HAWAI‘I – The University of Hawai‘i Foundation is happy to announce the appointment of five community leaders to the board of trustees. They are Mike Hirai, Bob Hiam (returning board member), Mary Sellers (returning board member), Stanford Carr (returning board member) and Bill Grayson. Current board member T. Michael May has been elected to serve as board chair.
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Carr has been the recipient of numerous business awards including the 2015 Developer of the Year award by Hawaii Business Magazine, 2013 SMEI Hawai‘i Salesperson of the Year, and Business Leadership Hawai‘i, 2009 Business Leader of the Year. He has served in leadership roles for a wide range of business groups including past director of Hawai‘i Developer’s Council, past Governor’s Advisory Board for the Department of Hawaiian Home Lands, and the Japan America Society of Hawai‘i Advisory Board of Directors. As a nonprofit volunteer board member, Carr has served numerous nonprofits including the Trust for Public Land, Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific Foundation, and March of Dimes Hawai‘i.
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Grayson has served on investment committees including the Archdiocese of San Francisco, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington D.C., and as trustee and chairman, investment committee of Dominican University of California. He also served on the board of trustees of the Bay Area Discovery Museum; the President’s Commission on White House Fellowships and was nominated by the President to serve on the Internal Revenue Service Oversight Board. He currently serves on the board of the Institute of Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley and on the Board of Governors of the University of San Francisco School of Law. Bill received his BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and his law degree from the University of San Francisco.
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Hirai also serves as vice chair of the U.S.-Japan Council, executive board of the Aloha Council, Boy Scouts of America and director of CFA Society Hawaii. Past service includes the State of Hawai‘i Council on Revenues, Corporate Council of the Environment for the Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i and Finance Committee of Chaminade University. He holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a BBA from the College of Business at the University of Hawai‘i.
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Sellers serves on the board of directors of Hawaii Foodbank and HEDCO Local Development Corporation. She received her BA in management studies from Cedar Crest College and a master’s degree in economics from the University of Delaware.
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