Director, Institutional Advancement for University of Hawaiʻi Maui College
MAUI — The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation is pleased to announce that Ray K. Tsuchiyama was named the director of institutional advancement for University of Hawaiʻi Maui College. He will be based on Maui. Under UH Maui College Chancellor Clyde Sakamoto's leadership, Ray oversees all aspects of the development effort at UH Maui College which includes annual giving, scholarships, major gifts, planned giving, corporate partnerships, and stewardship.
Ray comes to the Foundation with extensive technology, Asia-Pacific and corporate relations experience. Ray Tsuchiyama spent the last 20 years in Tokyo, Japan; he was head of the Asia Office for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and held executive roles with Analog Devices, AOL Time Warner, and Nuance
Communications. Most recently he was senior
consultant to Google, Inc. In the 1980s he was in Hawaiʻi real estate development, including working at Castle & Cooke.
Ray's grandparents arrived on Maui more than a century ago and his father graduated from Maui High School. Ray was born in Japan and raised in Japan, Virginia, and Hawaiʻi. Ray has a BA from Western Washington University and a MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst; he has also traveled widely, ranging from Brazil to Europe to China to India to Australia.
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The University of Hawaiʻi Foundation, a nonprofit organization, raises private funds to support the University of Hawaiʻi System. Our mission is to unite our donors' passions with the University of Hawaiʻi's aspirations to benefit the people of Hawaiʻi and beyond. We do this by raising private philanthropic support, managing private investments and nurturing donor and alumni relationships. www.uhfoundation.org.
