Philbert Chen

Philbert Chen MD is the Medical Director of Community Partners Health Plan. He is also a practicing physician at Carle Clinic, a 300 physician multispecialty clinic in central Illinios. His interest is in the area of Health and Productivity, looking at how behavior change programs can ultimately affect employee productivity and give corporations a competitive advantage.

He is on the Health and Productivity Committee of the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, which is represented by Medical Directors of several large US corporations. He advises top rated health plans in the area of prevention programming, and benefits design. He works with business coalitions to to help employers design intelligent programs that focus on outcomes and not just costs.

Dr Chen received a Bachelor of Science degree from Yale University in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, and his MD degree from New York Medical College. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Johns Hopkins Health System, Wyman Park Hospital. He has worked as several research labs at Yale University and Biogen.

He speaks on Health and Productivity Management, Clinical Outcomes Measurement, Information Management, Decision Making Processes, and Behavior Change. In what little time he has left, he devotes to documenting the beauty of our world with photographs. 

Sonya Gong-Jent

Ms. Jent is Vice President of Operations — Multicultural Business Development Group at State Farm Insurance Companies’ corporate headquarters in Bloomington, Illinois.

Her career with State Farm began in 1987 as an auto claim representative in Greenville, Miss., and she progressed to the positions of claims supervisor and superintendent, public affairs manager, regional services director, health division manager and executive assistant to the President’s office. In 2006, Ms. Jent was named VP-Operations in the Southern Zone where she was responsible for human resources, learning and development, marketing, public affairs and the developmental agency field offices. She was named to her current post in January 2008 and is the Executive Sponsor for the AsiaNet Employee Resource Group. 

David Lum

David Lum is the Director of Asia/Pacific Product & Support Operations for the Networks & Enterprise business in Motorola. For over 23½ years, David has worked in the land mobile two-way radio business and has extensive experience in a wide variety of markets and applications that use two-way voice and wireless data radio systems. David’s work experience includes product development, systems marketing, manufacturing, systems engineering, field engineering, project and program management, sales and engineering training, business development, product marketing, and supply chain management.

Prior to relocating back to Schaumburg in early 2003, David spent 5¼ years doing Business Development for Motorola’s Asia/Pacific division, living in Singapore. David travelled frequently to many customer locations within Asia to promote radio systems, advised on design, spoke at technical conferences and seminars, presented to many senior level government officials, and educated customers and regulators on technology trends and applications. David also contributed to the industry by writing magazine articles that have been published internationally. One of the more interesting and unique credits in David’s career is being the first Motorolan to enter into the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (aka North Korea) in 2001.

David has a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and a Master’s of Science Degree in Management from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. In his spare time, David is an adjunct faculty member at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, teaching Project Management and International Business to MBA students. David also serves as President of the Asian Business Council, an employee-based network inside Motorola. David also started two Toastmasters Clubs and served as President, and continues to serve as Past President in his club, where he is a Competent Toastmaster. David also contributes his time towards the National Association of Asian American Professionals (NAAAP) Chicago chapter as a senior advisory council member to help Asians in the Chicago area to improve their professional career and leadership abilities through personal growth and leadership development. David also serves on Roosevelt University’s Walter E. Heller College of Business Administration Dean’s Executive Advisory Council.

Born and raised in the United States of America, David is married to his beautiful wife of 24 years, has two great teenage sons, and lives in the Chicagoland area. David’s hobbies include aviation (where he is a licensed private pilot), reading, microcomputing, teaching, public speaking (on business, cultural awareness, and career management), movie-watching, golf, bowling and spending time with his family.

David can be reached at david.lum@motorola.com

Darrell Nakagawa

Darrell Nakagawa is currently a Continuous Improvement Change Agent in Sara Lee’s North American Retail Customer Management organization with responsibility for improving processes for it’s national sales team.  He has experience driving this Continuous Improvement methodology into several GE divisions, and earned his certification by leading projects on saving and retaining customers, and developing a process to help maximize the acquisition of new customers.  He began his journey in Six Sigma as GE began its integration into its culture.  Darrell is a certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt.  Distinguishing himself as a leader in the Six Sigma initiative with a project that had trillions of data points, he quickly moved from being a project leader to championing improvement projects across the entire business.  Prior to GE, Mr. Nakagawa spent numerous years in the Financial Services Marketing and Advertising fields. 

 Don Sakamoto