Jana is a significance supporter of Ascend's mission to empower Pan-Asian leaders and grow the next generation of professionals to "break through the bamboo ceiling", through professional mentorship. Jana serves as the CFO for Commercial Aviation Services (CAS) Customer Support at Boeing. In this role, she is responsible for the

leadership of financial planning and reporting, cost management, accounting, estimating and pricing for CAS Customer Support. She is a member of the CAS Customer Support Leadership Team and the CAS Finance Leadership Team. Prior to this assignment, she was the Enterprise Services Business Management Director at Boeing Shared Services Group (SSG). In that role, she was respon-sible for delivering high quality, lean, affordable financial products and services that support running a healthy business.

Prior to joining SSG Business Management, Jana led the SSG Ac-counting Operations organization, including Cost Policy, General Accounting, Financial Accounting, Global Accounting Operations, and Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) 404 Program Management. In 2004, she led the SOX section 404 implementation for SSG. She previ-ously served as senior manager of Cost Policy and Cost Account-

Date: Saturday, March 8th, 2014 12pm–2pm

Location: Racha Thai & Asian Kitchen, 23 Mercer St, Seattle, WA 98109

Cost: $10 Members & $20 Non-Members

***LIMITED to 15 participants***

***RSVP before February 28th, 2014***

ing at Boeing Commercial Airplanes (BCA) and has held various Finance leadership positions at BCA. In 2000, Jana was awarded the INROADS Business Supervisor of the Year. Jana graduated from the University of Washington earning a Bach-elor of Arts degree in Business Administration with a concentra-tion in Accounting. She has participated in the Senior Management Seminar, the Program Managers Workshop and Boeing Executive Program at the Boeing Leadership Center in St. Louis. She rep-resented Boeing on the Seattle Chamber of Commerce Interna-tional Study Mission to Australia in 2006 and participated in the 2007 Wall Street Symposium. Jana is the Boeing Executive focal for Ascend and the Executive Champion for the Boeing Asian American Professional Association.

Jana is the proud mother of a 16 year old son and enjoys golf, shopping, reading, and spending time with family and friends. She is a second-generation Chinese American, although her married name, Yamamoto, is Japanese. In support of her heritage, she enjoys participating in various events & organizations such as the Walk for Rice, the Kin On Chinese Nursing Home annual golf tournament, and the Seattle Asian Sports Club.

Come join us for a Mentorship Round Table discussion! Come and receive intimate and candid career advice from Jana Yamamoto Finance Director, Boeing and currently serving as CFO for the

Commercial Aviation Services–Customer Support business at Boeing. She will open up and share her secret sauce for success.

Participation Guidelines:• Especially designed for professionals with less than 10 years

work experience.• This event is not for employment searching purposes.• Registration is required; no walk-ins will be accepted.• Please be punctual with the event time.

Questions about this event? Contact: Lily (Lee) Lawson at lilylovelee@outlook.com

• No obligation for mentors to keep contact with mentees.• No refunds.• Lunch will not be served, but light refreshments and coffee

will be provided