{"id":56688,"date":"2025-06-24T08:04:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T08:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=56688"},"modified":"2025-06-24T21:07:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T21:07:36","slug":"welcome-to-our-new-members-june-2025","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.usjapancouncil.org\/ja\/news\/welcome-to-our-new-members-june-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Our New Members! (June 2025)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are pleased to welcome the following new members to the Council (joined in June 2025):<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Hawaii<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Kelli Kao<\/strong>&nbsp;(Honolulu, HI)<br>Vice President, J.P. Morgan &amp; Co.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Frederik Mareels<\/strong>&nbsp;(Honolulu, HI)<br>Investment Banker, J.P. Morgan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Seiichi Nagai<\/strong> (Honolulu, HI)<br>Founder &amp; CEO, CivicNexus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Katie Gray<\/strong>&nbsp;(Tokyo, Japan)<br>Administrative Management Assistant, Japantown Task Force<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Robert Nakamura<\/strong>&nbsp;(Tokyo, Japan)<br>Citi County Officer &amp; Banking Head for Japan, Citigroup Japan Holdings G.K.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Michael Omoto<\/strong>\u00a0(Tokyo, Japan)<br>Engineering Manager, Google Japan<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Alex Wise<\/strong>\u00a0(Tokyo, Japan)<br>Corporate Audit Officer, Bank of America Securities Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New York &amp; Vicinity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Cecil Brooks&nbsp;<\/strong>(Bronx, NY)<br>Founder &amp; CEO, Blue Ridge Strategies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Yujin Chung\u00a0<\/strong>(New York, NY)<br>Software Developer, Meta<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Akiko Yamahara\u00a0<\/strong>(New York, NY)<br>General Counsel, Citi Global Wealth<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Southern CA &amp; Southwest<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Byron Gill&nbsp;<\/strong>(San Fransisco, CA)<br>Managing Partner, Indus Capital<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Albert Lee\u00a0<\/strong>(Los Angeles, CA)<br>Chief Operating Officer, Mochi Foods<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Jon Shibata\u00a0<\/strong>(Los Angeles, CA)<br>Senior Vice President, Bank of America<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Washington, DC<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>&amp; Vicinity<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Chiaki Nakajima<\/strong> (Arlington, VA)<br>Founder &amp; CEO, Blue Ridge Strategies<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kazuma Parkinson<\/strong> (Washington, DC)<br>Government &amp; Public Service Consultant, Deloitte<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are pleased to welcome the following new members to the Council (joined in June 2025): Hawaii Japan New York &amp; Vicinity Southern CA &amp; Southwest Washington, DC&nbsp;&amp; Vicinity<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56688","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Welcome to Our New Members! 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