The Hawaii Pacific Energy Group Core Team

The Hawaii Pacific Energy Group HPEG is committed to providing the best possible services, engineering and renewable energy technologies to its clients and the communities in which we work and live. To meet its mandate of implementing sustainable and socially responsible projects, the company also has retained a core team of consisting of professional (licensed) engineers, biofuel experts, legal expert, developer and experts in project implementation and management in biofuels and SAF, solar energy, wind energy, hydro-electricity, waste-to-energy technologies, in rural development, capacity building, institutional strengthening, and social development, and economists.

As the former founder, developer, and Chairman and CEO of the Australian Biodiesel Group, which became Australia’s largest publicly listed biodiesel company in 2005, George has over 15 years of experience with Pongamia (Millettia pinnata) tree seed oil projects ranging from the gas fields of Roma, Australia to Paraguay in South America. George has over 40 years of experience in business, having developed, owned and managed multi-million dollar businesses involving a diverse range of enterprises. These enterprises include: broad-acre agriculture, grazing, feed lotting, feed milling, transport, alternative fuel industry, earthmoving, property development, consultancy, and project funding. George has had a long-term interest in renewable energy enterprises, which led to his prime role as a founder of the Australian Biodiesel Group Ltd, until its public listing in December 2005.

While developing the biodiesel manufacturing plant, it became apparent that access to feedstock in consistent quantities and at reasonable prices was the key to making Pongamia seed oil a biofuel feedstock mainstay, particularly for producing sustainable aviation fuel. After leaving ABG, George pursued his interest in Pongamia full-time and became dedicated to the creation of an economically and environmentally viable alternative to fossil fuels through the use of Pongamia pinnata seed-derived oil. The development of the tree's seed oil has now reached the stage where an economically and environmentally sound model has been achieved.

Roland is our waste-to-energy development engineer with respect to the EnvirOcycler technology.

Roland is a professional engineer with over 40 years experience and has advanced many clean energy demonstration projects from conception to implementation and monitoring. Since 1999 his professional experience has focused mainly on climate change mitigation technology dissemination, evaluation of clean energy technologies such as waste-to-energy, biomass energy, hydroelectric, wind, solar power, energy-efficient practices and technologies, energy-efficient transportation, environmental assessments, estimation of GHG emissions and reductions, carbon credits, Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects, and the formulation and implementation of climate change investment projects

He previously served as Manager of Project Development for Access Energy Technologies (AET), the developer of the EnvirOcycler waste-to-energy technology. Currently, he is the president of Clean Energy Alternatives Inc., whose primary focus is on promoting and easing the transfer of alternative energy technologies.

Mr. Pillay is a professional engineer with a number of projects in renewable energy and infrastructure for the shipping industry. Panj is the Chief Executive Officer of Meridien Utilities SDN BHD, Malaysia, which under his direction and financing has completed the construction of two 100 million BTU EnvirOcycler GTO waste-to-energy units in late 2009 and which are currently in operation in Malaysia at a palm oil plantation near Kuala Lumpur. As AET's preferred EPC contractor for constructing EnvirOcycler projects, he provides oversight in the engineering, procurement and construction of the waste-to-energy projects.

Gerald Sumida is a partner in Carlsmith Ball LLP's Honolulu office and is a member of the firm's Business, Corporate & Finance practice group. He concentrates on business structuring and operations, including corporate, limited liability company, joint venture and partnership matters, start-up company and venture capital financing, administrative and public utilities law, energy law, including energy project development and project financing, federal, state and county legislative and administrative matters, and international legal matters.

Mr. Sumida served from October 1999 to December 2002 as the General Counsel of the Asian Development Bank (ADB), a multilateral development bank established in 1966 to promote the economic and social development of the Asian and Pacific Region, based in Manila, Philippines. At the ADB, he led a group of 28 international lawyers, drawn from 25 countries, who handle the ADB's international legal, financing, lending, borrowing, investment and development work, as well as the ADB's institutional matters, and undertake their own law and policy reform projects in various countries, and he advised the ADB's senior management and board of directors. His expertise includes transactions arising from the energy industry.

Mr. Wong, with a Bachelor degree in Economics, is a senior legal expert who concentrates on relevant real estate acquisitions, sales, financing and development, business transaction consultation, and related areas required for HPEG's projects. He has participated in transactions involving the acquisition, financing, development, operation and/or sale of resort hotels, golf courses, commercial office buildings, shopping centers, residential condominium projects, vacant land, and ongoing business concerns. His clients include real estate companies, resort hotel owners, developers, and financial institutions, such as Hawaii DeBartolo LLC, Savio Growth Venture LLC and Queen Emma Land Company. Recent transactions in which Mr. Wong has participated include the purchase of the Pa‘ia Mill, the sale of the Ka‘anapali Beach Hotel and The Plantation Inn, the purchase of Dillingham Ranch, the sale of the Honolulu Club Building, the development of the Ka Makana Ali‘i Regional Shopping Center, and the ground lease re-development of the Ohia Waikiki Studio Suites, International Market Place, and the Waikiki Trade Center.

Peter is the President & CEO of the Savio Group of Companies, including the Hawaiian Island Homes Ltd. and the Hawaiian Island Development Co., Inc. Peter has more than 40 years of experience in real estate development and sales in the Hawaii market. He was born in Hilo, Hawaii and raised in Honolulu. Peter received his BA in Business Administration with a major in real estate from the University of Hawaii, and has been a licensed broker since 1973. Starting in 1980, Peter founded Savio Realty Ltd. and subsequently its affiliated group of companies. Peter has a good understanding of real estate and the Hawaii market in particular. Peter will assist HPEG as a consultant to realize the maximum return on real estate investments required for establishing alternative energy projects, particularly the Pongamia seed oil-to-biofuel projects.