Two new members have been named to the local advisory committee to find a new president for San Jose State University as the search kicks back into gear.

Joining the group that will help screen presidential applicants are Silicon Valley businessmen Koichi Nishimura, chairman, president and CEO of Solectron; and Armando Garcia, founder and past president of Arcom Electronics, chairman of Dicar, and president of software company Bottlesoft.

Both Garcia and Nishimura attended the university and have served on the group of prominent community advisers to the president of the university. Garcia was among advisers to interim President Handel Evans and his successor, Robert Caret, and Nishimura served under Caret and now Joseph Crowley, San Jose State's latest interim president.

The reconstituted advisory committee meets for the first time next Wednesday in a closed-door session. The hope is to have a new president selected by May, said California State University spokeswoman Colleen Bentley-Adler.

The last search failed when CSU's board of trustees concluded that none of the three finalists was right for the university.

That search also drew criticism from a group of community leaders who said the makeup of the local advisory committee was not representative because it did not include an Asian-American member, although a CSU trustee serving on the trustees' selection committee, Shailesh Mehta, is Indo-American.

Some of the critics said the process did not include enough community participation.

The new appointments are an improvement, said state Assemblyman Manny Diaz, D-San Jose, and prominent San Jose State judo coach and alumnus Yoshihiro Uchida. ``Hopefully it will be from a more diverse pool of candidates that the selection committee can make recommendations to the chancellor and the trustees,'' Diaz said.

Nishimura and Garcia replace former Mercury News Publisher Joe Natoli, and San Jose attorney Fernando Zazueta, who could not commit the time needed to serve again.