Saturday, October 4, 2008
InterContinental Hotel
888 Howard Street,
San Francisco, CA
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Women are a largely untapped yet significant resource in the Japanese business world. For this reason, the Japan Society of Northern California is proud to celebrate women leaders in US-Japan business at our 2008 Award of Honor Gala, to be held on October 4th at the InterContinental Hotel.
We hope you will join us to recognize two outstanding women pioneers in business between our two countries:
Ms. Sakie Fukushima of Korn/Ferry International and
Ms. Kathy Matsui of Goldman Sachs Japan. They are both role models and an inspiration to women everywhere.
We are also pleased to present a Lifetime Achievement Award to Mr. Richard Heggie, a former Japan Society president with over five decades of leadership experience in Asia and the US.
Please join us as we celebrate these distinguished individuals, whose work we are certain will have a lasting impact on US-Japan relations. For information on ticket pricing and sponsorship opportunities, please click here, or you may download the sponsorship form here.
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Patron
Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco
Fujitsu America
Fuji Xerox Co. Ltd.
William P. Fuller
Keiko Horkan, Dodge & Cox
Korn/Ferry International
Latham & Watkins LLP
NUMMI/Toyota
Public Policy Institute of California
Individual Sponsors
Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin
Akihito (Aki) Nakamachi, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
T.J. Pempel
Hiromu Soga
Steven Teraoka & Shardel Riley
Donors
Glen Fukushima
*Sponsor list current as of July 31, 2008.
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B I O G R A P H I E S
SAKIE FUKUSHIMA
Managing Director Japan,
Korn/Ferry International
Sakie Fukushima is Korn/Ferry International’s Managing Director of Japan and a senior client partner based in Tokyo. Ms. Fukushima specializes in placing executives in senior management positions in American, European and Japanese multinational corporations operating in Japan. Business Week selected her as one of “The World’s 50 Most Influential Headhunters” (one of nine women and the only Japanese) in 2008.
A trustee of the Japan Association of Corporate Executives (Keizai Doyukai), Ms. Fukushima also serves on the Board of Directors of Sony Corporation. She has received wide media attention as one of only two women who serve on the Board of Directors of organizations among the 27 Japanese companies on Fortune’s top 200 global companies.
Prior to Korn/Ferry, Ms. Fukushima held positions in the strategic management consulting firms Bain & Company in Boston and Tokyo and the Boston headquarters of Braxton International.
Ms. Fukushima received her BA from Seisen College in Tokyo, an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education and an MBA from Stanford University.
KATHY MATSUI
Chief Japan Strategist,
Goldman Sachs Japan
Kathy Matsui is Chief Japan Equity Strategist and Co-Director of Pan-Asian Investment Research for Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd. She joined Goldman Sachs in 1994, was named managing director in 1998 and partner in 2000. In 2000, 2001 and 2006, Institutional Investor ranked her No. 1 in Japan Equity Strategy. In 2007, she was chosen by The Wall Street Journal as one of the “10 Women to Watch in Asia” for her work on the “Womenomics” theme.
Ms. Matsui serves on the Asia Management Committee, the Japan Professional Development Committee and on the Firmwide Diversity Committee, and as a board member of the Asian University for Women (AUW) Support Foundation and a trustee for the American School in Japan.
Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, she served as Chief Japan Strategist for Barclays de Zoete Wedd Securities and worked at the Export-Import Bank of Japan’s Washington, DC office.
Ms. Matsui graduated magna cum laude from Harvard University with a BA in Social Studies, and holds an MA from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.
RICHARD HEGGIE
Japan Society President, 1977-1979
Richard Heggie has been working to strengthen ties between the United States and Japan for 55 years, beginning with his assignment to the Tokyo office of The Asia Foundation in 1953. Upon his return to the U.S., Mr. Heggie became active in the Japan Society, serving on the Board and as President from 1977 to 1979. He also was a founding Board member of the San Francisco-Osaka Sister City Association.
Mr. Heggie continued to serve in leadership roles in Asia and the U.S. at Asia Foundation offices in Pakistan, Sri Lanka and India. After 19 years with the Foundation, he returned to San Francisco to become Executive Director of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, a post he held for 12 years. In his retirement, Mr. Heggie was elected the first mayor of Orinda and became active in local and government institutions.
Mr. Heggie holds BA and MA degrees from the University of California at Berkeley. He was elected President of the University of California Alumni Association and served his alma mater as a Regent. He is currently a Regent-Emeritus and a Berkeley Fellow.