Dee Jay Mailer is the

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Kamehameha Schools Kamehameha Schools, formerly called Kamehameha Schools Bishop Estate (KSBE), is a private school system in Hawaii established by the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Estate, under the terms of the will of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop, who was a formal membe ...

. She was appointed on January 19, 2004, and now focuses her energies on educating children of Hawaiian ancestry. She is a 1970 graduate of Kamehameha.

Former work

As the former Chief Operating Officer of

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, a private Swiss foundation created by the world’s top developed countries, Mailer, along with the

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based team, raised and distributed funds to support the fight against

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, tuberculosis and malaria in developing countries. She created and managed the fund’s administrative operations in collaboration with international partners, including the

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and

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. During her tenure, some $3.4 billion was raised from international donors, $33 million of which was disbursed in grant funds to 92 countries. Mailer’s healthcare career spans 27 years, and includes serving as Chief Executive Officer of

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Hawai‘i where she implemented a service-oriented culture, which improved health plan member satisfaction and retention rates to the highest levels in the State and within the national Kaiser program. She left Kaiser in 1999 to become Chief Administrative and Operating Officer of

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, Inc., a health insurance program serving 2 million members in the State of

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. Mailer later served as Senior Vice President of National Contracting and Claims Best Practices for the company.

Education

Mailer earned her Bachelor of Science degree in

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and her Masters in

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(MBA) from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa. She is also a graduate of the Kaiser Permanente Executive Program, a business program for national healthcare executives offered in partnership with Stanford University.

Past contributions

Her past community contributions include being a board member and chairman elect of the Hawai`i Business Roundtable, chairman of the board of the Institute for Human Services Homeless Shelter. She is also a member of several other boards, including the

Pacific Research Institute The Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy (PRI) is a California-based free-market think tank which promotes "the principles of individual freedom and personal responsibility" through policies that emphasize a free economy, private initiat ...

, the Hawai`i Community Foundation, Aloha United Way, and the Junior Achievement School Mentoring Program.

References

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