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President and CEO William "Mo" Marumoto

Mr. Marumoto has a distinguished record spanning over a four decade career in the public and private sector as well as academia.

He recently retired as the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Interface Group, Ltd., a retained boutique executive search firm he founded in 1973 based in Washington , DC . With over thirty years of experience in the executive search profession, Marumoto is considered the dean of head hunters in the nation's capital. During this period, Marumoto recruited senior-level executives for Fortune 500 companies, multi-national corporations, major trade and professional associations, non-profit institutions and other entities. In 1998, he was named to The Global 200 Executive Recruiters: An Essential Guide to the Best Recruiters in the United States , Europe, Asia and Latin America pub-lished by Jossey-Bass, Inc., a member of Simon and Schuster's international business and professional group. Marumoto also was named in the 1992 edition of The Career Makers: North America's Top Executive Recruiters published by Harper & Row as one of North America's 150 most accomplished individual executive recruiters placing him among the top one percent.

Prior to founding the firm in 1973, Marumoto served more than three years in the Nixon White House as a Presidential aide responsible for recruiting individuals for Cabinet and sub-Cabinet positions.

During the 1972 Presidential election, Marumoto headed The White House Hispanic Task Force to re-elect the President. He and his staff obtained 41% of the Hispanic vote which was the highest percentage ever received by a Republican President.

Before joining the White House staff, he served as Assistant to the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare, responsible for all senior-level recruiting for the U.S. Office of Education.

Marumoto is the recipient of more than 25 national professional awards for his work in higher education, fundraising, direct mail, events management, and publications. He received distinguished public service awards from such organizations as the Japanese-American Citizens League, the National Multi-Cultural Institute and the Stanley Suyat Memorial Leadership Award from the Asian American Government Education Network.

Currently, Marumoto serves on the Board of Trustees of the Japanese American National Museum , the National Asian Pacific Center on Aging, the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies which he has served as Chairman, and the Advisory Council or George Washington University School of Business and Public Management.

He formerly served on the Board of Trustees of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education, the Japan American Society of Washington, DC, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics (LEAP), an Asian American public policy organization which he has served as its Chairman, and the Japanese American Memorial Foundation for which he was the founding Chairman and Chairman Emeritus, the Association of Executive Search Consultants, Whittier College and the Wolf Trap Foundation of the Performing Arts.

In 2002, President George W. Bush named Marumoto to the President's Advisory Committee on the Arts of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

A graduate of Whittier College, he was honored in 1991 by his alma mater for the Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award as well as the Alumni Service Award in 1978.

Marumoto is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in Finance. He was named in the spring of 1996 as one of the 500 most influential Asian Americans in the country by Avenue Asian Magazine and he was also named by Asian Weekly as one of the most influential Asian Americans in Washington.

A native of Southern California, Marumoto is the son of Japanese immigrants. He and his family spent three years in a relocation camp in Gila Rivers, Arizona during World War II.

Marumoto was the first Asian Pacific American ever to serve on the executive-level of The White House. Also, he was the first minority to be elected president of the student body and to receive the outstanding graduating senior award from both Santa Ana High School (Santa Ana, California) and Whittier College.

Clayton S. Fong, Chairman of APAICS and former Deputy Assistant to President George Herbert Walker Bush, at a dinner honoring Mo said, "Mo has been a trailblazer, role model and teacher to the APA Community for a long time. For nearly 40 years, he has been reaching out and helping to bring others along with him. He gives of his time and advice freely and thoughtfully using his position in government, business and the community to make invaluable connections."

Marumoto is a member of the Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Maryland and he is an avid fisherman who has fished throughout the world. He also has a sizable collection of Americana antiques and contemporary art.