Issue: 667   Date: 06/05/2003 David L. Kim of Anheuser-Busch, St. Louis, Appointed to SBA Advisory Boards

David L Kim

By Scanews staff

WASHINGTON - Three prominent Asian American business leaders, David L. Kim of St. Louis, Lo-Yu Sun from Seattle, and Fred S. Teng from New York City, have been appointed by Hector V. Barreto, Administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration, to SBA advisory panels. 
Kim, director of sales development and community relations for Anheuser-Busch; and Sun, owner of several Chinese restaurants in Seattle and other small businesses in Sacramento, Calif., have both been appointed to the SBA’s National Advisory Council. Teng, president and chief executive officer of Noble Communications Group, Inc., has been appointed to the SBA’s National Small Business Development Center Advisory Board. 

"I am pleased these three very successful business people have agreed to share their experience and perspective in service to the millions of small business owners in the country and the millions of others who would like to own a small business," said Administrator Barreto. "With their help the SBA will continue to provide the best support available to these entrepreneurs. 

"These volunteers of the NAC and the SBDC Advisory Board take time from their own businesses to provide an essential connection between SBA, its program participants, and the small business community nationwide" said Barreto. "They do this because they believe, just as President Bush believes, that the success of America’s economy depends upon the success of the nation’s small business entrepreneurs." 

The NAC, which reports to Administrator Barreto, consists of 144 members representing a cross section of industries throughout the nation. Most of the members are owners or managers of companies, officials from trade or small-business associations, academicians and public-sector officials who provide expert advice, ideas and opinions on SBA programs and issues involving small businesses. 

The SBDC Advisory Board is composed of nine members and reports to the associate administrator for the Small Business Development Center program at the SBA. It is responsible for evaluating the SBDC program, improving private sector involvement in the program, and making recommendations to strengthen the program. 

There are more than 1,200 SBDC counseling and training centers throughout the country, mostly in partnership with state universities and colleges. 

David L. Kim
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc.

David L. Kim is Director of Corporate Relations at Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc., parent company of the world's largest brewer, Anheuser-Busch, Inc. He was named to this position in December, 1993.

Based in St. Louis at headquarters, Kim is one of the highest ranking Asian Pacific Americans at Anheuser-Busch. He is responsible for managing the department's national corporate and local community relations programs for the Asian Pacific and Asian Pacific American markets as well as work with other Anheuser-Busch departments and subsidiaries on legislative, labor, marketing and consumer awareness issues. He first joined Anheuser-Busch in 1992 as a regional Manager of Corporate Relations, based in New York City.

Kim graduated from Duke University with an A.B. in Political Science and attended Columbia University Graduate School of International and Public Affairs. In addition to working at the New York City Mayor's Commission for Protocol during the Koch administration and The New York Daily News, he has worked in Korea at The Korea Herald and the Kyungnam University Institute for Far Eastern Studies.

Kim is a member of several boards including, the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus Institute in Washington, DC; the Korean American Museum in Los Angeles, Pan Asian repertory Theatre in New York, the Institute for Asian American Studies at University of Massachusetts in Boston, and the National Advisory Council of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium in Washington, DC. He resides in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife, Phyllis and son, Turner.