Join us in celebrating Keizai Silicon Valley’s 2025 Shinnenkai (New Year’s Reception) on Friday, January 31, at the Palo Alto Hills Golf and Country Club. This year, we are honored to award Mr. Glen S. Fukushima and Mrs. Sakie Tachibana-Fukushima with the Keizai Silicon Valley Distinguished Achievement Awards.
Glen S. Fukushima is Vice Chair of Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC) and Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. He has extensive experience with U.S.-Asia relations and business leadership in Japan. He has also held top public service roles in the U.S.
Sakie Tachibana-Fukushima, President of G&S Global Advisors, is a global leader in human capital and corporate governance. Formerly head of Korn/Ferry Japan, she has served on 13 major Japanese corporate boards and highly regarded government advisory committees.
Mr. Glen S. Fukushima and Mrs. Sakie Tachibana-Fukushima will give an acceptance speech and participate in a fireside chat. Dr. Richard Dasher, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Stanford University, will be the moderator.
We will also be performing our traditional Kagamibiraki (sake barrel opening) ceremony. The Consul General of Japan, Mr. Yo Osumi, is expected to lead this tradition.
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Glen S. Fukushima is Vice Chair of the Securities Investor Protection Corporation (SIPC), nominated by President Joseph R. Biden in October 2021 and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in April 2022. Since 2012, he is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C., where he focuses on U.S.-Asia relations.
From 1990 to 2012, he was a senior business executive based in Asia as Vice President, AT&T Japan; President, Arthur D. Little Japan; President & CEO, Cadence Design Systems Japan; President & CEO, NCR Japan; and President & CEO, Airbus Japan. He was elected twice as President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan (ACCJ) and has served on the board of directors of numerous companies and government advisory boards in the United States and Japan. He has been a visiting professor at Kyoto University and Waseda University.
Previously, he served as Director for Japanese Affairs (1985-88) and Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Japan and China (1988-90) at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).
He has served on the boards of the National Portrait Gallery, Mori Art Museum, Asia Society, Asia Foundation, U.S.-Japan Council, Japan Society of Boston, Japan Society of Northern California, and Japan-America Society of Washington, D.C. He has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, New York Review of Books, Nikkei Asia, Asahi Shimbun, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg TV, BBC, NHK, etc. He was educated at Stanford, Harvard, Keio and the University of Tokyo, where he was a Fulbright Fellow.
Prior to establishing her own firm in 2010, Sakie Tachibana-Fukushima headed the Japan operations of Korn/Ferry International and was on the firm’s global board of directors from 1995 to 2007. Previously, she taught Japanese at Harvard University and was a management consultant at Bain & Company. Since 2002, she has served on the board of directors of 13 Japanese companies (including Kao, Sony, Ajinomoto, Bridgestone, Konica Minolta, Mitsubishi Corp.) and on the advisory board of the Development Bank of Japan (DBJ).
She was the only woman vice chairman of Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives) from 2011 to 2015 and is currently vice chairman of the Japan Association of Corporate Directors (JACD). She chaired the jury of the New Business Plan Competition for Women Entrepreneurs held by the DBJ and the METI Minister’s Award for Corporate Governance of the Year held by the JACD.
She has served as a member of numerous Japanese government advisory committees, including at the Cabinet Office, METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry), MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology), and MOFA (Ministry of Foreign Affairs). In January 2008, she was selected as the only Japanese in Business Week’s list of the “World’s Most Influential Headhunters.”
She currently focuses on the globalization of human capital, career development, and corporate governance, and has lectured widely and authored numerous books and articles on these subjects. She was educated at Seisen University (B.A.), Harvard University Graduate School of Education (Ed.M.), and Stanford Business School (MBA).
Friday, January 31, 2025
Dress code: Business casual. A buffet dinner will be served.
