We are pleased to invite you to attend the first Committee of 100 Conversations – “Recollections, Pioneers and Heroes” event. This new program will feature interviews of Chinese Americans who have contributed to the success of America through their pioneering efforts, heroic achievements, or recollections of important events.

Our first Committee of 100 Conversations event will feature two of the founders of Committee of 100, Henry Tang and Oscar Tang, who will talk about the founding of the organization, their own personal histories, the impact that the organization has had over the years, and the important role that Committee of 100 will continue to have far into the future.  

Peter Young, Chair of the Conversations Initiative and Committee of 100 New York Regional Chair and Board Member, will be the moderator.

Henry Tang
Managing Partner of Carnegie Towers Strategic Investment Advisory;
Co-Founder of Committee of 100

Henry Tang is a seasoned 30-year investment banking veteran of Wall Street having participated in and observed the global transformation of the capital markets. As a securities management executive and one of the early Chinese American senior financial executives, he has been engaged in global investment and banking activities in Europe, Asia, and the U.S. for several of the largest Wall Street investment banks including Salomon Brothers, Lehman Brothers, and Prudential.

Tang’s business experiences have also been enhanced by a broad participation in numerous public and community activities. He has been active in many efforts to help bridge cultural and economic understanding between the China region and the U.S. and between Chinese Americans in the U.S.

In addition, Tang also has a long-standing commitment towards fostering conditions for the advancement of Asians into senior leadership positions in business, politics, academia, medicine, science, and government. Several years ago, President George H.W. Bush appointed him to the Federal Glass Ceiling Commission chaired by then Labor Secretary Lynn Martin.

Tang has also served as a director of the Committee on Economic Development, the Federation of Protestant Agencies, the Chinese American Planning Council, the Asian Financial Society, and the Chinese American Executive Forum. He also served as a member of the New York-Beijing Sister City Commission. In 1987, Mayor Edward Koch granted him the Ethnic New Yorker Award. He is also the first recipient of the Asian American Business Achievement Award. In 1994, he was awarded the Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

Oscar Tang
Expert on Chinese Culture and Art, Leading Philanthropist, Investment Management Pioneer;
Co-Founder of Committee of 100

Oscar L. Tang has been a private investor since 1993 when he retired from Reich & Tang, an asset management firm he co-founded and served as CEO for 23 years. He now devotes his time to supporting arts and culture and educational organizations.

He is the Co-Chairman of the New York Philharmonic and was part of the leadership which along with Lincoln Center led the historic renovation of David Geffen Hall in 2022. He participated in the recruitment of Gustavo Dudamel to be the next Music Director, including endowing the position in his and his wife’s name.

Tang has served as a trustee of The Metropolitan Museum of Art for more than 30 years. He also serves on the boards of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and USA Bobsled and Skeleton Foundation.

In 1990, Tang was appointed by President George H.W. Bush to the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities; he later served on the New York State Council on the Arts from 2002 to 2004.

A graduate of Phillips Academy, Andover, Tang served on the Academy’s board of trustees from 1995 to 2012 and as board president from 2004 to 2012, during which time Andover became the first American preparatory school to go “need blind.” He attended Yale University and Harvard Business School, and has founded centers of academic excellence at Andover, Princeton, Columbia, and Berkeley and recently the Hsu-Tang Library for Classical Chinese Literature at the Oxford University Press.

Peter Young
CEO and President of Young & Partners;
Committee of 100 New York Regional Chair and Board Member

Peter Young is CEO of Young & Partners, a boutique investment banking firm focused on the life science and chemical industries. He manages the firm and is actively involved in client 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.

Young received a BA in Economics from Yale, an MS in Accounting from NYU, and MBA from Harvard Business School where he graduated with Distinction 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.