As a graduate of the UOG Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), he simultaneously received a commission as a Regular Army Second Lieutenant in the US Army’s Finance Corps and has been on Active Duty since May 2003. After acceptance into the Army’s Civil Schooling Program later in his career, he obtained his Master of Business Administration, Executive Master of Public Administration, and Advanced Certificate in Nonprofit Organizations from Syracuse University, New York in August 2015. Ton is currently assigned to Headquarters, Department of the Army G-1 (Personnel) and will have served 20 years before his official retirement from the Army in June 2023.

Ton is married to the former Kathrina “Kat” Matsumiya Perez (Familian Boñu from Piti), who also attended UOG along with Ton in their dating years. Kat was a recipient of UOG’s Dr. Antonio C. Yamashita Teacher Corps scholarship program, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts in Elementary Education. She’s been an Army spouse since they married in May 2003 in Piti, Guam, and has taught in several states throughout Ton’s Army career. Kat is currently a Kindergarten teacher at St. Anthony of Padua Catholic School in Falls Church, Virginia.

While off duty, Ton enjoys singing, playing the guitar, and volunteering as a lector and a Knight of Columbus for his parish at St. Bernadette’s Catholic Church in Springfield, Virginia.
Ton and Kat currently live in Alexandria, Virginia and are proud parents of their beautiful daughter Aria (born Sep 2017). They look forward to retiring in the DC/Maryland/Virginia (DMV), and Ton looks forward to starting a second career while supporting the Guam Society of America and its members!