ATTACHMENT-2 Interviewees

Business Sector (18)

  1. Paul Brewbaker, Economist
  2. Juno Chung, CEO Koa Pancake Houses, Entrepreneurs Organization
  3. Employment & Training Trust
  4. Chenoa Farnsworth, Mana Up
  5. Matt Heim of Hon Blue, Entrepreneurs Organization (EO)
  6. Meli James – Hawaiʻi Venture Capital Association
  7. Tim Johns, Zephyr Insurance
  8. Duane Kurisu – AIO Family of Companies
  9. Russell Lau, Chairman and CEO – Finance Factors
  10. Lynette Lo Tom, Bright Light Marketing
  11. Sherry Menor-McNamara, Executive Director - Chamber of Commerce Hawaiʻi
  12. Gary Okamoto, CEO – Wilson Okamoto Engineering
  13. Henk Rogers, Blue Planet Enterprises
  14. Jennifer Sabas, Kaimanahila
  15. Lee Sichter, Planner
  16. Bill Tobin, YPO
  17. Ray Tsuchiyama, Technology, Growth and New Markets Consultant
  18. Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board
  19. Tom Yamachika, Tax Foundation

Government Sector (9)

  1. Isaac Choy, former legislator
  2. Scott Enright, former DOA Director
  3. Len Higashi – Hawaiʻi Technology Development Corporation and Innovation Sandbox
  4. Kaleiaina Lee, OHA Vice Chair
  5. Stephen Levinson, Supreme Court (ret)
  6. Karl Rhodes, Senate
  7. Scott Saiki, Speaker of the House
  8. Jill Tokuda, former legislator
  9. John Waihee, former Governor

Education Sector (36)

  1. Maenette Benham, Chancellor – West Oʻahu
  2. Michael Bruno, Provost– UH Mānoa
  3. Lee E. Buenconsejo-Lum, MD, FAAFP – JABSOM
  4. Greg Chun, UH-SSRI (Special Assistant, Mauna Kea)
  5. Tammi Oyadomori-Chun, Associate VP – Community College
  6. Mākena Coffman, Director – UH Institute for Sustainability
  7. Dick Dubonowski – Former Dean and Mānoa Forum Co-Chair
  8. Kamuela Enos, Director - Office of Indigenous Innovation
  9. Chip Fletcher, SOEST
  10. Marilyn Fornwall, Development Assistant - UH Maui College
  11. Aimee Grace MD – Uhealthy Initiative
  12. Jairus Grove, Chair University of Hawai'i Future Studies
  13. Debbie Halbert, Associate VP Academic Programs and Policy
  14. Jerris Hedges, JABSOM
  15. Krista Hiser, KCC Sustainability
  16. Bonnie Irwin, Chancellor - UH-Hilo
  17. Ben Kudo, Board of Regents
  18. David Lassner – UH President
  19. Chris Lee, Academy for Creative Media
  20. Christopher Lepczyk, biology professor now at Auburn, formerly at UH
  21. Darren Lerner, Director - Sea Grant College
  22. Kaiwipuni "Punihei" Lipe, Program Officer - UH Mānoa Native Hawaiian

Place of Learning Advancement Office

  1. Matt Lynch, UH Sustainability Director
  2. Amrita Malik, Director of Campus Climate Initiatives
  3. Colin Moore, Professor of Political Science and Director of Policy Institute
  4. Randy Moore, Board of Regents
  5. Deane Neubauer, former Dean and acting Chancellor
  6. Alapaki Nahale, Board of Regents
  7. Jon Osorio, Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge
  8. Louise Pagotta, Chancellor – KAP
  9. Carlos Penaloza, Chancellor – UH Leeward CC
  10. Randy Roth, law professor (ret)
  11. Clyde Sakamoto, Former Chancellor, UH Maui College
  12. Jean Schneider, Sector Partnerships & Vice President, Education & Workforce

Development

  1. Donald Straney, UH Vice President for Academic Planning and Policy
  2. Avi Soifer, Richardson School of Law
  3. Rachel Solemsaas - Hawaiʻi CC
  4. Vassilis Syrmos, UH Vice President for Research
  5. Paul Turnbull, President, Mid-Pacific Institute
  6. Richard Vulysteke, President - EWC
  7. Alan White, former UH Executive (ret)
  8. Sylvia Yuen - Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i

Civic Sector (7)

  1. Robbie Alm, Executive Officer - Collaborative Leaders Network
  2. Celeste Connors, Executive Director - Hawaiʻi Green Growth and Aloha+
  3. Terry George, Executive Director – The Castle Foundation
  4. James Hardway, Executive Director - Hotel and Restaurant Industry Employment and Training Trust
  5. Micah Kāne, President & CEO – Hawaiʻi Community Foundation and Executive Conference
  6. Lisa Maruyama – Hawaiʻi Association of Non-Profit Organizations
  7. Jim Shon – Hawaiʻi Education Policy Center
  8. Lorenn Walker, Director - HI Friends of Restorative Justice

Media Sector (6)

  1. Dave Shapiro, Star-Advertiser
  2. Richard Borreca, Star Advertiser
  3. Chad Blair, Civil Beat
  4. Jan Tenbruggencate – Raising Islands blog
  5. Daniel Boylan, Midweek writer (also, West Oʻahu Faculty)
  6. Leslie Wilcox, Executive Director - PBS Hawaiʻi

Other (3)

  1. Victor Craft, Co-Founder – 808Veterans
  2. Christian Fern, Executive Director – UHPA
  3. John Wood, INDOPACOM

ATTACHMENT-3 Interview Questions

  1. You and UH. What is your current or past involvement and link to UH?
  2. Sectors. What sectors of Hawaiʻi’s economy are likely to grow or not grow in the coming decade? (Note, it’s not what you want to see grow but what you think will grow.)
  3. UH. Overall, and currently, what are the UH system’s most prominent:
    1. Strengths (sweet spots, places of excellence)
    2. Weaknesses (flaws and defects)
    3. Threats (external dangers and vulnerabilities) and
    4. Opportunities (openings and potential prospects)
  4. UH and Sector Growth. No institution can be everything for everyone.
    1. At the moment, what current UH programs best support the sectors you think will grow?
    2. What specifically do you think UH should be doing in the next decade to help grow the sectors that have the highest potential to strengthen?
  5. Workforce Recruitment. What current sectors and industries are having a hard time recruiting people with the right skills? (Give us as many specifics as possible.)
  6. The System. UH encompasses ten different campuses. Which campuses and which programs seem to be highest performing in terms of matching up with the current and projected economic needs of the community
  7. Gauging Success. If UH is wildly successful in helping turbocharge some of the state’s economy over the next decade, what would that look like? What indicators or measures should UH use to monitor itself?
  8. Other Parts of the UH Mission (see mission statement below). UH has a number of important aspects to its overall mission, not just helping the economy.
    1. How good a job does UH do to develop good Hawaiʻi citizens? What can it do better in the coming decade?
    2. How good a job does UH do to support the state’s sustainability efforts? What can it do better in the coming decade?
    3. How good a job does UH do to support indigenous populations? What can it do better in the coming decade?
  9. Other People. Who else would it be most important for us to talk with and why do you suggest them?
  10. Other. Any further thoughts or ideas we should consider?

UH System Mission

“The primary mission of the university is to provide environments in which faculty, staff and students can discover, examine critically, preserve and transmit the knowledge, wisdom, and values that will help ensure the survival of present and future generations with improvement in the quality of life.

In carrying out that mission, it is the basic purpose of the university to,

  1. afford all qualified people of Hawaiian equal opportunity for quality college and university education
  2. support the participation of Native Hawaiians at the university and support vigorous programs of study and support for the Hawaiian language, history, and culture
  3. to serve as a global leader and model for the integration of sustainability throughout its teaching, research, operations, and public service”

ATTACHMENT-4 Entrepreneurial Town-Gown Bridge Builders and Crosserss

In no particular order, here are names that surfaced during the interviews. While there are many more on each campus, each of these individuals was named by someone who knew them or had experience their work.

  1. Carl Bonham, UHERO
  2. Chip Fletcher, SOEST
  3. Denise Antolini, Richardson Law School
  4. Brennon Morioka, Engineering
  5. Kamuela Enos, Office of Indigenous Innovation
  6. Larry Nitz, Political Science
  7. Albie Miles, Agriculture
  8. Jim Pietsch, Richardson Law School
  9. Maenette Benham, West Oʻahu
  10. Doug Simons, Canada France Telescope
  11. Colin Moore, Policy Institute
  12. Mākena Coffman, Institute for Sustainability
  13. Chris Lee, Academy of Creative Media
  14. Maxine Burkett, Richardson Law School
  15. Rosie Delgado
  16. Kiana Frank, Pacific Biosciences
  17. Cathy Ikeda, West Oʻahu
  18. Robert Perkinson, American Studies
  19. Kim Burnett, UHERO
  20. Tom Giambalucca, Water Resources Center
  21. Jill Omori, JABSOM
  22. Josh Uyehara (bridge crosser back to UH from the community)
  23. Jack Souderhouse (ret), Shidler
  24. Kalbert Young, UH-CFO
  25. Noelle Tagab-Cruz, Life Sciences
  26. Jason Lee, Lava Lab
  27. Melody McKenzie, Richardson Law
  28. Susan Chandler, Social Work (ret)
  29. Jon Magnussen, Music
  30. Mehana Vaughn
  31. Dick Soma, Kauaʻi CC
  32. Richard Stevens, HCC
  33. Aimee Grace, UHealthy
  34. Drew Kapp, UHH and HawCC
  35. Chris Lepczk, Conservation Biology (now at Auburn)
  36. Kaiwipuni Punihei Lipe, Institute for Hawaiian Language Research and Translation
  37. Ned Schultz, Asia-Pacific and Korean Studies (ret)
  38. Jon Osorio, Hawaiian Studies
  39. Eric Yamamoto, Richardson Law
  40. Gerald Demello, UH Hilo administration (ret)
  41. David Duffy, Botany and Pacific Cooperative Studies
  42. Kanesa Seraphin, Voice of the Sea
  43. Randy Roth, Richardson Law School (ret)
  44. Karl Kim, Disaster Management
  45. Amy Agbayani (ret)
  46. Rick Trumillios, Ethnomusicology (ret)
  47. Meda Lind, Criminology
  48. Lucy Gay, WCC
  49. Malia Rivera, HIMS scientist
  50. Dave Krupp, WCC
  51. Kimo Franklin, 13th Year Program
  52. Jon Masuoka, Social Work
  53. Tammy Chun, VP Community Colleges
  54. Steve Schatz, P-20 Partnerships
  55. Ardis Eschenberg, WCC

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