Meetings

Making Cents of K-12 education finance in WA and the district level

Scott Oki is the Founder and Chairman of o-kaisha Investment, LLC. and is a serial entrepreneur, venture capitalist, philanthropist, author and community activist. His personal mission statement is “to marry my passion for things entrepreneurial with things philanthropic in ways that encourage others to do the same.”
o-kaisha Investment, LLC is an investment company with diverse interests in real estate, restaurants, and early to development stage information technology companies.
Prior to founding o-kaisha Investment, LLC, Mr. Oki retired in 1992 after 10 years with Microsoft Corporation. Mr. Oki founded the International Division and later served as Senior Vice President, Sales, Marketing and Service.
Mr. Oki earned an M.B.A. and a B.Sc. in accounting and computer science, graduating Magna cum laude from the University of Colorado. Mr. Oki has served on over 100 advisory boards and boards of directors for both for- profit and not-for-profit companies. He has founded or co-founded twenty-two non- profit organizations. In addition to his philanthropic activities through The Oki Foundation, he has taken leadership roles in many other organizations. He has served as Co-Chair of the United Way of King County Campaign Board and Co- Chair of the Million Dollar Roundtable, Founder/Chairman of the Japanese American Chamber of Commerce, Founder/past-Chairman of the Chief Seattle Council Boy Scout Scoutreach Foundation, Founder/Chairman of the Outrageous Learning Foundation, Founder/Past Chairman of Densho, and Founder/Chairman of TheParentsUnion.org. He is a Co-Founder of SeeYourImpact.org, Sounders for Kids, Seattle Parks Foundation, Executive Development Institute, America’s Foundation for Chess, First Tee of Greater Seattle, Microsoft Alumni Foundation, Social Venture Partners, and Seattle Police Foundation. He is a past-President of the University of Washington Board of Regents and a past- Chair of the Children’s Hospital Foundation. Mr. Oki has served on the national boards for United Way of America, Boys & Girls Clubs of America, Japanese American National Museum, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Foundation, Boy Scouts of America, National Science Center, and the Microsoft Alumni Foundation. His most recent endeavor is co-founding the Breaking Boundaries Foundation in Seattle, WA.
Mr. Oki is married to Laurie and they have three children.