Council of Advisors
*In Alphabetical Order by Last Name
Tae Ashida |
Fashion Designer |
Mariko Bando |
Chancellor, Showa Women's University |
Chris Blackerby |
Group COO, Astroscale Holdings, Inc. |
Heike Boeltzwig-Brown |
Senior Research Associate & Program Developer, |
Ken Chan Chien-Wei |
Founder, CEO/CIO, Patience Capital Group K.K. |
Junko Chano |
Executive Director, The Sasakawa Peace Foundation |
Masako Egawa |
Professor, Hitotsubashi University, former EVP, Tokyo University |
Ichiro Fujisaki |
President, The America-Japan Society, Inc. |
Chisa Fujita |
Community Volunteer |
Jim Hardin |
Head of School, The American School in Japan |
Yosuke Hariki |
President, Office Hariki |
Aya Higa |
Community Volunteer |
Ernest M. Higa |
Chairman & CEO, Higa Industries Co., Ltd. |
Yumi Hosaka Clark |
Vice President, Head of Product and Solutions, Visa Worldwide (Japan) |
Naho Hozumi |
Community Volunteer |
Jason P. Hyland |
President and Representative Officer, MGM Resorts Japan LLC |
Douglas Hymas |
Country Executive, BNYMellon |
Mayumi Jones |
Community Volunteer |
Masahide Kametaya |
CEO, Progressive Corporation |
Russell Kawahara |
Partner, Atsumi & Sakai / U.S.-Japan Council |
Yasuhiro Kawamura |
President, Frontier International Inc. |
Michael Khoo |
President, WineInStyle Co. Ltd. |
Noriko Kido |
Community Volunteer |
Kosei Kobayashi |
President and CEO, KK Holdings |
Nobuko Kobayashi |
Managing Director & Partner, EY-Parthenon |
Akihiko Kubo |
Managing Director/Representative Director , Tag. Japan |
Joseph Lee |
Hotel Manager, The Peninsula Tokyo |
Anthony Miller |
Partner, CEO, PAG Japan Limited |
Mieko Nakabayashi |
Representative Director, Japan Williams Lea Tag |
Katsuya Natori | Attorney-at-Law, Natori Law Office |
Kevin Naylor |
Vice President, Japan Sales, en world group |
Susumu Ohta |
President & Publisher, OHTA Publications |
Nami Okubo |
President, Preigio Inc. |
Kazuko Okuno |
Community Volunteer |
Scott Sato |
Chief Executive Officer, Tricor K.K. |
David Slater |
Professor, Sophia University |
Jim Small |
Vice President of Asia Pacific, Major League Baseball |
Peter Strydom |
President, Amway Japan G.K. |
Paul Noritaka Tange |
Chief Executive Officer & Senior Principal Architect, Tange Associates Asia |
Haruko Tokura |
Community Volunteer |
Shunichi Tokura |
Composer |
Junko Tsuda |
Executive Director, U.S.-Japan Council |
Yoko Wada |
Community Volunteer |
Karin Wellbrock |
COO and Partner, Kay Group K.K. |
Dave West |
President and General Manager, Cisco Systems G.K. |
Marcus Wong |
APartner, Global Mobilty Services PwC Tax Japan |
[ Overseas Council of Advisers ]
Deva Hirsch |
Hands On Tokyo Founder & President, Emeritus |
Timothy Latimore |
Head of Asia Pacific, Merrill Lynch |
D. Steven Lin |
President & CEO, Greater China & Japan Operations, |
Naresh Sethi |
Director, British American Tobacco |
Efrot Weiss | Community Volunteer |