Only a minuscule 2.08 percent of the total 5,520 board seats in the Fortune 500 are held by Asian and Pacific Islanders and only 98 of these companies have API inclusion on their boards, reveals Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP) on its newest leadership series report measuring Asian and Pacific Islander (API) inclusion on Fortune 500 boards.
In 2010, 96 Asian and Pacific Islanders held 115 board seats at 98 Fortune 500 companies. In contrast, APIs constitute 5.6 percent of the U.S. total population and its buying power is expected to grow 42 percent from $544 billion in 2010 to $775 billion in 2015, according to a 2010 report by the Selig Center for Economic Growth.
The 115 board seats represent 2.08 percent of the total 5,520 board seats in the Fortune 500. Fifteen (15.62 percent) out of the 96 API directors are women. Ten API directors serve as chair, president and/or (CO) chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 company.
According to the report, The ethnic breakdown of these API directors is as follows: Chinese (37), Asian Indian (34), Japanese (14), Pakistani (3), Vietnamese (3), Korean (2), Filipino (1), Singaporean (1) and Sri Lankan (1).
Fifteen API board members sit on more than one Fortune 500 board of which 4 directors sit on 3 Fortune 500 boards holding 12 seats: Victor J. Dzau, Rajat K. Gupta, Andrea Jung and Arun Sarin. Thirteen Fortune 500 companies have more than one API director on their boards: Goldman Sachs Group (2), Best Buy (2), PepsiCo (2), Safeway (2), Cisco Systems (2), Staples (2), Avon Products (2), Synnex (3), Yahoo (2), AECOM Technology (3), SunGard Data Systems (2), Mattel (2) and MasterCard (4). MasterCard has 4 APIs on its board of directors, more than any other company in the Fortune 500.
In 2010, 96 Asian and Pacific Islanders held 115 board seats at 98 Fortune 500 companies. In contrast, APIs constitute 5.6 percent of the U.S. total population and its buying power is expected to grow 42 percent from $544 billion in 2010 to $775 billion in 2015, according to a 2010 report by the Selig Center for Economic Growth.
The 115 board seats represent 2.08 percent of the total 5,520 board seats in the Fortune 500. Fifteen (15.62 percent) out of the 96 API directors are women. Ten API directors serve as chair, president and/or (CO) chief executive officer of a Fortune 500 company.
According to the report, The ethnic breakdown of these API directors is as follows: Chinese (37), Asian Indian (34), Japanese (14), Pakistani (3), Vietnamese (3), Korean (2), Filipino (1), Singaporean (1) and Sri Lankan (1).
Fifteen API board members sit on more than one Fortune 500 board of which 4 directors sit on 3 Fortune 500 boards holding 12 seats: Victor J. Dzau, Rajat K. Gupta, Andrea Jung and Arun Sarin. Thirteen Fortune 500 companies have more than one API director on their boards: Goldman Sachs Group (2), Best Buy (2), PepsiCo (2), Safeway (2), Cisco Systems (2), Staples (2), Avon Products (2), Synnex (3), Yahoo (2), AECOM Technology (3), SunGard Data Systems (2), Mattel (2) and MasterCard (4). MasterCard has 4 APIs on its board of directors, more than any other company in the Fortune 500.
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