Professional

  • Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu
  • Business consultant
  • Founder and Chairman of the Fund for the Pacific Century/Pacific Century Fellows program
  • Member of U.S. Secretary of Labor’s Advisory Committee on Apprenticeship and President's Council on the 21st Century Workforce (Bush administration)
  • Honolulu City Councilman and former Council Chairman
  • U.S. Representative to the South Pacific Commission (Clinton administration)
  • Director, Hawai‘i Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism (Waihee Administration)
  • Director, Hawai‘i Office of International Relations (Waihee Administration)
  • Vice President for Corporate Marketing and Public Affairs and President and General Manager of Punalu‘u Sweetbread Shop/Visitor Center and C. Brewer
  • Hawaiian Juices for C. Brewer & Company
  • White House Fellow to Vice President George H.W. Bush (Reagan Administration)
  • Special Assistant to Governor George R. Ariyoshi
  • Special Assistant in the U.S. Department of the Interior (Carter Administration)
  • History teacher and varsity basketball coach, ‘Iolani School