Jackson Nakasone and Ted Pettit have been appointed to the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation board of trustees.
Jackson Nakasone is the CEO and principal of CBI, Inc. His company has a franchise agreement with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank, an international commercial real estate group. After graduating from the University of Hawaiʻi in 1968, Nakasone embarked on a career in the hospitality industry where he specialized in opening hotels and restaurants. An expert in the hospitality industry, Nakasone has served as an interim instructor at Kapiʻolani Community College, and consultant to companies including San Miguel Beer, Okada Trucking and City Bank.
Ted Pettit is a director/shareholder at Case Lombardi and Pettit, a law corporation. Here he concentrates his practice in the areas of bankruptcy, business reorganization, collections and commercial litigation. Pettit earned his JD from the William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa in 1986. Pettit has authored numerous legal publications including Hawaiʻi Collection and Bankruptcy Law Manual (4th ed., 2013) and Foreclosure and Related Remedies, Hawaiʻi Chapter (2011, American Bar Association).
For more on Nakasone and Pettit, go to the University of Hawaiʻi Foundation website.
