
Clear your calendar! You're invited to take part in our upcoming panel discussion:Â Outnumbered - Succeeding in Male-Dominated Career Fields
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Our panelists will share their strategies and personal stories on how we can enhance diversity and inclusion within our organizations.
Presented by Women of Ascend & brought to you by Ascend Greater Washington
Kat specializes in consumer protection laws and regulations for the financial services industry. She has over 15 years of experience in the areas of regulatory compliance, banking, and consulting. Her subject matter expertise includes consumer compliance (Fair Lending and UDAAP), design, implementation and monitoring of Compliance Management Systems (CMS), regulatory and operational risk management, issue and regulatory change management, third party vendor monitoring, enterprise training, and supervising regulatory examination and enforcement action compliance and remediation for large complex institutions. She advises on all aspects of bank products and services.
Most recently, Kat was a Director with Grant Thornton’s Regulatory Compliance practice in Washington, DC, and Senior Director at Treliant Risk Advisors, where she led the Fair Lending practice. Kat’s banking industry experience included senior-level compliance roles at E*TRADE Financial, Downey Savings & Loan, and a white label mortgage company.Â
Win Chang is a Solutions Engineering Director at Oracle, where she uses her experience in global management and software development to oversee cloud customer experience initiatives. In her 30+ years at Oracle, she’s held a variety roles across functions, all which help to enhance the end to end customer experience and ensure customer success. Previously, Win managed a global technical team that was focused on developing Cloud Accelerators, which focused on improving the ability to deliver complete solutions to the sales teams and customers. Before that, she held roles as the Customer Success Director as well as the VP of Customer Experience, where she lead teams focused on exceeding customer expectations and maximizing the value of investment in Oracle Solutions.
In addition to her role as a Solutions Engineering Director, Win is focused on giving back to the community. She serves as the Oracle’s Women’s Leadership Headquarter Community Lead, where she leads a virtual team to deliver monthly events focused in leadership, professional development, mentorship, networking, and innovation. She also is the founder and chairperson of the Oracle Professional Asian Leadership (OPAL) Employee Resource Group and is on the board of directors of the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation.
 Hun Quach, Senior Director for Government Relations, leads in the development and execution of Under Armour’s public policy strategy at the local, state, federal, and international levels. Prior to joining Under Armour in September 2019, Hun served as Vice President for International Trade, at the Retail Industry Leaders Association (RILA). She was a senior staff member of RILA’s government affairs team working to advance the retail industry's trade policy agenda and represented RILA and its member companies before Congress and the Administration.
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Hun also served as Assistant United States Trade Representative for Congressional Affairs in the Obama Administration. Leading the largest expansion of the Office of Congressional Affairs, Hun provided strategic policy and political guidance to senior Administration officials, and served as a liaison to Congress on trade negotiations. Prior to joining USTR, Hun spent seven years as International Trade Advisor for the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, where she advised the Committee Chairman, Senators and staff on international trade issues, and built coalitions among government, business, and non-governmental organizations to support the Chairman’s legislative priorities. She also worked on the legislative staff for U.S. Representative Adam Smith.
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Jessica is the Senior Director in Diversity & Inclusion at Northwestern Mutual. Based out of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, she oversees the Asian Segment. Her career experience consists of professional development coupled with a personal passion and commitment to diversity, innovation through leadership and creative thinking.
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Prior to Northwestern Mutual, Jessica was the Vice President with Penn Mutual, a multi-billion dollar Life Insurance Company based in Philadelphia, overseeing talent acquisition, development & diversity.
Jessica has been serving on the committee of Women's Business Enterprise Council (WBENC) for over 11 years. WBENC is a national non-profit that provides world class standard of certification to women-owned businesses throughout the country.Â
 Min Jee joined Northwestern Mutual in 2019. As Director of Recruitment, she oversees Northwestern Mutual Rockville’s recruiting process. Min Jee spearheads the recruiting and selection process, looking for the best talent in the Maryland marketplace through a mutual selection process. She graduated from University of Maryland, Baltimore County with a Psychology degree. In her spare time she enjoys hiking, playing team sports, and baking.
Ascend is the largest non-profit Pan-Asian organization for business professionals in North America. Established in 2005, Ascend reaches 60,000 people with 34 student chapters and 17 professional chapters in North America around major business hubs and educational institutions. Ascend offers robust professional development and career enhancement programs designed to cultivate Pan-Asian talent.
The Ascend Greater Washington Chapter (Ascend GW) is one of the 51 chapters across the country. Ascend GW is honored to serve as the chapter hub for the surrounding areas of the nation’s capital providing professional development and career enhancement programs across multiple industries. Our chapter also supports five student chapters: University of Maryland, Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, American University and George Mason University