Four CSUEB Graduates Make Most Influential Businesswomen List

  • May 29, 2015

Leona Tang
Leona Tang
Amy Schioldager
Amy Schioldager
Wenli Wang
Wenli Wang

Cal State East Bay graduates Leona Tang, Amy Schioldager, Wenli Wang and Pamela Kershaw were included in the San Francisco Business Times’ prestigious annual list of “The Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business,” which honors women leaders in a range of fields, including law, technology, finance and education.

Tang, Schioldager, Wang and Kershaw are among the 154 women featured in the newspaper’s special May section. They will be honored at a gala dinner on June 4 at the Hilton in San Francisco.

Tang is an executive vice president at Charles Schwab & Co., heading internal audit. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Cal State East Bay in business administration with a concentration in accounting. “Even though [CSUEB] was a commuter school when I attended, I was able to find ‘my community,’” Tang said. “The professors that I had in the accounting department helped shape me for an interesting career in internal auditing.”

Schioldager is the senior managing director and the global head of beta strategies at the investment managing company BlackRock, where she is responsible for an investment team that manages $2.35 trillion. She earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration from CSUEB in 1989. “One of my favorite classes at Cal State East Bay/Hayward was an investments class,” Schioldager said. “This is when I realized that I wanted to manage money for a living.”

Wang, a native of China, enrolled at CSUEB for her MBA in taxation shortly after completing her undergraduate studies at Beijing University and moving to the United States. She is now a partner in charge at Moss Adams LLP in San Francisco.

Kershaw (not pictured), the director of commercial real estate for the Port of Oakland, earned her master’s of public administration from Cal State East Bay. She is also a leader in the community, serving as the Oakland Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce’s board of director and on Hillcrest School’s PTA.