Board of Trustees
Paul Schommer, President
Principal, Schommer & Sons
Yoshio Kurosaki, Vice President
President and CEO, Summit Properties
Alice Wiewel, Vice President
Retired Oregon State Architect
Trish Adams, President Elect
President, Opinionated
Jeff Wolfstone, Treasurer
Shareholder, Lane Powell PC
John Tarpey, Secretary
Journalist, Diplomat
Drake Snodgrass, Immediate Past President
President, Drake’s 7 Dees Landscaping
Jim Coonan
President, C2 Cattle Co.
Doug de Weese
CEO, Hoyt Holdings LLC
Barton Eberwein
Executive V.P. Hoffman Corp. (retired)
Oregon Honorary Consul, Canada
Sally Gibson
Community Volunteer
Jeanne Giordano Frasca
President, Jeanne Giordano Ltd, Design and Planning
Takeshi (Ted) Homma
Founder, CEO HOMMA Group
Janelle Jimerson
Community Volunteer
Naoki Kuze
President/CEO, St.Cousair, Inc.
Polly Lauser
Community Volunteer
Travers Hill Polak
Community Volunteer
Sue Reynolds
Educator
Cathy Rudd
OHSU Center for Woman’s Health
Community Volunteer
Dan Schwoerer
CEO, Bulls Eye Glass
Mark Stell
Managing Partner,
Portland Coffee Roasters
Dorie Vollum
Arts Advocate, Community Volunteer
Mari Watanabe
Community Advocate
Mari Watanabe Consulting
Robert Zagunis
Chairman, Keturi LLC
Foundation Board
Sandy Chandler, Chair
Designer & Photographer
Sandra Chandler Photography
Valerie Sasaki, Vice President
Partner
Samuels Yoelin Kantor, LLP
Stephen D. Bloom, President
Chief Executive Officer
Portland Japanese Garden
Diane Freeman, Secretary / Treasurer
Director of Finance
Portland Japanese Garden
F. Gregory Fitz-Gerald
Financial Services Executive (retired)
Evan Gremillion, CFP
Senior Vice President
Morgan Stanley
Allen T. Mercer, CFA
Senior Vice President, Senior Portfolio Manager
Bank of America Private Bank
Dona Tarpey
Diplomat
Community Volunteer
Rebecca Teasdale
Community Volunteer
Rebecca Teasdale Design
Carmen Wong
Certified Financial Planner®, Wealth Advisor
Buckingham Strategic Wealth
International Advisory Board
Japan Members
His Excellency Shigeo Yamada
Ambassador of Japan to the United States of America
Honorary Member
The Honorable Mazie K. Hirono
United States Senator of Hawaii
Honorary Member
Masataka Hata
President, Shoyeido Incense Co.
Kyoto, Japan
Masatoshi Ito
Senior Corporate Advisor, Ajinomoto Co., Inc.
Tokyo, Japan
Koichi Kajima
Former Director, Kajima Corporation
Tokyo, Japan
Amy Katoh
Author, Scholar, Japanese Culture Specialist
Tokyo, Japan
Kengo Kuma
Architect, Kengo Kuma & Associates
Tokyo, Japan
Toshiaki Kuno
Chairman and CEO, Mimasu Corporation
Ibaraki, Japan
Lisa Nakamichi
Founding Artistic Director, Aloha International Piano Festival; Pianist
Tokyo, Japan and Honolulu, HI
Shiro Nakane
President, Nakane and Associates
Kyoto, Japan
Koichi and Mihoko Nezu
Director and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Nezu Museum;
Honorary Chairman, Tobu Department Store
Tokyo, Japan
Kenichiro Sasae
President, The Japan Institute of International Affairs
Tokyo, Japan
Catherine Watters Sasanuma
Philanthropist
Tokyo, Japan and Seattle, WA
Makoto Suzuki
Principal, Tokyo NODAI Green Academy;
Professor Emeritus, Tokyo University of Agriculture
Tokyo, Japan
Takashi Uyeno
Chairman and CEO, Uyeno Group Holdings, Ltd.
Yokohama and Kamakura, Japan
Shiro Wakui
Professor, Faculty of Environmental Studies,
Tokyo City University
Tokyo, Japan
Tadashi and Teruyo Yanai
Chairman, President and CEO,
Fast Retailing Co., Ltd. and Uniqlo
Tokyo, Japan
Shigeho Yoshida
Chief Priest, Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine
Kamakura, Japan
North America and International Members
The Honorable Mazie K. Hirono
United States Senator of Hawaii
Honorary Member
His Excellency Shigeo Yamada
Ambassador of Japan to the United States of America
Honorary Member
Carolyn A. Berry Wilson, Chairperson
Philanthropist, Berry Family Foundation
Honolulu, HI
John Anderson
Founder, Anderson Japanese Garden
Rockford, IL
Alan Davis
Consultant, Davis Hospitality Group
London, United Kingdom
Glen S. Fukushima
Vice Chairman, Securities Investor Protection Corporation
Washington, D.C., San Francisco, CA, and Tokyo, Japan
Mimi Gardner Gates
Asian Art Historian and Scholar
Seattle, WA
David Jansen
Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
New York, NY
John Jay
President, Fast Retailing Global Creative Lab
Portland, OR
Joseph Krakora
Executive Officer, National Gallery of Art (retired)
Washington, D.C.
Janet Montag
Philanthropist
New York, NY
Kathleen M. Pike
Professor and Director, Global Mental Health Program, Columbia University
New York, NY
Holly Shimizu
President, United States Botanic Garden (retired)
Washington, D.C.
Robert Singer
Curator, Japanese Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (retired)
Los Angeles, CA
George Takei
Actor
Los Angeles, CA
Junki Yoshida
Chairman and CEO, Yoshida Group
Portland, OR and San Diego, CA