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
Kathryn Ellman
Board Chair
Community Volunteer
Jodi Yamamoto
First Vice Chair
Of Counsel, Yamamoto Caliboso Hetherington, LLC
Craig K. Shikuma
Secretary
Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda, LLP
William Froelich
Assistant Secretary
Senior Vice President, Industrial Division Manager, Colliers
Darin Shigeta
Treasurer
Vice President, Commercial Banking Officer, American Savings Bank
Amy Miller
President & CEO
Hawaiʻi Foodbank
Board of Directors
Jeremiah ‘Jay’ Ana
President, Young Brothers, LLC
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 Manager, First Hawaiian Bank
Rona Fukumoto
President and CEO, Lanakila Pacific
Elizabeth Rice Grossman
Community Volunteer
Peter Heilmann
Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Matson Inc.
Marcus Iwane, MD
Internal Medicine and Physician in Charge, Kaiser Permanente
Marcy Jackson
President, Zilber Family Foundation
Joseph Keawe’aimoku Kaholokula, Phd
President 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
Community Volunteer
Kenric Murayama, MD, MBA
Executive Vice President and Cheif Health Officer, HMSA
Myles Shibata
Principal, MSS Consulting Inc.
Joyce Torrey
Educator, Former PR Executive
Valerie Wang
Senior Director/Area Manager-Sales and Account Management, Kaiser Permanente
James Wataru
State President, United Public Workers Union,
AFSCME Local 646
Jason Wong
Region President, Sysco Hawaiʻi
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
Patrick Ono
Matson Inc.
Tim Takeshita
Enterprise Holdings
Sonia Topenio
Community Volunteer
