Leadership

Ginger is the CEO of Three Oaks Investments, LLC, a n advisory services firm based in Naples, Florida.

Ginger was one of the co-founders of Cube Hydro Partners, and its predecessor company, Enduring Hydro. She served as Managing Director and General Counsel. She guided the company through an expansive acquisition period g rowing from one 6 Megawatts Western Pennsylvania hydropower plant and five employees to nineteen facilities, 374 Megawatts in five states along ten river systems with 130 employees in less than four years. She provided a broad range of advice and led critical regulatory and financial negotiations throughout the life cycle of the company. In October 2019 Cube Hydro was sold to Eagle Creek Renewable Energy, owned by Ontario Power Generation of Canada. She continues to provide consulting transition services to the new owners. In addition, since 2014, Ginger is a senior policy advisor to I Squared Capital, a $13 billion global infrastructure fund based in Miami, Florida.

Ginger has held numerous roles in federal government. She was the Acting Chief Counsel for the Western United States, Department of Energy. She was appointed by Secretary Vance to be Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia. When Bill Clinton was elected President, she served on the transition team and subsequently joined the White House Presidential Personnel Office with a focus on economic agencies. Ginger was nominated and unanimously confirmed as the General Counsel for the Department of Commerce under Secretary Ron Brown. She was nominated and unanimously confirmed as Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer of the Small Business Administration under Administrator Phil Lader. Ginger worked on the Obama transition team as co-chair of the SBA agency team. She then joined the Obama White House National Economic Council as a senior advisor and focused on small business issues, entrepreneurship and women in the economy.

For ten years, Ginger was a member and Board Chair of the Slovak American Enterprise Fund – a US government authorized investment fund in Central Europe to promote small business and entrepreneurship. She was a managing member and venture partner of two venture funds in Washington DC. Ginger also served on the NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council for ten years as a member and Co-Chair.

Ginger has also served on numerous corporate and not for profit boards including Yo semite National Institute (now NatureBridge), the Meyer Foundation, the Smithsonian Institute Travel Exhibitions, Asian Americans for Advancing Justice, and the East West Center. She is the Co-Founder of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers, a trade organization that promotes diversity and inclusion in the investment industry.

Ginger and her husband, Lennart Ehn, live in Naples, Florida. They have two adult children and three grandsons. She enjoys bicycling, hiking and pretends to play golf.

Maeley Tom, co-founder of Association of Asian American Investment Managers, was the former President of the California State Personnel Board. She previously served on the CalPERS Board from 2005 – 2007 and part of 2009. While serving on the CalPERS Board, Ms. Tom served on the Investment and Benefits and Program Administration Committees and served as the diversity advisor to the CalPERS Board. She also served as a special consultant to the California State Controller John Chiang and was instrumental in helping the State Controller launch his Corporate Board Diversity initiative with CalPERS and CalSTRS.

Ms. Tom spent 20 years in the California State Legislature serving as Chief Administrative Officer of the California Assembly under Speaker Willie L. Brown Jr. and Chief of Staff to the California State Senate President pro Tem, David Roberti. She also served as the Director of the California Senate Office of Asian Pacific Affairs.

Ms. Tom was selected by President Ronald Reagan to serve on the Advisory Committee on Women’s Business Ownership. President Clinton appointed her to serve on the U.S. Delegation to the United Nations Fourth World Prep com Conference on Women in 1995. She was a former member of the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee from 1989 – 1997 and served as a delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business. She was an advisory board member to the California Senate Subcommittee on Asian Trade and served on Governor Gray Davis Diversity Task Force before he appointed her to the California State Personnel Board, the governing board that oversees the California civil service system.

A former political columnist for Asian Week and a former producer and host of the Central Valley Channel 40 “Facets’ television series, Ms. Tom is also the founding president of the California Joint Asian Pacific Legislative Caucus Institute. She is a member of the Committee 100 and recently published her memoir “I am not who you think I am” on Amazon. She is a graduate of California State University of San Francisco.

David is a Senior Managing Director & Vice Chair at Apogem Capital and has over 30 years of experience in the private markets industry. Prior to his role at Apogem Capital, David was responsible for the overall framework of the TorreyCove Capital private markets offering and provides senior advisory support to Aksia TorreyCove’s client advisory and private market investment research activities.

Prior to Aksia’s acquisition of TorreyCove Capital Partners, David was co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of TorreyCove Capital Partners. He was responsible for managing the day-to-day business activities of the firm.

Prior to TorreyCove, David was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Corporate Group. Throughout his career, David has led investment organizations that have invested/committed over $4 5 billion in private equity investments. He has invested in 26 leveraged buyout, private equity and venture capital investments as a lead investor or co-investor, of which ten became publicly traded through initial public offerings – a number were acquired by Fortune 500 companies. Previously, he was a Managing Director of US Trust and Vice President of Citicorp Venture Capital. David has served on the board of directors of eleven companies, as a board observer for seven, as chairman of the board of directors for two companies, and currently serves on the Honorary Advisory Board for the Association of Asian American Investment Managers and on the advisory board for the Robert H. Toigo Foundation.

He graduated from Stanford University with a BAS in Industrial Engineering and Economics (dual degree).

President & CEO – Leading Edge Investment Advisors, LLC

Clayton Jue is founder and CEO of Leading Edge Investment Advisors, LLC (LEIA), a San Francisco based Manager-of-Managers. During his 30+ year investment career, he developed more than 40 emerging manager programs for large institutional investors and has provided early funding to numerous firms.

Prior to founding LEIA in 2005, Mr. Jue was Executive Vice President and Managing Director of Northern Trust Global Advisors, where he managed $3 billion in emerging manager programs. He was also a senior member of Northern’s Hedge Fund and Trust Investment Committees which oversaw $25 billion in global assets.

Previously, Mr. Jue was co-founder and Chief Investment Officer at Progress Investment Management in 1990 where he successfully developed and managed multi-manager programs for over 11 years. Prior to Progress, Mr. Jue was a Consultant with Callan Associates Inc.

Mr. Jue is one of the six founding Board members of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM) in 2006 and served as a Board Chair from 2010-2017.

Mr. Jue is a graduate of San Francisco State University (MBA) and the University of California, Berkeley (Dual BA). He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation (1991).

Roger J. Sit directs investment management activities for Sit Investment Associates, a diverse financial asset management firm with capabilities in both domestic and international investment products. Roger joined the organization in January 1998 and worked closely with firm founder Gene Sit for over ten years. Prior to joining the firm, Roger was a Vice President and Senior Equity Research Analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York for seven years. Additionally, he was a Captain in the U.S. Air Force, serving six years active duty with financial management responsibilities at Headquarters Sp ace Division. Roger Gradated with Military Distinction from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1984. He earned a M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California in 1987 and an M.B.A. with honors from the Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1991. Roger serves on the boards of TCF Financial Corporation, Convergent Capital, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the McKnight Foundation.