Speaker

Buck Gee is the co-founder of the Advanced Leadership Program for Asian American Executives at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.  Since 2010, the executive education program has provided leadership training to over 500 Asian American executives from over 100 companies including Microsoft, Google, HSBC, Chevron, and IBM.  He has co-authored many Ascend Foundation research papers on the topic of the Asian glass ceiling, analyzing EEOC workforce data that show that Asians are the most likely to be hired into the white-collar workforce, but least likely to reach executive positions.  He has written opinion pieces on Asian American issues published in the Harvard Business Review, the New York Times, USA Today, the San Jose Mercury-News, KQED public radio, and salon.com.  He has also been featured on podcasts posted by CNBC, One-in-a-Billion, Russell Reynolds Associates, Committee-of-100, Studio Sacramento, Asian Women of Power, and SHRM.

Mr. Gee retired in 2008 from Cisco Systems, where he was Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center Business Unit.  He joined Cisco with its 2004 acquisition of Andiamo Systems where Mr. Gee was President and CEO. 

He is the Northern California regional chair for the Committee-of-100 and serves on the board of directors.  He is also a board member for the Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation, Asia Society/Northern California, and the San Francisco Chinatown Media and Arts Collective.  He holds BSEE and MSEE degrees from Stanford University and an MBA from the Harvard Business School.