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