David Cole
Mr. David Cole has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Maui Land & Pineapple Company, Inc. since October 2003 and as Chairman of the Board since March 2004. Since 1997, Mr. Cole has 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 Lihue, Kauai, a position he has held since February 2005. Mr. Haruki 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 Hawaii.

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 Hawaii, 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. 

 
Vinod Khosla
Vinod Khosla is a prominent and influential venture capitalist. Formerly, he served as a general partner of KPCB funds. There, he took on Intel's monopoly with Nexgen/AMD, He incubated the idea and business plan for Juniper, which took on Cisco's dominance of the router market, and launched many other ventures. In 2004, Khosla, driven by the need to take on both "for profit" and "for social impact" ventures, formed khoslaventures, funded entirely with family funds. His goals remain the same - work and learn from fun and knowledgeable entrepreneurs, build impactful companies through the leverage of innovation, and spend time making a difference. He has a passion for nascent technologies that can have a beneficial effect and economic impact on society.

Khosla is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992 that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries. He is also a Founding Board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is social entrepreneurship with a special emphasis on microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. He has been experimenting with global housing. Vinod is also passionate about alternative energy, petroleum independence, and the environment. 

  
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

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