VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL-IN-RESIDENCE
LEIGH-ANN MIYASATO
Leigh-Ann is Vice President of DragonBridge Capital, LLC, a merchant bank that helps Chinese technology companies with joint ventures, M&A, venture capital, and other private equity needs. She is also founding President and Executive Director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawai‘i, a nonprofit organization that encourages entrepreneurial companies to engage in community service and philanthropy, and Of Counsel to Vantage Counsel LLC, a law firm focused on company building. Leigh-Ann was formerly Executive Director of HiBEAM, an accelerator for early stage Hawai‘i technology companies; founding Program Director of the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies in Washington, D.C.; and the Washington, D.C. lobbyist for the Japanese American Citizens League.
She previously practiced commercial and other civil litigation at Alston Hunt Floyd & Ing; Fujiyama, Duffy & Fujiyama; and Erickson, Beasley, Hewitt & Wilson of Oakland, California.