Bulletin
(From Global Horizons, Fall 2000)

Where are They Now
Launching Own Businesses
New Assignments, Transfers
On the Move
Dr. Odo's Visit to Tokyo
JEMBA-6/JMP-96 Updates
School Ties
Weddings
First-Born Babies
Vists to JAIMS

Where are they now

Jaekwon Lim (JEM3) is now living permanently in Honolulu with his wife Masako Funahashi (AMP38) and daughter Hina, and continues to write for the Economic Intelligence Unit about South Korea and Japan ... Marc Keats (JMP9) is with Senex Japan Inc. ... Doug Sikora (JEM5) is currently a sales trader with Warburg Dillon Read ... Wonyoung Choi (JEM7) has been working for Standard Telecom Co. Ltd., a wireless telecom equipment company in Korea ... Akihito Hori (ICMP96F) is manager of information strategy at Cable & Wireless IDC Inc. in Tokyo ... Todd Sakoda (JEM7), in Oregon, is now with Pearson Financial Group, an investment and financial planning company ... Haruko Ozeki (AMP32) works in the legal department of Coca-Cola (Japan) Co., Ltd. ... Jennifer Araki (JEM7) left Japan and is back in the U.S., working for GE Capital Global Consumer Finance in Connecticut ... Walter Altherr (JMP15) is at Credit Suisse First Boston Securities (Japan) Limited ... Tetsuya Watanabe (ICMP98F) is working for KPMG Consulting Japan ... In February, Theresa Cherry (JEM8) joined Toyota Marine Sports in Florida as marketing administrator ... Alex Lee (JEM5) now works for State Street Bank & Trust Company in Tokyo, after having been at Bridge Information Systems (Japan) Ltd. for four years ... Currently in the UK, Yuki Tanaka (AMP16) is director of Fujitsu business at ICL, a European-based IT service company and a Fujitsu subsidiary ... Curtis Washington (JEM8) left PricewaterhouseCoopers and joined Goldman Sachs (Japan) Limited ... In May, Tomoko Hattori (ICMP95S) started work at Bloomberg L.P. as a network engineer ... Tomomi Sakanoue (ICMP95S) works for Lucent Technologies in Osaka ... Last December, Mayumi Shimotori (AMP36) joined SunFlare Co., Ltd. ... Juan (Keoni) Everington (CHEM1) is now working as the marketing manager for Internetian, Inc., a Chinese/U.S. Internet incubator in Mountain View, California ... Jack Benjamin, Jr. (JMP12) has moved to another law firm, House, Kingsmill & Riess, L.L.C. in New Orleans, Louisiana. His general civil practice deals with maritime or admiralty related issues, and he would appreciate any contacts with Japanese shipping companies ... Fumiko Ito (AMP18) is director of the ATLAS Project at Fujitsu, developing translation software ... Tamon Shinmoto (ICMP97S) has a new job at LINCMedia. He was previously with Schlumberger Japan ... Fermin Taruc (JEM7) recently left Scala Business Solutions and is now chief operating officer at Jupiter Systems, Inc. in Manila ... Indunil Liyanage (ICMP96F) works at Nations Trust Bank and is the manager of in-store banking, a new concept in Sri Lanka ... Sushil Rungta (JMP13) is senior tax analyst at Qualcomm in San Diego. In 1997, he graduated from the University of San Diego School of Law and this year passed the California bar exam ... Ambar Bajpai (JEM7) has left Nuclear Power Corporation and is now with an IT solutions provider, PCS Ltd. ... For the past four years, Martin Baclig (JEM1) has been working for Petronas, a Malaysian oil company ... Tim Fuering (JEM4) is presently group financial controller at Degussa-Heuls Japan Co., Ltd, a large German specialty chemicals company ... JEM7 husband-and-wife team David Lu and Hermie Cruz Lu both started new jobs. David is a senior financial analyst at Network Associates, Inc., and Hermie is a senior research analyst at WW Channel Marketing. They also moved into their new home in San Jose in August ... SeokHo Lee (JEM9) is a senior credit analyst at The Bank of New York in Seoul ... Masela Ibrahim (JMP15) is an assistant general manager in group brand management for Telekom Malaysia Berhad. She writes that she misses Hawaii very much ... Masakazu Kanayama (ICMP99S) has been working for a telecommunications company, Japan Communication Inc., since August ... Kaori (Takei) Ikeda (ICMP94S) is now working for Kinki Nippon Tourist Co., Ltd. in Tokyo ... Bobby Ho (CHEM2) works in the e-commerce division of A S Watson Co. & Ltd. in Hong Kong ... Toshihiro Okada (AMP5) lives in San Diego and works for Motorola SPS North America ... In Canada, Timothy Gunn (JMP11) works for Watt Exchange, a software company that designs, builds and operates B2B exchanges ... Peter Philips (JEM2) is no longer with Goldman Sachs. He is now the Asia-Pacific chief operating officer for treasury and capital markets at HSBC in Hong Kong ... Kok Guan Tan (JEM2) is the executive director of Lonpac Insurance BHD in Malaysia. He’s also the general manager of the company ... Ronald Tang (JEM4) has been working at Citibank in Hong Kong, specializing in aviation financing in the Asia-Pacific region ... Lay Hong Leow (JEM4) is a senior financial analyst at Cisco Systems (USA) Pte Ltd in Singapore ... Dollaris "Waty" Suhadi (ICMP97S) is now a project advisor for the Clean Air Project at Swiss Contact in Jakarta ... Denthep "Shane" Theppratyangthip (ICMP99S) works at Electricity Generating Plc. (EGCO) in Bangkok.

Launching own businesses

With 10 years experience of working in public relations and marketing for large companies like Peugeot Japan, Coca-Cola, and BMW, Akio Yamazaki (AMP36) has started his own company in Japan, providing professional PR service ... In Seoul, Sang Yong Rhee (JMP18) now has his own investment consulting firm, World Consulting, Inc., focusing on foreign direct investment consulting and e-business incubation. He was previously with Deloitte & Touche Consulting in Hong Kong ... After leaving Andersen Consulting last December, Neeraj Jhanji (JEM5) launched a mobile Internet start-up in Tokyo (check out www.imaHima.com) and is looking for highly motivated and capable individuals to help expand his new business ... Jaeho Thomas Chang (JEM6) has been working on establishing a web business and has plans to branch out worldwide, including Korea. He welcomes future business partnerships with his fellow JAIMS alumni ... Parameswaran Thangavelu (JEM8) is currently in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, expanding his India-based global IT consulting company, Nila Consulting ... John Shook (JMP10) is now running his own consulting company, called The TWI Network, Inc., and is also a managing partner of the Lean Enterprise Institute, a nonprofit research and education institute in Brookline, Massachusetts ... Takuya Soga (ICMP99S) is president of Five Star Consulting, a company which he established in April.

New assignments, transfers

Yun-Young Lee (JEM5) transferred from UK to the headquarters of Tokyo Securities about two years ago ... Bharath Ram (JEM5) has taken on an additional responsibility at California-based VM Labs as president and representative director of VM Labs Japan K.K. He is also the vice president of business development ... Hirotake Katayama (AMP24) is now at Fujitsu Telecommunications Europe Limited in the UK ... Wee-Seng Chan (JEM7) is still with Systems & Computer Organization in Singapore, but he is now an executive software engineer ... Takeshi Tai (AMP91S) transferred to his current position of finance and administration manager at Fuji Electric in Germany, after having been at Fuji Electric (UK) Ltd. in London ... Suzanne Nakano (JEM8) was promoted to investment division manager and research division director of Colliers Hallifax, Tokyo.

On the move

After being away from Thailand for eight years, Ek-anong Aey Phanachet (JEM3) has returned home to Bangkok. She now works as head of the fixed income department at Soc Gen, an international bank ... Caroline Haga Wendt (JEM3) and her husband Philip Wendt have moved for the next two years to Western Samoa, where Philip was born and raised. Married since last December, Caroline had been living in California since 1996 ... Muhammad Thamrin (JEM6) moved to Kuching, Malaysia in July to work for Sarawak State Government as an architect/urban designer.

Dr. Odo's visit to Tokyo

On one of JAIMS VP for Academic Affairs Blair Odo’s trips to Japan, she met with various alumni in Tokyo: Rieko Kawaguchi (ICMP98S), marketing manager, Toyo Information Systems Co., Ltd. ... Susumu Akiyama (ICMP97S), director, Pasona Inc. ... Yuichiro Nakamura (AMP22), director of corporate planning and business development, Fujitsu Limited ... Sosaburo Shinzo (AMP36), president, FirePond Japan K.K. ... George Lobley, Jr. (JMP16), manager of the yen equity sales department, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (Asia) Ltd. ... Satish Tandon (JMP6), president, Inpub ... Adam Isao Atsusaka (AMP10), general affairs manager, Varian Semiconductor Equipment ... Mamoru Yachi (ICMP98F), senior consultant, Arthur Andersen ... Kei Yamanouchi (AMP92F), account manager/IT specialist, IBM Japan, Ltd.

JEMBA-6/JMP-96 Updates

John Morihara has left Nichibei and is now at Aoki Science Institute, a small manufacturing firm in Tokyo ... "Retired" from San Miguel Corporation last year, Mian Alentajan is the executive vice president of operations of Wei Mei Li Chemical Manufacturing Company, Inc., a Taiwanese beauty creams and cosmetics company in the Philippines ... Andrew Marshall has moved to Hong Kong and is working as legal counsel with General Electric Information Services International Inc., an e-commerce services provider and subsidiary of the General Electric Company ... Michelle Rosenswig is a research executive at Research International Asia in Singapore ... David Jarmon joined Silicon Perspective Corporation, a start-up based in Santa Clara, California, as vice president of Japan and Asia sales. He visited with JEMBA and CHEMBA students in February during a trip to Hawaii ... Fredrik Tjernstrom works as an analyst for The Internet Fund in New York. He now lives in Jersey City, New Jersey ... Joe Helgert has taken a leave of absence from Grand Valley State University to teach at the University of Arizona in Tucson.

School ties

Congratulations to Indra Tobing (ICMP97F), who just received his master’s degree in information technology from the University of Indonesia ... Yong Yu (ICMP99S) is in the Master of International Management Program at Thunderbird in Arizona and will graduate in December ... Natsu Iwaki Tanaka (AMP36) is working on her doctorate in business administration at Canditt Business School, University of Wales ... Masami Yamaguchi (AMP92S) received her master of arts in international communication at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia in June ... In June Xavier Li (ICMP98S) graduated from the University of Victoria in Canada with an MBA degree. He started working for Edward Jones as an investment representative in August ... Erika Nishimori (ICMP97S) just started the Master of Education in Networked Collaborative Learning program at the University of Sheffield in the UK. Previously she had been working at Hill & Knowlton Japan ... Yoshiro Mishina (ICMP98S) is currently in the Master of Accountancy program at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He used to work at KPMG Consulting in Tokyo.

Weddings

Masayo Kato (ICMP98S) married Satoru Hidaka in June 1999 in Japan ... In Taiwan that same month, Heidi Chen (JEM7) and Yahsing Yuan were married. They moved to San Jose, California in August. Heidi was previously a fund manager at Core Pacific Securities Investment in Taipei ... Hein Thuan Roy Loy (JEM6) and Lai Fong Chan were married in Singapore last September. Fellow classmates Rick Chan, Michelle Rosenswig and Fredrik Tjernstrom helped them celebrate at their wedding ... ICMP-97F classmates Takaharu Uchida and Naoko Noiri tied the knot in December 1999 ... John Cheuck (JEM3) married Natsumi Yamaura in January ... In February Takayuki Ishida (ICMP95S) and his wife, Fumiko, celebrated their wedding in Hawaii ... Kyoko Sunahara (ICMP96S) married Tahir Nomi Saeed from Pakistan in April ... Robert Morikuni (JEM9) married Yoko Fujita on May 1 at the Kahala Mandarin Hotel in Honolulu ... His JEMBA classmate, Rajat Khanna (JEM9), now a consultant with Infosys on Bangalore, India, married Priya, an electrical engineer, in August.

First-born babies

Renee Masako Beecher (AMP38) and her husband Steve are the proud parents of Shin-ichiro Julian, born in January. Renee recently left Fujitsu Systems Business of America ... Gabriel Baling (JMP17) and his wife Lilyana were blessed with a baby boy, Alexander "Mario" Kilah, in February ... Peta Nicholson Fielding (JEM7) and her husband Brennan welcomed their daughter, Daisy Hanalei, in March ... Lukman Chow (JEM10) and his wife Lilie proudly announced the arrival of their son, Michael Liman Chow, born in Honolulu in April, while he was still at JAIMS ... Masaya Hirai (ICMP97S) and his wife Hikari welcomed a daughter, Honaka in August ... Angus McKinnon (JEM5) and his wife Kimiko shared the news of the birth of their son, Yoshihiro (Louis Isaac), born in August.

Visits to JAIMS

Ryoichi Iwata (AMP7) stopped by JAIMS with his wife, Kazuko. It was the first time he had visited JAIMS since graduating 23 years ago ... Yoshimori Asai (ICMP97F), who is with Fujitsu Ltd., came by to reminisce about his classes at JAIMS. Accompanying him was his former classmate Kumiko Matsushita ... Mark Patton (JEM5) and his wife, Terri-Anne, dropped by JAIMS during a trip to Hawaii. Patton is currently marketing manager for Jacques Martin NZ Limited in New Zealand ... Donna May (Tan) Ong (JEM5) and her husband, Leonard, came to JAIMS with their son, Jeremy. Ong is an investment officer with the State Investment Board in Olympia, Washington ... Yoko West (AMP28) visited with friends in March ... April brought a number of alumni to JAIMS. Kunio Toshimitsu (AMP30) was in Hawaii on vacation and stopped by JAIMS with his son and friend. He works at Nikon Co. in Yokohama ... Tsutomu Nagahama (AMP14) is a manager at Infineon Technologies Japan K.K. ... Toru Watanabe (AMP29) is president and CEO of HB Dream Bed Co., Ltd. ... Kotha Basi "K.B." Reddy (JMP4) brought his family to JAIMS. Reddy is a promoter of India-based Infotech Enterprises, president and CEO of Digiquest Corp. in U.S., and president of Microboards (India) Pvt. Ltd., a Japan-U.S.-India joint venture. He and his family live in Riverside, California ... In August Kayoko Ozutsumi Barr (AMP11) visited JAIMS and Hawaii for the first time since graduating in 1977. She has been teaching at Escondido Kumon in California for the past 12 years ... Nobuhiro Takazawa (ICMP94F) of Fujitsu came by JAIMS with his wife and son ... Akiko Shimizu (AMP34) was very happy to visit JAIMS. She lives in Hong Kong with her family ... ICMP-94F alums Takashi and Yoko (Tsuji) Tanaka visited JAIMS on their annual trip to Hawaii in the summer.

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