NACA Mentorship Program 2015-2016

Mentor & Speaker (partial list)

Benjamin C. Bao Dr. Benjamin C. Bao has a rich combination of experience in private sectors, entrepreneurship, academia and community affairs. Dr. Bao is currently the Professor of Business and Marketing at Strayer University, and president of BCBao & Associates. While working at Delta, IBM and Lockheed, Benjamin spearheaded multiple initiatives in global marketing and sales. Benjamin is also active in community organizations, having served on the board of UNICEF, American Mensa, Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce and NACA.

Shahid Charania Shahid is the Managing Director for Emerging Market at Equifax. During his previous service as the president of Global Solutions Business at Fidelity National Information Services, the number of employees grew from 500 to 1600+ in twelve months with new vertical for financial and mortgage services. The company attained a business growth of 150% while improving the gross margin from 5% to 35% in 14 months.

Jerry Del Gaudio Jerry’s expertise is in logistics and international business. Prior to his retirement, he served several executive roles at UPS, including the CFO head, vice president of International Strategy, International Trade Services and Marketing.

Zaheer Faruqi Zaheer Faruqi has been president of Aventure Aviation since he co-founded the company in 2001. He has more than 35 years of aviation experience, having worked in the engineering and maintenance departments of several major international airlines for more than 20 years before co-founding Aventure.

Sunil Ghatnekar Sunil is a professional executive with broad finance, general management, business development and M&A experience. He is currently the CFO for the bottling investments group at Coca-Cola. Prior to this role, he served at the company as its group CFO for Eurasia and Africa markets and earlier as the group manager of corporate Mergers and acquisitions.

Doug Krentz Doug Krentz has extensive experience in commercial and small business banking. He currently serves as the vice president of small business administration at Regions Financial Corporations. Doug previously served as vice president and director at UPS Capital, Quantum National Bank and East West Bank.

Jung Mar Jung has managed teams in Research and Development , Manufacturing Engineering, and factory operations and marketing for many high tech products in Canada. Before his retirement , he was a global marketing executive with responsibilities for Europe, Asia and South America.

Jianning Tang Jianning Tang is currently founder and key consultant at Co-Insight Consulting LLC, Atlanta, GA. She has accumulative 27 years of global R&D management working experience in Johnson & Johnson and Procter & Gamble, expertise on consumer centric product innovation. She has rich experience leading global emerging market innovation portfolio, strategic planning, consumer/market research, pipeline implementation with teams from multi-countries.

Walter Wallace Walter L. Wallace is currently executive director of the Global Logistics RoundTable for the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University. He has 30+ years of expertise in heavy manufacturing industry and service (distribution) industries, with an emphasis in corporate management, strategic planning, marketing, operation, logistics and transportation.

Lynn Yang Lynn Yang is a Director in the transfer pricing practice of Deloitte Tax LLP. She also leads Deloitte’s U.S. China Services Group in the Southeast. Lynn has over 15 years of economic consulting and Big 4 experiences. Her work has spanned a variety of industries, including investment advice, commercial and residential real property, software development and consulting, telecommunication, pharmaceuticals, construction machinery, and other sectors.

Henry Yu Henry Yu is currently the managing Director/Regional Manager-Asia of Global Financial Institutions at Fifth Third Bank. Henry is also heavily involved in the bank’s China Strategy. His China coverage and experiences dated back some 23 years ago. Henry’s 2008-2010 affiliation with Standard Chartered Bank China exposed him to government relations, local corporate and financial institutions, branch expansion and investment banking.