Our guests for today's podcast are Elizabeth Burton, Chief Investment Officer, Employees' Retirement System of the State of Hawaii and Lindsay Burton, Founder and President of the Kayo Conference Series. Elizabeth and Lindsay are two trailblazers and extraordinary women in the finance industry and they happen to be sisters. As CIO for Hawaii, Elizabeth is responsible for overseeing over $17 billion in assets for over 145,000 beneficiaries. That is a lot of responsibility, but for those who know Elizabeth, she is a task master and just knows how to get stuff done! Equally as impressive is the success Lindsay has achieved by starting Kayo and being a catalyst for women in the private equity industry. I had a fun time interviewing both Elizabeth and Lindsay, hearing about their upbringing and the path each took to getting to their current positions. Through hard work, grit, determination, and support for one another, both Elizabeth and Lindsay have achieved awesome success in their early careers thus far. There are many words of wisdoms in the podcast for mid career professionals aspiring to be CIO one day or launching their own business. Without further ado, please enjoy my conversation with the Burton sisters.

Our guest for today's podcast is Ginger Lew, who along with Maeley Tom, conceived and co-founded AAAIM in 2006. Not surprising, it took two awesome Asian women to get AAAIM started! Ginger has enjoyed amazing success in her career in both the public and private sectors, having served under the Clinton and Obama administrations in key roles and more recently having helped to start, operate and sell a very successful infrastructure company.

I asked Bennett Kim, one of AAAIM's founding board members, to conduct this podcast with Ginger given their long and special relationship together. For those of you fortunate enough to know Ginger, she is one of the most delightful people to be around as she is full of optimism, positivity and altruism. There are so many tidbits of wisdom embodied in this podcast so without further ado, please enjoy Bennett's conversation with Ginger Lew.

Our guest for today's podcast is Carrie Lo, Portfolio Manager for the $25B Risk Mitigating Strategies group at CalSTRS (one of the largest public plans in the US) where she has led the venture into hedge funds, specifically those uncorrelated strategies to equities especially in global macro, trend following strategies and systematic risk premia.

Carrie takes us through her personal and professional path from investment banker turned venture startup to hedge fund investor before landing at CalSTRS over 12 years ago. Her journey took her from CA to NY to London (with some time in HK) and ultimately back to CA. Carrie started out in the Innovation and Risk group in 2009 and in 2016, due to the immense successes of this group, the Risk Mitigating Strategies group was born.

Coming from an immigrant family from HK, I found Carrie to be humble, thoughtful and gracious and immensely grateful to her family for their sacrifices in order to build a better life here in the U.S.Carrie is extremely intelligent and curious and a great role model for younger female investment professionals.She takes pride in setting the example that, with hard work, a commitment to excellence, and a "if you don't ask, you don't get" attitude, anything is possible.

Without further ado, here is my conversation with Carrie Lo.

Our guest for today's podcast is Deborah Way, Managing Director, Co-Head of Global Markets Recruiting for Sheffield Haworth, a leading global executive search and talent advisory firm.

After spending over 20+ years in various roles in Global Markets both as a producer and desk head, Deborah made the transition to become a recruiter after leaving Barclays in 2019. From her early days growing up in Wyoming to the campus of Princeton University to the trading floors of Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and Barclays, Deborah takes us through her journey rising to MD and heading up high power teams both in New York and Singapore.

As an Asian female, Deborah shares many insights on what it takes to be successful in the ultra competitive world of sales and trading and succeeding on Wall Street. We touch upon all topics including promotion, compensation, unconscious bias, grit, determination, the bamboo ceiling, and how you know when it is time to leave your job.

Without further ado, here is our conversation with Deborah Way.

Our guest for today's podcast is Geeta Kapadia, Associate Treasurer, Investments at Yale New Haven Health where she leads a team of 5 that manages a $5 billion pool of investment assets.

Geeta takes us through her personal and professional path globetrotting the world before landing at Yale New Haven Health over 12 years ago. In 2020, Geeta was named the Associate Treasurer for Investments effectively the CIO, a highly coveted position in the allocator world.

I found Geeta to be very personable, approachable, and welcoming. Geeta is a role model for investment professionals aspiring to be CIO one day. She takes pride in setting the example that, with hard work, patience and a commitment to excellence, anything is possible.

Without further ado, here is our conversation with Geeta Kapadia.

Our guest for today's podcast is Rendel Solomon, Strategic Advisor to Goalsetter and Founder of One Stock One Future. I sought out Rendel after watching his TedXChicago Talk called "Sharecropper to Shareholder." One word comes to mind when I think about Rendel, his vision for the future, and his selflessness to make his vision a reality: PROFOUND.

Rendel is the rare example of someone who has actually left high finance and a high paying job in private equity in his pursuit to change the trajectory of future generations: the mission for One Stock One Future is to make 1 million underserved youths into public company shareholders. Again, I'll say it again: PROFOUND.

Joining me on this podcast as guest co-host is Brenda Chia, Board Co-Chair and Founding Board Member of AAAIM. What a treat it was for Brenda and me to interview someone of Rendel's caliber and character. We were awe struck as we do believe Rendel will become known as a "generational leader of our time" one day.

Without further ado, here is our conversation with Rendel Solomon.