Min is my boss for the past 3 years.

I was one of his small Equity Ops team members at the beginning, small team, big energy. And later, one of his big team members.  


I think i might be the first employee Min recruited after he joined MS. 


Before he went to SZ office for interviewing the candidates for his open in Chicago,I had already worked with him for few months, he had so much knowledges and so experienced on equity data and data process,he understood every points in my mails quickly, what i meant ‘quickly’ is to reply my long mail in few minutes, which i wrote 1-2 hours to answers all his questions, he replied with futher precise questions which i need to dig deeper to check things out. you got to understand that was some kind of pressure on me as a new promoted team leader 2 months ago, i needed to work OT sometimes. The big benefit was i tried to catch up with his professional opinions on equity data or process in a more mature way, some of them we hadn’t thought about before, and got improved.  


In 2011 Sep, it was my first time met Min in SZ, he was tall, a little baby fat, very warm smiles on his face, very friendly.There were 2 things I remembered very well about Min’s trip:  

One was he was a food lover.i didn’t remembered much what questions he had asked me in the interview, what i remembered best, he is super food lover.I didn’t cook myself and went out for lunch every day, so i knew all kinds of restaurants round SZ office. almost in the whole week as he happened to sat next to me, i brought him to different restaurants for lunch, i was shocked that he almost knew all kinds of Chinese food. We chatted a lot about food, on news, investment, opinions on work and sports in lunch time, he was so humorous with tons of funny stories. Maybe because of my professionals on food, he hired me eventually.  


The other thing was he shared a PPT with SZ Ops team on Equity data industries, where MS equity data in the market. He told everyone, there was billions equity data market there, and we currently ate that cake less than 5%, there was hug business opportunities. He wanted everyone to know every data entry DA collect, is mattered and important. We will keep growing, big and prosperous future of MS equity data is ahead, we will get there. This inspired the team a lot, knowing what we were doing something more than collecting data, but something big and great!  


In early 2012, officially i transferred to work in Chicago office. As my direct manager, Min helped me so much, not just work, also daily life, I was not that good at the beginning as new comer, need to catch up a lot things. Min was always there to help, say no problem and no worries, and coached me what was the right way to do it and achieve the goal, he is kind of person always making things so much easier with directions, in passionate and positive way which is so special. When i grew a little, he was just so happy for me sincerely.  

With Min's lead, I keep accumulating professional knowledges and experiences on equity data, tries my best to contribute to the team as i can with confidence.    


I want to say, Min, thanks you for bringing me to Chicago, you had no idea how much i appreciated the God for all the experiences working for/with you, with every great people in equity ops team. And truelly because of you, I became a much much better person.  


May you rest in peace, you are being missed, as great manager and great friend.

One summer, many, many years ago, Min and Erin and I all met as German language students in a place in Germany called Prien. I remember Min treated a whole bunch of us students to a banquet at the local Chinese restaurant. He was always doing generous things like that. After benefitting from his generosity a number of times, Erin and I - as well as her friend Megan and some others - put our heads together and said, "Min is always treating us and almost never lets us pay for anything ourselves, much less for him. Let's surprise him with a gift that will show him how much we appreciate the things he is always doing for everybody."

So we collected whatever money people were able to donate to the cause from everyone who had benefitted from Min's generosity (as well as his fun and warm nature). In the end we had enough to buy him a gold cigarette lighter. (I don't remember if it was also inscribed or not, but maybe Erin remembers, since I think she actually picked it out). When he was given it, he was very pleased, but also really surprised. He seemed to think that just having other people along with him, enjoying the things he enjoyed, was enough. He was genuinely astonished, and touched, that we would go so far as to give him any kind of special gift.

As far as I could tell he was always that way. He would go out of his way for other people to enjoy things, because then his enjoyment was all the greater; And it never occurred to him that he should receive anything in return for that, other than his enjoyment with those people. What he never quite saw, was that he gave people more than he ever realized, not just by buying dinners and being so fun and funny, but by being really amazingly good company, in a way that is unusual to find, but was very natural to him.

There is a saying that some people hide their light under a bushel. Min was the type who says, "Whatever light I do have, let me share it around." Which is a good thing, because if he had tried to hide it under a bushel, it would probably have started a forest fire. And Min himself would have been the first to be surprised by that.

By the way, when I say it was a long time ago...Erin was 16, I was 20 and Min was somewhere around my age - I think.

Min's an adventurer when it comes to food. When he visited our Morningstar Shenzhen office a couple of times, we always spent quite bit of time in figuring out what new food to try and where to eat. We've been to many places with a lot of choices like Korea nooddle, Sichuan spicy chicken, Hunan cusine, Korean barbecue...I was always a bit surprised that Min did not eat much, though he always said "It's great...awesome...perfect"...such great passion in food.

Until one day, I found out that his favorite food here in Shenzhen is probably Yunnan mushroom hotpot, served in a small restaurant close to Morningstar Shenzhen office within 10 minute walk. Later on then, it came into our conversation a lot of times, regardless of the topic we were on, and we were always able to find a connection between our topic and the mushroom hotpot. One time, when we were chatting about our company's tightening of costs in international travel and possibly his next travel to Shenzhen. we were joking about "adding a bit of budget into the proposl so that we could go out for a good mushroom hotpot dinner". Even before he started the heavy therepy in summer 2014, he's still thinking about his favorite "mushroom hotpot", like it says in the following memo (again we diverted from our suject of discussing the global data values award program, and found a connection to his lovely favorite food, like in many other cases).

Min - you are being missed, my friend. 

From: Min Park
Sent: May 08, 2014 11:10 PM
To: David Du
Subject: RE: Global Data Values Award Program 

Doctors are thinking July and no delays, I hope. Getting excited and nervous at the same time. Dude, I just cannot wait to get healthy and eat some mushroom hotpot with you! 

Take care.

From: David Du
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2014 5:17 AM
To: Min Park
Subject: RE: Global Data Values Award Program 

I totally understand your situation – no frustration from me at all. Has your schedule for implant finalized? You will must do great!!