Lon Saavedra: CEO of Hakone Foundation Lon Saavedra joined the Hakone Foundation as Executive Director & CEO in 1999. Since 1993, he served as Director for the Western Region for the Smithsonian Institution's 18th Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian. Before being appointed to this position, Saavedra served as Director of Corporate & Foundation Relations for the Stanford University Medical Center. During his years in Washington, D.C., Saavedra served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for United Telecommunications Advertising, a joint venture between TCI, United Cable & United Artists. In 1985, he served as Director of the Business Advisory Council for the Speaker & Majority Leadership of the U.S. Congress. In 1979 and 1980 Saavedra served as a Desk Officer, for the Western Region, for President Carter while in the White House. Before that, he was Legislative Assistant and Media Liaison for his hometown Congresswoman, Pat Schroeder. In 1977, he worked for Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (President Nixon's Ambassador to India/President Ford's Ambassador to the United Nations) as a Staff Assistant. Saavedra attended Georgetown University Law Center, Colorado State University and Regis Jesuit.

Saavedra has a teenage son, is the 7th of 9 children whose family has lived in Colorado for 9 generations. Of Mestizo heritage his family is from two American Indian Nations (Ute & Pueblo) and Spain, he shares ancestry with Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, author of the first novel in European Literature: Don Quixote de La Mancha.

Another early ancestor, Hernandarias Saavedra, came to America from Galicia, Spain 14 generations ago. Hernandarias participated in the Coronado expedition which explored America's Southwest in 1541.

Dr. Masato (Marty) Matsuo: Board Chairman of the Hakone Foundation

Past Board Chairman Bill Glennon
Floyd Kvamme
Don Miller
Gladys Armstrong
Kay Duffy
Daryl Becker
Dan Pulciano
Stewart Lenox
Phillip Boyce