Ascend Café Mentorship Series – Rise to the Top
Elevate your career and community impact: Join our virtual mentorship series for professional success with purpose
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Event Details
Date: Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Time: 4:00PM - 5:00PM ET
Venue: Zoom Meeting
Admission: Members Only | Complimentary
Agenda
Kicking off the inaugural Ascend Café Mentorship series by Clem Cheng, former HR Executive of Comcast and Philanthropist. Ascend Café is a program aimed at creating interactions that build community and provide opportunities to grow your networks by:
• Matching Ascend members for purposeful connections
• Create opportunity for conversations with peers and senior leaders
• Receive a monthly 1:1 introductions to a new Ascend member
Speaker

Clem Cheng
HR Executive
Coach and Philanthropist
Clem built a successful career leading HR teams across several world class organizations. He started his career on the operational side of the business with Citibank and gravitated to HR as he found his passion and capability for developing talent, building energizing cultures and transforming organizations. Clem most recently served as SVP Human Resources for the Xfinity organization at Comcast Cable. This $50B business encompasses Comcast’s consumer products under the Xfinity brand, including internet, mobile, TV and home products and is a top 25 brand with a large scale workforce across functions such as marketing, sales, customer care and technician support. Prior to joining Comcast, Clem worked in various senior level HR or Operations leadership roles with CIGNA, W.L. Gore & Associates and Citigroup. Moving beyond his accomplished corporate career, Clem continues to nurture his passion for supporting both executives and diverse talent through coaching and advisory services principally through his affiliation with FutureSolve, an HR services and technology firm. In addition, his energies are being directed toward Social Venture Partners (SVP) Philadelphia which is a non-profit organization focused on eradicating intergenerational poverty. Through SVP, Clem serves as the lead partner for Resilient Coders which runs coding bootcamps that elevates non-traditional talent into well paying software development careers. Clem has served on the Temple Fox MBA Business Advisory Board, the Human Capital Institute Advisory Board, the Board of the Philadelphia Chapter of the National Association of American Asian Professionals (NAAAP) and is co-founder of the Run For Babies 5K/10K which benefits the March of Dimes. He is a past recipient of the OCA Corporate Achievement Award and has been recognized by CableFax magazine as top industry talent. Clem continues to be active in diverse talent circles and is a frequent speaker in this area through these organizations as well as others. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics from the College of William & Mary, and his MBA from the University of Delaware.