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Bulletin
(From
Global Horizons, Fall 1999)
What's New, Who's Where
April in Singapore
Spring in Beijing and Manila
Summer in Tokyo
More Alumni Visit Beijing, Manila, and Hong Kong
Visitors to JAIMS
Weddings and Families
What’s new, who’s where
Yoshiharu Nakamura (AMP92F) has
returned to Fujitsu in Nagano after working for two years for
Fujitsu subsidiary
ICL in the U.K. He and his wife are expecting their second child
in March ... Abelardo Masiddo (JEM1) is with Cotelligent,
a computer consulting company in Washington State ... Satoru
Miyoshi (ICMP96S) moved from the semiconductor field to
the IT software strategic planning division of Fujitsu ... Curtis
Washington (JEM6) is with Price Waterhouse Consultants
in Tokyo ... Dede Prabowo (JEM7), with Prospect Asset
Management, transferred to the Tokyo office from Honolulu
... Jeffrey Natori
(JMP14) is now with White & Case LLP in Tokyo ... Stuart
Elliot (JEM3) still travels to Japan every year with his company,
Alberta Trading House, which sells housing packages. He’s also
a manager of strategic relations with Colt Engineering Corporation
... Bharath Ram (JEM4) is vice president of business development
with VM Labs, a software company based in California, although
he’s
based in Tokyo ... Andre Rahendrawan (JMP13) is vice president
of investment and operations for PT Bahana Artha Ventura, a venture
capital company in Jakarta ... Albert Lo (JMP15) of Honolulu
recently received his masters in religion from the International
College and Graduate School ... Warren McNabb (JEM6) has
moved to Toronto with his company, Macquarie North America Ltd.,
and writes that he is training to be a Canadian ... Roger Pangan-Hosokawa
(JEM4) has started his own multilanguage (English, Japanese, Russian)
multiplatform computer resource and networking company, Penguin
Computers, based out of Bellevue, Washington. He and his wife, Tomiyo
(AMP93F), have also been busy with their daughter Marisa, who was
born in September 1998... Sanjay Pareek (JEM8) was one
of six professionals from India selected by the British government
to work in London under the Bond Professionals Scheme for one year
...
JEM6 alums John McCormick and Patrick Hee have left
Frost & Sullivan for SECTORBASE.com ... Nancy Bush (JMP11)
is busy working on her Ph.D. at the U.S. nternational University
in San Diego. She won two ticke4s to Japan from the Japan Society
and took her daughter there this summer ... Pradono "Jack"
Handojo (JEM6) has been busy the past three years managing
several medical clinics in Indonesia and received best performance
for the
health centers in the whole province of Bengkulu, Sumatra and the
doctor of the year award in 1998 from the president of Indonesia.
He is now studying for his master in health administration at the
University of New South Wales in Australia ... Seth Huber
(JEM8) was hired by MCI WorldCom Wireless in April as a senior
sales representative in their Phoenix, Arizona office. He and
his wife
Alicia welcomed baby Emi Kaimilani in February ... Manabu Oyama
(ICMP97S) transferred to Sony Life Insurance Philippines, where
he is general manager, information system and policy administration
... Michiko Suto Kawashima (ICMP95F) now lives on the Big
Island and is regional sales manager for Ueshima Coffee ... Sunil
Ayrukuzhiyil (JEM6) lives in Kerala, India, but has been
spending most of this year in the U.S. working on various projects
in Chicago
and Detroit, and most recently Kansas City, Missouri, as a technical
consultant for Oracle—he and his wife Kshema had a baby girl
Nitya in 1998 ... Thomas Miller (JMP17) informed us
that he has left Wall Street to join Vertek Corporation, a
computer consulting
company. He and wife Carolyn welcomed baby Charlotte Katherine
in April ... Vincent Shia (JEM5) transferred from the
Executive Human Resource Office to the Policy Research & Development
Unit of the Housing and Development Board of Singapore. He
married Sharon
Laihar Aw in June 1998, and they spent their honeymoon in Turkey
... David Frigstad (JMP4) is chairman of Frost & Sullivan,
which his company acquired in 1993. Frost now has research
offices
in Bombay, Singapore and Beijing and is working on opening a research
and sales office in Japan. They’re looking for interested
AMP and ICMP graduates in assisting them with the new office
... Ravi
Ranjan (JEM7), now with Wipro Infotech, has relocated from
India for a year to work at Daiwa Institute of Research in Japan
... James
Beach (JEM2) is CEO of American Computer Experience in Atlanta,
Georgia ... Masanobu Manabe (AMP36) reports that he is
now manager of supply processing and distribution at Hokuyaku
Inc. ...
Tsutomu "Ben" Takatori (ICMP96S) works for Sony
Corporation in the WLL Strategy & Development Department,
Digital Network Solutions ... Binh Ngoc Tran (ICMP94F)
works at the Department General of Posts and Telecommunications,
where she will
soon be appointed deputy secretary general. She is currently the
director of the representative office in South Vietnam and is
also
chairwoman of Saigon Postel, a joint stock company ... Tsan
Fai
"Bobby" Ho (CHEM2) received the Marquis Who’s Who
in the World 1999 award.
April in Singapore
Roxanne Kam, JAIMS academic services manager, met with alums in
Singapore during her recent Fujitsu Scholarship trip: Raymond
Wai Pong Wong (JEM8) is with StarHub in their business planning
division—he and his wife Christine are also the happy parents of
son Raphael, born in February ... Vincent Ong (JMP17) is
managing director with Fujitsu Devices Singapore ... Wee Seng
Chan (JEM7) is executive software engineer with Systems &
Computer Organization ... Chee Meng Chan (JEM8) is now with
Agilent Technologies in Singapore ... Taizo Kida (AMP35)
is managing director at Kobaden Singapore ... Roy Hein Thuan
Loy (JEM6) joined PSA Corporation (the world’s busiest container
port operator) as container terminal process manager. He recently
got married to Lai Fong, and they spent their honeymoon in Scandinavia
... Suay Peng Wong (JEM3) is with the school of business
management at Nanyang Polytechnic ... Benjamin Lin Boon Tan
(JMP13), also at Nanyang Polytechnic, is with the school of accountancy.
Spring in Beijing and Manila
Blair Odo, JAIMS vice president for academic affairs,
had dinner with several alums during an April trip to Beijing: Yonghong
Zhao (ICMP96F) is with the Ministry of Information Industry,
International Cooperation Division ... Phil Jones (JEM3)
has returned to Japan after being in Beijing for two years and is
now the vice president of logistics/manufacturing at IMR Global
Corp., Ltd. ... Li Xuan (ICMP97F) is working on her MBA at
International Technology University ... Qiang "Tim"
Liu (ICMP96F) is director of cooperate & facility with the
Beijing Weather Office ... During her Fujitsu Scholarship trip to
the Philippines, Dr. Odo met with Carlos Mercado (JEM3),
chief trader with PCIBank ... Mia Angela Lacson (JEM6), who
moved with husband Francis from Manila to Cagayan de Oro and "retired"
from San Miguel Corporation in November ... Vladimir Lopez
(JEM8), Philippine Science High School ... Fermin Taruc (JEM7),
vice president, Scala Business Solutions ... Margaret Rose Canobis
(ICMP98S), real estate loans, Rizal Commercial Banking Corp.
Summer in Tokyo
In June, Jeannette Fukuzawa, JAIMS academic program specialist,
met with several AMP/ICMP alums in Tokyo: Keijin Kondo (AMP92S),
section chief, radar application systems, Fujitsu ... Hitoshi
Miyazaki (AMP92S), Fuji Electric Information Service ... Nozomi
Nagafusa (ICMP98F), sales, Elsevier Science ... Hodaka Miyashita
(ICMP98F), assistant manager, Asahi Life Insurance Co. ... Hiroshi
Inagawa (AMP92F), Fujitsu Learning Media ... Kazuhito Nakamura
(ICMP96F), who was transferred from the purchasing to administration
department ... Also joining them were Terumi Okamoto (ICMP96F)
and Fumio Matono (AMP92S) ... Dr. Odo also met with other
AMP/ICMP alumni during a trip to Tokyo in June: Yoshi Sekiguchi
(AMP3), associate professor of engineering, Soka University ...
Hideo Ichikawa (AMP22), sales group manager, BEA Systems
Japan, Ltd. ... Toshimasa Matsunaga (AMP22), head of international
banking systems headquarters, DKB Information Systems Inc. ... Shigeru
Muraki (AMP22), general manager, Institute for the World Cultural
Heritage ... Katsuyuki Okamoto (AMP22), store development
manager, Giorgio Armani Japan Co., Ltd. ... Makoto Okamoto
(ICMP94F), sales, Fujitsu Ltd. ... Nobuhiro Takazawa (ICMP94F),
planning department of application software business group, Fujitsu
Ltd. ... Mariko Ishi (ICMP95F), information systems and services
division, Mitsubishi Corporation ... Kenki Miyanabe (ICMP96S),
vice president, Morgen, Evan & Company, Inc. ... Kyoko Sunahara
(ICMP96S), technology planning department, Fujitsu Ltd. ... Kazuhiro
Arai (ICMP98S), server OS product manager, Microsoft ... Koji
Endo (ICMP98S), engineer, Bell Labs ... Yoshiro Mishina
(ICMP98S), senior consultant, KPMG Consulting Co., Ltd. ... Shinichi
Murakami (ICMP98S), now with Lamb Weston, Japan in their Tokyo
office ... Kyoko Someya (ICMP98S), account director, Hakuhodo
Inc. ... Megumi Yamamura (ICMP95F), business network integration
section, NTT Worldwide Telecommunications ... Also there were Toshi
Sunohara (AMP3), Mihoko Ishii (ICMP98S) and Rieko
Kawaguchi (ICMP98S).
More Alumni Visits in Tokyo, Beijing
and Hong Kong
During the summer, JAIMS President Glenn Miyataki
met with alumni in various cities and with former JAIMS staff from
Fujitsu in Tokyo. Here’s an update: After headhunting for others
at CS Inc. in Tokyo for over three years, Lawrence Kieffer
(JEM5) found himself being hunted and is now director of consulting
for Asia-Net K.K., a leading Internet recruitment company for bilingual
professionals. He also married Rieko in September in New York ...
John Morihara (JEM6) has left Nichibei Co., Ltd. ... In Beijing,
along with Li Xuan, Tim Liu, and Phil Jones,
Dr. Miyataki met with Jiandong Yang (ICMP98F), deputy director
of the Department of High Technology in the State Development Planning
Commission, and J.X. Zhao (AMP28) of Thomson ILX Systems
in New York. Zhao happened to be traveling in Beijing the same week
... In Hong Kong: Wendy Chan (JEM7), planning manager, MindShare
Hong Kong Ltd. ... Francis Fung (JEM6), derivatives documentation
manager, Indosuez W.I. Carr Securities ... Rick Chan (JEM6)
started working as an administrative officer for the Hong Kong government.
He will be assigned to different posts, with the first post in the
Health and Welfare Bureau ... Ek-Anong "Aey"
Phanachet (JEM3), vice president of the fixed income division
at Lehman Brothers, is planning to marry before the end of the year
and move to Bangkok.
Visitors to JAIMS
December visitors took advantage of the balmy Hawaii
winter: Hiro Minami (AMP93F), with Cadence Design Systems
in Northern California, dropped by with wife Masumi and son Skip
... Yumiko Ito (ICMP95F), with AOL Japan, came by after running
the Honolulu Marathon last December with her friends ... Tsuneo
Nara (AMP10), with Fujitsu, visited Hawaii after 16 years and
brought his wife Hiroko and two sons ... Marcus Otsuji (JEM7)
and his wife Liana were in Hawaii for the holidays—he’s with JapanWorks,
a business and investment consulting company in Utah ... Johan
Soedibjo (JEM5), general manager with PT Astratel Nusantara
in Jakarta visited with his wife Wiliwati. He and fellow classmate
Bambang Sastrosatomo hope to get together all JEM5 alumni
and JAIMS staff for a reunion in Bali next year ... In January,
newlyweds Toshiyuki Kan (ICMP94F) and Michiko visited while
on a Hawaii honeymoon—he’s with Asahi Mutual Life Insurance in Tokyo
... Jun Kobayashi (ICMP94F) and wife Rika enjoyed a Hawaii
holiday—he’s been on the U.S. mainland after graduating from JAIMS
and is with North American Lighting in Michigan ... Yasuo Shiraki
(AMP21) retired two years ago from Nippon Steel and made his first
visit since graduation in 1982 ... Erika Nishimori (ICMP97S),
with Aiokai Medical Corporation in Tokyo, was on a business trip
in Hawaii researching medical facilities for the elderly ... Mari
Kato and Grace Mi Jeong You (ICMP97F) dropped by in March.
Mari spent a year in Florida with WDW and was on her way back to
Japan. Grace moved to Honolulu last year and recently got married
in Honolulu in October ... Isamu Kaito (AMP20) and his wife
Reiko visited while on holiday from Sanyo in Tokyo ... Miki Yuzawa,
recent ICMP98S graduate and Fujitsu employee, was enjoying a short
Hawaii vacation in March ... Sawa Negishi (ICMP97S), also
with Fujitsu, visited in April and reminisced about her wonderful
experiences at JAIMS ... Arie Nugroho (AMP91F) made a special
trip to JAIMS in April to accompany his sister Marini Prihasantie
at the start of the ICMP99S program—he’s now business development
director with PT Hadatrans Interbuana in Semarang, Indonesia ...
Tom Goeller (JMP1) and his wife visited for the first time
since his graduation 26 years ago. He’s been working for IBM in
Illinois for 25 years and was awarded a sales incentive vacation
to Kauai ... Chris Lamatsch (JEM5), senior manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers
in Tokyo, spoke with the JEM9 class in April and brought his wife
Kyoko and daughters Kay and Emma ... Neeraj Jhanji (JEM5),
with Anderson Consulting in Tokyo, visited and was happy to report
that he had passed the JETRO level 1 test! ... Dawn Kawasaki
(JEM8) returned to Hawaii after a trip through Africa and the Middle
East and is now in New York ... Noriaki Saito (ICMP97S),
with Fujitsu International Computer Business Group, vacationed in
Hawaii during Golden Week and dropped by JAIMS just in time for
a kabuto-tori celebration by the staff ... Hiroe "Pepper"
Matsuo (ICMP96F) visited in May and found JJO’s Katsumi Tsubaki
hard at work! ... Takayuki Ishida (ICMP95S), a software engineer
at Sony, dropped by in June ... Tetsuzo Nishimura (AMP91F)
visited in July with his wife, daughter and some friends and informed
us that he’s now with Meritor Automotive Japan ... Minoru Hashimoto
(AMP16), general manager of consulting at Beacon IT in Tokyo, also
visited in July ... The month of September saw quite a number of
alumni at JAIMS: Yutaro Ito (AMP4) visited JAIMS with his
wife Tomoko—he works for Hoku Gin Software, a subsidiary of Hokuriku
Bank ... Also visiting on the same day was Tomohiro Yoshimura
(AMP92S), who works for Fujitsu, and his wife Yasuyo ... David
Scott (JEM5), fund manager at Jardine Fleming in Tokyo, took
the time to drop by JAIMS and speak to JEM10 and CHEM3 students
while on vacation ... Yoshinaga Seki (AMP27), who also visited
in September, works as a senior customer representative for Federal
Express in Japan and tells us that he has traveled overseas to more
than 30 countries ... ICMP95S classmates Tomoko Hattori and
Noriko Kozu visited with Tomoko’s mother. Both are working
for Fujitsu. Tomoko has just translated a book called The Information
Paradox into Japanese, and Noriko has begun to learn watercolor
painting and Noh dance ... Kiyotoshi Ando (AMP10) came by
JAIMS with his wife and daughter—he left Suntory Ltd. in 1997 and
is now the director of operations at Boston Scientific Japan.
Weddings and families
Donna Tan Ong (JEM5) and her husband Leonard were
blessed with a healthy boy, Theodore Jeremy, born last December
... Best wishes to Masaya Hirai (ICMP97S), who married Hikari
Yamaji in November 1998 ... Midori Taniyama (AMP93F) married
Masahiro Yamazaki at a ceremony in Australia in January—she works
for Fujitsu in the application software business group ... Xavier
Li and Yumika Yoshida (ICMP98S), a romance that began
at JAIMS, married in August in Victoria, Canada. Xavier’s getting
his MBA at University of Victoria, and Yumika’s hoping to go to
law school after working for Fujitsu for 13 years ... During their
recent studies at JAIMS: Time Asia/Fujitsu Scholar Tjandra Widjaya
(ICMP99S), and his wife Dewi, were blessed with a baby girl, Gabriela
Leilani in June, and Fredy Sumendap (JEM9) and wife Wannie
welcomed the birth of their son William Leonard in August—right
before leaving for his internship in Japan ... Tamara (Witte)
and Andrew Ujiie (JEM4)—both with World Family K.K. in Tokyo—welcomed
their first child, Katrina Arisa, in July ... Tetsuya Ohashi
(ICMP96S) got married in July, and he and wife Yoko dropped by JAIMS
while on their honeymoon in Hawaii ... Taisei Minamoto (ICMP98S)
and his wife Junko celebrated their wedding at Halekulani Hotel
in Waikiki in September and spent a few days on the Big Island ...
In October William Hall (JMP17) and his wife Keiko, had a
second son, Kai William, to join brother Kento. Bill has left Kamakura
Corporation and is now with Data House in Honolulu.
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