Lisa Maruyama

Practice Areas: Nonprofit

Lisa Maruyama served as the President and CEO of the Hawai`i Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations for over 15 years. She served previously as the Vice President of Public Affairs for Bright Light Marketing, and before that as Executive Directors for the Pacific and Asian Affairs Council and the Mental Health Association. She has a particular focus in strategic thinking for systems change, nonprofit management, strategic communications and marketing, program development, sector level public policy issues and government relations.

Maruyama serves as Chair of the State of Hawaii Procurement Policy Board. She also serves as a board member of the Hawai`i Data Collaborative, the O`ahu Economic Development Board and Ho`okua`āina. She is on the Leadership Board of Transform Hawai`i Government (THG) and on the Steering Committee of Chaminade University’s Hogan Entrepreneurial Leadership Program.  In 2021, she co-founded the Funder Hui  and Kūkulu Switchboard to facilitate resources to community in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. 

Maruyama received her BBA from the University of Hawaii at Mānoa, Shidler School of Business. She is a Pacific Century Fellow, Weinberg Fellow, PONO Fellow and was designated Top Forty Under 40 by the Pacific Business News in 2001.