meeka Bondy DMLS 2019

Warner Media/HBO executive Meeka Bondy accepts the award for Best Company Marketing to APA Consumers and Investors at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

Silvia Velasquez Casado DMLS 2019

Silvia Velasquez Casado accepts the award on behalf of Goldman Sachs for Best Employer for LGBT Asian Employees at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

Chevron DMLS 2019

Chevron accepts the award for Best APA Employee Resource Groups at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

Manolet Dayrit DMLS 2019

Representing KPMG, Manolet Dayrit, applauds awardees at the 2019 Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards Dinner at Asia Society New York on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

Tom Nagorski DMLS 2019

Tom Nagorski, Executive Vice President of Asia Society, emcees the Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards, part of the Diversity & Marketing Leadership Summit on May 15, 2019. (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

DMLS 2019 awards

Awardees take home Asia Society's Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards on May 15, 2019 in New York (Asia Society/Shahar Azran)

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For their efforts in promoting and developing Asian Pacific American (APA) talent, Asia Society has named Discover Financial Services, Inc. the Overall Best Employer in the 2019 edition of the Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards. For their "distinguished performance" in the field, the awards also recognize independent digital media company BuzzFeed and professional services firm KPMG LLP.

The full list of winners:

Overall Best Employer for Asian Pacific Americans

Asia Society Best Employer 2019: Overall Best Employer for Asian Pacific Americans

Winner: Discover

Distinguished Performance: BuzzFeed, KPMG


Best Employers:

Asia Society Best Employer 2019: Best for Sponsorship and Development of Workforce Skills

Best Employer for Sponsorship and Development of Workforce Skills for APAs

Winner: KPMG
Distinguished Performance: Chevron, Discover

 

 

Asia Society Best Employer 2019: Best for Promoting Asian Pacific Americans into Leadership Positions

Best Employer for Promoting APAs into Leadership Positions

Winner: BuzzFeed
Distinguished Performance: Colgate-Palmolive, Credit Suisse

 

 

Asia Society Best Employer 2019: Best Asian Pacific American Employee Resource Groups

Best APA Employee Resource Groups

Winner: Chevron
Distinguished Performance: Cigna, Grant Thornton

 

 

Asia Society Best Employer 2019: Best for Marketing to Asian Pacific American Consumers

Best Company Marketing to APA Consumers and Investors

Winner: AT&T
Distinguished Performance: PepsiCo, PG&E

 

 

Asia Society Best Employer 2019: Best for Promoting Asian Pacific American Women

Best Employer for Promoting APA Women

Winner: BNY Mellon
Distinguished Performance: Credit Suisse, Marriott

 

 

Asia Society Best Employer 2019: Best for Promoting LGBT Asian Pacific American Employees

Best Employer for LGBT Asian Employees

Winner: Goldman Sachs
Distinguished Performance: Marriott, BNY Mellon


Most Innovative Practice Citations:

2019 Most Innovative Practices: Recruitment and Selection

Recruitment and Selection

Grant Thornton (Best of the Best); BuzzFeed; KPMG; Goldman Sachs

 

 

2019 Most Innovative Practices: Retention

Retention

KPMG (Best of the Best); Goldman Sachs

 

 

2019 Most Innovative Practices: Growth and Advancement

Employee Growth & Advancement

Goldman Sachs (Best of the Best); KPMG

 

 

2019 Most Innovative Practices: Profit and Loss

Profit & Loss Leadership Development

Chevron (Best of the Best); Boston Scientific

 

 

2019 Most Innovative Practices: APA Employee Resource Groups

APA Employee Resource Groups

KPMG (Best of the Best); Discover

 

 

2019 Most Innovative Practices: Marketing to APA Consumers and Investors

Marketing to APA Consumers & Investors

AT&T, PepsiCo (tied—Best of the Best); Marriott; PG&E

 

 

2019 Most Innovative Practices: Promoting APA Women

Promoting APA Women

Medtronic (Best of the Best); AT&T

 

 

2019 Most Innovative Practices: LGBT Asian Employees

LGBT Asian Employees

Grant Thornton (Best of the Best); Discover; BNY Mellon

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Asia Society Best Companies for Asian Pacific Americans Awards 2019

Asia Society Names Discover, BuzzFeed, and KPMG as Best Employers for Asian Pacific Americans in 2019

The results are part of a survey honoring employers for their achievements in promoting diversity and the quality of their APA workforce initiatives.
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