Our Team

  • Wendy Nguyen

    President

    CMO at Hello Heart, ex-Clover, ex-Counsyl, ex-Bain. 20+ years in strategy and marketing. Been a part of $2B worth of exits. 8 years of experience in political campaigning, managing PACs and C4 in 2016, 2020 and 2022.

  • Andrea Chen

    Co-Director

    Co-founder and former CEO of Propeller, nonprofit social innovation incubator. Accelerated nearly 300 ventures, mobilized more than $290M in financing and generated hundreds of local jobs.

  • Sean Nguyen

    COO at Dendi. Active in Asian American civic engagement. Spearheaded the fundraising to establish the first Asian American Research Center at UNC Chapel Hill.

  • Jay Cho

    Former Director of Government Affairs for VMWare and Verizon. Started his career as a congressional staffer for Rep. Robin Kelly. Named top lobbyist on Capitol Hill. Member of Council of Korean Americans.

  • Vidya Subramanian

    Sr. Director of Marketing at LinkedIn. ex-Yahoo, ex-Greendot, ex-Bain. Volunteer at Vote-By-Mail 2020 where we registered over 50k people to vote-by-mail during a pandemic era election.

Advisors

Richard Schlackman
Political advisor on 4 presidential elections, 16 senate races and the most recent San Francisco School Board & District Attorney recalls.

Kevin Kim
Commissioner on President’s Advisory Commission on AANHPIs

Dr. Vincent Matthews
30+ years in education as a teacher, principal and superintendent. Former Superintendent of San Francisco Unified School District, San Jose Unified Schoo District, Inglewood and Oakland Unified.

Daniel Hidalgo
Associate Professor of Political Science at MIT