Officers & Board of Directors

Officers

Officers are elected for a one-year term at the Society’s Annual Meeting in April

*Chair: Dennis Yamashita, Aon Risk Services
*Chair-Elect: Doug Palmer, Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, P.S.
*Treasurer: Seiko Callender, US Bank
*Secretary: Doug Stewart, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
*Immediate Past Chair: Linda Salomon, Gobo Enterprises

Honorary Vice Chairs

**Consul General of Japan at Seattle: The Honorable Mitsunori Namba

Directors

***Directors are elected for three-year terms at the Society’s Annual Meeting in April

Directors to 2010

Tim Bishop, Nandemoya, Inc.
Robert Derrick, City of Bellevue
Brenda Handley, Gobo Enterprises
J. Dax Hansen, Perkins Coie LLP
Blaine Hirai, Class A Properties
Toshihiko Hiranuma, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.
Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Seattle Art Museum
Jeff Jacobson, NYK Line North America
Morio Kiyota, CAESCO (Civil Aircraft Engineering Services)

Ryo Kubota, Acucela Inc.
Kevin Martinez, Seattle Mariners Baseball Club
Akiyo Matono, Nippon Suisan (USA), Inc.
Jim Murphy, Costco Wholesale
Susan Okamoto, Susan K. Okamoto Interiors
Susan Oki, Nikkei Concerns
Don Vollmer, Pacific Northwest Advisors
Karin Zaugg Black, Seattle-Kobe Sister City Association

Directors to 2011

*Seiko Callender, U.S. Bank
Brendan Dugan, Port of Tacoma
*Doug Palmer, Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, P.S.
Laura J. Peterson, The Boeing Company

Matt Smith, Individual Member
*Douglas Stewart, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Carl Wollebek, Port of Everett

Directors to 2012

*Mark Calhoon, WA St Dept of Commerce
Shoko Farmer, Russell Investments
Mikiya Hioka, Mitsubishi International Corporation
Kristinn Jackson, Delta Air Lines / KLM
*Megumi Kobayashi, Individual Member
Stan Lance, Union Bank of California
Brian Maeda, Microsoft Corporation
Robert Pekkanen, Japan Studies Program, University of Washington
Joel Riehl, MulvannyG2 Architecture

*Jane Corddry Langill, One Reel/Teatro ZinZanni
Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Japan Business Association
Andrew Taylor, Japan Pacific Publications, Inc.
*Tsuguyuki Umene, The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, UFJ, Ltd.
*Herman Uscategui, Starbucks Coffee Company
Katsuo Usukura, Fukuda Denshi
Joe Wilcynski, Anderson ZurMuehlen & Co., P.C.
Koichi (Kent) Yanagisawa, ITOCHU Aviation, Inc.
Akemi Sagawa, Individual Member

Former Board Chairs Serving on Executive Committee

*Dick Dudley, Weyerhaeuser Company
*Andy Read, Deloitte & Touche LLP

*Linda Salomon, Gobo Enterprises
*Sara Sandford, Garvey Schubert Barer

* Denotes Executive Committee Member
** The Consul General of Japan at Seattle is automatically conferred director status without election or respect to term limit.
*** Additionally, any past Chair who is still a member of the Society is automatically conferred director status without election or respect to term limit.

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