Board of Trustees

Peter Dames is the President & CEO for Servco Pacific Inc. responsible for overseeing the company’s Automotive Distribution, Technology, Digital Strategy, and Marketing areas.

Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer of First Hawaiian Bank,Inc.; Chairman – Hawaii Medical Service Association; Board Member – Pacific Guardian Life, Hawaii Community Foundation, Hawaii Bankers Association, Hawaii Business Roundtable and Shidler College of Business.

Managing Partner of Malu Investments; Retired Chairman and CEO of First Hawaiian Bank; Board Member of FHB and its parent company BancWest Corp.; Former Chairman of Hawaii State Board of Education; Former Chairman of Honolulu Rail Transit Authority; Executive Committee Member of Hawaii Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures at UH Mānoa; Former Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at UH Mānoa; Member of the Steering Committee for National Institute of Japanese Literature (Tachikawa, Japan); former member of University of Ryukyus Management Council, 2009-2018. Recipient of Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon (2019) 

Executive Vice President of Coporate Services of Central Pacific Bank; Director of Ahahui Koa Anuenue; Board Treasurer of Japan-America Society of Hawaii; Board Vice Chair of Mid-Pacific Institute; Member of Executive Committee – Hawaii Bowl and Diamond Head Classic.

Attorney, Law Office of Lawrence Kumabe; Former State of Hawaii Deputy Attorney General; Executive Board Member of Japanese Jr. Chamber of Commerce; Former President of Japanese-American Citizens League; Board Member of Japanese Cultural Center of Hawaii.

Sun Global Broadband Board; Locations, Inc. Board; State Judicial Council; Hawaii Executive Collaborative Executive Advisor; Kinsen Co., Ltd, Hawaii Liaison; Hawaii Deep Ocean Enterprises Advisor; National Center for Higher Education Management Systems Senior Associate; JAIMS retired President; UH President’s Office Special Assistant; UH at Manoa School of Business Associate Dean, Associate Professor; Order of Rising Sun Gold Rays with Rosette.

Chairwoman of  JC Comsa Corp; Director – PT Indofood Comsa Sukses Makmur (Indonesia) and PARCO; Advisor – Japan Association of the United Nations WFP and Japan Opera Foundation; Co-Chair of Women Corporate Directors Japan; Former Director –  Avon Products and Kameda Seika; Former Senior Advisor of Morgan Stanley Japan Securities.

Former Vice President of Community Relations for Outrigger Hotels Hawaii; Former Board Chair and Current Director of the Japan-America Society of Hawaii; Hawaii Opera Theatre Vice President; Chaminade University Regent; Pacific Asian Affairs Council Vice President; and numerous other non- profit organizations. Recipient of the Order of Rising Sun with Gold Rays and Rosette Imperial decoration.

Chairman, Hawaii Aloha Life Enrichment Association; Board Member, Friends of Hawaii Charities; Senior Advisor, Central Pacific Bank.

Retired Audit Partner, KPMG Hawaii and KPMG Japan; Certified Public Accountant; Member – American Institute of CPAs and Hawaii Society of CPAs.

President and Principal Owner-Cushman & Wakefield ChaneyBrooks, Founder & Managing Partner- Aloha Beer Company, Managing Director- Santa Fe Hotel; Board Chair- Japan America Society of Hawai, New Hope Oahu Council, OLELO Communities, Worldwide Uchinanchu Business Network, FILCOM Center, NAIOP, ICSC, Land Economics Society, Counselor of Real Estate (CRE), Eagle Scout

Attorney with the Law Office of Takitani Agaran & Jorgensen; Director of Maui Land & Pineapple; Former Chairman of Hawaiian Host Inc.; Former member of Hawaii State House of Representatives; Former Delegate to Hawaii State Constitutional Convention.

President of Atsuhiko & Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Foundation; Established Atsuhiko Tateuchi Memorial Scholarship with Seattle Foundation; Board Member – Seattle Art Museum and Japan-America Society of Hawaii; Trustee of Seattle Art Museum; Director – San Francisco Asian Art Museum.

Retired CEO of First Insurance Company of Hawaii; Board Member – BancWest, First Hawaiian Bank, Japanese American National Museum, Queen’s Health System and Medical Center, U.S. Japan Council; Former Board Chair of Japan-America Society of Hawaii; Hawaii Business Roundtable, and Oahu Economic Development; Vice Chairman of the Pacific Asia Center for Entrepreneurship of University of Hawaii at Manoa’s Shidler College of Business.

Former CPASF Scholar; Professor and Former Chair of Anthropology Department at  University of Hawaii at Manoa; Publications include “Tears of Longing, Crowning the Nice Girl,” “Airborne Dreams: Nisei Stewardesses and Pan American World Airways,” and “Pink Globalization: Hello Kitty’s Trek Across the Pacific”; Served as Curator for the Japanese American National Museum exhibit on “Hello! Exploring the Super Cute World of Hello Kitty.”

Consultant to young entrepreneurs; public speaker and guest-lecturer at local and Asian academic institutions; Former President of Asia Pacific Medtronic, Inc.; Former Vice President of Union Carbide–Asia.