iSoftStone Opens US Headquarters in Kirkland, Wa

Photo by Harver Yang

Kirkland, Wa -  iSoftStone, Inc, a global IT services and enterprise application company, proudly opened its North American headquarters in Kirkland, Washington at 5808 Lake Washington Blvd NE Ste. 400.  NAAAP Seattle along with 100 clients, community and civic leaders attended to hear from executive leaders and to witness the ribbon-cutting ceremony.

SVP of iSoftStone Inc. Anders Brown expressed proudly, “We had only 40 employees back in 2008, but with the combined global vision and platform of iSoftStone and our local employees’ commitment to deliver quality technology projects and solutions for our customers, we have grown to over 200 –a five-fold increase." This opening represents the growth of the company both here in Washington State as well as in China.

Congratulations!

For more on the grand opening, go to: http://www.isoftstone.com/en/news/2011/20110526.htm

(l to r) Lincoln Popp (Sr. VP, iSoftStone) Edward Yang (NAE President, iSoftStone) Conrad Lee (City of Bellevue) TW Liu (Chairman & CEO, iSoftStone) Julien Loh (Governor’s office) Anders Brown (Senior VP, iSoftStone) Photo by Harver Yang

(l to r) Dr. Yushi Shen (Microsoft CHIME Board of Directors Chair) Gil Gido (NAAAP Seattle President)

(l to r) Heidi Yu (NAAAP Seattle Board Member, iSoftStone, Inc BDM) TW Liu (Chairman & CEO, iSoftStone)

Grand Opening Attendees

NAAAP at AAEOY 2011

The prestigious 10th Annual Asian American Engineer of the Year Award was held on Feb. 26 at the Hilton at SeaTac Airport. Around 600 people attended and NAAAP-100 winner Dr. Qi Lu of Microsoft and Jim Albaugh, CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, were the keynote speakers.

Claire Ke Ding, Kevin Chang, Michael Okimura, Yugo Nawa, Sherwin Tsang, Jack Wang, Chen Wang, Ninette Cheng, Ben Zheng and Heidi Yu represented NAAAP-Seattle at the event and they got to meet engineering luminaries such as CIE-USA Chair Jiin Chen, Dr. Qi Lu, Harry Shum, Jim Albaugh, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Su of the Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Microsoft CHIME president Yushi Shen.

Photos by Ben Zheng. Top: NAAAP with Mr & Mrs. Su of the Greater Seattle Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Middle: NAAAP with Jim Albaugh; Bottom: NAAAP with Dr. Qi Lu.