Employment agency specializing in English/Japanese bilinguals in Los Angeles, California.

Teruko Weinberg

President

After working as a representative for a large Japanese employment agency in the United States, Teruko Weinberg parted ways in 1994 to establish the TWI Group. Leveraging her vast corporate network filled with many years of industry experience, and by continuing to meticulously consult and place job seekers, she has been successful in nurturing TWI into a preeminent employment agency known nationally for providing Japanese/English bilingual personnel as well as placing such bilingual job seekers.

Not only does she travel around the world as the representative of the company, she has enthusiastically performed volunteer services for non-profit organizations such as for Japanese Business Association, Career Woman Network, Asian America Symphony Association and Aichi Club (Kenjinkai – a gathering for people from Aichi Prefecture). Furthermore, as a contributor to various columns in human resources related issues, she has been active in the media and has played a symbolic role as a woman business owner that instills energy into the Los Angeles Japanese community. Also, she appeared as one of the business women in Southern California in Forbs magazine in 2011.

At the time when she established her business, she appeared in the media using the catch phrase, “Teruko loves people.” The spirit of placing importance on personnel is presently inherited by all of her staff. Being in its 20th year in business in 2014, she aims to further expand in the next 10 years and as someone who steadily realizes business ideas, Teruko Weinberg is a person that “develops ideas” as well as “puts into practice what she preaches.”

Yuhko Simonek

International HR Senior Consultant

Yuhko received her Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Southern California in Los Angeles, California. Upon graduation, she joined a major international electronics company in their International HR Division and has been involved with Japanese expatriate matters for 15 years. Her expertise is handling expatriate?fs HR policies, immigration, benefit/compensation, international tax issues, etc. She has recently joined TWI and is looking forward to servicing our new clients.

Richard D. O’Reilly

Richard D. O'Reilly brings over thirty years of corporate business experience in all facets of global Human Resources management. He has held senior executive level positions in some of the worlds's leading corporations in their industries. In these positions his responsibilities required him to successfully function simultaneously at the board room level as well as on the manufacturing floor.

As a consultant he has provided valuable experiential insight, counsel, guidance and assistance to his clients in the development of best practice solutions for their Human Resource issues by successfully linking strategic human resources planning with organizational and management development.

This successful linkage has helped his clients identify overall goals and objectives as well as developmental needs to achieve them. He has successfully assisted his client companies in the areas of day-to-day human resources management, management and organizational development, performance management, compensation, benefits, employee relations / communications, labor relations and organizational restructuring.

Wendy Wu

Controller

Wendy Wu has many years of experience in accounting. Prior to Joining the TWI, she had worked in employment industry as well as other industries. She believes that the greatest attribute of the company is its upward mobile environment, team work and strong leadership. Wendy says “ it is a great pleasure to contribute to the continuing growth of TWI.