Krishna Narayan

NSC Partners LLC is a Hawaii small business by most definitions, with just one person, President Krishna Narayan, working on Maui. Learn more ...

Bob and Kelly King

For taking a local problem and developing a global solution, Bob and Kelly King and their company, Pacific Biodiesel, are recognized worldwide for their community-based model for recycling an urban waste product. Learn more ...

Dr. Sean Casey

Dr. Sean Casey saw a gap in the medical world and set out to help fill it. The growing national demand for radiologists who interpret images was exceeding the supply, and creating a strain in healthcare. His solution: rather than ask radiologists to come to a facility to read X-rays, CT scans and MRIs, bring the image to them with the Internet – a practice known as teleradiology.

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Toshiyuki Yamagishi

When Bioreal president Toshiyuki Yamagishi was looking for a place to establish company headquarters, Maui stood out at as the clear choice. The islands’ unique natural environment offers ideal growing conditions for this biotech company that cultivates microalgae. “Maui has over 300 days of sunlight each year and a day-to-night temperature difference that is very small, which sets it apart from cities like Phoenix or San Diego,” says Yamagishi. This year-round growing season gives Bioreal an advantage over its competitors. Learn more ...

Dan O'Connell and Terry Born

For business partners Dan O’Connell and Terry Born, launching their company was the fulfillment of a lifelong dream. Over the course of nearly 20 years, the pair has experimented with harnessing the power of light to create technologies designed to change the face of industry. In 2006, they gathered their ideas and embarked on a course to put them into action with Hnu Photonics. Learn more ...

Daron Nishimoto

For Daron Nishimoto, finding a rewarding job in a family-friendly community was a high priority. He found both of these at Trex Enterprises Corporation Maui, a research and design house that has developed a portfolio of proprietary technologies – in microwave sensing, high-resolution imaging, digital signal processing and applied optics and materials – and created several successful spin-off companies. Learn more ...

Vaughn Vasconcellos

Vaughn’s personal values were instilled while he was growing up on Moloka’i. His technological and business skills were honed as a West Point engineer serving his country and in information technology businesses. Learn more ...

Fred Perlak

Beneath the sunny slopes of Maui’s Mt. Haleakala, researchers at Monsanto diligently tend to acres of corn. The carefully cultivated fields at the Maui Research and Technology Park are the center of research efforts in the company’s statewide corn research program, which plays a lead role in its ability to produce seeds for farms across the globe. Learn more ...