Dear Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to attend our 12th Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event that will feature Anla Cheng, Chair, Founder, and CEO of Serica Initiative and Committee of 100 Member

Anla Cheng is a pioneering Chinese American woman in investment banking and cross-border private investing and a relentless founder and leader of organizations focused on empowering the success and recognition of Asian Americans. These activities include summits, award events, webcasts, PBS broadcasts, and the funding of programs to promote the creation of education materials around the history of Asian Americans in the U.S.

Chinese Americans have contributed greatly to advance the success of this country in many walks of life – science, the arts, agriculture, philanthropy, political leadership, architecture, business, and more.

The Committee of 100 Conversations initiative features interviews of Chinese Americans who have contributed to the success of America through their pioneering efforts, heroic achievements, or recollections of important events. Each interview will start with a live broadcast, followed by video and podcast recordings that will be available as part of a library of the interviews.

Committee of 100’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community; and advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China.

Peter Young, Chair of the Conversations Initiative and a Committee of 100 Member, will be the moderator. The fireside chat will be held on April 14, 2026 from 6:00 pm Eastern Time to 6:45 pm Eastern Time. There is no fee for the webcast. Please register at https://c100-4-14-2026.eventbrite.com. The video recording and podcast will be published thereafter and will be available on the Committee of 100 website.

We hope you will join us. Thank you!

Best regards,
Committee of 100

Committee of 100 Conversations
Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes

April 14, 2026 Webcast

▦ Topic:

“An Asian American Woman Pioneer in Finance and Investing and Promoter of the Success and Recognition of Asian Americans”

▦ Speaker:

Anla Cheng

Chair, Founder, and CEO of Serica Initiative

Committee of 100 Member

▦ Moderator:

Peter Young, CEO, Young & Partners, Committee of 100

▦ Time:

6:00 pm Eastern Time

During this webcast, our speaker will talk about her upbringing and personal history, her pioneering career in investment banking and investing, and her decades of work promoting and enabling the success of Chinese and Asian Americans in this country.

Her personal success in investment banking and investing during a period when Asian Americans faced major barriers to advancement as both a Chinese American and a woman is by itself a great story of achievement and contribution to this country, but her additional efforts that have successfully helped Asian Americans succeed in this country across so many avenues is to be celebrated.

The interview will be moderated by Peter Young, Committee of 100 member and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program. The broadcast will be 45 minutes long.

There is no fee and you can register at: https://c100-4-14-2026.eventbrite.com

▦ Speaker Bio:

Anla Cheng

Chair, Founder, and CEO of Serica Initiative

Committee of 100 Member

Anla Cheng is Chair, Founder, and CEO of Serica Initiative, LLC, an Emmy award winning nonprofit organization dedicated to amplifying Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) voices across culture, business, science, and public life. Anla’s career spans senior leadership roles across global finance and investment management.

She previously served as Asia Institutional Division Head and Senior Vice President at Robert Fleming (acquired by JPMorgan), and held positions at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, where she worked as an Asian Equity Analyst and later as an Asian Portfolio Manager for both Institutional and Private Wealth clients. She subsequently founded and led Centenium Capital Partners, an Asia-focused hedge fund of funds.

She is currently Vice Chair of The Nature Conservancy (Asia Pacific) and Vice Chair of The China Institute. She is also a Trustee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and a member of Committee of 100. Her previous board service includes Past Chair of Facing History & Ourselves – China Project, Past Global Council Member of The Brookings Institution, Member of Columbia University’s Global Council (China), and Trustee roles at MOCA, The New York Community Trust, Riverdale Country Day School, and The Browning School.

Previous to the Serica Initiative, Ms. Cheng is also the Founder and former CEO/Chair of SupChina and The China Project. Anla has received numerous honors, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2023), the Blue Cloud Award from The China Institute (2021), Outstanding Leader Award from Ascend (2019), the Leadership and Service Award from the New York Chinese Cultural Center (2015), and the Legacy Award from MOCA (2009). She is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist, with appearances at The Economist (London), the Milken Institute (Singapore and Dubai), Evercore’s Annual Conference, Harvard University, Columbia University, NYU, Schwarzman Scholars, Model United Nations, the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board, and the University of Pennsylvania, among many others. Anla holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and graduated magna cum laude from Pratt Institute.

▦ Moderator and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program
Peter Young

CEO, Young & Partners

Committee of 100 Member, New York Regional Chair and Board Member

Peter Young is CEO of Young & Partners, a boutique corporate strategy and investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client transactions and financings. Under his leadership, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm serving the corporate strategy, M&A, restructuring and financing needs of clients worldwide. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders and Lehman Brothers, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co., the corporate strategy firm.

Mr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated with Distinction as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors, both corporate and non-profit and is a board member of Société de Chimie Industrielle, a leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive.

The Committee of 100

The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts founded 35 years ago.
The Committee’s purpose is to provide leadership and act as a constructive force in the dual mission of:

• Promoting the full participation of all Chinese Americans in American society and acting as a public policy resource for the Chinese-American community
• Advancing constructive dialogue and relationships between the peoples and leaders of the United States and Greater China

To learn more about the organization, please go to https://www.committee100.org.

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