Denise is dedicated to advancing the careers of Asian professionals through mentoring and coaching, leadership development, public speaking, and research into the Asian glass ceiling. Over a 30-year technology career spanning executive roles at Sun Microsystems and Cisco Systems, she has also served as Executive Sponsor for Cisco’s Asian Employee Resource Group.

For the past 13 years, Denise has been a mentor with MJAA, helping rising Asian professionals in Silicon Valley. She also served for 10 years as an Executive Advisor of and faculty for Ascend, the largest Pan-Asian Professional Pan-Asian business professional organization in North America. She is an Executive Sponsor of the Aconic Podcast, which features candid conversations with successful Asian and AAPI icons who share their personal journeys of challenges and triumphs.

Denise holds a B.A. in Economics from UC Berkeley and an MBA in Marketing from Stanford University—though she now declines invites to Big Games. A community builder at heart, she founded and co-leads the Stanford Graduate School of Business Asian Alumni Network, which has delivered programming and events connecting Asians within and beyond Stanford.

She would love to be challenged to a lively game of ping-pong.