Our Alumni

Today, about 550 EDI graduates are contributing their talents to local corporations and non-profit organizations, enhancing their ability to meet the needs of a rapidly expanding customer base and tackle the business challenges of the future.

Class of 1994

Gordon Funai • Laverne Imori • Wendy Iwami • Guy Kurose • Ken Nakamura • S. Mae Fujita Numata • Ann Romero • Teresa Sato • Lynn Takaki • Collen Yamaguchi

Class of 1995

Bruce Abe • John Akiyama • Ann Berrysmith • Lynn Bronaugh • Jeanne Chang • Monica Day • Daniel Del Rosario • Ritta Eng • David Hayasaka • Mark Hayes • Tommy Leong • Victor Mizumori • Lynn Nishimura • Jerry Shih • John Shoji • Shun Takano • Leslie Watanabe • Karen Wong • Carol Yamada

Class of 1996

Barbara Burdick • Elizabeth Cantrell • Elaine Chang • Marilynn Goo • Charlene Grinolds • Naomi Joy • Hae Kim • Elaine Kitamura • Glenn Kosai • Valarie Kusuda-Smick • Alice Liang • Bruce Naito • David Robichaux • Ann Tamura • Sylvia Tsang • Kwan Wong • Mooi Lien Wong • Donald Yuen

Class of 1997

Anne Arakaki-Lock • Laynette Baron • Jean Chen • Sandy Hedington • Rebecca Hom • Lori Ichimura • John Iwasaki • Nigel Lo • Raymond Louie • Napoleon Meneses • Shelly Okamoto • Simon Soh • Jennifer Tada • Scott Toyoda • Yung-Jen Tsai • Andrea Winterbauer

Class of 1998

Rod Arinobu • Sharlene Ayabe • Richard Choi • Janet Credo • Camille DeSantis • Barbara Gangwer • Warren Higa • Robert Kaya • Jackie Liao • Stacy Nakata • Larry Numata • Amy Reagan • Sony Tjandra • Mark Watanabe • Teri Wong

Class of 1999

Guy Akita • Jeffrey Barstow • Yvette Camacho • Cora Chan • Grace Chien • Edwin Chong • Hong-Yen Cone • Tanya Hagiwara-Green • Ken Huang • Lester Iwamasa • Fumi Janssen • Raymond Ng • Gail Okiyama • Janice Park • Shelly Pham • Shinko Wiles • Rena Wong • Joe Yabuki • Andrew Young

Class of 2000

Keith Akada • Phuong Au • Naomi Char • Susanna Chung • Kyle Dinniene • Jean Joichi • Rick Kataoka • Gordon Lau • Ngoc Le • John McGarvey • Chad Oishi • Sharon Prill • Rajeshni Singh • Tony Valentine • Mari Watanabe • Michael Yoshitomi

Class of 2001

Key Donn • Vi Duong • Natalie Hayashi • Bob Kiga • Chuck Lin • Marlyn Marcelo • Dale Mauldin • Arun Nisargand • Lloyd Peterson • Su-Nei Shen • Michelle Woerner • Sandra Yee • Chad Yoshinaka

Class of 2002

Antonio Alcantara • Fe Arreola • Mario Au • Yoli Busuego • Annaliza Cameros • Jean Dao • Hai Do • Lourdes Domingo • Anna Golston • Cynthia Gould • Gordon Hayashi • T Hazari • Darryl Hue • Robb Irigon • Tina Johnson • Linda Lee • Margaret Liu • Art Ma • Nyle Miyamoto • Maily Nguyen • Shamish Patel • Manh Pham • Mai Tran • Quang Vu

Class of 2003

Lance Akutsu • Jody Anderson • Jason Bui • Martin Chan • Frances Check • Lisa Chiang • Xenia Chow • Daniel Do • Kazue Ishiwata • Janna Kim • Ben Lee • Kevin Lee • David Lin • Brian Lock • Lee-Lee Miao • Carrie Miyake • Stella Ng • Renato Pagalilauan • Jonathan Ramos • Crystal Ramstead • Abraham Rocha • Emily Rollins • Farm Saetern • Ashish Sharma • Yommana Suravallop • Lien Vu • Fornia Wong • Kenneth Woo • Lorraine Yu

Class of 2004

George Alabi • Dominador Amor • Anna Avdeyeva • Mahmood Azodi • Jenny Bradbury • Jay Byunn • Joy Chang • Jiin-Chiang Chen • Diana Chiao • Marie Chow • Melvin Eng • Bet Gouras • Wai Ho • David Ishii • Evelyn Jung • Awan Kazi • Nancy Kobashigawa • Sau Lang • Danilo Loyola • Xin Lu • Mark Nakamura • Gautam Reddy • John Sakaguchi • Brenda Sevilla • Rachel Singh • Ann Tran • Christina Tsang • Anh Vo • Barbara Wong • Chee-Tuck Wong • Hannah Wong • Josephine Yang-Brenner • Ador Yano

Class of 2005

Steve Bi • Clarence Chan • Jennifer Chang • Dan Chiem • Jill Chin • Jimmy Chin • Laurie Chinn • Chang Choi • Catherine Chu • Elaine Chu • Alfredo Claro • Susan Dang • Minh Diep • Neil Dino • Debbie Dwyer-Oshiro • Colleen Fukui-Sketchley • Diane Kitano • Joanne Kophs • Richard Lee • Carol Leick • Hong Lim • Bob Lin • Alice Liou • Christine Lopez • William Moss • Marci Nakano • Janice Ng • Hanh Nguyen • Tri Nguyen • Jennifer Posey • George Quenga • Michael Saiki • Thuy Shimizu • Devinderpal Singh • Gurvinder Singh • Mark Slagle • Jim Song • Vinh Tat • Simon Tee • Eric Tokunaga • Becky Williamson • Kay Wong •  Matthew Wong • Michael Zhang

Class of 2006

Ruben Acosta • Farshid Babazadeh • Cheryl Chan • Chao Chen • Jiangtian Cheng • Dan Chiang • Jimmy Cho • Joneil Custodio • Charlene DeForge • Elizabeth Do • Eddie Ferrer • Zhen Gan • Carmelita Gogue • Thuy Hua-Ly • Sue Hwang • Dean Johnson • Joseph Jornadal • Christopher  Junio • Obaid Khan • Seong Kim • Ellen Kinney • Kurt Kwon • Ruben Ladlad • Angela Lau • Jennie Lau • Siew Lilley • Lisa (Ying) Liu • Julia Lo • Chanh Ly • Elsie Macaraeg • Patricia MacAree • Maya Macauley • Lisa Nakamura • Hari Narayan • Pankaj Nath • Hugh Nguyen • Debbie Nomaguchi • Gloria Palmer • Glenn Peterson • Tonya Poe • David Querubin • Venkata Remany • Mariano Romulo • Richard Sharma • Gagandeep Singh • Papillong Starr • Eileen Takeuchi • Michael Tong • Emilie Tri • Sovanny Van • Jennifer Weiler • Yoshiko Williams • Norman Woo

Class of 2007

Gani Agus • Krishnan Arcot • Lacie Bower • Ruena Bumagat • Maria Casella • Rose Catabay • Randy Chan • Robert Chan • Vivian Cheng • Connie Dang • Junee Dizon • Faye Douangchit • Vincent Eng • Lannhi Fischl • Nguyet Gladney • Aya Hart • Ji Huh • Noda Huynh • Kumiko Kaga • George Kanchanavaleerat • Derek Kim • Takeo Kuraishi • Truong Le • Tom Lee • Becky Loofburrow • Roberto Lu • Hong Luong • Craig Macadangdang • Maria McMurray • Ying-Hsing Moreno • Mi Mumphrey • Joseph Nee • Kieu Neubert • Jonathan Nguyen • Juliet Nguyen • Jonathan Okinaka • Charlie Otani • Spring Patterson • Doris Payne • Esther Piol • Ning Propst • Sherry Reguindin • Eunhee Sumner • Dai Takano • Merrick Tam • John Tang • James Te • Michelle Tibayan • Seth Vaddhana • Marissa Victa • Scott Wang • May Woo • Rachel Woo • Kit Yu

Class of 2008

Keiko Abe • Jerry Adona • Catherine Allen • Carlos Apacible • Rance Batterton • Jane Berry-Dalbello • Gloria Chang • Lam Chau • Chen-en Chen • Elsie Chen • Hang-Ping Chen • John Chen • Joseph Chow • Shannon Cooley • Gaylord Escalona • Michael Faulring • Romeo Fontanilla • Mrigankka Fotedar • Tomoko Fralia • Gil Gido • Smitha Gonugunta • Kit Hui • My Huynh • Rajit Jain • Romir Jimenez • Prakash Joshi • Chris Kang • Jill Kashiwagi • Urmi Kavi • Mark Kawabata • Cindy Keutelian • Hana Kim • Carmelita Kimball • Ken Kwong • Renee Lam • Amy Lee • Ingrid Lee • Michele Lee • Laura Lin • Marissa Ling • Monica Lin-Meyer • Margaret Locke • Lesley Low • Tuya Luehr • Murtaza Madraswala • Craig Manalili • Kelly Mason • Alisa Masunaga •Alice Matsuoka • Amit Mehra • Pha Mom •  Daniel Nako • Dawn Nguyen • Dung Nguyen • Gwen Nguyen • Jonathan Nguyen • Greg Nomura • Kalpana Pawashe • Michael Ramento • Christopher Ramos • Koy Saechao-Ly • Neha Sharma • Allison Sheneman • Jerry Shih • Jesmeet Singh • Tommy Sisa-at • Chester Staley • Meiwa Tei • Anne Thai • Mai Tran • Geena Tok • Linh Tran • Trung Tran • Dzung Truong • Anita Unite • Weina Wang • Alice Wee • Joan Wu • Anita Yap • Masako Yoshimitsu • Lorraine Yu • William Yu • Jinja Yutzy •  Kathy Zhang • Kathy (Kexi) Zhang

Class of 2009

Nitza Agrait Vila • Pam Amado-Demagajes • Gregory Bermudez • Fernmarie Brady • Mark Cantu •  Rowena Dacones • Sudhi Gulur • Amy Hartlmueller-Torres • Andrew Iwata  • Ronald Kim • Michelle Lee • Stacey Lee • Ken Lin • Marian Liu • Linda Louie • Martha Magana • Anne McSmith • Jason Mendiola • Alan Mui • Virginia Nunes • Jingyu Qiu • Pam Ruiz • Ed Santiago • Carrie Shiu • Natasha Siores • Maria-Cristina Spiak • Jung-Ock Starrett • Connie Sugahara • Alice Tang • Muey Tern • Thomas Than • Yesica Trujillo • Wendy Valadez • Blanca Vazquez • Vernon Yarnell • Sharon Zhou

Class of 2010

Ryan Abelon • Michael Ackerman • Emily Brunner • Lala Caudillo • Rodney Chan • Chen-en Chen • Gina Cheng • Ronnel Ejan • Amit Garg • Leilani Guerrero • Allen Han • Kyle Higaki • Diana Hoang • Daniel Jo • Bourbon Jung • Malmurugan Kamaraj • Hoyin Lai • Eunju Lee • Kyungmo Lee • Alan Leong • Art Limon • Kristan Locke • Kyle Louangrath • Stephanie Lu • Shazia Malik • Amanda Mar • Miguel Marmol • Edward Martinez • Vicki Martinez • Somesh Nayana • Holly Nguyen • Jessica Nieves • Julie Pham • Alice Phan • Sheela Rao Narayan • Juan-Carlos Rivas • Pedro Romo • Roy Slack • Natasha Siores • Arnel Sta.Maria • Sung Suhr • Pablo Tapia • Zuleimy Torres • Cammy Tran • Amber Waisanen • Gina Walker • Olga Walker • Chun-Sheng Wang • Andrew Wong • Jonathan Wu • Maggie-Jing Wu • Susie Wu • Zacarias Yanez • Rebecca Zeigler

Mentors: (in alpha order)
Lilly Aguilar, retired, Assistant HR Director, City of Tacoma, retired J.D. Hokoyama, President & CEO, LEAP, Inc. Karen Peterson, Managing Editor, The News Tribune
Patricia Akiyama, Director of Government Affairs, Quadrant Homes Gayle Hoshino, General Manager, Microsoft Corporation Frank Pignataro, Agency VP, State Farm Insurance Companies, retired
Linda Akutagawa, VP Resource & Business Development, LEAP, Inc. Mitzi Hu, VP, General Merchandise Manager, Costco Wholesale Corp Mary Pugh, President & CIO, Pugh Capital Management Inc.
George Alabi, Regional Director, Product Marketing, The Boeing Company Evie Huntington, Recruiting & Staffing Consultant Hank Queen, VP, Engineering & Manufacturing, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, retired
Dominador Amor, Community Relations Manager to Snohomish County, Puget Sound Energy Laurie Husak, Executive, Circuit City Jenette Ramos, General Manager – Portland, The Boeing Company
Robin Arendt, VP, IT, Safeco Insurance Company Yogi Hutsen, President, Coastal Hotel Group Norman B. Rice, Vice-Chairman, Capital Access, LLC
Rod Arinobu, Manager, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group Gary Ikeda, General Counsel, Seattle School District John Rindlaub, CEO Pacific Northwest, Wells Fargo Bank
Mario Au, Team Manager, State Farm Insurance Companies Tom Ikeda, Executive Director, Densho – A Living Legacy David Roberts, formerly Managing Director, Microsoft Corporation
Ali Bahrami, Manager, Federal Aviation Administration Lawson Inada, Emeritus Professor, Southern Oregon University John Roehm, SVP & District Retail Leader, KeyBank
Jeffrey Barstow, Program Manager, Airplane Production, Boeing Commercial Airplanes Sally Jewel, Chief Executive Officer, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) Emily Rollins, Partner, Deloitte & Touche LLP
Sutapa Basu, Director, University of Washington Women’s Center Carolyn Kelly, President & Chief Operating Officer, The Seattle Times Ann Romero, Executive Director, WAState Public Stadium Authority
Norman Bauer, Senior Vice President, Bank of America, retired Douglas Kemper, Director Trade Finance, The Commerce Bank of Washington Dr. Jack Sansolo
Priscilla Bell, President, North Idaho College Ken Kido, EVP, Retail Banking, Distribution, Washington Mutual Bank Teresa Sato, Human Resources Director, PACCAR Parts
Deborah Bevier, Principal, DL Bevier Consulting, LLC Fred Kiga, Director Corporate & Government Relations, Russell Investment Group Gary Scott, President, Bombardier New Commercial Aircraft Program
Jenny Bradbury George Kikuchi, Postal Executive, United States Postal Service, retired Brenda Sevilla, Program Intake Representative, City of Seattle
Betsy Brenner, President & Publisher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinal Dorothy Kim, EVP, Global Supply Chain & Coffee Operations, Starbucks Coffee Corporation Chris Shimojima, Vice President, E-commerce, Nike, Inc.
Bruce Brooks, SVP, Public Policy, Countrywide Financial Corporation Diane Kitano, Senior Business Analyst, Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) Cal Shirley, VP, Energy Efficiency Services, Puget Sound Energy
Linda Callecod, Partner & Consultant, The Effectiveness Institute Ben Lee, System Engineer, The Boeing Company John Shoji, Director of Finance, Nextel Partners, Inc., retired
Yvette Camacho, Director of Client Services, Nectar Communications Design Bob Lee Anna Song, News Reporter, KATU
Phyllis Campbell, President & CEO, The Seattle Foundation Janie Lee, Director of Internal Management Recruiting, Resources Global Professionals Thomas Spilman, District President, South Puget Sound, KeyBank
Kevin Carter Jerry Lee, Board Chairman, Mulvanny G2 Architecture Mike Stewart, VP, Freighter Conversions, The Boeing Company, retired
Mei-Mei Chan, Vice President of Advertising, The Seattle Times Linda Lee, Superior Court Judge, Pierce County Delena Sunday, EVP, Human Resources & Diversity Affairs, Nordstrom, Inc.
Grace Chien, CEO, Girl Scouts of Western Washington Carol Leick Lynn Takaki, Vice President, Human Resources, Precor, Inc.
Martha Choe, Director of Global Libraries, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Michael Lemke, SVP, Sales and Marketing, The Seattle Times, deceased Alison Talbot, VP, Human Resources, Safeco Insurance Company
Edwin Chong, Project Manager, Symetra Financial Mike Lettig, EVP, National Executive Native American Financial Services & Agribusiness, KeyBank Vijay Talwar, Director of Apparel Strategic Planning, Nike, Inc.
Cheryl Chow, Director of Program Services, Girl Scouts of Western WA Charlotte Lin, Director, The Boeing Company John Tamerlano, Vice President/General Manager, KATU-TV
Jean Choy, Executive Director, University of Washington Business School Nigel Lo, Executive Assistant to VP/GM, Integrated Defense Systems, The Boeing Company Greg Tanbara, Brownfields Coordinator, Tacoma Pierce County Health Department
Margot Copeland, EVP, Director, Civic Affairs, Corporate Diversity, KeyBank Gary Locke David Tang, Partner, Preston Gates & Ellis, LLP
Liz Dunbar, Deputy Secretary, State of Washington, retired Barrie Macdonald, Evergreen Bank Myra Tanita, EVP & Chief Operating Officer, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Stan Eastberg, Director of Executive Development, Weyerhaeuser Company, retired Judy Marczewski, Partner & Chief Financial Officer, Leisure Care Simon Tee, Administrative Operations Manager, Washington State Department of Personnel
Jeff Ebihara, President, EbiCo Group, LLC Traci Maurio, Learning & Development Manager, State Farm Insurance Companies Kip Tokuda, Division Director, City of Seattle
Maija Eerkes, SVP & Northwest Premier Banking Executive, Bank of America, retired James Maxwell, Executive Director, Eisenhower & Carlson, PLLC C.T. Tomlin, General Manager, Business Excellence, Microsoft Corporation
Alayne Fardella, VP of Human Resources & Labor, The Seattle Times Bill Maynard, President, Success Research, Inc. Mai Tran, Claim Section Manager, State Farm Insurance Companies
Jon Fine, President & CEO, United Way of King County Sue McLain, Senior Vice President, Operations, Puget Sound Energy Lillian Tsai, President, TsaiComms LLC
Randi Freidig, Professional Speaker/Trainer/Author, The Freidig Group Victor Mizumori, Vice President, Community Business Banking Manager, First Mutual Bank Robert Uhlaner, Executive, McKinsey & Co. Inc
Colleen Fukui-Sketchley, Corporate Diversity Affairs Specialist, Nordstrom, Inc. Tomio Moriguchi, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Uwajimaya, Inc. Sheila Vortman, Director, Center for Applied Learning, Seattle Pacific University
Donald Gaines, VP Finance & Treasurer, Puget Sound Energy John Mueller, Director, Education Services, Franciscan Health System Gloria Wakayama, Partner, Harris Merickle Wakayama
Steve Gall, Principal, Steve Gall & Associates Performance Consulting Nancy Mueller, President, International Adaptations James Washam, District President, South Puget Sound District, KeyBank, retired
Anna Golston, Program Manager, Safeco Insurance Company Allie Mysliwy, EVP, Chief Business Services Officer, Safeco Corporation Leslie Watanabe, Regional Director, ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Bruce Goto, Principal, Riddell, Williams P.S. Asuka Nakahara, Associate Director, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Tex Whitney, EVP of Retail Banking & Human Resources, Columbia Bank, retired
Harold Gray, Senior Vice President, State Farm Insurance Companies Brad Nakamura, Secretary, Treasurer, Chief Financial Officer, Rushforth Taylor Construction Lou Whittaker, Climber, Co-Owner & Chief Guide, Rainier Mountaineering Guide Services
David Graybill, President & CEO, Tacoma-Pierce County Chamber Vicki Nakashima, Executive Director, Partners in Diversity Kelly Wieland, IT Assistant Vice President, QBE Regional Insurance
Wallace Greene, Director Unified Communications Group, Microsoft Corporation Assunta Ng, Publisher, Northwest Asian Weekly/Seattle Chinese Post, Inc. James Wigfall, VP Supplier Management, The Boeing Company
Mark Gregory, Chief Information Officer, Home Street Bank Hanh Nguyen, Financial Analyst, Port of Seattle Chee-Tuck Wong, Senior Financial Analyst, Weyerhaeuser Company
Charlene Grinolds, VP & Team Leader, Financial Institutions, KeyBank John Nolting, District Retail Leader, KeyBank Hannah Wong, Financial Analyst, The Boeing Company
Jayasri Guha, VP Finance & Procurement Standardization, Weyerhaeuser Company Vanna Novak, President, Speak to Persuade™ Richard Woo, Chief Executive Officer, The Russell Family Foundation
Marie Gunn, President, Washington State, Bank of America, retired Larry Numata, Associate, CFO Selections Alan Yamamoto, Program Executive, IBM
Julie Hancer, Claims Manager, Property & Casualty, State Farm Insurance Companies S. Mae Fujita Numata, Senior Vice President & CFO, Fisher Communications, Inc. Ted Yamamura, Regional Director, Material Management and Spares-Asia, The Boeing Company
Sandy Hedington, Senior Human Resources Business Partner, Unisys Corporation – Global Outsourcing John Okamoto, Chief Administrative Officer, Port of Seattle Junki Yoshida, CEO & Chairman, Yoshida Food Products
Warren Higa, Senior Manager, The Boeing Company Susan Oki, Chief Executive Officer, Nikkei Concerns Grant Yoshihara, VP, Utility Operations, NW Natural
Leighton Hiranaga, Human Resource Director, Weyerhaeuser Company Barbara Palmer, SVP, Private Bank Market Executive, Bank of America Lorraine Yu, Group Process Manager, Microsoft Corporation
Kathi Hiyane-Brown, President, Normandale Community College Robert Pasterick, Senior Vice President and CFO, Boeing Commercial Airplanes David Zeeck, Executive Editor, The News Tribune
Mack Hogans, Consulting Services, Mack L. Hogans, LLC James Peoples, President, Community Development, KeyBank Peggy Zoro, SVP & Regional Manager, Whidbey Island Bank, retired