{"id":263697,"date":"2017-11-02T06:06:14","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=263697"},"modified":"2017-11-02T06:06:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T20:06:14","slug":"6-vying-4-board-seats-chamber-polls-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/6-vying-4-board-seats-chamber-polls-today\/","title":{"rendered":"6 vying for 4 board seats in Chamber polls today"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-263697 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/6-vying-4-board-seats-chamber-polls-today\/alex-sablan-2\/'>Alex-Sablan<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-263705'>\n\t\t\t\tAlex Sablan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/6-vying-4-board-seats-chamber-polls-today\/janel-v-pangelinan\/'>Janel-V.-Pangelinan<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-263706'>\n\t\t\t\tJanel V. Pangelinan\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/6-vying-4-board-seats-chamber-polls-today\/joe-ayuyu-jr-2\/'>Joe-Ayuyu-Jr.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-263707'>\n\t\t\t\tJoe Ayuyu Jr.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/6-vying-4-board-seats-chamber-polls-today\/michael-s-johnson\/'>Michael-S.-Johnson<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-263708'>\n\t\t\t\tMichael S. Johnson\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/6-vying-4-board-seats-chamber-polls-today\/perry-inos-jr\/'>Perry-INos-Jr.<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-263709'>\n\t\t\t\tPerry INos Jr.\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/6-vying-4-board-seats-chamber-polls-today\/velma-palacios-2\/'>Velma-Palacios<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-263710'>\n\t\t\t\tVelma Palacios\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>The Saipan Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly general meeting today at 11:30am at the SandCastle of the Hyatt Regency Saipan and one item on the agenda is the board election to fill up four vacancies for the director positions. This is in line with the Chamber\u2019s bylaws that require election for new directors should be conducted every November.<\/p>\n<p>There are six nominees vying for four available director positions. The candidates are Joe Ayuyu Jr., Perry Inos, Michael S. Johnson, Velma Palacios, Alex Sablan, and Janel V. Pangelinan.<\/p>\n<p>Ayuyu is the general manager of McDonald\u2019s Middle Road on Saipan. He is a 2013 graduate of Miami University of Ohio, with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Business (concentration in Economics). He currently serves as a board member for the Saipan Zoning board and is a graduate of the 2016 Class of the Pacific Century Fellows-Marianas Chapter. <\/p>\n<p>Inos is the operations manager of Triple J since 2015. He graduated from the University of Hawaii with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Business Administration and is currently enrolled at Southern New Hampshire University, pursing his master\u2019s in Finance and Accounting. Inos is a member of the Rotary Club of Saipan and a member of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce<\/p>\n<p>Current Chamber president Palacios is the director of Network Operations at IT&amp;E. Palacios graduated from Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a bachelor\u2019s degree in Engineering. She also graduated from Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu, Hawaii, with an MBA.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining IT&amp;E, Palacios was employed by the CNMI government as an engineer. She also taught math at Northern Marianas College\u2019s Adult Basic Education Program. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson is a managing partner of Deloitte &amp; Touche on Saipan. Johnson holds a master\u2019s in Business Administration and bachelor\u2019s at the University of Colorado in Boulder. He is a certified public accountant. Johnson was selected by Bishop Tomas A. Camacho to serve on the financial advisory committee of the Diocese of Chalan Kanoa, is a past chairman of the CNMI Board of Accountancy, and a past treasurer of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce. <\/p>\n<p>Sablan is a vice president of TanHoldings Corp. and has been involved with the Chamber for nearly 20 years. Sablan was the Chamber representative for the regional Exclusive Economic Zone forum and has served as chairman of both the Government Relations and Economic Development Committee and the Events Committee.<\/p>\n<p>Pangelinan is a claims processor at Pacifica Insurance Underwriters Inc. and a co-chair of the Events Committee of the Saipan Chamber of Commerce. She graduated from Northern Marianas College in 2011. She was inducted into Phi Theta Kappa Honor Society where she was also named as an officer. For the duration of her studies at NMC, she worked at the Adult Basic Education department as a tutor. Pangelinan was named the 2016 Saipan Young Professional of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The winners must meet the minimum requirement to serve for the years 2018 to 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Saipan Chamber of Commerce will hold its monthly general meeting today at 11:30am at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":263705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2195,17585,262,7911],"class_list":["post-263697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-business-administration","tag-events-committee","tag-northern-marianas-college","tag-saipan-chamber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}