Magazine : Archives : 4th Quarter 2021

Bridge Between East and West

Dominic Ng came to the United States from his native Hong Kong in 1977 to attend college. Ng wanted to remain in the United States after graduation, so he took a job with the accounting firm then known as Touche & Ross because it had experience helping foreign nationals with student visas apply for a work permit and green card. “That was my criteria for choosing a firm,” he says today. Just 15 years later, Ng became chief executive officer of Pasadena, California-based East West Bancorp, which he eventually built into the largest and most successful minority depository institution in...