Panney Wei is an award-winning entrepreneur, producer, and restaurateur whose work spans entertainment, wellness, and hospitality. Passionate about cultural transformation and social impact, she has helped bridge East and West through ventures like Momofuku with Chef David Chang, Boba Ice Cream, her East-West philosophy and healing background as a Certified Clinical Hypnotherapist, and Niku X. In entertainment, she was a business development executive at the Producers Guild of America, The Levitt Pavilion for the Performing Arts, and as a Special Events Director at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival which she co-chaired for many years, and a finalist in the CBS Diversity Writers program. She is currently producing the Broadway bound musicals, Farewell My Concubine, with Tony award winner Jason Robert Brown and Kenneth Lin, adapted from the bestselling novel by Lillian Lee that became an Academy award nominated film and winner of the Palm D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, and Working Girl, also based on the Academy award nominated film, composed by Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductee and Tony nominated composer, Cyndi Lauper and Theresa Rebeck. She is also producing an inspiring documentary on Chef Christine Ha, the first blind winner of MasterChef , and a delightful coming of age story, Dear Michelle, inspired by Olympic figure skater, Michelle Kwan, with her blessing. 

A dedicated AANHPI community advocate, Panney is a national senior advisor to the National Association of Asian American Professionals of which she founded the national women’s leadership program, Women in NAAAP, recognized in Forbes Women, the National Asian Artist Project, the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, and has served and currently serves on several nonprofit and cultural and business leadership boards including the Asian Business Association, the Asian Youth Center, the Vincent Price Museum, and API’s in Sports and Entertainment. She has received honors from the LA Business Journal, Forbes Women, Top 100 Taiwanese Americans, Ascend, and the Asian American Business Development Center Top 50 Asian Americans in Business. Continuing her family’s legacy—she is related to the Qing dynasty hero and politician in China, General Tso Tsung Tang, who held the noble title of “Marquis Kejing of Tranquility and Respect” and is immortalized in American pop culture for the iconic dish, General Tso’s chicken named in hus honor, and her maternal grandfather, Taiwan Senator Liu Chen—Panney is committed to uniting cultures and driving lasting social impact through art, food, storytelling, and entertainment.