Pelang Enterprises
Transformational Investment Advisory
Shaping and Accelerating Global Growth
Extraordinary STEM Leadership Sponsor
Pelang Enterprises is a strategic business and management consulting firm based in New Jersey. It is spearheaded by founder, chairman, and CEO Seifi Ghasemi, who is well-known for his prominent tenure as the Chairman and CEO of the Fortune 500 company Air Products and Chemicals. The firm operates primarily as an executive advisory to guide corporate strategy and growth. Given its founder’s background, the business consulting often aligns with executive leadership, operations management, and industrial market development.
Seifi Ghasemi
Pelang Enterprises
Founder, Chairman and CEO
2022 STEM Leadership Honoree
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Accelerating STEM for Strategic Growth
Pelang Enterprises proudly supports CME programs that accelerate STEM leadership, drive technological breakthroughs, and fuel strategic business growth through enterprise innovation.
Leadership & Highlights
Metropolitan Opera Chairman Ann Ziff unites the arts with education and science, guiding the Met through more than a decade of financial sustainability, groundbreaking programming, and expanded global outreach, while championing the arts-STEM intersection to inspire tomorrow's discoveries. A dedicated philanthropist in arts, education, conservation, and music therapy, Ziff holds Master's degrees from NYU (Social Work) and Temple University (Music Therapy), where she is a Visiting Professor. She serves as Vice Chairman of Lincoln Center and on boards including the World Science Festival, LACMA, and Los Angeles Opera. She founded the Caribbean Community Theater, co-founded and chaired Smile Train, has lectured at Oxford's Saïd Business School, and holds honorary doctorates from Juilliard, Wittenberg University, and Manhattan School of Music.
Honorees
Lifetime Achievement Award: Seifi Ghasemi, Chairman, President, and CEO of Air Products
Advancing STEM Talent Award: Jim Fitterling, Chairman and CEO of Dow
Henry Kravis co-founded KKR in 1976 and is KKR Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. He serves on the boards of First Data Corporation and ICONIQ Capital, LLC. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus or trustee of several cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including The Business Council, Columbia Business School, Mount Sinai Hospital, Partnership Fund for New York City, Rockefeller University, Sponsors for Educational Opportunity and Tsinghua University School of Economics. He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1967 and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School in 1969. He has vast experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies.
