Board of Directors

John Lee
Chairman Emeritus, ABL-SF Board

John Lee has served on the ABL-SF Board of Directors since its founding in 1980 and currently holds the position of Chairman Emeritus. John is a practicing attorney, having spent most of his career as in-house counsel at Wells Fargo, with his last position as Assistant General Counsel before retiring in 2001. From 2002 to the end of 2017, John served as the General Counsel & Secretary for Westlake Realty Group, Inc., a privately-owned real estate company. He received a B.A. from Rice University and a J.D.-M.B.A. from Stanford University. John maintains a passionate interest in music and collects toy trains.

Victor Shin
Chairman and President, ABL-SF Board

Victor has over 20 years of experience in the financial industry in the San Francisco Bay Area, along with being a Senior Adjunct Professor at Golden Gate University in San Francisco since 2013 and received the Adjunct Professor of the Year Award in 2017. Currently he is a Senior Relationship Manager with Chandler Asset Management Company. He has held various senior positions amongst major institutions, such as BMO Bank, Bank of the West, Washington Mutual, Wells Fargo, Comerica Bank and First Republic. He also served on The Presidio Dance Academy, 10 Books a Home, The Natural World Museum and Museum of Craft and Design. He graduated with an Executive MBA from Golden Gate University in 2004 and BA in Management and Accounting from Sonoma State University in 1996. He was also a former firefighter for the California Department of Forestry Sonoma County Ranger Unit. Victor loves to travel, cook, read, run and spend time with his wife and 2 daughters.

Soyeun Choi
General Counsel, ABL-SF Board

Soyeun Choi has a nineteen-year legal career as a transactional business and intellectual property attorney managing a full complement of services for startup and established businesses, experienced in counseling clients on strategic and tactical issues and their implementation.

With a JD from UCLA, and years of service with various organizations, Soyeun currently serves on the Executive Committee of the Business Law Section of the California Lawyers Association. She also has a black belt in Hapkido; is a half, full and ultra-marathon runner; enjoys reading; and encourages everyone to foster rescued dogs.

John Chiang
Treasurer, ABL-SF Board

John Chiang has served on the Board of ABL-SF since 1985 and is the Treasurer. John is a CPA and Financial Executive Consultant, with over 40 years of financial and executive management experience. In addition to his small tax practice, he is a financial consultant for several small businesses. John is also an Ambassador with Nonstop Administration & Insurance Services since 2017, promoting its Nonstop Wellness health insurance product for nonprofit employees – which eliminate all employee out-of-pocket costs, with no change in carriers and premium savings.

John was formerly the CFO of Asian Health Services, a non-profit community health center located in Oakland Chinatown, before retiring at the end of 2016. He has also served as CFO and in senior financial management positions with various financial services companies, including Bank of America and MetLife. John began his professional career as a CPA specializing in the banking, financial services and real estate industries.

John is very active in his community, having served as the Mayor and as a member of the Piedmont City Council for eight years, before he termed out in 2014. He also serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations. John received a B.S. degree from UC Berkeley in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and an M.B.A. from UCLA in Finance and Accounting. John enjoys traveling, hiking, various ethnic foods, wines and playing recreational golf

Keith Koo
ABL-SF Board

Keith is a Founder and Managing Partner of Guardian Insight Group (GIG), a Technology Risk advisory firm dedicated to identifying, assessing, controlling, and mitigating risks associated with doing business with technology companies and vendors such as: third party, financial, blockchain, pricing/cost, cyber, information security, business resiliency, disaster recovery, regulatory and compliance.

Before founding GIG, Keith was the Managing Director/Head of Third-Party Risk Management for the Mitsubishi Financial Group (MUFG) and was responsible for ensuring that the Bank had the proper framework, policies and controls to meet regulatory standards for effective oversight of third parties/vendors.

Keith is also the creator and Host of the “Silicon Valley Insider” Radio show and Podcast on 1220AM KDOW San Francisco. Keith has interviewed C-Level executives from Fortune 100, government officials as well as "unicorns" all in the context of innovation, disruption and the risks associated with doing business to achieve optimal business outcomes.

Keith is an adviser to fortune 1000 companies, accelerators and startups in emerging technology such as fintech, insurtech, healthtech, blockchain, IoT, artifical intelligence, and cyber security. His passion is to be a bridge for companies navigating digital transformation in order to adopt

Previously he held leadership roles at Cisco Systems, Hewlett Packard, and other technology and financial service companies in Mergers and Acquisitions, Divestitures, Technology and Risk Management. Keith is a frequent speaker, emcee, and moderator.

Tong Qin
ABL-SF Board

Tong has 25 years of diverse experience as a financial management expert in the public and private sectors,

Tong joined CFOS2GO as a partner in April 2019, after serving various positions in the U.S. Small Business Administration. Most recently she was the deputy director in charge of a small business support in northern California. In this role, she used her deep knowledge of economic development trends, government regulations, and procurement requirements to help northern California businesses with their financial management needs.

She also represented SBA at the White House Asian American Pacific Island (AAPI) initiative under President Obama, and spearheaded SBA’s outreach to AAPI community.

Prior to taking on her deputy director role in northern California, Tong was the Deputy CFO for SBA where she led the CFO staff of 140 federal employees and contractors with an annual budget of $1 billion and a loan portfolio of over $90 billion.

Prior to joining SBA, Tong worked at the private sector as a financial management
executive leading audit and consulting engagements, and assisting technology start-ups from initial launch and fund-raising stages to growth, mergers, acquisition, and exit stages.