Diana Weiping Ding – Winner of Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 100 Women of Influence award
On June 29th, Silicon Valley Business Journal hosted its Women of Influence event. It honors 100 women who won Women of Influence award – 100 most influential, creative, ambitious and interesting women from Silicon Valley.
Diana Weiping Ding, the President and CEO of Ding Ding TV and Silicon Valley Community Media, is one of this year’s winners.
Diana’s profile in Silicon Valley Business Journal written by Virginia Brown.
Through board work, community engagement, and a career in media, Diana Weiping Ding is helping advance cultural interconnectivity through appreciation of similarities and understanding differences.
What’s the best piece of advice you have ever received? When I was 16, my father told me that people will help you not because of how great you are, but because of how nice they are. Be humble and thankful.
Who is a female CEO or business icon you admire? Oprah Winfrey, because of her ability to feel others’ pain and help them get through their troubling times.
What is the biggest challenge facing women who want to take on leadership roles, and how can you work to change that? Lack of support and sponsorship. I can spend less time in front of my computer and more time with other leaders to learn to work together.
What is something about you that might surprise others? I used to be a stage performer and singer. I also played a heroine in a drama when I was working at a cartoon film company that translated Disney stories into Chinese.
How do you give back to the community? I’m very active in the community. I organized the Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs Festival and the Silicon Valley Food and Art Festival and have served as a board member of the Cupertino Rotary Club, the Silicon Valley Central Chamber of Commerce, and was president of US-China Chamber of Commerce Silicon Valley and vice president of Northern California Chinese Media Association.
How do you unwind after work? Cooking for family and growing garden roses.
Next on the career bucket list: Tell Asian American stories through documentaries.
Silicon Valley Business Journal’s 100 Women of Influence award winners:
Nadia Ahmad — KPMG LLP
Natasha Allen — Foley & Lardner LLP
Laura Ayala — Karius
Karen Barson — Intuit QuickBooks
Christine Bastian — Western Digital
Tiffany Bohee — Lendlease
Kathryn Cahoy — Covington & Burling LLP
Jessica Callahan — Skyline Construction
Mary Anne Carson — Santa Cruz County Bank
Liz Centoni — Cisco
Arthi Chandran — Abbott
Connie Chen — Lyra Health
Nicole Chmura — Synopsys
Jean Compeau — Palo Alto Networks
Erica Courtney — USAR and 2020vet Inc.
Teresa Cox — County of Santa Clara; City of Fremont
Neha Dalal — Jasper Ridge Partners
Christina “Chrissie” Davis — CORE Builders
Sumita Debata — Sumita Debata, Google; Sky is the Limit
Danika Dellor — WANDA (Women’s Achievement Network and Development Alliance)
Mary Ann Dewan — Santa Clara County Office of Education
Diana Weiping Ding — Ding Ding TV, Silicon Valley Community Media
Lisanna Dominguez — Silicon Valley Education Foundation
Elizabeth Edgerly — Alzheimer’s Association
Hannah Elsakr — Adobe
Joan Escover — JP Graphics
Lana Feng — Huma.AI
Kathy Dalton Ford — Project Ronin
Rosanne Foust — San Mateo County Economic Development Association
Cecile Galvez — Deloitte
Carolyn M. Gonot — Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority
Glo Gordon — Matrixx Software
Shalini Govil-Pai — Google
Holly Grey — Exabeam
Tiffany Griego — Stanford University
Cynthia V. Guerrero — California Strategies LLC
Dee Ann Harn — RFI Enterprises Inc.
Nina Herold — Navan
Daphne Higgs — Morrison & Foerster
Kelly Hunsaker — Winston & Strawn LLP
Adela Jaimes — Marketea Inc.
Lavina Jain — LinkedIn
Sophie Marwieh James — California Water Service
Ilan Jen-La Plante — Nanosys
Anita Jindal — VMware
Julie Joseph — Equinix
Avritti Khandurie Mittal — eBay
Eva Kwong — Bank of America Private Bank
Praniti Lakhwara — Zscaler Inc.
Lisa Lambert — National Grid Partners
Melissa Lelaind — JAMS
Jo Lerma-Lopez — LUNA Mexican Kitchen
Bing Liang — Jones Day
Lisa Mallette — City Lights Theater Company of San Jose
Sharon Mandell — Juniper Networks
Annie Matheu — Waymo
Kim McCormick — Grant Thornton
Kate Michaels — Northwestern Mutual San Jose
Lori Mitchell — San JoseClean Energy – City of San Jose
Anne Morrissey — May Health
Shannon Nash — Wing (an Alphabet Company)
Stacy Owen — NBC Bay Area and Telemundo 48
Alyssa Pedersen — Gidel & Kocal Construction Co. Inc.
Christina Pels-Martinez — Wells Fargo Bank
Alicia Potolsky — El Camino Health
Joanne “Jo” Price — DignityMoves
Jody Quinton — DPR Construction
Arti Raman — Titaniam
Sarah Ratra — Moss Adams LLP
Emily Roberts — Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Diane Robinette — Incisive Software Corporation
Faye Sahai — Telosity Ventures
Megan Schoettmer — PNC
Frances Schulz — Ernst & Young LLP
Sherry Segura — The Foundation for Hispanic Education
Sai Supriya Sharath — Carya Venture Partners; InKindOnly
Emmalyn Shaw — Flourish Ventures
Saba Siddiqui — LinkedIn
Stephanie Silkwood — RMW Architecture & Interiors
Katrina Stevens — The Tech Interactive
Shehnaaz Suliman — ReCode Therapeutics
Julie Sullivan — Santa Clara University
Nenuca Syquia — Better Organizations by Design
Mala Tejwani — DataStax
Jennifer Temple — Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Debra Thompson — Chegg Inc.
Lee Thorpe — Regional Medical Center of San Jose
Amisha Vadalia — Plus
Bella Luz Vazquez — Rani Therapeutics
Latha Vishnubhotla — HPE GreenLake Platform
Wenli Wang — Moss Adams LLP
Alyson Welch — Neo4j
Julie West — BPM LLP
Sonja Wilkerson — Bloom Energy
Christine Winge — Meals on Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula
Shelby Winkler — Cavnue
Irene Wong — The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Monica Zent — ZentLaw
Qiaojing Ella Zheng — Sanford Heisler Sharp LLP
Cynthia Zollinger — Cornerstone Research