The Dartmouth Asian Organization (DAO) & Dartmouth Asian Pacific American Alumni Association (DAPAAA) present: ********************************** BEYOND DARTMOUTH Asian American alumni return to give "real world" advice ********************************** November 20, 3pm, Rockefeller 003 *Catered by the Hanover Inn* Join us for discussion and Q&A with a panel of distinguished alumni in the arts, finance, law, medicine, and non-profit sectors. Featuring: Dr. Emil Chynn '87 Surgeon & Director, Park Avenue Laser Vision Terry Shen '92 Partner, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Danica Lo '99 Editor, Racked.com & Author of "How Not to Look Fat" Evelyn Chen '01 Senior Donor Relations Manager, The Nature Conservancy Karim Motani '01* Entrepreneur and Founder of Fandome.com Fang Li '05 Analyst, Cascabel Management Eugene Oh '06* Resident Member, MaYi Writer's Lab Open to all, with light refreshments and a chance to mingle with panelists afterward. ********************************** Co-sponsored by COSO, DCTS, PAC, DCCS For more information on DAPAAA, join the facebook group! *Due to last minute schedule issues, these two panelists will be unable to make the event, but will be available for contact by event participants ********************************** Panelist biographies ********************************** Evelyn Chen is a Senior Donor Relations Manager based in the New York City office of The Nature Conservancy, an international environmental nonprofit organization. She oversees a team focused on prospecting and outreach activities in the five boroughs to build a pipeline of future major donors to the Conservancy's work. Evelyn joined The Nature Conservancy in 2005, and during that time has established a successful Young Professionals Group, a number of annual donor recognition events, and expanded the New York City office's capacity to conduct outreach to mid-level and prospective major donors. Prior to joining the Conservancy, she worked in sales and marketing at a regional office of Mandarin Oriental Hotel Group, and before that as an editor for a small drama publishing company in Hanover. She received her B.A. in English from Dartmouth College in 2001. Emil W. Chynn, MD, FACS, MBA is the Founder and Surgical Director of Park Avenue LASEK, the only non-cutting Laser Vision Correction Center in NYC. $A0He was formerly Co-Director of Refractive Surgery at St. Vincent's Hospital, as well as Clinical Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Long Island College Hospital / SUNY-Brooklyn, and an Attending Surgeon at the Manhattan Eye, Ear & Throat Hospital and New York Eye & Ear Infirmary. $A0Dr. Chynn is a consultant in equities research for Coleman Research Group, Gerson Lehrman Group, and Eastbourne Capital. $A0Dr. Chynn graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1987 with a degree in Biology, received his MD from Columbia, his Residency in Ophthalmology from Harvard, and his Fellowship in Refractive Surgery from Emory. He also received an MBA from NYU with a major in Management and a Certificate in Entrepreneurship. $A0He won the Stern $100,000 Business Plan Competition while at NYU for one of his eye patents, which he subsequently licensed to OcuSoft, Inc., and is now entering FDA trials. $A0Dr. Chynn is a member of MENSA, is the author of a dozen peer-reviewed and 100 non-peer-reviewed publications, and has been featured in the NY Times, Wall St. Journal, International Herald Tribune, Daily News, and on Fox News, CBS News, and on the Glenn Beck show (supporting universal health care and insurance). Fang Li is an Analyst with Cascabel Management LP, a NYC-based investment firm founded in 2008 with a seed investment from Julian Robertson of Tiger Management. $A0Prior to joining Cascabel, Mr. Li was an Associate for Quadrangle Group LLC, where he focused on media and communications private equity in New York and Hong Kong. $A0Mr. Li helped establish Quadrangle's Hong Kong office in 2008. $A0Prior to joining Quadrangle, Mr. Li worked for J.P. Morgan, where he was part of the firm's mergers and acquisitions group in New York. $A0Mr. Li received an AB, cum laude, in Economics from Dartmouth College in 2005. Danica Lo is the Editor of Racked.com, Author of How Not to Look Fat (HarperCollins), the Contributing Style Editor at VMan, a regular contributor to US Weekly's Fashion Police pages and an Adjunct Professor of fashion writing and media communications at LIM College. She was a fashion columnist at the New York Post for six years. Her writing has also appeared in Vogue Paris online and Fashion Quarterly magazine (Canada). She was previously signed to Wilhelmina Models' 10-20 division. $A0Danica was born in Oxford, grew up in Flushing and spent one year living in Cairo. She received an MA Fashion, with distinction, from Central Saint Martins, a master's in Women's Studies from Oxford University and a BA in Linguistics from Dartmouth. $A0She has appeared on television shows such as ABC Good Morning America with Diane Sawyer; NBC Weekend Today with Campbell Brown; FOX5 Good Day NY; ABC7 Eyewitness Morning News; Entertainment Tonight's The Insider; FOX News; Inside Edition; The FOX Morning Show with Mike and Juliet; CNN Showbiz Tonight. She has also been interviewed and featured in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Allure, Fitness, Health, Glamour, Self, In Style, All You, Woman's World, OK!, Real Simple, In Touch, and Life & Style. Karim Motani was most recently Co-Founder and CEO of FanDome, an investor backed digital media company that delivered videos, news, and blogs to sports fans. $A0Prior to launching FanDome, Karim was a venture capital and private equity investment professional at Insight Venture Partners, TH Lee Putnam Ventures, and Maveron LLC. $A0Karim received a BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College in 2001 and an MBA from Stanford Business School in 2006. Eugene Oh is a playwright and actor. A resident member of the MaYi Writer's Lab, his plays have been produced by Desipina & Company, Odyssey Productions and the Humdrum Collective. His play, "Say Anything Do Anything..." was nominated in 2007 by the Texas Circle of Theaters for an Iden B. Payne Award. In New York, Eugene performs for companies including Ensemble Studio Theater, 2G, and Superhero Clubhouse. A graduate of Dartmouth, Eugene was awarded the 2005 Eleanor Frost Playwrighting Award. Terry Shen is a Partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP. $A0Mr. Shen's practice focuses primarily on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. In his experience as a corporate lawyer and previously as an investment banker, Mr. Shen has represented prominent industrial and commercial clients, financial institutions and governmental entities. $A0His work has encompassed a wide range of finance and securities activity, including debt and equity public offerings and private placements, public and private acquisition transactions, leveraged finance, restructurings and securities regulation. Mr. Shen has also advised public companies on regulatory compliance, reporting and disclosure requirements and corporate governance. Mr. Shen received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1995, was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and John M. Olin Law and Economics Junior Fellow, and received his A.B., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from Dartmouth College in 1992.