Bulletin
(From Global Horizons, Spring 2001)

Due to the abundance of responses from alumni, we were not able to list everyone who contacted us with their current information. We deeply apologize if you are not listed here, and we promise to include you in the next Global Horizons.

JMP/AMP
JEMBA/CHEMBA
ICMP
JAIMS Visitors
Weddings
New Arrivals
We Remember

JMP/AMP

Toru Hanayama (AMP-38) is the director of System Planning at Fujitsu Asia Pte. Ltd. in Singapore.

Hiroyuki Hikita (AMP-38) is with PFU Limited and lives with wife Miho and 2-year-old daughter Mayuka.

Masafumi Koide (AMP-04) is currently the chief administrative officer at Fujitsu Systems Business of America, Inc. in Santa Clara, California.

Bon-Keul Koo (JMP-16) is the partner at Athena Technology Ventures in Palo Alto, California.

Hiro Minami (AMP-93F) is business development manager for In Time Software, Inc. in San Jose, California.

Jeffrey Natori (JMP-14), managing director and general counsel of CTR Ventures, K.K. (Japan), was the panel leader for the business seminar, “Accessing Japan Business Markets and Capital.”

Arie Nugroho (AMP-91F) is the CEO of PT. Hadatrans Interbuana, an international freight forwarder.

Vincent Ong (JMP-17) is the executive vice president of Weidmuller Holding AG & Co. KgaA in Singapore.

Sang-Yong Rhee (JMP-18) is the CEO of Mobile Culture, Inc., a wireless Internet service provider, in Seoul, Korea.

Kiyoshi Shimahara (AMP-31) is currently a director at Kotobukiya Co., Ltd. in Osaka, Japan.

Dr. Benjamin Lin Boon Tan (JMP-13) is the assistant professor at the School of Accountancy and Business, Nanyang Technological University.

Kunio Yoshihama (AMP-15) is the president of H. Yoshihama Co., Ltd. in Tokyo, Japan.

JEMBA/CHEMBA

Ambar Bajpai (JEMBA-7) now heads operations of Patni Computer Systems Ltd., an IT solutions provider, in Japan.

Wendy Chan (JEMBA-7) is the associate director of MindShare Japan.

Lukman Chiudri (JEMBA-10) is the manager, JOC & Manufacturing Systems, Sales Group at PT Fujitsu Systems Indonesia.

Anna N. del Castillo (JEMBA-8) is an independent Nikken distributor in the Philippines.

Steve Farrell (JEMBA-1) is director of Product Management for Vyyo, a wireless broadband access company.

Since 1998, Tim Feuring (JEMBA-4) has been the group financial controller at Degussa-Heuls Japan Co., Ltd., a large German specialty chemicals company.

Francis Fung (JEMBA-6) is a senior manager at Indosuez W.I. Carr Securities, Ltd. in Hong Kong.

Bobby Ho (CHEMBA-2) is the business development manager - “e-commerce” for A.S. Watson & Co., Ltd. in Hong Kong, a member company of Hutchison Whampoa Ltd.

Jason Holt (JEMBA-10) and Christopher Reed (JEMBA-10) are analysts at Prospect Asset Management in Japan.

AOL Investments made a $2 Million venture capital investment in Imahima, established by Neeraj Jhanji (JEMBA-5).

Jun Kabigting (JEMBA-10) is a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers-Unifi Network K.K. in Japan.

Johh Koh (JEMBA-10) is a consultant with PricewaterhouseCoopers Consulting in Japan.

Moses Koh (CHEMBA-3) is working at KPMG Singapore’s Corporate Finance Division as the supervising consultant.

Mia Angela A. Lacson (JEMBA-6) is the executive vice president of Wei Mei Li Chemical Manufacturing Co., Inc. in the Philippines.

Chris Lamatsch (JEMBA-5) has recently started his own company, ExStra, KK. Chris is the chief operating officer and his company specializes in e-business strategy, solutions, and training.

Lay Hong Leow (JEMBA-4) is the financial analyst of the Asia Pacific Division of Cisco Systems (USA) Pte. Ltd. in Singapore.

Craig Mclachlan (JEMBA-10) is the managing director of Wildness Adventures, Ltd. in New Zealand.

Erik Surono (JEMBA-9) is the general manager, of the paper, stationary, and chemical division at Sinar Mas.

Muhammad Thamrin (JEMBA-6) now lives in East Malaysia and works with Sarawak State Government as an architect in the Public Works Department.

Kem Vachiravarakarn (JEMBA-10) is a senior consultant with Arthur Andersen-Thailand in Bangkok.

Carol Wei (JEMBA-10) is a senior specialist with Taiwan Fixed Network in Taipei, Taiwan.

Mike Wiley (JEMBA-9), a business planner at ITT Industries Cannon Group, Japan Facility, was chosen to become the ITT Cannon Japan Value Based Six Sigma Master Black Belt, one of the few Six Sigma Black Belts in Japan.

Raymond Wong’s (JEMBA-8) company, NexLabs, came in as the winner of the prestigious IgniteAsia biz-plan competition out of 260 companies from around Asia.

ICMP

Kihachiro “Harry” Hirose (ICMP-99S) will begin a new career as criminal court interpreter.

Kenji Inoue (ICMP-96F) works with Fujitsu Limited in Tokyo.

Daisuke Kato (ICMP-99F) is a consultant at Venture Link and lives in Tokyo.

Eitaro Kono (ICMP-00F) is an assistant project manager in business & service development at Vectant, a leading data and e–commerce networking company.

Kumiko Nishikata (ICMP-00S) recently started a new job at Qualcomm Japan as a business development coordinator.

Kenji Omi (ICMP-00S) is in charge of marketing cardiac-related medical devices for the Life Sciences Division of Baxter Japan.

Wako Sakurai (ICMP-00S) has been transferred by his company from Japan to the U.S., working for PFU America, Inc. in Santa Clara, California as the accounting manager.

Yong Yu (ICMP-99S) is currently working for PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York.

JAIMS Visitors

Bon-Keul Koo (JMP-16), Hiro Minami (ICMP-93F), John Morihara (JEMBA-6), Tetsuya Ohashi (ICMP-96S), Ravi Ranjan (JEMBA-7), David Scott (JEMBA-5), Kiyoshi Shimahara (AMP-31), Akiko Ishii [now Akiko Takamori] (ICMP-99F).

Weddings

Jack Benjamin, Jr. (JMP-12) got married to Jennifer Anne Hanley on September 9, 2000.Jim Bell (JMP-12) attended the ceremony.

Fumi Matsuba (ICMP-97S), JAIMS Japan Office, got married to Chihiro Sado on November 25, 2000 at the Mielparque, Tokyo.

Raymund Mercado (ICMP-99S) got married to Maria Esmeralda C. Roceles on October 22, 2000 (see photograph). Ravi Ranjan (JEMBA-7) got married to Swati Ray on December 1, 1999. Akiko Ishii (ICMP-99F) got married to Kotaro Takamori (ICMP-99F).
	Raymund Mercado & Maria Esmeralda C. Roceles

New Arrivals

Larry Kieffer (JEMBA-5) had his first son born on January 29, 2001 named Nicholas Kaishuu Kieffer.

Jade Roxas (JEMBA-10) gave birth to Stephanie Roxas-Divinagracia (see photograph) on December 28, 2000. Donna May Tan [now Donna May Ong] (JEMBA-5) had a new son born November 21, 2000, Christopher Justin Ong. They also have another son, Jeremy.
	Stephanie Roxas-Divinagracia

	Tjandra Widjaya’s (ICMP-99S) second daughter, Agnes Natasya Wijaya was born on January 1, 2001. Yumika Kazuyo Yoshida & Xavier Li (ICMP-98S) had their first son, Joseph Takashi Li (see photograph) on February 10, 2001, which also happens to be Yumika’s birthday.
Joseph Takashi Li

We Remember

JAIMS sends its sincere condolences to the family of Jariro Correa (AMP-15) who passed away from cancer in 1998 while residing in Colombia. Also to the family of Stephen W.C. Chow (JMP-1) who passed away on December 29, 1999 in Hawaii.