Wenda Fong CAPE Co-Chairperson, Vice President, Alternative Entertainment, Fox Broadcasting Company
Wenda Fong is a well-respected producer and director of television and live events with a remarkable track record as an executive and community force. While still an undergraduate at USC, she began her career as producer and host of her own live talk show series and later continued hosting and producing community affairs programs for many Los Angeles TV stations. read more…
Adele Yoshioka CAPE Co-Chairperson, Vice President, International Distribution, Nu Image, Inc.
Adele’s first career in the entertainment field was as a successful dancer/actress/model in many films, TV and stage shows. A few of the directors and choreographers she has worked with are Bob Fosse, John Huston, Norman Jewison, Gene Kelly, Geoffrey Holder, Amy Heckerling, Michael Bennett, Herbert Ross, Ted Post, Lester Wilson, Ron Fields, Peter Gennaro and Pat Birch. read more…
Steve Tao CAPE President, Consultant, Participant Media
Steve Tao started his career in entertainment Walt Disneyland Touchstone Pictures, working on movies including THE DOCTOR, THE THREE MUSKETEERS, OPERATION DUMBO DROP and WHITE SQUALL.
As Head of Dramatic Series for the ABC Television Network, he shepherded the Emmy Award winning THE PRACTICE, ONCE AND AGAIN, and NYPD BLUE. read more…
Sheri Bryant CAPE Co–Vice President, Producer, Intelligent Life Media
Sheri Bryant graduated from Stanford University and worked for The Walt Disney Company for three years as a financial analyst of Investments and Funding. She then joined Disney’s Hollywood Pictures film division and began her career as an entertainment executive.
Gordon Ho CAPE Co–Vice President, Principal, GKH Media
Gordon is the former Executive Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and is the principal of GKH Media, an entertainment & technology consultancy. Gordon currently serves on the Advisory Boards for several start-ups including i.TV, the leading tv program guide and social platform for smart phones, Simulmedia, a data-driven media firm, and Kidlandia, a provider of personalized social merchandise. read more…
Kevin Iwashina CAPE Secretary, Managing Partner, Preferred Content
Kevin Iwashina joined Hunting Lane Films, a film, television and digital production company, in October 2008. Iwashina is responsible for the financing and distribution of Hunting Lane Films’ original productions. In addition, he represents third parties to secure financing and distribution for their filmed entertainment properties. read more…
Masashi Nagadoi CAPE Treasurer, Filmmaker MAPi Productions
Tokyo-born Masashi Nagadoi received a B.A. in International Studies and Economics & Business from Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1987, and worked as a business management consultant at Arthur Young International (now Ernst & Young) in Los Angeles. He received a M.F.A. from UCLA’s Graduate Film School in 1994. read more…
Leo Chu Creator and Executive Producer, “Supah Ninjas” Nickelodeon
Leo Chu is a prolific creator, writer, and producer of groundbreaking television and feature films.
He is currently the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of the hit live-actionseries SUPAH NINJAS for Nickelodeon, which is the #1 show in its time period for boysand the first series on television to feature an Asian American family in 16 years. read more…
Alex De Ocampo SCG and SFF, Corporate Foundation Affairs
Dan Lin CEO, Lin Pictures
Dan Lin is the CEO of Lin Pictures, a filmed entertainment production company that he formed in January 2008. Lin Pictures is based at Warner Bros., where it has a production deal with both Warner Bros. and New Line Cinema. Its primary focus is producing event films and television shows for a global audience. Since his company’s formation, Lin has produced films that have grossed over $975M in worldwide box office. read more…
Peter Cayetano McHugh Manager, The Gotham Group
Peter McHugh is a manager and producer at The Gotham Group.
He joined Gotham in 2000, when the company was part of Michael Ovitz’s Artists Management Group, after serving in the Creative Artists Agency training program.
Karen Moy Vice President, Creative Affairs, Columbia Pictures
Vice President, Creative Affairs, Karen Moy has been a part of the Columbia Pictures creative group and has overseen the story department since 1996. She started as a story analyst with the department, but has been a part of the Sony family for longer, having once been Story Editor for Tristar Pictures.
Jusak Yang Bernhard Board Member Emeritus
Jusak is a business owner, independent producer and an actor. As a producer, Jusak has produced the critically acclaimed feature film hundred percent; multi-award-winning Public Service Announcements for Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival, and National Asian Pacific American Voter Registration Campaign.
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