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Ms.
Yuka Nagashima, President & CEO
Founding member of LavaNet and President since 1998,
Yuka is responsible for business planning, project
management, purchasing, public relations and HR.
Past experience includes
network design, teaching at Punahou School Board
member of BBB of Hawaii, Hawaii Women's Business
Center; advisor to Pacific Center for Advanced Technology
Training & ThinkTechHawaii
Mr. Baron
Fujimoto, Secretary & Programmer
Founding member of LavaNet, in charge of system
administration, sales and technical support, LavaNet
corporate secretary.
Past experience includes
system administration, designing and implementing
the security measures for the Univ. of Hawaii UNIX
network.
Mr. Pali
T.W. Ka'aihue, Treasurer
Treasurer, Accounting Manager in charge of payroll,
accounts payable, contract negotiation, & business
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Mr. Clifton
Royston, Director, CTO, Board Chair
LavaNet's original President, Clifton Royston has been using the Internet and Usenet
since 1990. He co-founded LavaNet with his partners in 1994, to bring quality public
Internet access to Hawaii. In 1998 he became LavaNet's Senior Systems Architect. In
2003 he co-founded Tiki Technologies to develop new spam and virus filtering
software, as its Chief Technical Officer.
Before founding LavaNet, Clifton Royston had programmed and worked with
computers professionally for over 18 years. For 11 years, he worked for VeriFone,
Hawaii's high-tech success story. As employee #25, he was there when VeriFone
was a small start-up quadrupling in size each year, becoming the world leader in
transaction terminals, with over 1800 employees. He has also served as LavaNet's
Systems Architect. He has a B.S. in Mathematics from the U. of Chicago, and over 25
years of practical experience in computer software. His accomplishments include the
development of real-time firmware, computer languages, and C compiler suites for
VeriFone, where he co-authored a software patent for downloadable programming
languages (US Patent #4,724,521). He was invited to speak as a panelist at the 2004
Spam Forum organized by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), representing
independent regional ISPs. Clifton's expertise also includes technical project
management, business planning and technical writing. He left the LavaNet and Tiki
Technologies in 2005 to start I and I Consulting, specializing in custom programming,
network design and network consulting.
Mr. Baron Fujimoto, Director
Baron Fujimoto worked with LavaNet from 1994 to
2005. He started as a system administrator and
technical support specialist, often attending
to LavaNet's sales needs as well. In 1998 he
was named the corporate secretary in addition
to being elected as a director. He established
himself as a leader in email and security solutions.
As LavaNet’s Systems Department
Manager, Baron was instrumental in the design and
administration of LavaNet's network and services.
From 2003 - 2005, Baron was part of the design
and programming team of Tiki Technologies.
Before LavaNet, Baron spent over 2 years as a system
administrator at the University of Hawaii at Manoa
working on the upgrade, design and implementation
of the UH UNIX network security measures in 1994.
Baron helped with the original deployment of UH's
Access For All (AFA) program, which opened up Internet
access to all of UH's students, faculty, and staff.
Baron graduated from the University of Hawaii at
Manoa in 1994 with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering,
specializing in computers and data communications.
Ms. Kit
Grant, Director
Kit is a creative director and executive manager
with over 18 years of experience. Kit joined
the founders of LavaNet in 1995 as Manager of
Sales & Marketing. She
was named Vice President of LavaNet in 1998.
She simultaneously served as VP of Tiki Technologies
from 2003 to 2005. She left LavaNet and Tiki
in 2005. A member of the American Marketing Association
and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Kit was
named one of the "Hawaii's
50 High Tech Leaders" in
2003 by Pacific News Net. She holds a B.A. in
Liberal Studies from the University of Hawaii
at Manoa. Kit's other
volunteer work includes the board of the Broadcast Communications Authority
(budget & charter committees) at UH Manoa, and the board and executive committee
of the American Civil Liberties Union of Hawaii.
Mr. Paul
Lemcke, Director
Paul Lemcke is Director of Support Services at
the University of Hawaii Federal Credit Union. He served for 13 years
with City Bank where he held a variety of management and lending positions.
Beginning in 2000, he was recognized in three successive years with the
Small Business Administration's
Gold Award for Lender of the Year. Paul has taught
continuing education courses for bankers and has been an occasional guest
lecturer at both UH and HPU. His background also includes years working
in accounting, scientific research and public school teaching. Besides
serving on the boards of LavaNet and Tiki Technologies, he is also Treasurer
on the board of the Honolulu Symphony and Treasurer for Chamber Music
Hawaii. Paul enjoys running, swimming, cycling, golf and foreign movies.
Mr. Glenn Yamashita, Director
Glenn currently is Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Secretary and Treasurer
for Broadband iTV, Inc., a Hawaii-based interactive television service and applications
provider. Glenn has a total of over 18 years of finance and operations experience
primarily in the telecommunications and Internet infrastructure industries. Most
recently, Glenn served as Director of Financial Planning and Analysis for Pihana
Pacific Inc., which successfully raised over $220 million of private equity
in 2000 and 2001. Previously, Glenn was AVP of Operations for Sprint Hawaii
and managed an organization of over 500 individuals with responsibilities including
IT, network engineering, customer service, call center service, billing and order
management. He served as Director of Finance for this $250 million (annual gross
revenue) division of Sprint Corp. Glenn has an MBA from Northwestern University's
Kellogg Graduate School of Management with majors in marketing, finance and management
strategy and a BBA in finance and accounting from the University of Hawaii. |
