Leadership


UOG Endowment Foundation Board of Directors

Mr. Jesse A. Leon Guerrero, Board Chairman

  • Managing Director, BankGuam Insurance Underwriters, Inc.
  • President & Chairman of the Board, Oceana Investment Group, Inc.
  • President & Chairman, Oceana Trading, Inc.
  • Partner, ParaOceana Ventures
  • Advisor and Marketing Consultant, Bank of Guam
  • Vice President & Director of Marketing, Bank of Guam
  • Marketing Director, Guam Economic Development Authority

Governor Joseph Ada, Vice-Chair

  • Assistant General Manager, Ada’s Inc.
  • Served as Deputy Director of the Department of Public works in 1972
  • Served as a Senator for the 12th, 13th, 14th, 17th, and 18th Guam Legislature
  • Served as Governor of Guam from 1987-1995

George Chiu, Treasurer

  • Certified Public Accountant
  • Executive Vice President, Tan Holdings
  • President, Luen Thai Fishing Venture, Ltd
  • Vice President, CTSI Logistics
  • President, Cosmos Distributing Co. Ltd (Guam and Saipan)
  • President D& Q Company, Ltd
  • Vice President/Director, Asia Pacific Hotels, Inc (Guam and Saipan)
  • Member, Guam Society of Public Accountants

Dr. Robert A. Underwood, President / Executive Secretary

  • Served as Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus
  • Served as the Dean of the College of Education
  • Served as the Academic Vice President of the University of Guam
  • President, University of Guam
  • Served five terms as Guam Congressional Delegate
  • Member, Armed Services and Resources Committees in the U.S. House
  • Member, Energy and Minerals Subcommittee Resources
  • Member, Merchant Marine Panel, Armed Services
  • Member, Wildlife and Oceans Subcommittee
  • Member, Welfare and Recreation Panel

Mr. Thomas J.M. Calvo, Director

  • President & Chairman, MidPac Liquor Distribution Co.,
  • Pacific Telestations (KUAM), and Pacific Dialysis Corp.
  • Director of Payless Markets, Calvo’s Insurance Underwriters, Inc., and Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co.
  • Entrepreneur: Bestsellers, Cup & Saucer, Firefly Bistro, Jake & Associates, Inc.
  • Guam Election Commission (20 years), Guam Visitor’s Bureau (1978~1982)
  • Chairman – Archdiocesan Finance Committee
  • Member – Knights of Columbus
  • Former member – Elks Lodge, Guam Lions Club
  • Charter member – Guam Chamber of Commerce

Mr. David John, Director

  • President, ASC Trust Corporation
  • Past President, Guam Rotary Club
  • Past Chairman, Committee to Get Guam Working
  • Past President, The Employers Council
  • Serves on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Guam
  • Chamber of Commerce

Dr. Wilfred P. Leon Guerrero, Director

  • CEO of Guam LADA, Inc.
  • Owner, W. P. Leon Guerrero Enterprises
  • President Emeritus, University of Guam
  • President, University of Guam
  • Former Chairman, UOG Endowment Foundation Board of Directors
  • Elected as Trustee to the Government of Guam Retirement Board, Vice Chairman

Dr. Saied Safabakhsh, M.D., FACP, FASN, Director

  • Diplomate, American Board of Internal Medicine in Nephrology
  • Chairman, Department of Medicine, GMH
  • Chairman, Institutional Review Board, GMHA
  • Former Chairman, UOG Endowment Foundation Board of Directors
  • Fellow Member, American College of Physicians
  • Fellow Member, American Society of Nephrology
  • Member, American Medical Association
  • Past President, Guam Medical Society
  • President & Medical Director, Guam Dialysis Center, Inc.
  • President & Medical Director, Pacific Med & Nephrology

Mr. Francisco Q. Taitano, Director

Mrs. Elaine Cruz Jones, Director

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