Michael Powers is the former Senior VP for CBS interactive. Powers was the second product manager at YouTube where he created the concept of YouTube Channels. He was the founder or early team member of 6 internet startups including 2 acquired by Google. He is currently living on Maui and continuing to act as an …
Category Archives: 2019
Alexandrina Garcia-Verdin
Alexandrina’s passion, both at Google and in her personal time, is in making two topics, sustainability and technology, more readily accessible to her communities by learning new techniques herself and then creating public free content on the subject . AVG (as she is commonly referred to) has worked at Google for over six years sharing …
Teri Edmonds
Teri Edmonds is a cobbler, artist, fashion designer and entrepreneur. She own Maui’s only shoe repair and has provided specialty footwear (wedding shoes, workboots, etc.) for 17 years at her store, If The Shoe Fits. Teri’s passion is art and she expresses that by making custom shoes. On her YouTube channel, Teri Edmonds, she provides …
Rachael Ray
Rachael is a self-taught and spirit inspired Maui artist, who loves to paint with Rembrandt oils. Born in Kealakekua, Hawaiʻi, Rachael took to art as soon as she was able to hold a crayon! Throughout her childhood on Molokai, Rachael developed an appreciation for her majestic surroundings. In high school on Maui, Rachael entered numerous …
Danny Boren
In 2002, Danny Co-Founded Skyline Eco-Adventures on Maui’s Historic Haleakala Ranch with his father Buck Boren. Skyline was the First Commercial Zipline operation in the United States, in the years since 2002 an estimated 400 – 500 zipline operations have opened across the country. Today Skyline is Hawaii’s largest zipline operator, with tour locations on …
Pono Shim
President and CEO Oahu Economic Development Board, Advisor and Coach for the Center for Diverse Leadership in Science at UCLA. Although Pono claims to have no background in economic development he was asked to take the leadership of OEDB in 2009 when the Board considered the option of closing the doors of the company. Today …