Keynode Speaker: Donna Fujimoto Cole
Guest of Honor Speaker: Cao Quang Anh

Keynote Speaker: Donna Fujimoto Cole

Ms. Cole founded Cole Chemical over 30 years ago at the age of 27, divorced with a four-year old daughter with $5,000 from savings. 2008, the company's sales are in excess of $70 million providing product and service chain management of chemicals, fuel, synthetic lubricants and resins to a wide range of customers and industries. Top customers include: ConocoPhillips, Chrysler Corporations, Excelon, Lockheed Martin, Procter & Gamble, International Paper and Toyota. Cole was the first chemical distributor to obtain ISO quality certification in 1992. Cole Chemical is ranked #47 in the top 100 chemical distributors in the United States by CPI Purchasing Magazine and has been one of the Houston's top 10 woman-owned businesses for many years. Houston Woman on the Move in 1986.

She has served on many boards and received quality and business recognition by her customers and the community over the last 30 years and some include Board of Trustee of the Amos Tuck School of Business and the Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute, Board member for: Houston Chemical Association, Association of Chemical Industry of Texas, Asia Society of Texas, Asian Chamber of Commerce, Women’s Business Enterprise Alliance, National Minority Supplier Development Council, Japan American Society, Girl Scouts, Advisory Board Member of the Holocaust Museum. President and Co-Chair of the Amos Tuck School of Business Minority Executive Business Alumni.

She currently serves on the Houston Parks Board, Center For Asian Pacific American Women, Advisory board of the Women’s Home and the Houston Minority Supplier Development Council.

She also served on President George bush President's Export Council in 1991. Ms. Cole attended Pan American University and The Amos Tuck School of Business Minority Business Executive Program and graduated from Manpower Business Training Institute of Technology.

Community service includes: Building a Pipeline for the Sciences, The All Earth Ecobot Challenge, Dismantling the Cradle to Prison Pipeline, and Building a Leadership Pipeline for Asian Women professionals. Asian Pacific American Women’s Leadership Institute Fellow in 1996, Center for Houston’s Future class of 2005, Japanese American Leadership Delegate in 2006, Asian Leadership Delegation to Israel in 2007, American Leadership Forum Class of XXV.

Ms. Cole tries to find time for family, golf, growing herbs and leisure travel.