Youth Mentoring Pilot Project

Marcus is the President of Venli Consulting Group, a sales training firm that has trained thousands internationally. Prior to this, Marcus was a top Director at Cintas Corporation, a $6.8B Fortune 500 company leading a team of 110+ employees. Marcus is passionate about helping others achieve their dreams through impactful mentorship.

Hui holds degrees in Statistics and CS from Tsinghua and U-Chicago, having been a data scientist since 1998. She is passionate about education and giving back to her community, including working as volunteer Chinese teacher, serving in PTO board, helping to run NPOs and hosting a large social media group to support local community.

Coming to the U.S. at age 22 wasn’t easy for many reasons. I graduated in 1982 with a business degree at PSU. I leveraged my higher education credentials to obtain an entry-level position at HSBC. Since then, I worked my way up to the Vice President position, managing over a $300 million portfolio in commercial lending until my retirement in 2016.

Frances is an administrative patent judge at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Before her appointment, Frances practiced patent law in private practice. She has a law degree from UC Davis, a Teaching Certificate (Harvard GSE), and a B.A. in chemistry (Harvard University). She enjoys volunteering and chasing her two young children.

Kristy is Senior Finance Director at Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Company, who is currently responsible to manage $1B revenue portfolio. Kristy graduated from USC majored in business, and received her MBA from Yale University. Kristy has been actively mentoring early and mid career professionals in the past three years at work.

Zhunqing graduated from Tsinghua University and has been a software developer for Oracle since 1997. He has been coaching world-class robotics teams for over a dozen years. He was also active in a local Boy Scout troop. His passion is to foster the holistic growth of future technology leaders.