Upcoming Webinars: Asian American Career Ceilings

Jenny J. Ming is a veteran retail CEO with extensive board experience. She is a frequent speaker on the future and evolution of digital and omnichannel retail.

Ms. Ming was the President and CEO of Charlotte Russe, a fast-fashion specialty retailer of apparel, footwear, and accessories for young women from 2009 to 2019.

During her 20 years at Gap Inc., Ms. Ming was co-founder of Old Navy in 1994, a $8 billion brand within the portfolio. She served as the first President of Old Navy from 1999 to 2006. Ms. Ming joined Gap Inc. in 1986, serving in various executive roles in the San Francisco and New York headquarters. Ms. Ming has also worked on the public boards of Levi Strauss & Co since 2014, Poshmark since 2019, and Affirm since 2021. She has served on the private board of Kendra Scott since 2021. Previously Ms. Ming was on the Board of Kaiser Foundation Hospitals and Health Plans from 2007 to 2014, and rejoined the board in 2021. Previously, she served at Barneys New York from 2013 to 2016 and Paper Source from 2016 to 2021.

In 2020, Ms. Ming joined ExCo Leadership, as an Executive Mentor/Coach to CEOs and Senior Executives. Ms. Ming has been honored in Business Week’s Top 25 Managers, Fortune’s “50 Most Powerful Women in Business,” and Wall Street Journal’s “50 Women in American Business” and The New York Times. Ms. Ming is on the Advisory Board of The World is Just a Book Away, and is a member and past board member of the Committee of 100.

Ms. Ming received her Bachelor of Arts in Fashion Merchandising from San Jose State University. In 2012, San Jose State University presented her with an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

SVP & Chief Strategy Officer for DuPont

Raj Ratnakar is SVP & Chief Strategy Officer for DuPont. Over the past four years with DuPont, he has led a complete transformation of the portfolio, completing a series of acquisitions and creative divestitures that has made DuPont a focused, fast-growing, low-cyclicality company. He has also led corporate-wide initiatives that have delivered best-in-class cost structure and cash generation. He also had GM responsibilities for an Engineering Materials portfolio.

Raj came to DuPont from Danaher/Fortive where he led the effort to breakout Fortive from Danaher and then shaped the transformation of Fortive from a cyclical component provider to a fast-growing industrial software leader with high margins and large recurring revenues, doubling its market cap.

His other experiences include a few years in Tyco Electronics, McKinsey, and ten years as a software entrepreneur. Raj has led or originated ~50 M&A deals with >$100B aggregate EV, including complex public company take-outs, RMTs, carve-outs, spins, IPOs and cross-border, emerging market deals.

Raj has an MBA from Wharton and an MS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Prudential Financial, Inc.

Ken Tanji is executive vice president and chief financial officer of Prudential Financial, Inc. He was appointed in December 2018 and oversees global financial management matters, including financial reporting, investor relations, treasury, tax, corporate development, and actuarial.

Prior to this position, Tanji was senior vice president and treasurer at Prudential Financial, Inc., where he was responsible for management of the company’s capital, liquidity, borrowing, and cash management.

Prior to taking on the treasurer role in 2013, Tanji served as chief financial officer of Prudential’s International businesses. In this position, he was responsible for the financial and actuarial management of Prudential’s International Insurance and Investment businesses operating in 10 countries in Asia, South America, and Europe.

Previously, Tanji was senior financial officer of Prudential Annuities, responsible for its financial reporting, planning, analysis, and capital management functions. In addition, he was Prudential’s business representative for its retail brokerage joint venture with Wachovia Securities from 2003 through 2009.

Tanji also served as vice president of Finance for Prudential’s asset management business and held various positions with Prudential Securities’ Private Client and Debt Capital Markets Groups. Tanji joined Prudential in 1988 with the group insurance and healthcare operation in Minneapolis.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Yale University, an MBA in finance from the University of Minnesota, and is a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Tanji serves as trustee and treasurer for the New Jersey Institute for Social Justice and is trustee and treasurer for the Winston School of Short Hills. He also sits on Prudential’s Enterprise Inclusion Council and was formerly the executive sponsor of Prudential’s Asian Pacific Islander Americans (APA) business resource group.

Peter Young is CEO and President of Young & Partners, a boutique corporate strategy and investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client projects, transactions and financings. Under his leadership, Young & Partners has established and maintained its position as a highly regarded firm serving the corporate strategy, M&A, restructuring and financing needs of clients worldwide. He was previously head of industry groups at Salomon Brothers, Schroders and Lehman Brothers, a senior private equity executive with J.H. Whitney & Co. and a senior member of Bain & Co., the corporate strategy firm.

Mr. Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated as a Baker Scholar. He is a CPA and a Chartered Global Management Accountant. He serves on a number of boards of directors, both corporate and non-profit and is a board member of Société de Chimie Industrielle, a leading life science and chemical industry non-profit organization and on the Editorial Advisory Board of Pharmaceutical Executive.