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He studied science, but family loan led him into the world of banking.(WHO'S WHO IN ETHNIC BANKING)
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Dunson Cheng was supposed to be a scientist, not the chairman, president and chief executive of the first commercial bank in L.A. to cater to Chinese-Americans.
Born in Vietnam 61 years ago and raised in Hong Kong, Cheng earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics and physics at the University of Wisconsin and a doctorate in physics at State University of New York.
He also was an engineer at Xerox Corp. where he designed and fabricated micro-processors for copy machines.
However, when his parents, who had emigrated from Hong Kong to California, got a loan from ...
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