Chinese by birth, British by upbringing and American by employment, Mary Pang regards her transcontinental life as a sequence of serendipitous moments. In time they would lead to her current career station as partner and global head of client solutions at Cambridge Associates.
Yes, Cambridge, a distinctly British name, derived from the university city in Cambridgeshire, yet, as Americans are prone to doing, adopted as the name of the Boston-based Cambridge Associates, perhaps for its regal overtones. She operates, though, from the home she occupies with her husband in the toney Brentwood district of Los Angeles.
Such a smashing life for a woman from such humble beginnings, having been born and raised in Denmead, England, to Chinese immigrant parents who spoke not a lick of English, and were poor as Westminster Abbey mice.
“My parents were basically economic refugees from Hong Kong,” she explains. “My dad waited tables and my mom was a cleaner and a seamstr
