No, there aren’t too many Asian American CEOs in Silicon Valley.

“When two-thirds or three-quarters of the CEOs in Silicon Valley are from South Asia or from Asia, I think…” Bannon said. “A country is more than an economy. We’re a civic society.”

It seems that one of the new potential appointees to the White House staff thinks that there are too many Asian American CEOs in Silicon Valley. I have to say with a resounding NO, there aren’t too many of us. As a first generation Filipino-American, I can hardly find Filipino-American CEOs let alone Asian-American CEOs.

So, I’m going to put out some facts out there as found by a 2015 study from the Ascend Foundation:

· Although both race and gender are factors that contribute to a glass ceiling, the impact of race is 3.7 times more significant than the impact of gender as a negative factor for the Asian workforce within the companies examined.

· While white men are 42% more likely than white women to be an executive in these companies, they are 149% percent more likely than Asian men to be an executive, and 260% more likely than Asian women to be an executive.

· For Asian women in these companies, this translates into a “double whammy” race-plus-gender problem: Only 1 of every 285 Asian women is an executive, less than half the ratio for the entire workforce of 1 executive per 118 professionals.

While there are many Asian-Americans working as cogs in these tech companies, there are very few that are represented in management/upper management and even fewer as CEOs. In fact, there is still a lot of racial microaggressions against Asian American CEOs/founders, and worse yet, we mostly get ignored in discussions about tech and diversity because people think we have already made it because there are “so many of us” to which I say BAH.

As an Asian American, it looks like we have a long way to go and a lot to fight for in 2016 and beyond.