Dear Friends,

We are pleased to invite you to attend the fifth Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event that will feature Gary Locke who will talk about “A Pioneer In Government Service”.

Gary Locke, is Chairman of the Committee of 100. As Governor of Washington State (the first Chinese American to be elected governor in United States history and the first Asian American governor on the mainland), U.S. Secretary of Commerce, and U.S. Ambassador to China, Gary Locke has been a leader in the areas of education, employment, trade, health care, human rights, privacy, and the environment.

This Committee of 100 Conversations program 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 feature a live broadcast. The video and podcast recordings of the interview will be made available as part of a library of the interviews.

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.

Peter Young, Committee of 100 Member and Board Member and Chair of the Conversations Program will moderate. The broadcast will be on August 11, 2025 from 6 pm Eastern Time to 6:45 pm Eastern Time. There is no fee for the webcast. 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 ConversationsRecollections, Pioneers and Heroes

August 11, 2025 Webcast

▦ Speaker

Gary T. Locke

Chairman and Member of the Committee of 100

Former Governor of Washington State, Secretary of Commerce and Ambassador to China

▦ Moderator:

Peter Young, CEO, Young & Partners, Committee of 100 Member and Board Member, Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program

▦ Time:

6:00 pm Eastern Time

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.

▦ Speaker Bios:

Gary T. Locke

Chairman and Member of the Committee of 100

Former Governor of Washington State, Secretary of Commerce and Ambassador to China

American born Gary Locke is the son of a Chinese immigrant and an American politician, attorney, and former diplomat from the State of Washington, he has had a long and distinguish political career and record of defending human rights. Locke served as the 21st governor of Washington from 1997 to 2005, where he was the first Chinese American governor as well as the first Asian American governor in the continental U.S. During the Obama administration, Locke served as Secretary of Commerce from 2009 to 2011, and as Ambassador to China from 2011 to 2014, the first Chinese American to serve in the role. He is a graduate of Yale University and received a law degree from Boston University Law School.

When asked if there is place for Asian Americans in politics, Locke had this to say: “I think our native cultures have emphasized respect for and care of our elders, but also focusing on education. But my overall response is that Asian Americans are part and parcel of the great success of America. Our grandparents came over in the 1800s to work on the railroads, work the lumber camps, goldmines, worked in the canneries, farmland that most people thought could never raise a crop, worked as merchants in cities that were just emerging. They fought in world wars, died for our freedoms and our liberties. Asian Americans have given our blood, sweat and tears to the communities and to this country. There’s a prosperity that we on the west coast enjoy. So much of the prosperity and progress of the western states is because of the blood, sweat and tears of Asian Americans. From doing the dirty work to fighting in our world wars and contributing to our society now as doctors, researchers, people in high tech, as innovators, in all different professions. We have every right, indeed a responsibility, to help set the policies that will move our communities and our nation forward.”

▦ Moderator and Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program

Peter Young

CEO, Young & Partners

Committee of 100 Member and Board Member

Chair of the Committee of 100 Conversations Program

Peter Young is CEO of Young & Partners, a boutique 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 100The Committee of 100 (C100) is a non-profit, non-partisan leadership organization of prominent Chinese Americans in business, government, academia, and the arts founded 36 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.