Larry Rodriguez

Most recently, Rodriguez served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer for Central Pacific Financial Corp./Central Pacific Bank.

Rodriguez was with Ernst & Young for 40 years. He served 29 years as partner and over 15 years as managing partner of the Hawaii practice. His 40-year career in the accounting profession included serving companies in the financial services, healthcare, airlines, retail, hospitality, real estate, and insurance industries. In addition to his work in audit-related matters, Rodriguez also provided services that covered taxes, internal control system evaluations, and other operational activities for local and mainland companies with global locations.

While at Central Pacific Financial Corp./Central Pacific Bank, Rodriguez assisted with the Corporation’s recapitalization. Today, Rodriguez operates his own consulting firm to help organizations in Hawai‘i with financial, organizational, and other business matters.

Rodriguez is involved with many local charities and community groups

Maria Lowder

Maria Lowder was certified as a CPA in 1974 after several years working as a systems analyst on mainframe computer systems. For several years she was involved in real estate syndication, rental management and construction of large developments.

She currently operates her own CPA firm providing tax services and consulting to a variety of small businesses and individuals. She has been involved in many start up ventures and is looking forward to sharing her expertise with students.

Shannon Pierce

Shannon E. Pierce concentrates her practice in the areas of Technology Transactions, with an emphasis on Licensing, Intellectual Property (IP), Internet and Ecommerce, Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A), and Contract Drafting and Negotiations. She has considerable experience with due diligence and advising start-up and growth stage companies on managing and protecting IP rights and portfolios. She prepares her clients for successful growth (fundings/financings) and/or a preferred exit strategy (asset sales, mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures or IPOs).

Martin Loui

Martin S. Loui practices intellectual property (IP) law at the Honolulu law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel LLP, with an emphasis on the strategic development of IP portfolios for the protection, leverage, and monetization of technology assets for pre-IPO and publicly-traded businesses. His practice also includes the management of IP portfolios and the enforcement of IP rights, including negotiating settlements of disputes concerning IP rights.

Carl Maybin

Scott Bradshaw

Creator & Operator of web-based real estate business that offers consumers a more-efficient way to market their properties for either sale or rent. Sales & Marketing background specializing in retail-based operations. Successfully started and sold three (3) separate businesses taking an idea to the retail market.

Darren Nunn

Mr. Nunn is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Public Finance groups. His practice includes providing legal and business advice on start-up issues, venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, securities law matters, corporate governance and other business transactions. He also represents issuers and underwriters in connection with public offerings of municipal securities.
Prior to joining McCorriston, Mr. Nunn served as General Counsel and Chief Financial Officer of Optimum Communications Technologies, Inc. in San Francisco, CA. Mr. Nunn also practiced law at Fenwick & West LLP in Palo Alto and San Francisco as an associate in the corporate securities group

Faustino Dagdag

Faustino Dagdag is the founder and principal of Profit Works. He has over 30 years of experience in marketing and sales management at the executive level with Hawaii and national corporations. He is a faculty member of the University of Hawaii at the Kapiolani Community College campus where he lecturers on courses for management, marketing and entrepreneurship. He is a member of the American Marketing Association, American Management Association, Society of Human Resource Management Hawaii chapter, currently serves on the board of the American Society of Training and Development Hawaii Chapter and is a member of the Speakers Association of Hawaii.

Mark Ritchie

Mark Ritchie has 20 years of distinguished private and public sector business and economic development experience. Prior to KAS, he was a Managing Director at Enterprise Honolulu (EH), a private sector Oahu economic development agency. Prior to this, Mark was a VP at Scottish Development International (SDI) in California where he account managed many of the most important existing foreign investors in Scotland including Sun Microsystems, Intel, Micron, Agilent, Atmel and National Semiconductor. Mr. Ritchie was a Strategic Relations Manager and a Product Manager at SGI (SiIicon Graphics), the high performance computing company. He also spent a number of years at the Canadian Trade Offices in San Francisco and San Jose, assisting Canadian technology companies seeking partnerships and venture capital in Silicon Valley. Mr. Ritchie holds a Bachelor's degree with high honors in political economy from U.C. Berkeley and a Master’s degree in International Business and Economics from the Fletcher School, Tufts/Harvard Universities.

Lincoln Jacobe

Lincoln H. Jacobe is the founder & Chief Executive Officer of Hawaii Pacific Entertainment and Technology News Bytes, two start-up companies that focus on technology, entertainment, media and communications. Lincoln's technology media company has become Hawaii's largest technology news network in the state and will soon be expanding nationally.

Lincoln is a serial entrepreneur and is the founder of many local events including the Technology Industry Awards "Flavors of Technology", Technology & Internet Expo, Business, Innovation & Technology Conference, Technology Education Conference & Expo, e-Biz Awards, and more!

Martin Hsia

Mr. Hsia is a registered patent attorney, one of the few patent attorneys in Hawaii. Mr. Hsia practices patents, trademarks, copyrights, trade secrets, computer, licensing and entertainment law at Cades Schutte.

Mr. Hsia is listed in Best Lawyers in America, Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers and Who’s Who in American Law. He has given addresses on intellectual property matters to groups as diverse as the American Bar Association Business Law Section, United States Trademark Association, the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, the Rotary Club, Innovation workshops sponsored by US Department of Energy, the National Association of Paralegals, a third grade class studying inventions, as well as major colleges and universities, and other organizations.

Mr. Hsia has a JD (1981) from Georgetown University Law Center, and a B.A. (1978) from Brown University.

Paul Masters

15+ Years - Startup and small computer-industry companies in and around the Silicon Valley. Marketing, product development, and general management roles. 15 Years - end user MIS computing including building new systems. US Navy, UC Berkeley, County of Santa Cruz. 8 years faculty and staff roles at Chaminade University including: restructuring computer science curriculum, starting computer games class, and increasing enrollment through promotion

Stan Jacobs

Stan has been in the financial services industry for over 15 years, predominantly with Fraser Financial Group, a generalasing of Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), as a leader in the industry, holding various management positions. Stan is a Registered Representative with MML Investors Services, LLC, a registered Broker/Dealer, Member FINRA/SIPC. Stan holds his FINRA Series 6 (Investment Company Products/Variable Contracts Limited Representative), FINRA Series 63 (Uniform Securities Agent State Law Examination) and FINRA Series 65 (Uniform Investment Adviser Law Examination) registrations. Stan attended Brooklyn College and Parsons College, and taught some LUTC industry courses.

Marko Brickman

Marko Brickman retired from Mark’s Athletic Soles 15 years ago. He started this business in his garage against the advice of everyone he asked. He was told that his idea was not just a bad one, but stupid. His idea was to resole athletic shoes by mail order worldwide. This was not done before so the technique and marketing needed to be created. To be clear people would mail their shoes in, have them resoled and shipped back for them to use again. His goal was threefold:

Marko is a hands on entrepreneur. He knows what it takes to get a small business off the ground. He understands how important it is to find your passion and the rest can fall into place. Marko’s expertise is not in big business or finance. It is in a business that starts small with a never ending desire to improve.

Shan Steinmark

Shan W. Steinmark has been enabling national & international leaders to enhance their individual, team & organization effectiveness for over 35 years. As the founder of Strategic Transitions Research, he has collaborated with the diverse pioneers of R&D projects, strategic development initiatives & emerging growth businesses to help translate visions & strategies into successful ventures.

Dr. Steinmark has worked with start-ups, turn-arounds & re-vitalizations in a wide range of industries - from energy & clean-tech to pharmaceuticals & bio-tech to telecommunications & photonics to banking & insurance. He facilitates innovation improvement, strategic planning, business integration & leadership development processes for intrapreneurs & entrepreneurs. Shan currently serves with a variety of boards, advisory groups & change agent huis in Hawaii.

Steve Haumschild

Steve Haumschild, Project Developer, RevoluSun, is responsible for educating and working with residential and commercial customers to achieve energy independence by designing custom solar systems and finding the best financing options available to meet their needs and take advantage of government incentives. Haumschild started his undergraduate studies at Ohio State University with a bachelor of science degree in evolution, ecology and organismal biology. He also holds an executive master of business administration degree from University of Hawaii at Manoa.

Mike Prasad

Having been called a social media expert, guru, thought leader and more tech entrepreneur Mike Prasad has continuously innovated in the application of social platforms, digital media, technology, branding and marketing to drive core business growth in multiple markets. He has worked with major brands and Fortune 500 companies, including Microsoft, Amadeus, Wynn Hotels, Burger King, Nickelodeon, EA and others. Early on, Mike became one of the youngest CTO’s of a publicly traded company and was called a “twentysomething social networking and branding wunderkind” by Los Angeles Times.

Mike has pioneered landmark work in social media marketing with Kogi BBQ, Twitter, Facebook & Foursquare. Case studies of which are now part of every digital marketing and social media college course, have been referenced in at least 2 TED Talks & covered by every major newspaper and related publication worldwide. His application of social media to restaurants and small businesses have largely set the standard for todays models and use. Mike also pioneered early location-based mobile marketing with FourSquare & Fatburger, becoming the first successful campaign of its kind. Mike's work has driven critical disruptive progress in at least 2 industries and was credited as a key factor in Twitter gaining mainstream adoption. As such Mike is a frequent speaker on digital media and niche and cultural audiences around the world.

As a serial entrepreneur, Mike has founded numerous tech companies and raised nearly $3 million in capital. He played a critical role in helping develop the Los Angeles technology ecosystem and has also advised and/or worked with a number of tech startups, including Y Combinator, TechStars and 500 Startup backed companies. He has helped many startups successfully pivot to growth and also win awards, including a TechCrunch Crunchie. Mike is also an advisor to the SF-based accelerator YetiZen. Currently, Mike is working on Kinetiq Labs, a hybrid incubator in Honolulu, Hawaii.

Raj Bose

I have over twenty five years experience in marketing and business development in chemicals, e-commerce,
global trade, automobiles, consumer electronics and intercultural
training, in India, Japan and the USA. In Hawaii I run my marketing
consulting business. I have also successfully run the following
businesses: a bed and breakfast in Waikiki, a plant nursery in
Waimanalo and a Internet ready Business Center in Waikiki.

Partner ResourceBug LLC Marketing Services Owner WikiWiki Business Center Owner PlantWonders Plant Nursery Owner LunaTiki Properties Field of expertise: Marketing and Business Development. Have over 25 year business development experience in the international business in India, Japan and US.

Caroline Kim

owned consulting firm (Certified Financial Planner) -directed and managed a printing firm business raising revenue from $3000 to $25k in 2.5 years -currently a director and consultant for the Small Business Development Center, Honolulu. Reviews and advises roughly 800 clients every year over the past 5 years

David Laeha

Mr. Laeha has been in the accounting profession for the past 25 years. He is a high honors graduate in Finance, has an MBA and CPA and has spent the first 13 years of his career on the mainland (Chicago, Boston and Los Angeles) working for Fortune 500 companies (GTE, IBM and Arthur Andersen). Since returning to Hawaii in 1997, he has been in senior management roles working with a broad range of businesses from award winning concept models with no revenue to a $600M publicly traded company. Mr. Laeha was the CFO for Hawaiian Natural Water Company (which raised $9.3M through an IPO, $1.25M through a secondary and was sold to a publicly traded mainland distributor), Manager of Financial Planning for Cheap Tickets Inc. (which raised $50M through an IPO, $150M through a secondary and was sold to a publicly traded company), and CFO of several private Hawaii-based firms and one of the State’s largest non-profit firms.

Nancy Duran

Sean Fox

I spent the first 15 years of my career building start-up companies in the Silicon Valley. 1 - Business Objects - successful Initial Public Offering (IPO) and grew to over $2 billion 2 - RedBrick Systems - Successful IPO, grew to $200 million, sold to IBM 3 - DataSage grew revenue to $10 million sold to Vignette 4 - NetMind grew revenue to $2 million sold to eBay 5 - E.piphany - successful IPO, grew to $25 million I moved home to Hawaii in 2003 and am currently the Owner / Managing Partner at New Horizons of Hawaii. We are a training and Professional Services company focused 100% in Hawaii. In 2009 we restuctured the company and have added Professional Services, Green Energy Solutions and Computer Sales to our portfolio. My degree is in Computer Science but I have been in sales, sales management and executive leadership positions for the past 20 years. Like most entrepreneurs I can help with business plans, marketing plans, sales plans, account plans and hiring plans.

Sam Craig