THE FAMILY – Family Business Society

Garrett Schraad

Major: Business Administration and Accounting
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My family business, Schraad Sales & Marketing, is a food brokerage firm based in Oklahoma City, OK with offices across the Central Region of the United States. The company serves as an outside sales team for over 400 food manufacturers that sell to food distributors and grocery stores. Looking to the future, the company hopes to continue to expand geographically and diversify its mix of clients.

Josh Lin

Major: Business Administration
Minor: Product Design

Josh is a rising sophomore majoring in business administration and minoring in product design. His family business is in the ceramics manufacturing industry with a concentration in household ceramic tiles and mugs. They started from a rural town in Taiwan over 45 years ago and now operate out of Taiwan, Indonesia, and China. Post graduation, Josh hopes to pursue a career in consulting or investment banking either in the States or in Canada, where he grew up, and possibly join the family business down the road. In the meantime, he will likely be continuing his fall studies online in Taiwan. Josh is also a published photographer and loves a spontaneous adventure.

Major: Business Administration
Year: Junior

My father owns a wholesale business, south of DTLA and made his living in the import and export industry. He has been distributing products throughout different channels of DTLA for over 40 years, and has built a diverse product line, which includes: household goods, clothing, porcelain, and closeout merchandise. Along with the wholesale enterprise, our family business also invests in residential and commercial real estate within the Inland Empire & LA County. My parents initially stimulated my infatuation with (commercial) real estate, brokerage and real estate development. Following my graduation from USC, my dream is to develop properties of my own across the United States, and eventually, expand into global markets.

Major: Industrial and Systems Engineering
Year: Class of 2022

Major: Business Administration
Graduation Year: Fall 2019

Gardenland is the #1 rated outdoor power equipment retailer in Northern California. We sell and service premium quality gas and battery-powered equipment to homeowners, gardeners, professional landscapers, arborists, construction companies, schools, and municipalities. Gardenland provides service to professional landscapers and homeowners in Campbell, San Jose, Saratoga, Cupertino, Santa Clara, Milpitas, Fremont, Palo Alto, Los Altos, Menlo Park, San Francisco, Morgan Hill, and Gilroy.

MAX GUNARA

Minor: Applied Analytics, Cybersecurity, & Real Estate Development

Graduation Year: 2021

My family business is gallant ventures, a Singapore based holding firm focused on maritime Southeast Asia. The company has investments within automotive, real estate, luxury resorts, infrastructure, and mining. Since 1990, we have partnered with ASEAN governments to foster the development of the region’s first smart city with space for nearly 2.5 million residents. We synthesize our expertise in diverse fields to provide full service to our clients, from developed transport infrastructure to construction services.

Major/Minor: Human Development and Aging major/Business Finance minor
Graduation Year: xx

My family’s business is called FJ Management, which is a holding company with investments in oil, refining, convenience stores, banks, hotels and a variety of healthcare assets. My grandfather founded Flying J, Inc. over 50 years ago, and my parents work together to operate our companies now. I’m excited and hope to one day join the business and continue the legacy! A few of my interests include dancing, traveling and cooking. I also love to spend as much time as possible outdoors.

ANTOINE HONG

Major: Business Administration
Minor: Applied Analytics

My family business is in the e-commerce industry reselling women apparels at a discounted price. We are also diversifying to other avenues by adding other needs focused on our women clientele including the cosmetic, jewelry and baby sectors.

MYLES MANNING

Major: Business Administration

Minor: Cinematic Arts

My family business is Manning Wealth Management, a San Diego-based financial advisory firm. The firm provides financial planning strategies for investing, retirement, taxes, charitable giving and more to both retail investors and organizations. The company values a personal relationship with its clientele, transparency in strategy and finding investments that are suited for each individual investor. I have already spent one summer working for the firm and will likely join full time after graduation.

SHANE MITCHELL

Major: Business Administration and Political Science

My family business is Voit Real Estate Brokerage. We have numerous offices nationwide, but a large amount comes from California. I am seeking to expand the family business and increase its broker size and offices to bolster the company into a multi-million dollar corporation on par with competing commercial real estate giants. My personal business works within the promotional side of hotels and resorts. Throughout my three year career I have traveled to 20 countries that span to 6 continents and has promoted over 100 resorts worldwide.

SAM BUDIARTHO

Major: Psychology
Minor: Designing for Experiences, Marketing

PRIMEX Capital is my father’s business, an advisory firm specializing in agriculture and education throughout South East Asia (primarily Indonesia and Singapore). As an international student from Indonesia, I hope to expand the family business more internationally outside the region of Asia. Although I don’t have the traditional business major, I have hopes to pursue the weird mixture of my major and minors in order to establish my personal take on modernizing the industry.

Chloe Kan

Major: Business Administration, Pre-law emphasis

I am born and raised in Vancouver, Canada, and I go home every month of so to visit my parents and younger sister. A passion of mine ever since I was little is traveling and trying different things. With this mindset, growing up I played a lot of sports, and some of my favorites are skiing, field hockey, and golf. The best part about my dad’s business, is that it allows him the flexibility to attend all of my sports games and at every event he was there on the sidelines cheering me on. My dad has a privately-owned real estate development called Bordeaux West, and it builds complexes from single family homes, to town homes, to commercial properties. I hope to finish my degree here at USC, then work for a large corporation, before maybe going back to the family business and expanding it to the US.

RYAN LEE

Major: Business Administration (Real Estate Finance)
Minor: Computer Programming

Our family business is a business conglomerate known as the Hing Wa Lee Group. There are three different divisions within the group: retail, real estate, and investments. On the retail side, we are known for having our watch and jewelry shops (Hing Wa Lee Jewelers) where we have locations in San Gabriel, CA and Walnut, CA. We are vertically integrated as a realtor, property management, develop and acquisition in US and China. For the investments side, we invest in automotive, restaurants, media, high tech start up funds, and ice tea companies. I am already working on the side with sales for our retail stores and am interested to combine entrepreneurship with real estate in the future.

THEO JAFFREY

Major: Mechanical Engineering (Engineering Design)
Minor: Business Finance

My family is involved in the finance/ solar development world, building the industry leading North American Solar Development company, Coronal Group. The company is involved in finance, development, operations and management, engineering, and construction, servicing large scale solar development for municipalities and other commercial grade customers from start to finish. As my parents are currently in the process of liquidating our ownership stake in the company, I will likely not be involved in this business. Rather, I hope to pursue my own career starting or managing a company either in the automotive/aerospace industries or in the investment and real estate space.

ALLEN ZOU

Major: Business Administration
Minor: Applied Analytics

Family Business and Interest: Allen’s family business is Viet Hua Food Market. It is an Asian based grocery store that started in Kentucky over a decade ago but has since expanded into Indiana. Despite the Mid-West’s general lack of ingredients typical to Asian cooking, Viet Hua Food Market values providing both a wide selection and a fresh selection of Asian ingredients. In addition, Viet Hua has implemented food courts at select locations to demonstrate to customers the endless possibilities of its groceries. Allen’s interest include traveling, trying all types of foods, and watching documentaries.

GURMANNAT SINGH

Major: Business Administration (Entrepreneurship)

My family business is all about real estate. Be it developing land, brokerage, investment or real estate law, we cater to it all. The business is prominent in the northern sector of India (mostly Punjab) and plan to expand it to the United States.

AMEYA SOMANY

Major: Business Administration

My family business is called Somany Ceramics Ltd. We are the leading producers of ceramic floor and wall tiles in India. In the recent years, we have expanded to making bathroom fitting and sanitary ware. I am to be the 4th generation to step into the business. Over the years, we have expanded to many counties in the Middle East, Africa and the UK and Russia. With the capacity to generate over 90 million square meters of tiles per year, we are continuously growing our market share, presence and expansion to various countries.

EMRE ACAR

Masters of Science in Green Technologies Engineering

Promar Textiles, based in the European side of Turkey, manufactures the highest quality apparel since 1985. The main product line of Promar includes sweatshirts, t-shirts and sweatpants. Promar, with its proven track record with globally known brands, logistical advantages, top quality machinery and it’s 34+ years of experience is a leader in its industry.

ALHUSSAEN JAMJOOM

Major: Industrial and System Engineering
Minor: Urban Planning

My goal is to use my education to pursue a full time job to leave this world a better place. Regarding my personality, I am an adventurous, ambitious, and outgoing person who enjoys traveling and exploring the diversity in this world. My family has been in the healthcare industry for three generations now, started with distribution of pharmaceuticals, then grew vertically into manufacturing, and recently tapping into hospitals. The company is based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and we have presence in more than 30 countries around the world.

CHARLES LIU

Major: Business Administration
Minor: Applied Analytics

His family business is built on a holding company that has entities across the industries of construction, fashion, real estate, healthcare, and transportation. And while it is primarily based in the Philippines, the business has been able to expand into other countries in Southeast Asia, East Asia, and the Middle East. Because the Philippines is a developing country, a large component of the companies’ cultures is to give back to the community through programs such as CSR events. Charles’s interests include beach volleyball (as well as regular volleyball), singing, and a lot of eating.

STARK ZHANG

Major: Computer Science

Minor: Entrepreneurship.

Stark’s family business deals with software and information technology services. It was founded on April in 1997. Products and services include computer and software development, automation engineering services, mechanical and electrical products, household appliances, safety technology prevention engineering design, construction, and maintenance. Stark has currently started his own company in helping college students find their academic and daily life needs. In the future, I want to have my own high-tech company in an Artificial Intelligent area.

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Executive Board

RYAN LEE

CHLOE KAN

GARRETT SCHRAAD

MYLES MANNING

ANTOINE HONG

JOSH LIN

Current Members

MAX GUNARA

THEO JAFFREY

SAM BUDIARTHO

ALLEN ZOU

CHARLES LIU

ANA LIAN

FILIP AUEYONG

Notable Alumni

GURMANNAT SINGH

LEXI MAGGELET

AMEYA SOMANY

STARK ZHANG

EMRE ACAR

PAIGE OGAWA

SHANE MITCHELL

ALHUSSAEN JAMJOOM