Mike Miyahira is the owner of Business Strategies. He provides consulting services to family owned and closely held businesses located across the state. He focuses on succession planning, family business governance issues and strategic planning services, serving clients on all islands.
Prior to 2000, Miyahira spent 24 years with one of Â鶹´«Ã½’s largest commercial banks on the islands of Oʻahu, Maui and Â鶹´«Ã½. The bulk of his banking career was spent as a senior lending officer and manager of several of the bank’s business banking units.
He currently serves as a director of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, the Island of Â鶹´«Ã½ YMCA, and the Japanese Community Association of Â鶹´«Ã½. Miyahira is also a member of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½, Shidler Family Business Center of Â鶹´«Ã½ and serves on its Big Island Advisory Board.
Miyahira has also been a trustee and chair of the Lawyers’ Fund for Client Protection of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Supreme Court. He is also a past president of the National Client Protection Organization whose membership spans the U.S. and Canada. He has been a presenter at the American Bar Association, Center for Professional Responsibility’s annual Client Protection Forum as well as the National Client Protection Organization’s annual Fall Workshop.
He is a past adjunct professor at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ at Hilo, College of Business and Economics, past president of the Â鶹´«Ã½ Island Chamber of Commerce, the Japanese Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement of Â鶹´«Ã½ Island, the Big Island Business Council and the Â鶹´«Ã½ Island United Way; past treasurer for the United Way Statewide Association of Â鶹´«Ã½, and past vice chair and corporate treasurer for the Island of Â鶹´«Ã½ YMCA. He has also served on the State of Â鶹´«Ã½’s Dept. of Public Safety, Â鶹´«Ã½ Island Corrections Advisory Council as well as on the Advisory Council for the College of Business and Economics at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½ at Hilo.