Sachi Hamai
Board Chair & Executive Committee Chair, USJC
Retired, Chief Executive Officer
Los Angeles County
SoCal
U.S. Board of Directors
The U.S.-Japan Council’s organizing Board of Directors consists of leaders from across the United States and in Japan who provide their expertise and guidance in establishing and guiding the Council’s mission and activities.
Executive Committee
Mark Okada
Board Vice-Chair & Investment Committee Chair, USJC
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sycamore Tree Capital Partners L.P.
TX
Ann Teranishi
Secretary, USJC
President & Chief Executive Officer
American Savings Bank
HI
Eiichiro Kuwana
Treasurer, USJC
President and Founding Principal
Cook Pine Capital LLC
New England
Todd Guild
At-Large, USJC
Senior Advisor to Vice Chairman
Suntory Holdings Limited
Southeast/JPN
Josh Morey
At-Large & Nominating and Governance Committee Chair, USJC
President
The J. Morey Company, Inc.
SoCal
Audrey Yamamoto
President & CEO
U.S.-Japan Council
California
Board Members
Kira Teshima Conlon
Government Relations Committee Co-Chair, USJC
Partner and Co-Founder
Somos Law Group LLP
CA
Margaret Cummisky
Managing Director, Federal Government Relations
Hawaiian Airlines
DC
Dianne Fukami
President, Bridge Media, Inc.
TV/Film Producer, Director, Writer
CA
Jennifer Hirano
Business Development Analyst
Alphabet, Inc.
Yoh Kawanami
Director of Customer Energy Resources Operations
Hawaiian Electric
HI
George Kobayashi
Finance Committee Chair, USJC
President, Chicago
Masuda Funai
IL
Masatoshi Komoriya
Deputy Chief Operating Officer
MUFG Bank, Ltd.
Katrina Lake
Founder & Former CEO
Stitch Fix
San Francisco, CA
David Morimoto
Vice Chairman & Chief Operating Officer
Central Pacific Financial Corp. & Central Pacific Bank
Andrew Ogawa
Managing Partner and Founder
Quest Venture Partners
CA
Yoko Otani
Partner
Straterix Inc.
NY
Curtiss Takada Rooks
Program Development Committee Chair, USJC
Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Asian American Studies and former Associate Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts
Loyola Marymount University
Japan
Yoshiteru (Terry) Suzuki
Development Committee Chair, USJC
President and Chief Executive Officer
ORIX Corporation USA
NY
Rona Tison
Engagement Committee Chair, USJC
Tea Ambassador / Executive Advisor
ITO EN (North America) Inc.
NY
Minoru Tsumura
Audit Committee Chair, USJC
Partner
Deloitte & Touche LLP
CA
Masami Tyson
Chief of Staff
Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County
TN