Mr. Kim currently serves as Vice President of Business Development for Tower Engineering Hawaii, Ltd, where he conducts corporate lobbying and marketing for all aspects of this Architectural & Engineering design firm including Third Party Review, CM & Life Safety services. Previous experiences include consultant to the property development firm, Sterling Management Company in Maui and stock broker for Merrill Lynch in California. In federal work, Mr. Kim was a Supervisor/Inspector for the U.S. Postal Service where he was instrumental in streamlining mail delivery systems and operations to help relieve a $2 billion deficit. Mr. Kim retired as a U.S. Air Force Major where he was a T-38 & F-4/Phantom pilot and later Chief of Intelligence Operations in the United States, Far East and Europe.

Mr. Kim is an attorney in private practice who has been licensed to practice law in the State of Hawaii and the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals since 1989. He is a director of Ohana Pacific Bank in Honolulu, Hawaii, and the managing director of AMKOR A&E, Inc., which has offices in Honolulu, Hawaii and Seoul, Korea. Mr. Kim has been appointed to serve on the State of Hawaii Commemorative Quarter Advisory Commission, and helps to lead such community organizations as The Korean American Foundation Hawaii, the Korean American Coalition Hawaii, the Centennial Committee of Korean Immigration to the United States of America, the Korean American Bar Association Hawaii, and the Hawaii State Jaycees.

Ms. Nakamura is a vice president and Korea market manager of International Client Banking at the Central Pacific Bank, handling primarily high-net-worth Korean individuals and large commercial accounts. She has over 29 years of financial experience. She has been involved with the Chamber since the 1st Annual Korean Festival in 2002. She has been appointed by the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu to serves as a commissioner of the Status of Women, for a 4-year term to expire on 2015. She has served as a President of the HKCC from 2007 to 2011, and also served as a Board of Director for the United Korean Association of Hawaii, Hawaii Korean Cultural Center Committee, International Affairs Advisory Council, as an Executive Vice President for the National Unification Advisory Council, Hawaii Chapter, and as a business champion for the Korean Language Flagship Center.