{"id":1792,"date":"2018-08-09T16:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/globewomen.com\/?page_id=1792"},"modified":"2018-08-09T16:01:47","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T16:01:47","slug":"2009-legacies-of-women-forum-tokyo-japan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/?page_id=1792","title":{"rendered":"2009 Legacies of Women Forum-Tokyo, Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Global Summit of Women in partnership with the For Empowered Women (FEW) of Japan in cooperation with Global Enhancement of Women\u2019s Executive Leadership (GEWEL) present:<\/h2>\n

Legacies of Women Forum in Tokyo, Japan<\/span><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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Sakie Fukushima,\u00a0 Chairman, Korn\/Ferry International Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sakie Fukushima is the Chairman of Korn\/Ferry International in Tokyo and a leader in the firm's Global Consumer Market in Japan.\u00a0 Ms. Fukushima specializes in placing executives in senior management positions in American and European multinational corporations operating in Japan.\u00a0 Prior to joining the firm in 1991, she was a consultant at Bain & Company, in Boston and in the Tokyo office. She has also served as a consultant in the Boston headquarters of Braxton International, a strategic management consulting firm, and as a Japanese instructor at Harvard University.\u00a0\u00a0 Ms. Fukushima is also a member of the Board of Directors of Sony Corporation and Benesse Corporation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Merle Aiko Okawara, Chairperson, JC Comsa Corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n

Merle Aiko Okawara currently holds the title of CEO of JC Comsa Corporation.\u00a0 As an expert in consumer markets, Ms. Okawara has held senior positions at numerous food and consumer product companies, including CEO of eBay Japan.\u00a0 In the late 1960s, Ms. Okawara took a gamble in betting on Japanese consumers\u2019 willingness to experiment with Western-style food products.\u00a0 Under her leadership, JC Comsa has become the nation's top producer of frozen and chilled ethnic foods.\u00a0 Additionally, she has won numerous awards including Woman Entrepreneur of the Year awards from the New Business Conference, Nikkan Kogyo New Paper, and Veuve Clicquot (France).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Tomoko Namba, CEO, DeNA<\/strong>
\nTomoko Namba is a Japanese entrepreneur and CEO of DeNA.\u00a0 Ms. Namba founded DeNA in 1999 and has led it to become one of the largest mobile social network and mobile game companies in Japan. Previously, at McKinsey and Co., she had become only the third Japanese woman in the company's history to be made a partner. Under Namba's leadership, DeNA is committed to the delivery of outstanding service while also striving to instill environmental awareness in its rapidly expanding consumer base. She has also been involved in a number of national government efforts, such as the Prime Ministers' Council for the Promotion of Regulatory Reform.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Irene Natividad, President, Global Summit of Women<\/strong><\/p>\n

Irene Natividad is President of the Global Summit of Women, an 18-year old annual gathering of women leaders in business and government who come together to share strategies for increasing women\u2019s economic empowerment globally.\u00a0 Ms. Natividad also serves as Co-Chair of Corporate Women Directors International, which conducts research and brings together women corporate directors from around the world on issues of corporate governance.\u00a0 In 2004, she was selected by Women\u2019s eNews<\/em> as one of the \u201c21 Leaders for the 21st Century.\u201d She was named in 1997 as one of \u201c25 Most Influential Working Mothers\u201d by Working Mother Magazine<\/em>, and was also named in 1988 as one of the \u201c100 Most Powerful Women in America\u201d by Ladies Home Journal<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Global Summit of Women in partnership with the For Empowered Women (FEW) of Japan in cooperation with Global Enhancement of Women\u2019s Executive Leadership (GEWEL) present: Legacies of Women Forum in Tokyo, Japan Sakie Fukushima,\u00a0 Chairman, Korn\/Ferry International Japan Sakie … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":18,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1792"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1792\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1804,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1792\/revisions\/1804"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globewomen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}