Board of Directors
| Geraldine Kunstadter, Chairman Albert Kunstadter Family Foundation, New York Member of numerous civic and public affairs organizations. Long-time benefactor of Bridge to Asia. |
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| Jeff Smith, Ed.D., President Bridge to Asia Taught in Chengdu in 1984, founded Bridge to Asia in 1987. Committed to educational development in China and Southeast Asia. Graduate of Yale and Harvard.
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| Newton Liu,
Ph.D., Vice-President Bridge to Asia 'Newton' is Bridge to Asia Program Manager, a BTA Board Member since 1987. Graduate of Jilin University and the University of California at Berkeley. Supervises book projects and assists with Internet projects.
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| Professor Tunney Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology Founding Chairman, Department of Architecture, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Helps with our projects in architecture and planning.
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| Deborah Yang, M.B.A. Executive Director, MSCI Barra, Morgan Stanley Capital International, Hong Kong Assisting with marketing and development. Graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Business School.
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| Alfreda Murck, Ph.D. Alfreda Murck is an independent scholar living in Beijing. She received her Ph.D. degree in art history from Princeton University in 1995, and was formerly an associate curator in the Department of Asian Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. She recently published "Poetry and Painting in Song China: the Subtle Art of Dissent".
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| Crid Yu, Ph.D.
Crid received his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Berkeley (B.S., Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996). He was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Co., recently worked at Phillips Electronics, and is now Head of Sales for Google Hong Kong.
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Advisory Board
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| Professor Hu Daoyuan Tsinghua University, Beijing Professor and Director of the Institute of Integrated Information, Tsinghua University, Beijing. An architect of CERNET and leader of efforts to bring the Internet to China. |
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| George
Sadowsky, Ph.D., Executive Director, Global Internet Policy Initiative, Washintion, D.C. Trustee Emeritus, The Internet Society. Committed to introducing information technology in developing countries. |
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| Li Xiaoming, Vice General
Secretary National Library and Information Committee for Universities and Colleges Ministry of Education, Beijing Coordinates our book-donation program in China.
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| Paul Bundy Former Lecturer in Spanish at Stanford University. Most generous of our individual book donors, Paul has personally given more than 250,000 books to numerous libraries around the world. |
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| Jen Lin-Liu Born in Chicago and raised in Southern California, Jen Lin-Liu is now a freelance writer based in Beijing, where she is working on a book about Chinese cooking. She graduated from Columbia University, where she received a bachelor's and master's degree. She enjoys writing, reading, cooking, and traveling to new places. |
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| Ly Tran,
VP of Business Development and Co-Founder, AtHoc. Founded Moca Cafe in Hanoi, co-developed the Ana Mandara Resort, and built Citicorp’s private equity business in Vietnam. Prior to AtHoc, was Strategic Advisor to Ancestry.com. Holds an A.B. from Princeton and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and will assist with development of Bridge to Asia.
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| William Dower, Manager,
Receiving & Stock Follett Higher Education Group Manages Follett's book donation program.
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| Michael White Nebraska Book Company Manages Nebraska's book donation program.
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| Bill Bishop CEO of Red Mushroom, a Beijing-based online game studio. Co-founder and senior executive of CBS MarketWatch. Holds a BA in East Asian studies from Middlebury College and a MA in International Economics from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Spent over 3 years living in China, and speaks Mandarin.
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Friends of Bridge
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| Frank Carothers
Frank is Head of the Gifts and Exchange Program of the UC Berkeley Library. For more than ten years, he has made generous gifts of journals and books, many from the Library, others from donors whom Frank refers to us. We are grateful for the materials we have received through his efforts, also for the help he has given to deliver the books from Berkeley to San Francisco.
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| Matthew Stepka
Matthew graduated with a degree in computer engineering from Case Western and a J.D. from UCLA. He is a founder of one the first Internet cafes, Cyberjava located in Hollywood, has worked at McKinsey & Company for over 5 years, and more recently served as the COO of Worldres.com, an on-line hotel reservation service.
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| Joanna Wang
Graduate of Harvard Business School, MBA 1997. Joanna has worked in venture capital for BioAsia, and more recently joined the venture arm of Agilent Technologies looking at communications and semiconductor investments in the U.S. and Asia. Joanna is originally from Beijing and has lived in the U.S. for nearly 15 years.
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| Cheong Yong
Cheong is staff graphic designer at Conceptus Incorporated, a women's healthcare company. He has designed BTA's marketing communications for the past 10 years, and has visited BTA projects in Shanghai.
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