General Meeting Speaker Information

Buck Gee is a co-founding board member of the Chinese American Community Foundation. In 2010, he co-founded the Advanced Leadership Program for Asian American Executives, an executive education program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business; and he is also a co-founder of the Corporate Executive Initiative, a national network of Asian American executives. He is board president of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation and co-chair of the Donor Advisory Board of Silicon Valley Community Foundation. He also serves on the board of Ascend/Northern California, the advisory board of the Asia Society/Northern California, and the advisory board of APALI. Mr. Gee retired in 2008 from Cisco Systems, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit. He joined Cisco with its 2004 acquisition of Andiamo Systems where Mr. Gee was President and CEO. Previously, he held management positions in engineering, marketing, and business development at Hewlett Packard, National Semiconductor, 3Com, Crescendo Communications, Com21, and Iospan Wireless. He has also taught computer and electrical engineering courses at Stanford University and Howard University. He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

Suzy Moser is a graduate of Scripps College and The University of Chicago. Suzy spent 10 years teaching in private schools (Lake Forest Academy and the Harvard School, now Harvard-Westlake) and the last 25 years in development.She began as Director of Development at Westridge School in Pasadena, then moved to New York and became Director of Annual Giving at Barnard College as well as a consultant with Charles Webb and Company, working with a variety of cultural organizations through New York and New England. From 1991 to 1998, Suzy lived and worked in Hong Kong and was a fundraising consultant to both Hong Kong institutions that wanted to learn about American-style fundraising and to American institutions that wanted to raise money from Asian sources. After leaving Hong Kong in 1998, she continued to be a consultant, specializing in international development, and then became Senior Development Officer at Caltech, working in the Major Gifts Office. Suzy joined The Huntington as Assistant Vice President for Advancement in 2003 and has had special responsibility for designing and guiding The Huntington’s $175 million comprehensive campaign and for developing a new donor base around the special Chinese Garden project. In six years, Suzy has raised over $20 million for the project, much of which came from ethnic Chinese donors, many of whom had never given to the Huntington before.

In his role at USC, Chris Yates oversees major gifts, planned giving, corporations/foundations, the parents program, USC Associates, USC’s New York and San Francisco regional advancement offices, and provost development initiatives.  Previously he served as Director of Planned Giving at Stanford University from 2003 to 2011 and spent a total of 17 years working at Stanford.  He also spent five years at Caltech as Director of its Gift Planning Office, and got his start in higher education working at Stanford’s undergraduate admission office.  Chris has a legal background, having practiced corporate and banking law with Morrison & Foerster’s Los Angeles office from 1986 to 1989.  Chris received his bachelor’s degree in History and Economics from Stanford University and his JD degree from the University of Chicago Law School.

Dien Yuen is founder and managing director of Kordant Philanthropy Advisors, a social venture dedicated to more effective and impactful philanthropy.  Dien is a recognized leader in the philanthropic sector and is especially known for her work with Asian American donors and donors with philanthropic interests in Asia. She founded two blogs: Asian Philanthropy Forum curates global giving trends and the growth of Asia-based philanthropy; Asian American Giving tracks the pulse of Asian American philanthropy in the U.S  Dien brings more than fifteen years of experience in wealth management, philanthropic planning and non-profit sectors. She served as Chief Philanthropy Officer at Give2Asia and Vice President & Senior Trust Officer in the Planned Giving Services Group at U.S. Trust. Previously, she served as Vice President at Asian Pacific Fund. Before moving to the Bay Area, Dien was a Planned Giving Director, NW Ohio of the American Cancer Society.  Dien is on the team building the Chinese American Community Foundation. She is on the advisory board of Philanthropic Ventures Foundation and chairs OneVietnam Network. Previously, Dien served on the boards of several non-profit and professional membership organizations, including AAPIP (Asian American Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy) and NCPGC (Northern California Planned Giving Council). Dien holds a J.D., LL.M. in International Law, and Chartered Advisor in Philanthropy (CAP) designation.