David Cole
Mr. David Cole serves on the Board of Maui Land & Pineapple. From 2003 to 2008, he was the President and Chief Executive Officer of Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. Since 1997, Mr. Cole has also been President of Aquaterra, Inc., an investment management firm that serves as managing general partner for Pan Pacific Ventures LP, Catalyst II LLC, and Aquaterra Partners, LLC, and Aquaterra Partners II, LLC, partnerships with interests in software, real estate, agriculture, retailing, renewable energy and consumer products.
Mr. Cole has served in a variety of executive positions, including Chairman, President and CEO of Ashton-Tate Inc., a software company, Chairman of Twin Farms Collection, LLC, a luxury resort, and Chairman, President and CEO of NaviSoft, Inc., an online publishing software company that was acquired by America Online, Inc. ("AOL") in 1994.
Mr. Cole is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Nature Conservancy of Hawai‘i and is a director of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. He serves on the boards of the privately held companies Hawaii Superferry, Inc., Sunrise Capital, LLC, and Grove Farm Company, Inc. He also serves on the boards of various community non-profit organizations.
Warren Haruki
Warren H. Haruki is currently President & Chief Executive Officer of Grove Farm Company, Inc., a privately held company located in Lihu'e, Kaua'i, a position he has held since February 2005. Mr. Haruki also is the Chairman of the Board for Maui Land & Pineapple. He concluded a 26-year career with GTE Hawaiian Tel -- Verizon Hawai'i , serving as its President & Chief Executive Officer from 1991 until his retirement in October 2003. Mr. Haruki also serves as a Trustee for the Parker Ranch Foundation Trust, a land development and cattle ranch company headquartered on the Big Island of Hawai'i.
He serves on the Boards of Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Pacific Guardian Life Insurance Company, and First Hawaiian Bank. Mr. Haruki serves on various community and non-profit organization boards, including the Blood Bank of Hawai'i , which he chaired from 2002-2003. Mr. Haruki has a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Management from Purdue University, a Master’s of Business Administration from the University of Hawai'i, and is a Certified Public Accountant.
Jerry Caulder
Often referred to as the "father of agricultural biotechnology," Dr. Jerry Caulder is the executive chairman of Finistere Partners, LLC. Dr. Caulder is also currently Executive Chairman of Chlorogen, Inc., a venture backed therapeutic plant company based in St Louis; Athenix Corporation, a venture backed plant sciences company based in Research Triangle, North Carolina; and PhytaGro, Inc., a plant sciences company based in California and New Zealand. Dr. Caulder is also director of Catharos, Inc., an early stage Bay Area medical devices company.
Until June 2005, Dr. Caulder was Executive Chairman of Advanced Stent Technologies, Inc., a cardiac intervention medical devices company based in Pleasanton, California. He also serves on the board of advisors to both of Burrill & Co's agbio venture funds and was involved in the founding of many local, state and national biotech industry groups and initiatives. Dr. Caulder is internationally well recognized and is a frequent speaker at industry forums.
Kirk Belsby
Kirk Belsby serves as the Vice President for Endowment of the Kamehameha Schools. He has more than 10 years of management and senior management experience, with a proven track record in directing regions, departments, teams, and projects, and experience in developing comprehensive strategic plans.
Belsby was with Arthur Andersen, LLP from 1993 to 2002, ending his tenure there as Western United States Regional Managing Partner for real estate consulting. Prior to that, he was managing partner for Andersen's Pacific Southwest business from 1997 to 1998, and senior manager of real estate valuations, Pacific Southwest from 1993 to 1997. He had a direct role in the divestiture of Castle & Cooke from Dole Foods, including conducting a comprehensive valuation of all Castle & Cooke properties on Lana‘i.
He was vice-president of real estate valuations for Michael Frauenthal & Associates from 1988 to 1992; a project feasibility analyst and asset manager for American Diversified Capital Corp. from 1984 to 1987, and a stockbroker with Shearson Lehman from 1982 to 1983.
Michael G. Mohr
Michael Mohr is the Managing Member of Ohana Holdings, LLC, a diversified private fund which serves as the primary commercial investment vehicle for the Omidyar Family.
Mr. Mohr brings more than 25 years of financial and managerial experience to Omidyar family organizations. He is the founder and chairman of Comprehensive Financial Management, one of the nation’s premier multi-family offices.
He serves as trustee, director and officer of a significant number of charitable organizations and private commercial ventures. He is a CPA and graduated with a BSC in Finance from Santa Clara University.
Paul S. Zorner, Ph.D.
Paul S. Zorner, Ph.D., joined Hawai‘i BioEnergy in 2008 as its President and Chief Executive Officer.
Paul most recently was the Chief Scientific Officer and Executive Director of Principle Energy Limited, a venture oriented to establish sugarcane conversion to ethanol and power in Mozambique. Prior to joining PEL, Paul held scientific development, operations and senior administrative positions with both start-up and Fortune 500 companies that include BASF, The Dow Chemical Company, Mycogen Corporation, Diversa Corporation, CellFor, and Telanetix.
Paul also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for Kuehnle AgroSystems, a Hawaiian company specializing in the research and development of algae as a source of renewable fuels; on the Board of Principle Energy Limited (Mozambique); on the Board of Godavari Sugar Company (India), and on the Board of Directors for The KISS Institute for Practical Robotics, which aims to attract students to science through robotics. Paul also is involved with working groups of Environmental Entrepreneurs and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
Paul is an Adjunct Professor of Horticulture and a member of the graduate faculty at North Carolina State University.
Paul received his undergraduate degree from Lewis and Clark College in Ecology and Secondary Education and his Ph.D. in Botany and Plant Pathology from Colorado State University, where he worked on the development of cropping systems for dry-land agriculture.
He is an inventor with over 30 issued US patents. He has been presented with several awards that include: 2006 Queensland Champion for service to the State of Queensland Australia (the first American citizen to be so honored), the 2001 San Diego Science Alliance Partner of the Year, and as a Fellow of the Weed Science Society of America.
Paul and his wife, Nancy, live in Honolulu and have four grown children.
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