Co-President, West Coast

Darlene Mar

• Communications Chair for CAABA California
• Board Member of The Greenlining Institute
• Founding Board Member of NCAABA

Co-President, East Coast 

Svetlana Kim

• Author of White Pearl and I: Memoir of Political Refugee
• Board Member of The Library of Congress Asian Division

Vice President

Linda Sarno, Esq.

• Law Office of Maria Elinda C. Sarno
• 2005 SBA Small Business Advocate of The Year
• Board Member of The Orange County President’s Council

Treasurer

Jimmy Kang

• Senior Home Mortgage Consultant, Wells Fargo
• President of Asian Business Association of Silicon Valley

Government Affairs Director

Roberto Llames

• President/CEO of Enterprise Solutions LLC
• Board Member of The Filipino Chamber of Commerce-Washington D.C.

Board Member

John Tagami

• Principal of Pathways Strategies, LLC
• Board Member of Japanese American Memorial Foundation
• Member of Japanese American Citizens League

Board Member

Charles Vang

• CEO of Charles Vang Insurance Agency
• President of Hmong Chamber of Commerce
• Board Member of Minority Business Development Wisconsin Chamber

Board Member

Jenny Hou

• President of JH2 Risk Advisors
• Financial Risk Management Expert
• Risk-based Capital and Fair Valuation Expert

STAFF

Jamie Borromeo is the Executive Director of the National Council of Asian American Business Associations, which is the largest national Asian business coalition in the United States. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, NCAABA provides a national voice for it's network of over 380,000 Asian American small businesses and over 100 Asian business organizations and chambers of commerce on issues of economic development, public contracting, supplier diversity and public policy.

Borromeo is former aide to San Jose Councilwoman Madison Nguyen and former intern to Congressman Michael M. Honda (CA-15), where she assisted in drafting Hurricane Katrina legislation on Capitol Hill. Borromeo graduated with a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and is a graduate of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Management Development for Entrepreneurs Program.

Eric Ochoa is the Senior Program Manager for the National Council of Asian American Business Associations, which is based in Silicon Valley, California. Mr. Ochoa brings a wealth of knowledge with his background in marketing strategy and communications. Eric was formerly based in Barcelona, Spain as Marketing Associate and Product Manager for EBD Software. During his time with EBD, he managed the development of software products while also doing the marketing, research, strategy and materials for the products. He also fine-tuned any consumer facing company materials that were in English.

Before his time in Barcelona, Mr. Ochoa was a strategy consultant for a San Francisco-based consulting firm, Keystone Strategies, LLC, where he worked on various engagements exclusively for Microsoft, which ranged from consultation on a law suit between IBM and Microsoft to the attempted purchase of Yahoo to Windows Mobile.

Mr. Ochoa graduated with a BA in Psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz and he currently resides in Sonoma, California.