2022 LeaderLuncheon Honoree - Ann Teranishi

Ann Teranishi is President and Chief Executive Officer of American Savings Bank (ASB) and a member of the ASB Board of Directors.

Ann has worked at ASB since 2007 in a variety of leadership positions, including Executive Vice President of Operations, where she played a key role in transitioning ASB to offer more self-service, digital banking options for customers.

Ann Teranishi speaking at the 2022 LeaderLuncheon Meet & Greet on May 8, 2022.

Passionate about cultivating local talent, Ann is an executive mentor with the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii’s Young Professionals Mentor Hawaii program, Pacific Business News’ Mentoring Monday program and Hawaii Business Magazine’s Wahine Forum. She has served as a judge in the University of Hawaii's Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship Business Competition and Chaminade University’s Hogan Non-Profit Business Competition.

Ann has received numerous recognitions for her business, leadership and community contributions, including Pacific Business News’ Women Who Mean Business, Hawaii Business Magazine’s 20 for the Next 20, and Girl Scouts Women of Distinction. Ann is an Omidyar Fellow and serves on the boards of the Catholic Charities Board of Advisors, Chamber of Commerce Hawaii, Island Insurance Company and the U.S.-Japan Council. She is also a member of the Hawaii Business Roundtable and Hawaii Bankers Association Executive Committee.

Ann holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Economics from Claremont McKenna College and her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law. She is a graduate of the Pacific Coast Banking School at the University of Washington’s Graduate School of Business and the Stanford Graduate School of Business Emerging COO program.