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MentorsHiBEAM's all-volunteer board of directors and member-mentors are outstanding professionals with expertise in assisting startup companies. Click on any of the following names for a brief description and biography, or scroll down for a complete listing.
Board of Directors
William K. Richardson, DragonBridge Capital - Chairman Member-Mentors
Piia Aarma, Pineapple Tweed Advisory Board
Dr. George Herzlinger HiBEAM StaffBee Leng Chua, Executive Director, HiBEAM
Biographies (Alphabetical by Last Name)PIIA AARMA has been involved in communications for almost 20 years. Her experience includes corporate communications, marketing, Internet site development, national-level lobbying, newspaper reporting and editing, magazine writing and on-line communications. She has broad industry and functional expertise, with specialties in image and positioning, media relations, issues management, and crisis management. Since 1997, Ms. Aarma has headed her own communications consulting firm, Pineapple Tweed (www.pineappletweed.com). Ms. Aarma previously led corporate communications for the Bank of Hawaii, including its Pacific, Asia and U.S. Mainland locations. In this role, she developed strategic integrated communications plans to position the company, its executives and staff as industry and community leaders; developed and led crisis communications strategy and implementation; and developed the Bank's website and the beginnings of a long-term strategic plan for Internet communications and commerce. Before coming to Hawaii, Ms. Aarma was a lobbyist with the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), a macroeconomic lobbying association, in Washington, DC. At NAM she held positions as senior associate director and associate director for media relations. Ms. Aarma is a member of the board of directors for La Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls, Atherton YMCA, Mediation Center of the Pacific, and Hawaii Society of Corporate Planners. She is vice chair of the Hawaii/Pacific Export Council and is a member of the Rotary Club of Honolulu and chair of its public relations and scholarship committees. A former president of the board of directors for DASH (Drug Addiction Services of Hawaii), Ms. Aarma was also a founder and former trustee of Malama Na Keiki Foundation and served on the Advisory Council of the Hawaii Youth Mentoring Initiative. T. HALE BOGGS is a partner with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP. He founded the Palo Alto office in 1998 and works principally out of the firm's San Francisco office, which he helped to establish in 2007. Mr. Boggs chairs the firm's nationwide Business Development Committee and serves on the Compensation Committee and Executive Committee. Mr. Boggs' practice focuses on corporate and securities matters, including venture capital transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, public and private securities offerings, and joint ventures. Mr. Boggs' expertise includes venture capital and other equity and debt financings, equity compensation matters, SEC reporting and disclosure, intellectual property licensing, complex corporate partnering transactions and corporate governance. He also represents venture capital firms in fund formation and counseling matters. He frequently assists clients in structuring creative arrangements to acquire, develop, protect and distribute technologies and products both domestically and internationally. Mr. Boggs also represents a wide variety of financial institutions and financial services companies, including commercial banks and bank holding companies, and consumer and commercial finance companies. RUSSEL CHENG is a career entrepreneur with diverse international experiences. His latest venture is a consultancy designed to help businesses foster new ideas, develop products, acquire customers and generate revenue. Upon his return to Honolulu, he was an entrepreneur in Oceanit helping commercialize nanotechnology, wind energy and mobile applications developed within the Hawaii-based science and engineering firm. Prior to Oceanit, he was an Asia regional director for Microsoft based in Tokyo responsible for building the regional consumer marketing team for MSN and regional Branded Entertainment and Experience Team. Prior to Microsoft, Russel was the digital director at Beacon Communications, part of the Leo Burnett network owned by the Publicis Group. In 2006 he was awarded a patent and another patent pending for the game-changing innovations on Japanese mobile phones and handheld computers related to online authentication, identity and age verification. In 2004, he won an international Cannes Gold Lion award for his mobile phone gaming application for P&G Vidal Sassoon. Prior to joining Beacon, Russel was the Singapore-based Managing Director of Organic, an Internet consulting firm based in San Francisco he launched in the Asia region in 1999 and helped with its NASDAQ listing in early 2000. Organic is now part of the Omnicom Group. Prior to Organic, Russel was the co-founder and CEO of XM Asia, a subsidiary of Bates Advertising, now owned by WPP. XM was the first Internet marketing agency in the Asia region, established in Tokyo in early 1995. Born and raised in Hawaii, Russel's primary areas of interest and expertise are in entrepreneurship, startups, fund-raising, web and mobile applications, business development and marketing in US, Japan, China and Asia. He is a volunteer mentor at HiBEAM and an entrepreneur in residence at Punahou Schools, Chaminade University and a virtual entrepreneur in residence University of Hawaii. BEE LENG CHUA, PhD. is the current Executive Director of HiBEAM. Dr. Chua was the first executive director of the Entrepreneurship Center in the College of Business Administration at HPU where she launched the school's first business plan competition and the Stanford Innovation Tournament @ HPU. Prior to working in Hawaii, Chua was the founding director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and also a teaching faculty member. She served on the Advisory and Vetting Committees of the Hong Kong Government's Cyberport IncuTrain Centre (www.cyberport.hk), as a mentor in the Incubation Centre of the Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks and as an assessor with the Small Entrepreneur Research Assistance Programme (SERAP), Innovation and Technology Commission (ITC), in the Hong Kong Government. ERIC CLARK is Director of Corporate Development at Servco Pacific Inc. (www.servco.com). Servco is a privately held company engaged in automotive and consumer product distribution and insurance services, as well as real estate and private equity investment and management. Mr. Clark's responsibilities include managing acquisitions, divestitures, investments, and strategic alliances. Mr. Clark was previously an investment banker in New York City with Bear Stearns, Credit Suisse First Boston and Smith Barney. In addition, Mr. Clark worked at the U.S. Department of State, Merrill Lynch, and Ashoka Innovators for the Public. He is a cum laude graduate of the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and passed the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Officer Written and Oral Examination. ROBERT CLARKE has 40 years of strategic planning, financial expertise and diversified management experience. Mr. Clarke joined Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc (HEI) in 1987 as Vice President of Strategic Planning and was charged with implementing the Company's diversification strategy. He was named HEI Group Vice President - Diversified Companies in May of 1988 and made a director of HEI in 1989. On January 1, 1991, Mr. Clarke became President and Chief Executive Officer of HEI, and in September 1998, was named Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Bob retired from HEI in May 2006. Mr. Clarke has served on a number of boards including the Straub Foundation, The Oceanic Institute, the Center for A Sustainable Future, and the American Judicature Society-Hawaii Chapter. He served also on the board of advisors of Sennet Capital and Hawaii Business Roundtable. Presently, he is a director of Ormat Technologies, a public company in the geothermal industry world wide. DEBRA R. GUERIN BERESINI is a co-founder and Managing Director of International Venture fund (IVF) (www.invencor.com). She has served as CEO of invencor, inc., manager of IVF, since its inception in April 1997. International Venture Fund is her fourth venture fund. Ms. Guerin Beresini specializes in life science companies, including TheraTx (acquired by Vencor), Systemix (acquired by Sandoz), and Napo Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (IPO in 2006, LSE). Ms. Guerin Beresini was on the board of Napo until its recent IPO. She presently sits on the Board of AGIS Network, Inc., San Ramon, CA; Perimeter Labs, Salt Lake City, UT; C3 Medical Technologies, Mill Valley, CA; HiBeam, Honolulu, Hawaii; the Hawaii Venture Capital Association, Honolulu, Hawaii; Carneros Wine Alliance Land Stewardship Program, Napa, CA; and on the Board of Trustees for the Wayne Brown Institute, Salt Lake City, Utah. She graduated summa cum laude from Dominican University and has a certificate in Global Biotechnology from UC Berkeley. Ms. Guerin Beresini speaks at various national conferences on venture capital and technology transfer. GEORGE HERZLINGER graduated from M.I.T. in 1965 and received a Ph.D. in physics from the same institution in 1971. After teaching for a year and spending 8 years in an industrial research laboratory, he founded Belmont Instrument Corporation in 1980. The Company was founded without any outside funding, and initially grew by developing and manufacturing products under contract to large medical device Corporations. During the first 18 years of its existence, the Company designed and manufactured electromechanical medical products used for critical care, primarily intra-aortic balloon pump cardiac assist devices. This type of device assists the failing heart by inflating and deflating a large balloon in the descending aorta synchronously with the heart's own activity. The Company made a number of innovations to the field during this period, including the development of the smallest and lightest balloon pump ever made, which greatly facilitated patient transport within the hospital while maintaining assist, and later the development of the first balloon pump to automate pump operation to clinical conditions, something that had to be done manually, and tediously in the past. The Company later sold this part of the business and used the funds received to develop a family of products which it sold under the Belmont name using a newly developed sales force. These products include the Belmont® Rapid Infuser, a device for massive blood transfusion, the Belmont buddy™ family of warmers for warming transfused blood during routine surgery, and more recently, a device for treating certain types of cancer using infusion/warming technology. Each of these products has both a capital equipment and single-use disposable component. Belmont's products are used in nearly all major hospitals in the US, including 20 of the 21 US News and World Report "honor roll" of best US hospitals. Our rapid infuser was widely used under the most stressful conditions in the war zone in Iraq and Afghanistan by the US Army to treat severely wounded soldiers, civilians, and even enemy combatants. It has also been used to save lives in hospitals throughout the US and elsewhere in the world to prevent people from dying from massive hemorrhage. All of Belmont's products were developed and are made in the USA, at the company's facility in Billerica, MA where it currently employs 50 people. Dr. Herzlinger is married to Regina Herzlinger, a Professor of Business at the Harvard Business School, who is well known for her books and editorials on health economics and health policy. REGINA HERZLINGER is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and the first to serve on a number of corporate boards. She is widely recognized for her innovative research in health care, including her early predictions of the unraveling of managed care and the rise of consumer-driven health care and health care focused factories, two terms that she coined. Dr. Herzlinger has received much recognition for her research and writing in the field of health care. Her books are best sellers. Money has dubbed her the "Godmother" of consumer-driven health care. She was profiled by BusinessWeek in "If Health Care Were Run Like Retail". Her book, Who Killed Health Care? (NY: McGraw-Hill, 2007), was selected by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as one of the ten books that changed the debate in 2008. Noted Merrill Matthews; "There are two powerful, well-respected and highly accomplished women who are driving the health care reform debate in the United States. One is Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose first attempt at dramatically reforming the U.S. health care system turned into a political disaster. The other is Harvard Business School economist Regina Herzlinger, one of the country's most knowledgeable and articulate experts on the U.S. health care system, who has been pointing the way toward a "consumer-driven" system for years." Her prior book, Consumer-Driven Health Care: Implications for Providers, Payers, and Policymakers (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass 2004) received the 2004 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year award for History and Public Policy. Earlier research results were profiled by The Wall Street Journal (November 2002) and Managed Health Care Executive (June 2003, cover) Her July 2002 Harvard Business Review articles, "Let's Put Consumers in Charge of Health Care," was an Amazon eBooks best seller. She has won the Consumers' for Health Care Choices Pioneer in Health Economics award, the American College of Healthcare Executives' Hamilton Book of the Year award twice, the Healthcare Financial Management Association's Board f Directors award, and Management College of Physician Executive. Modern Healthcare's readers regularly selected her among the "100 Most Powerful People in Healthcare" and Managed Healthcare named her one of health care's top ten thinkers. In recognition of her work in nonprofit accounting and control, she was named the first Chartered Institute of Management Accountants Visiting Professor at the University of Edinburgh. Professor Herzlinger has served on the Scientific Advisory Group to the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force and as a board member of many private and publicly-traded firms, mostly in the consumer-driven health care space, often as chair of the Governance and Audit subcommittees. Regina Herzlinger received her Bachelor's Degree from MIT and her Doctorate from the Harvard Business School. GREGORY KIM is a partner with Virtual Law Partners LLP, which is a virtual law firm based in Silicon Valley. Greg practices in the areas of corporate and securities laws, mergers & acquisitions, venture capital, joint ventures and licensing. His clients include companies ranging from startup companies, to emerging companies to mature companies, joint ventures and investors. Greg received a BS in engineering and applied sciences from Yale University in 1979 and earned his JD/MBA at the U.C. Berkeley, in 1983. After a one year judicial clerkship on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Honorable Herbert Y.C. Choy, Greg began his private practice in 1984 as a corporate lawyer at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro, San Francisco, then returned to Hawaii in 1988, continuing his corporate practice at Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, Honolulu, where he was named partner in 1991. In October 2004, Greg founded Vantage Counsel LLC, one of the country's first virtual law firms, to build and establish the virtual model, before joining Virtual Law Partners in January 2009 to continue the building process on a national basis. Greg is a founding board member of HiBEAM, an accelerator program for emerging technology companies, and served as a founding director of the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawaii. Greg serves on the advisory boards of the University of Hawaii Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship (PACE) and Chaminade University, and has been an Adjunct Professor in entrepreneurship and business at the University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law and the Chaminade University Hogan School of Business. Greg also serves as an entrepreneur in residence at Punahou School, the University of Hawaii Shidler School of Business, and Chaminade University. Greg served as the Chair of the Business Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association, and is the principal draftsperson of the Hawaii Business Corporation Act. Greg is recognized as a leading corporate attorney by Best Lawyers of America and Chambers USA. ANTON KRUCKY brings to Tissue Genesis decades of management that include product development, marketing, and sales experience in a global company, IBM. Prior to leaving IBM, he held several senior management positions including General Manager of Operations for IBM in the Pacific. Mr. Krucky has consulted to and invested in small and emerging technology businesses, and has personally owned several small businesses. He serves on the Boards of major corporations in the State of Hawaii that include Servco Pacific, in addition to key non-profit medical and healthcare Boards that include the University of Hawaii's John A. Burns School of Medicine and the Pacific Health Research Institute. Mr. Krucky supports numerous community organizations and is an established business leader in Hawaii, bringing valuable contacts and relationships to TGI. GREGG NASKY is a transactional, securities and corporate law partner with Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel (www.goodsill.com). His extensive professional background includes numerous domestic and international development projects. He served as a director of a New York Stock Exchange company for fifteen years and as one of the founding directors of an Australian Stock Exchange company. He received his J.D. from the University of Notre Dame and is licensed to practice in Hawaii, Nevada and Pennsylvania [inactive], as well as before Federal courts in Hawaii and Nevada. RACHEL OGDIE is a consultant and lawyer, holding bar licenses in California, Hawaii, and Oregon. She is a former HiBEAM Executive Director. Ms. Ogdie's background also includes teaching as an adjunct professor at the Williams S. Richardson School of Law, co-founding Netcorps (www.netcorps.org) in 1995, and working as COO of an ASP in San Francisco. She currently volunteers her time as Treasurer of the Hawaii Arts Alliance. MICHAEL J. O'MALLEY is a Tax Attorney at Goodsill, Anderson, Quinn and Stifel (www.goodsill.com). He graduated from Claremont-McKenna College (summa cum laude) and Harvard Law School, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal on Legislation. Mr. O'Malley represents a broad spectrum of individuals, businesses, companies, nonprofit and health care organizations in federal and state corporate, securities and tax matters, with emphasis on business, corporate, partnership and real estate transactions and activities. Mr. O'Malley is admitted to practice in the States of Hawaii and New York (Southern District of New York) and before the U.S. Tax Court and U.S. Claims Court. He is a member of the Hawaii State Bar Association (Tax - past Chair - and Business Law Sections), American Bar Association (Tax Section, Committee on Real Estate Tax Problems; Business Law Section; and Health Law Section). He is the Hawaii chapter author for the ABA Sales and Use Tax Deskbook. He is on the Board of Trustees (Chair) of Kapi`olani Health Foundation and Historic Hawaii Foundation (President), and the Board of Directors of the Tax Foundation of Hawaii (President), Hawaii Dental Service (Vice-Chair), and Jas. Glover Holding Company, Ltd. He is currently serving as HiBEAM's Secretary and Treasurer. Dr. ELLIOT PARKS is President and CEO of Hawaii Biotech Inc. He has over twenty-five years in biomedical research, product development, executive management, and international venture capital experience to the company. During that time he has had extensive experience in successfully and repeatedly translating important basic research science into commercial products. He was the founding CEO of Myelos Neurosciences a venture-backed, clinical stage biologics company sold to Savient, a NASDAQ listed firm. Prior to Myelos, Dr. Parks was the Director of the Johnson & Johnson Biotechnology Center for ten years, where he was responsible for guiding several biomedical products through clinical trials and regulatory approval. Following receipt of his Ph.D. in Microbiology and Immunology at the University of Washington in Seattle, Dr. Parks assumed research and leadership positions at the Scripps Research Institute during his twelve year tenure there. He also served under the Surgeon General of the Army at Letterman Army Institute of Research in the Presidio in San Francisco. WILLIAM K. RICHARDSON was born and raised in Hawaii having attended University of California, Santa Barbara and Duke Law Schools. Mr. Richardson is the founder (1994) and general partner of HMS Hawaii Management, the General Partner of HMS Investments, HMS Hawaii II, and HMS Hawaii III. He is currently raising his 4th venture capital fund to be called Manoa Venture Partners ("MVP"). His current partners include Leigh-Ann Miyasato, former Executive Director of HiBEAM, and Patrick Sullivan, CEO of Oceanit. Prior to founding HMS Hawaii Management, Mr. Richardson was a Hawaii attorney specializing in commercial law and finance. He also worked nine years in various sales and marketing capacities for Wang Laboratories. He has held the following positions: Chairman of Pacific DirectConnect, a WiFi integration company; Chairman of Kona Bay Marine Resources, a marine biotech company; and Chairman of Hawaii Biotech, a bio-therapeutic company. He was formerly on the Boards of Wireless (now interWAVE Communications International) and HealthScape (now VirtualSeller.com), and a board visitor to Digital Island. He was an active investor/mentor in Hoku Scientific, a fuel cell company; Firetide, a WiFi equipment builder; and Hoana Medical, a medical device company. Mr. Richardson was the founding co-chair of University Connections, and a founder and Chair of HiBEAM. His community connections include six years as a trustee of the University of Hawaii Foundation, five years on the Board of the National Kidney Foundation, and current board member of the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business and the Entrepreneurs Foundation of Hawaii. Mr. Richardson currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Trust for Public Lands. GLEN R. VAN LIGTEN is a member of the Corporate and Securities practice group which advises emerging companies and venture capital firms. Glen represents companies at all stages of the corporate life-cycle, from pre-incorporation planning to venture capital financings to mergers and acquisitions. Glen specializes in a wide range of corporate, securities and partnership law, primarily focusing on the formation and financing of emerging growth companies and the representation of venture capital funds in their investments, and also works with investment banks involved in public and private stock offerings. Van Ligten earned his J.D., cum laude, from Hastings College of Law at the University of California and his B.S. from the University of California at Davis. Before joining Gunderson Dettmer Glen was a partner at Orrick and Director at Venture Law Group. BARRY WEINMAN has been making venture capital investments in Silicon Valley since 1980. He is a Managing Director and co-founder of Allegis Capital, a Palo Alto based venture fund with over $700 million under management. He has extensive operational experience in the areas of manufacturing and marketing in Silicon Valley high technology companies, including Fairchild Semiconductor and IBM. Mr. Weinman has participated in and led many investments in companies that had successful IPOs or M&A events including: Palm (NASDAQ), Cypress Semiconductor (NYSE), Caere (NASDAQ), Cadnetix (NASDAQ), Columbia/HCA (NYSE), Women.com (NASDAQ), Medscape (NASDAQ), Liveworld (NASDAQ), InfoGear (CSCO), Be. Inc (NASDAQ), and Quokka (QKKA). Mr. Weinman has a B.S. from Clarkson College of Technology and an M.A. from the University of Southern California/London School of Economics. He was an air controller and operations officer on USS Radford a Pearl Harbor based destroyer and spent three years as a speech writer and briefing officer for Admiral John McCain, the Commander of the U.S. Naval Forces Europe and David Bruce, U.S. Ambassador to London. From 1989 to 1995, he was a lecturer on entrepreneurship at the USC Business School. Barry currently serves on the boards of LiveWorld ( NASDAQ: LVWD) and a number of private companies, including Hoana Medical in Hawaii. He is Chairman of the Board Trustees of the University of Hawaii Foundation (Endowment) and was the Chair of the University of Hawaii Centennial Campaign which raised $336 Million against a goal of $250 Million. He is on UH President's Council on Innovation. D. KIRK B. WESTBROOK is a co-founder and Managing Director of IVF and is President of invencor, inc. (www.internationalventure.com). Mr. Westbrook has been involved with finance for approximately 15 years. In 1989, he accepted a position with Silicon Valley Bank and subsequently worked in all of the lending areas of the Bank. He also managed an extensive portfolio for several years in the Bank's workout group. In April 1997, Mr. Westbrook departed his Vice President post at Silicon Valley Bank's National Division, then one of the fastest growing divisions within the Bank, to form invencor, inc. He has held board seats on several of IVF's portfolio companies. In addition, he has been involved with venture conferences in the states of Arizona, Hawaii, Illinois, Texas, and Utah. HANK WUH is a surgeon, inventor, and entrepreneur, Dr. Hank C. K. Wuh has led the development of over twenty biomedical and consumer healthcare products from concept to the global market. Dr. Wuh is founder of Cellular Bioengineering Inc., (www.cellularbioengineering.com) focused on developing a bioengineered cornea for transplantation to restore vision for the 10 million people around the world with corneal blindness. Dr. Wuh is also founder and CEO of Skai Technologies, LLC, a venture accelerator transforming novel, ingenious ideas from scientists and physicians at leading universities into companies with disruptive biomedical innovations. (www.trutags.com, www.decongel.com). The company's motto: Invent. Disrupt. Inspire. Dr. Wuh grew up in Hawaii and attended Iolani School. He received his B.A. in Human Biology from the Johns Hopkins University, Masters in Public Health from Harvard, and Medical Doctorate from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Dr. Wuh is a 2010 nominee for The National Medal of Technology and Innovation, and was selected the 2008 Invention Entrepreneur of the Year by the Hawaii Venture Capital Association. At the University of Hawaii, Dr. Wuh is a member of the President's Advisory Council on Innovation and Technology Advancement, Dean's Council at the School of Engineering, and Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery at the School of Medicine. Dr. Wuh recently founded World Children's Vision to bring blind children from around the world to Hawaii for the gift of sight. He is fluent in Chinese Mandarin.
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