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At the Table with Ashley Lam: A Dinner Conversation on Corporate Success, Heritage & Creativity

Name: At the Table with Ashley Lam: A Dinner Conversation on Corporate Success, Heritage & Creativity
Start: 2026-05-21T18:30:00.000-04:00
End: 2026-05-21T20:30:00.000-04:00
Location: New York, NY

Midlife Path

New York, NY

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About Event

Pull up a chair for an intimate dinner and conversation with Ashley Lam–Executive Director, senior financial leader, and debut children's book author. Over a shared meal, Sabeen Khan, co-founder of a beauty/wellness/tech startup and ex-Bank of America, will lead a warm, informal interview that brings you inside Ashley’s world: from her rise in the corporate sphere to creating cultural legacy through authorship of her new book, Wrapped with Love: Wonton Noodle Day with Grandma.

Get to know Ashley and her path to senior leadership in finance and achievements beyond the workplace, creating positive change.

This event is a live, in-person, interactive spin on the “Dinner's On Me with Jesse Tyler Ferguson” podcast. We’ll watch, dine, connect at the table, and explore:

Ashley’s bold career moves
Her leadership in advancing women, promoting DEI and CSR initiatives, and giving back through mentorship
How her book serves as an act of cultural creation and personal expression
The creative origins of her debut book and her journey from concept to publication—without a traditional publishing background
The role of cultural heritage and family traditions in shaping her writing
Q&A: Your turn to join the conversation

Evening at a Glance:

~ 6:30 ~ 6:50 pm — Arrivals & Table Seating
~ 6:50 ~ 7:25 pm — Dinner Conversation – Meal and interview flow together, led by Sabeen Khan with Ashley Lam
~ 7:25 ~ 8:30 pm — Open Q&A and more time to connect with fellow guests

📍Venue details will be shared with approved guests before the event.

Guest Speaker: Ashley Lam

Ashley Lam is Executive Director, Head of Americas Compliance, Operational & Permanent Control - Risk & Control at BNP Paribas. She is a senior financial technology, compliance and operational risk specialist and strategic advisor with 15 years of experience developing, executing and performing risk assessment programs for global financial institutions that also include JPMorgan Chase and Commerzbank AG.

Ashley is an AABDC 50 Outstanding Asian Americans in Business 2023 Award recipient, a founding member of The Authentic Asian, and an active member of Ascend Leadership, NAAAP, and the Financial Women's Association.

She is also, as of this year, a published children's book author. Wrapped with Love: Wonton Noodle Day with Grandma is her debut — inspired by her mother and her daughter, and created because she didn't see stories that looked like her family, so she decided to change that.

Guest Interviewer: Sabeen Khan

Not long ago, Sabeen Khan was an Investment Banking Analyst at Bank of America, specializing in tech, media and telecom. Then she made the leap to co-found and lead Khoobi — a beauty and wellness tech platform that empowers women to discover, book, and get rewarded for the self-care services they already love. Khoobi has been incubated by Dream Ventures, Antler, and Gold House.

Sabeen’s journey bridges both corporate and creative worlds. She previously worked behind the scenes at Refinery29 as a Production Assistant and Social Media Assistant. Today, she openly shares her experiences with tech, business and startup life as a content creator, connecting with nearly 15,000 TikTok followers and amassing over 800,000 likes.

Fluent in Urdu and Spanish, Sabeen brings both a global perspective and a deep appreciation for cultural identity.

Currently pursuing her MBA at Columbia Business School while actively growing her company, Sabeen continues to champion the stories of driven women blazing their own trails.

Follow on IG @thesabway | @khoobiwellness

📚 Pre-Order Wrapped with Love: Wonton Noodle Day with Grandma:

Wrapped with Love: Wonton Noodle Day with Grandma — a picture book about making wontons with grandma, passing down family traditions, and the cultural love that lives in cooking together.

👉 Pre-order here.

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