Hawaii Pacific Energy Group Management

The Hawaii Pacific Energy Group 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 this end, the Company has retained a management board of officers and directors who collectively have many decades of experience in corporate management and direction, project management and professional engineering, construction management and finance.

Mr. Lim has a background in electrical generator delivery systems, project management, and marketing and development. He has spent the last 25 years working in the energy business. He has spent the better part of the last five years specifically working in the renewable energy field – biofuels, hydro, waste-to-energy, wind, and solar. He presently is advancing a Pongamia tree seed oil project for the extraction of the treet oil directed to the production of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), supervising testing on state-of-the-art generator technologies that can greatly increase the efficiencies of hydro and wind turbine applications. Through his work in the Pacific, Asia and Central America areas, he is able to identify many renewable energy projects.

Warren oversees and directs HPEG's corporate operations and the overall implementation of renewable energy projects, management of the core team, is responsible for budget monitoring and retaining consultants and experts as required to advance and manage HPEG's projects. He also liaises with consulting firms, contractors, and service and technology providers to maintain a timely supply chain for rapid project implementation.

He has over 25 years of experience in the management of the implementation of large-scale, multimillion dollar projects and is also active in assisting HPEG's clients to seek financing for both small and large-scale renewable energy projects, many of which have multi-million dollar budgets.

Warren has also introduced and implemented the Franklin Covey Institute (formerly known as Franklin Institute) to the Hawaiian Islands. The FCI, an internationally recognized corporation, provides training and seminars for corporations and organizations specializing in time management and human productivity. This training has proven to be a great asset in organizing, implementing and managing projects and being able to complete them on a timely basis on or at below budget.

Mr. Vidoni has an internationally recognized track record in successfully implementing projects over 35 years as a registered professional engineer (licensed with EGBC.in Canada) and consultant involving institutional strengthening, capacity building, feasibility studies, project economic evaluations, detailed engineering design, construction, and project management in complex multi-million dollar alternative and renewable energy, plant oils-to-biofuels, hydro-electric, water resources management, river basin management, irrigation, flood control and mitigation, roads projects design, bridges, construction and implementation, many in donor-funded rural development sector programs in Bangladesh, Cambodia, the Dominican Republic, India, Indonesia, Laos, Mexico, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam as well as many years of experience in prefeasibility, feasibility, economic evaluation, detailed engineering design and construction monitoring/management on projects in Canada and the U.S.A serving clients on hydropower, water supply, municipal infrastructure, naval port infrastructure, flood control and management, mining, and alternative and renewable energy projects as well as estimations of GHG emissions and reductions, Clean Development Mechanism projects, and carbon credits. Bob has worked on many large development projects financed by the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, JICA, Agence Française de Développement (AFD), the Canadian International Development Agency, and other ODA agencies in various emerging economies.

Bob has strong results-oriented management skills ensuring timely delivery of quality outputs, risk management and quality assurance competence in engineering and economic studies, planning, detailed engineering design, budgeting, and project implementation. He has proven performance-focused team leadership qualities and delegation skills and as such is responsible for direct overall, integrated management of each of the clients' projects. He has effective communication and language skills based on experience and well-honed, interpersonal skills and culturally perceptive, societal, political and diplomatic adeptness. He speaks, reads and writes several languages, including French, Thai, Indonesian, Malaysian, Vietnamese, Spanish, and Italian.

His inclusive leadership approach creates a high motivation level, and internal and external credibility and trustworthiness. Bob brings to the corporate board proven innovative, effective intervention design approaches based on a sound understanding of appropriate technologies and local climatic, agricultural, cultural, economic, social, and environmental issues, all of which are an inherent and integral part of successful multi-stakeholder participatory development and for meeting the needs and aspirations of project beneficiaries in socio-economic development projects. He has demonstrated important cross-cultural sensitivity, interpersonal, communication ,and negotiation skills.

Bob is responsible for directing HPEG's operations and for coordinating engineering studies and overall project management and detailed engineering design, other engineering and construction services, scheduling as well as integration of all experts, consultants, and specialists, scheduling and technical facilitation, and negotiations during project and sub-project implementation for HPEG. Fluent in a number of languages, he also assists clients to deal with the often numerous issues and negotiations related to project development, implementation, permitting in project host countries and bringing local partners, officials and government agencies into a project's development.

Mr. Grindle is also President of Lanikai Heavy Industries, Inc., a large general contracting firm based in Hawaii. This company specializes in design-build contracting. The company is proficient at all types of steel design and is considered to be the best superintendent for steel construction in Hawaii. Jon has managed large projects for over 35 years.

Jon’s projects have included all framing for the Hale Moku project on the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, which is the largest light gauge steel housing project in the USA to date (516 units), the construction manager for three years in drilling commercial grade wells for the Mauna Lani Resort (Tokyu Corp.) and Mauna Kea Resort Properties at the Lalamilo Well Field on Parker Ranch. In addition, Jon was construction manger of the $70 million shopping “The Shops at Wailea” center project located on Maui, where he coordinated the work of the 70 different architects and contractors for this large, upscale project.

Complementing Bob Vidoni, Jon provides direct overview of the construction management of all the proposed projects for HPEG to ensure efficient application and integration of physical and human resources, supply chain, project scheduling, timely implementation and coordination of all EPC contractors and sub-contractors, and provides assistance where necessary in maintaining tight scheduling and compensation of all trades and services during construction of the facilities at proposed sites.