Welcome to Our New Members! (March 2025)

We are pleased to welcome the following new members to the Council (joined between February 2025 – March 2025):

Hawaii

  • Alex Hetherington (Honolulu, HI)
    Director of Federal Relations & Strategic Initiatives, Strategies 360
  • Andrew Hill (Honolulu, HI)
    Head of Institutional Equity Sales, Macquarie Capital Securities (Singapore)
  • Evan Nishida (Honolulu, HI)
    Client Relationship Manager, Island Wealth Management
  • Andrew Shiozaki (Honolulu, HI)
    Special Projects Manager, Premier Restoration Hawaii

Japan

  • Andrew Chang (Tokyo, Japan)
    Senior Manager, Global Business Division, Deloitte
  • Cassidy Charles (Tokyo, Japan)
    Editor & Faculty Liaison, GLOBIS Corporation

New England

  • Kiyota Gomi (Cambridge, MA)
    VP of Operations, 123 See inc. (dba Eyebot)
  • Elizabeth Kernan (Brookline, MA)
    Data Scientist, Harvard University
  • Brianna Leonardo (Fall River, MA)
    Resident, General Pediatrics

New York & Vicinity

  • Taiki Chung (Jersey City, NJ)
    Podcast Host, New to Venture
  • Sidney Tanioka (Brooklyn, NY)
    Product Manager, Axon

Northern California

  • Daigo Takahashi (San Francisco, CA)
    Associate Attorney, Morrison & Foerster, LLP

Southeast

  • David Carpenter (Lexington, KY)
    President & CEO, Japan America Society of Kentucky

Southern California

  • Mia Cho (Redondo Beach, CA)
    J.D. Candidate, USC Gould School of Law
  • Benjamin Cros (Aliso Viejo, CA)
    Senior Director, Netflix
  • Alex Nakagawa (Los Angeles, CA)
    Manager of Basketball Development and Engineering, Los Angeles Clippers

U.S. Territories

  • Jason Miyashita (Tamuning, GU)
    Managing Director, Raymond James

Washington DC & Vicinity

  • Hon. Glenn Nye III (Washington DC)
    President & CEO, Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress
  • Amelia Stastney (Washington DC)
    Policy and Affairs Manager, StormFisher Hydrogen