Also part of the squad are veterans Iris Tolenada, Ria Meneses, and Dell Palomata, and collegiate stars Faith Nisperos, Alyssa Solomon, Mhicaela Belen, Ivy Lacsina, Jennifer Nierva, Kamille Cal, Imee Hernandez and Bernadette Pepito.
Xiaoming Zhang (b. 1969, Shanghai, China) moved to the US where she graduated from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts (M.A.) and Stern School of Business (M.B.A.). She was awarded the Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 2000. She was curatorial fellow for China: 5,000 Years, a monumental exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1998 where she was also a curator for Dawn: Early Chinese Cinema. Zhang was Vice President, Worldwide Senior Specialist, Head of Asian Modern and Contemporary Art sales at Sotheby’s New York. In 2006, she was honoured as one of the top-ten in the art world in Asia by CANS and by Art Asia Pacific: Almanac 2007. In China, she worked for China Guardian and Poly, China’s top auction houses. She is the founder of W. Ming, an advisory service for global business, culture and art.