Honorary Chairman
The Honorable Masaharu Yoshida
Consul General of Japan at Chicago
Consulate General of Japan at Chicago
Chairman
The Honorable Michael H. Moskow
Vice Chairman & Senior Fellow on the Global Economy
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs
Chairman Emeritus
The Honorable Adlai E. Stevenson
Chairman
SC&M Investment Management Corp.
President
The Honorable J.D. Bindenagel
Special Advisor to the President for International and Global Chicago Affairs
DePaul University
Executive Vice Presidents
Kenji Iijima
Senior Vice President & General Manager
Sumitomo Corporation of America
Robert W. Karr, Jr.
Principal
Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd.
Secretary
John Bukacek
President
Japanese Business Legal & Technical Translation and Interpretation Services
Treasurer
Yasushi Kubo
Partner, Audit
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Executive Director
Mitsukuni Baba
Japan America Society of Chicago
Directors
| First | Last | Role | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rita R. | Athas | President | World Business Chicago |
| Mitsukuni | Baba | Executive Director | Japan America Society of Chicago |
| David | Baeckelandt | Managing Director, Institutional Sales & Client Services | O'Shaughnessy Asset Management |
| David L. | Barcus | Vice President, Operations | Sunstar Americas, Inc. |
| Jack D. | Beem | ||
| Nigel | Blakeway | Chairman, President & CEO | Omron Management Center of America |
| Benita | Boettner | Lismore Advisors | |
| Wendy | Breuder | Managing Director, Corporate & Investment Banking for the Americas | The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. |
| Patrick | Canavan | Founder | Canavan Consulting LLC |
| Robert A. | Center | ||
| Sam | Cremin | Managing Director | Green Tree Products |
| Drew | Edwards | Vice President | Advisory Research, Inc. |
| Mark W. | Finn | Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting and International Business, Accounting and Information Management | Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University |
| William L. | Florida | Vice President | Advisory Research, Inc. |
| Ryutaro | Furukawa | Senior Vice President | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
| Marcia E. | Goodman | Partner | Mayer Brown LLP |
| Edward A. | Grant | Arthur Anderson LLP, Retired | |
| Amy M. | Harris | Membership | The Economic Club of Chicago |
| Ichiro | Hidaka | Vice President and General Manager | All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. |
| Masashi | Hisamoto | Treasurer & Secretary to the Board | Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago |
| Walter | Hladko | Imperial Hotel Tokyo/Osaka, Retired | |
| Yoshiro | Hori | Executive Vice President and General Manager | Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal U.S.A., Inc. |
| Eileen | Hubbell | ||
| David D. | Johnson | Executive Vice President, Treasurer & CFO | Molex Inc. |
| Ken G | Kabira | Group Manager of Membership, Service Activities & Communications | Lions Clubs International |
| Janice | Katz | Associate Curator of Japanese Art | Art Institute of Chicago |
| Steven L. | Katz | Principal | Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. |
| Toshio | Kawai | President and CEO | Mistubishi Electric Automation, Inc. |
| Niamh | King | Vice President, Programs | The Chicago Council on Global Affairs |
| Shunichiro | Kishioka | Chairman | ITA Inc. |
| Tomoko | Kizawa | Partner | Deloitte & Touche LLP |
| Jody E. | Kurtzhalts | Yaskawa Electric America, Inc., Retired | |
| Sang-yul | Lee | Partner | Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP |
| Harumi | Lory | Lecturer, East Asian Languages & Civilizations | The University of Chicago |
| Phyllis I. | Lyons | Associate Professor, African & Asian Languages | Northwestern University |
| Calvin | Manshio | Attorney | The Manshio Law Firm, P.C. |
| Hirokazu | Maruta | General Manager | The Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, Ltd. |
| James A. | McClung | Chairman & CEO | Lismore International Inc. |
| Joseph | McCluskey | Vice President, International Operations | W.W Grainger, Inc. |
| Bart M. | McMillan | Partner | Baker & McKenzie LLP |
| Greg | Merkley | Manager, Case Writing | Kellogg School of Management |
| Mark | Miller | President | Cornerstone Environmental, Health & Safety, Inc. |
| Dana E. | Morrison | President | Genieco, Inc. |
| Robert | Murphy | Managing Partner | Moveo Integrated Branding |
| Kazunobu | Narita | General Manager | Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. |
| Timothy | Newlin | Vice President, Foreign Multi-National Banking | JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
| Shuei | Nishizawa | Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. | |
| Yoko | Noge Dean | Correspondent | Nikkei Chicago Bureau |
| Hiroyuki | Nukui | Vice President | Nippon Life Insurance Company of America |
| Hiroko | Osaka | BlueCiel LLC | |
| Thomas F. | O'Toole | SVP & Chief Marketing Officer | United Airlines Mileage Plus Holdings |
| Peggy | Parfenoff | Executive Director | World Chicago |
| Brad | Perlstein | Vice President, Human Resources | Komatsu America Corp. |
| Emily | Reynolds | Senior Vice President, Strategic Business Units | Xerox Corporation |
| Jamie | Rhee | Chief Procurement Officer | City of Chicago |
| David M. | Roden | Vice President & Group Manager | Fifth Third Bank |
| Howard J. | Romanek | Illinois State University | |
| Hironori | Sawada | Deputy Consul General | Consulate General of Japan at Chicago |
| August W. | Schaefer | SVP & Public Safety Officer | Underwriters Laboratories Inc. |
| Dan | Seals | Assistant Director | Illinois Department of Commerce & Economic Opportunity |
| Patrick P. | Shannon | Chief Financial Officer | United Healthcare of Illinois, Inc. |
| Yoshio | Shibazaki | Senior Tax Manager | Plante & Moran |
| Kazuo | Shimizu | President & COO | Kikkoman Foods, Inc. |
| Tatsuhiro | Shindo | Chief Executive Director | JETRO Chicago |
| Shane | Stiles | President | gate39MEDIA |
| William A. | Streff, Jr. | Partner | Kirkland & Ellis LLP |
| Kenzo | Sugimoto | General Manager | NYK Line (North America) Inc. |
| Yasuyuki | Sugiura | President & CEO and General Manager, Chicago Branch | Mitsubishi Corporation (Americas) |
| Mary | Sutherland | ||
| Bridget | Sweeney | Director, Business Operations | The Boeing Company |
| Kentaro | Tsuchiya | Deputy General Manager | Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd. |
| Mike M. | Tsuruga | Genieco, Inc. | |
| Shawn Y. | Valukas | Account Vice President | UBS Financial Services, Inc. |
| Kumiko | Watanabe | Japan Business Group US National Leader | Grant Thornton |
| Ritsuko | Okuno Welch | Vice President, Intl. Finance | Fifth Third Bank |
| Michael P. | Whelan | Partner | Ernst & Young LLP |
| Hisashi | Yamamoto | Arthur Holly Compton Distinguished Professor, Dept. of Chemistry | The University of Chicago |
| Mari | Yamamoto Regnier | Partner | Barnes & Thornburg LLP |
| Masao | Yoshida | President & CEO | Astellas US LLC |
Board of Governors
| First | Last | Role | Organization |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jack D. | Beem | (Chairman) | |
| Dan L. | Boho | Attormey | Hinshaw & Culbertson |
| Thomas J. | Boodell, Jr. | Partner | Boodell & Domanskis, LLC |
| Clyde O. | Bowles, Jr. | Of Counsel | Harrison & Held LLP |
| John | Bukacek | President | Japanese Business Legal & Technical Translation and Interpretation Services |
| Arthur I. | Cyr | A.W. & Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor, Political Economy & World Business Director, Clausen Center for World Business | Carthage College |
| Clyde | Dickey | Retired Partner | Arthur Andersen LLP |
| Ralph | Fujimoto | ||
| Masataka | Harashima | President & CEO | E-Hay International Corp. |
| Lyric | Hughes Hale | ||
| Shunichiro | Kishioka | Chairman | ITA Inc. |
| Jody E. | Kurtzhalts | Yaskawa Electric America, Inc., (Retired) | |
| James A. | McClung | Chairman & CEO | Lismore International Inc. |
| Thomas P. | McMenamin | Principal | Masuda Funai Eifert & Mitchell, Ltd. |
| The Honorable Adlai E. | Stevenson | Chairman | SC&M Investment Management Corp. |
| Thomas | Studney | Senior Executive Officer | Sunstar SA |
| Josie | Tomes |
