Ascend Executive Network: Pathways to the C-Suite

The Ascend Executive Network holds Pathways to the C-Suite on Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at BNP Paribas Tower, 787 Seventh Avenue, 9th floor. The registration page runs 5:00 to 8:00 PM and includes dinner until 6:15, a welcome, an hour-long panel, and a reception after 7:30. The public page starts those blocks about fifteen minutes earlier and does not mention dinner. Use the registration page's clock, and re-check it the day you go. Speakers listed there are Diana Solash, founder of the coaching firm Kutkutin; Phiroze Rao, chief operating officer of BNP Paribas USA and CIB Americas; Rajeev Lakra, chief transformation officer for U.S. risk at RBC; Soyoung Kang, listed as president and public board member at eos; and Martin Vergara, head of talent acquisition at Morgan Stanley. Bios are marked coming soon. The introduction says three senior executives. The speaker list has five names.

Ascend Executive Network is the senior tier of Ascend, the pan-Asian leadership group founded in 2005. The host limits this forum to senior executives within three levels of the CEO at Fortune 1000 companies. Members and non-members can both request a seat, and you have to be logged into Ascend's system to register. Online registration on that record stays open through November 10. The page does not print a ticket price. Read the checkout after you log in.

Go if you are already in that band and want an evening on sponsorship, visibility, and how a path to the top job actually bent. Skip it if you are an associate, a founder without a Fortune 1000 seat, or a manager who hopes the door is softer than the copy. Mary Kitchen is the membership contact, at mary.kitchen@ascendleadership.org or 612-242-6800, if a login blocks you and you do belong in the room.

787 Seventh Avenue is a Midtown tower near the 50th Street and 7th Avenue subway. A 5:00 PM start puts you in the lobby before the worst of the exit rush. There is no posted plus-one. If a peer from another firm should be there, the public page asks you to tell the host.