Officers & Board of Directors

Officers

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

Chair: Megumi Kobayashi, Individual Member*
Chair-Elect: Mark Calhoon, Department of Commerce*
Treasurer: Kanako Matsumoto, Peterson Sullivan, LLP*
Secretary: Susan Okamoto, Susan K. Okamoto Interiors*

Honorary Vice Chair

Governor of the State of Washington: The Honorable Christine Gregoire

Board Member

Consul General of Japan at Seattle: The Honorable Kiyokazu Ota**

Elected Directors

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

Directors to 2012

Mark Calhoon, Washington State Department of Commerce*
Jane Corddry Langill, One Reel/Teatro ZinZanni
Shoko Farmer, Russell Investments
Mikiya Hioka, Mitsubishi International Corporation*
Megumi Kobayashi, Individual Member*
Stan Lance, Individual Member
Brian Maeda, Microsoft Corporation

Akemi Sagawa, Individual Member*
Tsuyoshi Sugimoto, Individual Member
Andrew Taylor, Japan Pacific Publications, Inc.
Herman Uscategui, Starbucks Coffee Company
Katsuo Usukura, Fukuda Denshi
Joe Wilcynski, Peterson Sullivan, LLP

Directors to 2013

Tim Bishop, Nandemoya, Inc.
Tom Boydell, City of Bellevue
Brenda Handley, Gobo Enterprises*
Jeff Hattori, Nikkei Concerns
Blaine Hirai, Class A Properties/Hirai Farms
Michiya Yashiro, Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc.
Hiroko Huntoon, Costco Wholesale

Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Seattle Art Museum
Jeff Jacobson, NYK Line North America
Ryo Kubota, Acucela Inc.
Susan Okamoto, Susan K. Okamoto Interiors*
Don Vollmer, Pacific Northwest Advisors
Karin Zaugg Black, Seattle-Kobe Sister Cities Association

Directors to 2014

Laurie Adams, New York Life
Jonathan Bannister, Pacific Northwest Budo Association
Seiko Callender, U.S. Bank
Christopher Cummins, Individual Member
Brendan Dugan, Port of Tacoma
Oshu Go, Port of Seattle
Sarah Lysons, Perkins Coie
Kanako Matsumoto, Peterson Sullivan LLP*

Yoshi Minegishi, Individual Member
Mayumi Nakamura, PSP, Inc.
Norikazu Natsume, JAMCO America, Inc.
Tim Otani, Union Bank
Sam Shepherd, Individual Member
Matt Smith, Individual Member*
Travis Sullivan, The Boeing Company
Douglas Stewart, Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Carl Wollebek, Port of Everett

Former Board Chairs/Past Presidents***

Mary Bernson, East Asia Resource Center, UW
Mic Dinsmore, Individual Member
James K. Doane, Individual Member
Dick Dudley, Weyerhaeuser Company
Jim Fitzgerald, Individual Member
William Glassford, Individual member
Chris Helm, Davis Wright Tremaine
James R. Ladd, Individual Member
Don Lorentz, Individual member
Tomio Moriguchi, Uwajimaya
Dennis Okamoto, Individual member

Doug Palmer, Hillis Clark Martin & Peterson, P.S.*
Andy Read, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Paul Rollins, Individual member
Linda Salomon, Gobo Enterprises
Tom Sasaki, ECORE Global
Sara Sandford, Garvey Schubert Barer
Roger Williams, Individual member
Dennis Yamashita, Aon Risk Services*

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

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