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Bob Agres has more than 20 years of community and economic development experience. He <br />served as HACBED's Executive Director from 1992 to 2012. He previously served as Maui <br />County's Director of Housing & Human Concerns, the City & County of Honolulu's Director of <br />Housing & Community Development and Deputy Director for Community Services, and <br />Coordinator for the State CBED Program within the Department of Business, Economic <br />Development, and Tourism. He teaches graduate level courses in community -based planning, <br />community -based economic development, and social policy and planning at the University of <br />Hawai`i's Department of Urban & Regional Planning and was awarded the 2009 Planner Who Made a <br />Difference Award by UH-DURP and the American Planning Association's Hawaii Chapter. He was a <br />former member of the Editorial Board and a founding member of the Board of Directors of The <br />Nonprofit 2uadterly (a national publication); has been honored for nonprofit leadership by the Hawaii <br />Community Foundation, Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation, and Ford Foundation's <br />Leadership for a Changing World (regional finalist); and has an M.S. in Community Economic <br />Development from Southern New Hampshire University. <br />Donavan Kealoha is the Chief Executive Officer of Asio Corporation and is a technology <br />entrepreneur and community organizer. While a graduate student, he co-founded Adama Materials, <br />Inc., a material science company spun out of the University of Hawaii, which raised nearly $5 <br />million to advance its technologies to enhance the performance of composite materials. While <br />leading Adama, Donavan was also president of Lanaians for Sensible Growth, a grassroots <br />community organization focused on advocacy of the community's role in economic development. <br />Most recently, Donavan co-founded Asio Corporation. Donavan is a graduate of the William S. <br />Richardson School of Law and the Shidler College of Business. In 2010, he was recognized as a <br />"Forty under 40" recipient for Pacific Business News. <br />Jason Okuhama (Board President) has worked his entire professional career in the banking, <br />commercial and consumer lending industry spanning the past 41 years. For the past 22 years he has <br />been self-employed and specializes primarily in USDA Rural Development, US Small Business <br />Administration and USDA Farm Service Agency loan programs. Jason has been the Board President <br />of HACBED for the past 22 years. <br />Miwa Tamanaha (Board Nice -President) Miwa has served environmental and economic justice <br />efforts in non-profit, private and public sectors, for over 20 years, including as a Co -Founder and <br />Co -Director of backbone organization KUA (Kua`auaa Ulu `Auamo) and advocacy non-profit <br />Executive Director of KAHEA: The Hawaiian -Environmental Alliance. Miwn holds a joint- <br />B.A./M.A. in Economics from the University of Southern California. Miwa is currently serving in an <br />Impact Residency at Hawaii Investment Ready (HIR), a social impact finance intermediary. There, <br />she serves as HIR's first Artist -in -Residence, working to further the art of community -building at <br />HIR. At HACBED, Miwa hopes to contribute to HACBED's long legacy of supporting community <br />economic self-determination, and the vision of its founders. <br />Marcus Kawatachi (Board Treasurer) has worked almost his entire career at the Hawaii Civil <br />Rights Commission, the agency that enforces the State's antidiscrimination laws in the areas of <br />employment, housing, state services, and public accommodations. He currently serves as the Deputy <br />Executive Director of the Hawaii Civil Rights Commission, providing direct supervision to its Iegal <br />16 <br />