NOA Salon - A Participatory Dialogue: Explore breakthroughs, setbacks, reinvention, and meaning.
“Clarity comes from authentic human connection, and clarity inspires action.” - A NOA Philosophy.
NOA Salon - A Participatory Dialogue: Exploring breakthroughs, setbacks, reinvention, and meaning.
A guided, member-driven conversation with deep-tech creator Porter Harris and family office steward Stan Sung.
This Salon invites members into an immersive, guided conversation between two extraordinary minds:
• Porter Harris — The Deep-Tech Creator
A polymath trained in electronics, physics, and aerospace; former battery architect at SpaceX (also brought the battery technology to Tesla); creator of 22+ patents; co-founder of a publicly listed EV company; and a builder navigating reinvention after setbacks, autoimmune challenge, and philosophical awakening.
• Stan Sung — The Steward
Architect of multiple family offices serving principals who’ve built Fortune 500 companies, multi-billion tech exits, vast land portfolios, and private credit empires. A thinker rooted in responsibility, identity formation, and long-arc mastery.
As NOA continues to elevate our membership, we want to ensure our approach becomes unmistakably differentiated and truly accelerates each member’s evolution by actionable inspiration. Instead of passive listening, we want to root our experience in deep mutual dialogue — the most powerful way for originators to reveal the mastery, character, and lived philosophy that carried them to their first mountain peak. As busy originators, we don’t need more small talk; we need space for our authentic selves. Come curious, leave inspired.
This Salon will be hosted at the Beverly Hills residence of Alex Ok, the visionary who built the global fast-fashion supply chain behind Forever 21. Set within a hillside estate that feels equal parts atelier and sanctuary, Alex’s home offers a rare backdrop of quiet grandeur for a night of reflection, connection, and conscious creation.