Opening New Doors: Leading with Grit and Grace with Shirley Wang '90

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Shirley Wang '90 is founder and CEO of Plastpro Inc., an award-winning fiberglass doors manufacturer which has been recognized for innovation by Construction Tech Review and Window and Door Magazine. In 2022, CIO Views listed Ms. Wang among the year’s most admired women business leaders. She was the first Asian American Woman chair for the UCLA Foundation and was on the UCLA Executive Campaign Committee raising 5.49 billion for UCLA. Ms. Wang and her husband, Walter Wang, have supported numerous philanthropic initiatives from being the sponsors of the academy award documentary “Blood of Yingzhou” to supporting the naming of Cedars Sinai Emergency Treatment East rooms. Ms. Wang has been awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor for her contributions to America. She has also received China Institute Blue Cloud Award, the Asia Society Visionary Award and the Anti-Defamation League Humanitarian Award, amongst others.

She currently serves as a trustee for Columbia University, the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Foundation, and the Harvard-Westlake School, as well as a director for the board of Douglas Emmett Inc. Prior to her entrepreneurial career, Ms. Wang earned her MBA from Columbia University and held executive and sales positions at Citicorp and J. Walter Thompson Advertising.

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