Board of Directors

Larry Greenwood

Board Chair
Japan Society of Northern California

Takahide Akiyama

Vice Chair
Japan Society of Northern California

Steve Pollock

President
Japan Society of Northern California

David Saltzman

Secretary
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

Marsha J. Vande Berg

Treasurer & Finance Chair
MJ Global Insights

Nobuko Saito Cleary

Gala Chair
Cross Cultural Communications

Tracy Gopal

Third Arrow Strategies

Michi Kaifu

Program Co-Chair
Enotech Consulting

Yale Kofman

BMO Family Office

Rochelle Kopp

HR Chair
Japan Intercultural Consulting

Jon Metzler

Program Co-Chair
UC Berkeley

Christopher J. Monteilh

Audit Chair
Deloitte & Touche LLP

Ray Hatoyama

Hatoyama Studio

Hiroaki Kuwajima

UC Berkeley

Drew Edwards

GMO

Kazuhiko Abe

KI-Star

Nobuyuki Baba

Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas)

Suzanne Basalla

Geodesic Capital

Richard Dasher

Stanford University

Christine Fisher

Independent Consultant

Yoshiaki Fujimori

CVC Japan

Glen S. Fukushima

Center for American Progress

William P. Fuller

The Asia Foundation (Emeritus)

Kazuhiro Gomi

NTT Research Inc.

Yotetsu Hayashi

JETRO San Francisco

Emiko Higashi

Tohmon Capital Partners

Keiko Horkan

Dodge & Cox Investment Managers

Kathleen Kimura, MBE

Tokyo Express Co., Inc.

Kenton King

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Jack W. Moorman

US-Japan Medtech Frontiers

Yuki Murayama

MUFG Bank, Ltd.

Mika Nishimura

Glide Healthcare

Michael O’Bryan

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Robert Pearlstein

Qanopy

Yoshiaki “Yoshi” Tojo

Senesens

Tsuyoshi (Yoshi) Tsurumi

Marnix Corporation

Nancy Yamaguchi

Morgan Lewis

Emi Yoshikawa

Ripple

Satoru Watanabe

Maximize, Inc.

Ambassador Michael Armacost

Distinguished Senior Fellow Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), Stanford University

Consul General Yo Osumi

Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco