Who We Are
Board of Directors
From a variety of backgrounds, the women and men on Hawaiʻi Foodbank’s Board of Directors all share a commitment to nourish our ʻohana and eliminate hunger in Hawaiʻi.
Board of Officers
Jodi Yamamoto
Of Counsel, Yamamoto Caliboso Hetherington, LLC
Kelvin Taketa
Vice Chair
Community Volunteer
Craig Shikuma
Secretary
Partner, Kobayashi, Sugita and Goda LLP
William Froelich
Assistant Secretary
Senior Vice President, Industrial Division Manager, Colliers
Darin Shigeta
Treasurer
Vice President, Commercial Banking Officer, First Hawaiian Bank
Amy Miller
President & CEO
Hawaiʻi Foodbank
Board of Directors
Jeremiah Ana
Portfolio Operations Executive, Tradewind Capital Inc.
T. Kimo Blaisdell
Retirement Plan Counselor, Empower Financial Services
Jason Brand
President, Brand Industrial Group
Diana Brown
Chief People Officer, Servco Pacific Inc.
Dean Duque
Executive Vice President and Branch Banking Manager, First Hawaiian Bank
Kathryn Ellman
Rona Fukumoto
President and CEO, Lanakila Pacific
Peter Heilmann
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Matson Inc.
Peter Ho
Marcus Iwane, MD
Physician in Charge, Leeward and Mapunapuna Clinics, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group
Marcy Jackson
President, Zilber Family Foundation
Joseph Keawe’aimoku Kaholokula, Phd
Professor and Chair of Native Hawaiian Health, John A. Burns School of Medicine, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Stephanie Kalili
Senior Operations Manager, Amazon
Jennifer Lam
Executive Vice President and Treasurer,
Bank of Hawaiʻi
Steven Leonard
Private Investor
Kenric Murayama, MD, MBA
Retired Physician, Educator and Healthcare Executive
Joyce Torrey
Educator, Former PR Executive
Valerie Wang
Area Vice President, Kaiser Permanente
James Wataru
State President, United Public Workers Union,
AFSCME Local 646
Denise Hayashi Yamaguchi
President and CEO, Hawaiʻi Food and Wine Festival
Laurie Yoshida
Community Affairs Manager, Corteva Agriscience
En Young
Director of Sustainable Industry Development, Kamehameha Schools
Executive Partners Board
Chuck Cotton
iHeartMedia
Dennis Francis
Honolulu Star-Advertiser
D.K. Kodama
D.K. Kodama
D.K. Restaurants
Katie Pickman
Hawaii News Now
Emeritus Advisory Board
Cindy Bauer
Surfing the Nations
Jade Moon
Community Volunteer
Ali Nikkhoo
Community Volunteer
Sheri Rolf
Rolf Advertising
Daryl Sato
Community Volunteer
Kauaʻi Advisory Board
Laurie Yoshida
Lead Representative
Corteva Agriscience
Beth Amaro
Kauaʻi Island Utility Cooperative
Dr. Addison Bulosan
Stephanie Iona
Charlie King
KAC Land Inc.
Lesah Merritt
Safeway Inc.
Ashley Nagaoka
Hawaiʻi News Now
Tim Takeshita
Enterprise Holdings
Sonia Topenio
Community Volunteer
