Board of Directors

Jon Metzler

Board Chair
Lecturer, UC-Berkeley

John Thomas

Vice Chair
Martingale Asset Management

Takahide Akiyama

President
Japan Society of Northern California

David Saltzman

Secretary
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP

Larry Greenwood

Former President
Japan Society of Northern California

Nobuko Saito Cleary

Cross Cultural Communications

Rochelle Kopp

Japan Intercultural Consulting

Tracy Gopal

Third Arrow Strategies

Kevin Kuhn

Global Business and Innovation Professional

Christopher J. Monteilh

Deloitte & Touche LLP

Yale Kofman

BNY Mellon Wealth Management

Kazuhiko Abe

LIFULL Co., Ltd.

Suzanne Basalla

Toyota Research Institute

Dana Buntrock

University of California

Richard Dasher

Stanford University

Glen S. Fukushima

Center for American Progress

William P. Fuller

The Asia Foundation (Emeritus)

Emiko Higashi

Tohmon Capital Partners

Howard Hoover

Deloitte & Touche LLP (Ret.)

Keiko Horkan

Dodge & Cox Investment Managers

Gen Isayama

WiL – World Innovation Lab

Bryan J. Jacop

Located LLC

Michi Kaifu

Enotech Consulting

Kathleen Kimura, MBE

Tokyo Express Co., Inc.

Hiroaki Kuwajima

University of California, Berkeley

Terry Marsh

Quantal International

Takanari Yamashita

JETRO SF

Tsuyoshi Tsurumi

MUFG Union Bank, N.A.

Michael O’Bryan

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Taiki Ozawa

Japan Air Lines

Fumiyasu Hirose

All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd.

Steve Pollock

Gigster

Tsutomu “Tom” Tanaka

Global Investment Banking & Overseas Business Professional

Yoshiaki “Yoshi” Tojo

Senesens

Marsha J. Vande Berg

Tata Capital Pte. Ltd.

Nancy Yamaguchi

Morgan Lewis

Satoru Watanabe

Maximize, Inc.

Ambassador Michael Armacost

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

Consul General Toru Maeda

Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco