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with the Academy, entered PEA her upper year and his fall the Academy welcomes two new lived in Gould House, where she served as a proctor. trustees to the leadership team. Eiichiro She participated in ESSO, PEAN, Student Council, Kuwana ’82; P’15, P’16, P’18 and Sally International Society and Asian Society, and served Jutabha Michaels ’82; P’12, P’14, P’17, as an admissions guide. She earned her A.B. from P’19 have officially expanded their already generous Stanford University in 1986 and her M.B.A. from contributions to Exeter by joining our other 19 the Wharton School of the University of trustees in service. Pennsylvania in 1990. “My three children and I have been Kuwana Michaels’ support of Exeter spans the extremely privileged to receive the globe and is the driving force behind an best secondary school education in increasing Academy presence and visithe world,” Kuwana says. “At the same bility in Asia. She was an elected director time, given the disruption caused by of the General Alumni Association and technology in all industries, including served as its secretary, vice president education, and changes in demoand president. From 2008 to 2012, she graphics, we must remain vigilant and served as an Academy trustee, where committed to keeping Exeter a global she was a member of the Education leader in secondary school education. I and Appointments Committee, the look forward to supporting Principal Michaels Institutional Advancement Committee Lisa MacFarlane as she leads Exeter in and the Technology Task Force. She was these exciting and challenging times.” a founder of the Exeter Association of Kuwana entered PEA in September Thailand and has served as an admis1978 and lived in Wentworth Hall. sions representative since 1994. She He was active in ESSO, The Exonian, is a former general gifts chair for her PEAN and was a member of the Cum class and has served as a class agent and Laude Society. He later earned his A.B. member of the Major Gifts Committee. in East Asian studies and economics, Michaels graciously serves as a host for graduating magna cum laude from numerous Exeter events and for visiting Academy Harvard University in 1986, and went on to earn his faculty and staff in Thailand. M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1992. She and her husband, David Michaels, Kuwana has been a member of Exeter’s 1781 co-founded GMS Power Public Company Limited, Committee, an admissions representative, class one of Thailand’s leading private power developers, agent, major gift chair and committee member, in 1991. Previously, she served as a special adviser to and donor to the Friends of the Academy Library. Thailand’s minister of foreign affairs, on the board Outside of Exeter, he serves on the board of The of the Bangkok Patana School, as secretary of the Nature Conservancy, Hawai’i. Stanford Alumni Club of Thailand, and as a member In 2004 he co-founded Cook Pine Capital with of the international council of advisers to the Asian his wife, Yumi Mera Kuwana. Prior to starting CPC, University for Women. he held various positions at Goldman Sachs Group Michaels and her husband live in Bangkok and Inc., based in New York and Japan, and at Merrill have four children: Aaron ’12, Jessica ’14, Sara ’17 Lynch in New York. and Sam ’19. Michaels’ brothers, Dr. Rome Jutabha Kuwana and his wife live in Greenwich, ’81 and Charlie Jutabha ’88, also attended the Connecticut, and have three children: Kiyo ’15, Hiro Academy. E ’16 and Alyssa ’18. Michaels, now in her second trustee appointment
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