Sunday, September 21, 2008

Pam Chun

Pam Chun is a writer and marketing consultant, most notable as the author of the book ''The Money Dragon''.

Education


Chun was born and raised in Hawaii and enrolled Punahou School. She won full scholarships to the University of Hawaii, and to the University of California Berkeley, where she majored in English. She graduated college in 1970.


Career


After college, Chun was hired a job in sales and marketing at PacBell and was a private consultant in the high tech and biotech industries. She then began fundraising, after responding to a vice chancellor's appeal to assist with fundraising in the Chinese community. During one fundraising trip to Hawaii, mentioned that her great-grandfather, L. Ah Leong, had founded the Honolulu Chinatown and owned the largest retail business in Hawaii. The result was her book, ''The Money Dragon'', which quickly became a bestseller in Hawaii and was for months.

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