• Mona Bernardino • Laurie Goodwin • Dow AgroSciences • Kymry Perez Mona Bernardino Hi‘ilei Aloha LLC, an entity launched in 2007 by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, announced that it has named Mona Bernardino as its new executive director.
• Mona Bernardino
• Laurie Goodwin
• Dow AgroSciences
• Kymry Perez
Mona Bernardino
Hi‘ilei Aloha LLC, an entity launched in 2007 by the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, announced that it has named Mona Bernardino as its new executive director.
Hi‘ilei Aloha was created to assist individuals and organizations dedicated to studying, preserving, protecting, enhancing, developing and promoting of Hawaiian historical, archaeological, environmental, cultural, spiritual and religious values, customs, practices, resources and sites. Hi‘ipaka, which stewards Waimea Valley, and Hi‘ipoi, which operates Makaweli Poi Factory, are the first two ventures established under Hi‘ilei Aloha.
Bernardino will be responsible for expanding the numbers of start up ventures that Hi‘ilei Aloha incubates, as well as continuing to oversee the protection and preservation efforts of Waimea Valley and Makaweli Poi.
Bernardino joined OHA in 2003, and has served a variety of roles, most recently as deputy administrator, where she oversaw the organization’s health, education, housing, human services and grants areas. Prior to OHA, Bernardino was a litigation attorney with Legal Services for Children where she managed the nonprofit law office that served 40,000 people, mostly Native Hawaiians. Prior to that role, she was in private practice as a civil litigator where she specialized in Native Hawaiian issues.
Bernardino attended Kamehameha Schools and received her bachelor’s degree in religion from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa and her juris doctorate from the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa William S. Richardson School of Law.
Laurie Goodwin
Syngenta Hawaii LLC announces Laurie Goodwin as its Hawaii outreach manager. Goodwin will focus on cultivating and supporting business, community and government relations through outreach and education representing both of Syngenta’s facilities on Oahu and Kaua‘i.
Goodwin joined Syngenta in 2004 starting with the company’s Ontario, Canada operation, where she served as a market development agronomist, communicating the benefits of hybrid corn to potential dealers and customers. She has been in the seed and agriculture industry over the past 10 years, including positions with Agri-West Corporation and Garst Seed Company, both in Ontario.
Goodwin holds a B.S. in agronomy from the University of Guelph In Ontario and has been an accredited member of the Certified Crop Advisor group for over eight years. She currently serves as chairperson of the Hawai‘i Crop Improvement Association’s Outreach Committee, and is a member of the Kaua‘i Economic Development Board Food and Agriculture Committee, Kaua‘i Farm Bureau Outreach Committee and the Agricultural Leadership Program, which works to contribute to a better future for Hawai‘i’s agricultural sector and rural communities.
Syngenta has a long history in Hawai‘i, beginning more than 40 years ago with operations in Waimea, Kaua‘i which offers a winter growing season for plant breeders.
Dow AgroSciences
Dow AgroSciences, LLC announced the dynamic leadership team of its newly opened seed corn facility on the Westside of Kaua‘i tasked with production of foundation seeds for development of new hybrids and technologies globally. The Kaua‘i operation officially signed a multi-year lease agreement with landowner Gay & Robinson in April 2009.
Tom Scagnoli has been named the new site operations leader for the Dow AgroSciences Kaua‘i operation. With eight years in the seed corn industry working in Michigan, Iowa and Hawai‘i, he will be in charge of overall management and leadership for field and plant operations. Previously, he was the parent seed site manager for Monsanto Company in Hawai‘i. He holds a bachelor’s degree in agricultural systems management with a minor in agricultural business management from Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.
Newly appointed Farm Manager Robin Robinson comes to Dow AgroSciences with more than 25 years of experience in the agricultural industry. Most recently he was the research and agronomy superintendent for Gay & Robinson. Robinson will be overseeing daily operations of the farm, including agronomic and equipment management, oversight of planting and harvest, irrigation system development and site resourcing. He holds an associate degree in forestry from Central Oregon Community College in Bend, Ore.
Randy Yokoyama comes to Dow AgroSciences with more than 15 years of experience holding multiple positions as operations lead, station manager and research associate with the seed industry. For Dow AgroSciences he will be serving as the field coordinator responsible for management of parent seed crops and timely delivery of seed supplies to customers globally. Yokoyama currently serves on the board of directors as treasurer of the Kaua‘i Farm Bureau and is also a member and former board member for the Hawai‘i Crop Improvement Association. He holds a bachelor’s degree in landscape horticulture from Rutgers in New Brunswick, N.J.
Plant Coordinator Keith Horton will be leading the Kaua‘i farm in management and oversight of the production plant facilities. The North Carolina State University zoology graduate has been involved in the seed industry since 1997 as a nursery manager, research scientist and research associate for a diversity of corn companies.
Leading the research and development sector of the Kaua‘i operations will be Jennifer Scagnoli. Over the last decade, she has held positions with Monsanto Company and Holden’s Foundation Seeds as a seed technician, research assistant and operations supervisor. As field research biologist III, Scagnoli will be responsible for a diversity of research projects encompassing marker assisted breeding, trait introgression and conventional winter nursery activities. Scagnoli is a graduate of Hamilton College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Kymry Perez
These are challenging times for all businesses, but in a time when property values have dropped and home loans can be hard to come by, Kymry Perez, (RA), ABR, GRI, e-Pro, a Realtor with Sleeping Giant Sotheby’s International Realty, is being innovative and forming strategic partnerships to ensure that her clients maximize every dollar of their investment, a news release states.
One such partnership is with an entity that has little to do with real estate, but that will help her clients fly, literally.
To take advantage of Perez’s HawaiianMiles program, buyers and sellers need to enter into a Listing Agreement or Buyer’s Representative Agreement with Perez between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31.
For more details about her HawaiianMiles partnership and offer, visit her HawaiianMiles site at www.partners.hawaiianairlines.com.
