Board of Trustees
Trish Adams, President
President, Opinionated
Doug de Weese, President Elect
CEO, Hoyt Holdings LLC
Barton Eberwein, Vice President
Executive V.P. Hoffman Corp. (retired)
Oregon Honorary Consul, Canada
Dorie Vollum, Vice President
Arts Advocate
Community Volunteer
Jeff Wolfstone, Treasurer
Partner, Ballard Spahr
Polly Wall Lauser, Secretary
Community Volunteer
Paul Schommer, Immediate Past President
Principal, Schommer & Sons
Jim Coonan
President, C2 Cattle Co.
Sally Gibson
Community Volunteer
Yoko Greeney
Collaborative Pianist
Co-Founder & Director, SoundsTruck NW
Adjunct Faculty, Lewis & Clark
Charles Jenkins
Community Volunteer
IBM, Strategic Partnerships
Naoki Kuze
President/CEO, St.Cousair, Inc.
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
Gregg Takashima
GKT Enterprises, PC President
Animal Care Group of Lake Oswego, CEO, Retired
John Tarpey
Journalist, Diplomat
Mari Watanabe
Community Advocate
Mari Watanabe Consulting
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Maggie Drake
Trustee Emerita
Samuel Naito
Trustee Emeritus
Calvin Tanabe
Trustee Emeritus
Foundation Board
Evan Gremillion, CFP, Chair
Senior Vice President
Morgan Stanley
Sandy Chandler, Vice President
Designer & Photographer
Sandra Chandler Photography
Rebecca Teasdale
Secretary
Rebecca Teasdale Design
Brett Norris, CFP®
Vice President, Portfolio and Wealth Management
Ferguson Wellman
Noah Reis
Managing Director
Snow Peak
Dona Tarpey
Diplomat
Community Volunteer
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
Masatoshi Ito
Senior Corporate Advisor, Ajinomoto Co., Inc. (retired)
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
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