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Senior Management & Administration
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Loui,
President, Chief Technology Officer and Owner, Navatek, Ltd. and parent company Pacific
Marine, received his B.S. in Engineering from Stanford University
in 1973. He has been involved in the design and commercialization
of advanced ship technology since 1976. He helped pioneer the development
and commercialization of SWATH technology in the U.S., and subsequently
led the development of Navatek’s proprietary underwater lifting
body and ETM technologies. He holds multiple U.S. patents on his innovative hull designs. He became CEO of his family-owned corporation,
Pacific Marine, in 1973, and oversaw a major corporate diversification
program that successfully repositioned the $8 million company from
a narrow-based, ship repair operation into a broad-based group of
industrial and service companies with annual sales of $73 million.
He has been responsible for 14 major start-ups or business acquisitions,
and was honored with a 1993 U.S. Senate Productivity Award for his
efforts to improve the ship construction industry. |
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| Martin Kao, CPA, Chief Financial and Contracting Officer, joined Navatek Ltd. in 2008. He earned his Masters of Tax, LLM at the University of Southern California, and his Juris Doctor at UCLA. He was a former Principal (Tax) with the accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers (Hawaii), with over 14 years in public accounting, specializing in high technology industry, government contracting, tax controversies, and Hawaii Act 221/215 tax incentives associated with research and experimentation tax credit studies. Prior to that, he spent six years with Ernst & Young in their Los Angeles and Chicago offices. |
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| Susan
Matsuura,
Vice President and Treasurer, Navatek, Ltd., received her B.B.A.
in Accounting from the University of Hawaii. Her extensive prior
work experience with Navatek parent company Pacific Marine included
four years as President and General Manager of Pacific Marine subsidiary
Hawaiian Cruises, where she managed a staff of 120 employees and
was responsible for overall operations of the 430-passenger SWATH
dinner cruise ship Navatek I. She also ran the company’s
Wiki-Wiki (Foilcat) commuter ferry demonstration project
with the State of Hawaii |
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Michael Schmicker, Vice President Marketing and Corporate Communications, received his Master’s in Educational Communications from the University of Hawaii. He manages the company’s media, public, and government relations programs. A veteran business writer prior to joining Navatek Ltd. in 1986, he began his journalism career as a crime court reporter for a Dow-Jones Group suburban newspaper in Connecticut. He spent three years as a freelance journalist in Asia during the Vietnam War before becoming Editor of Hawaii Business magazine, and was a frequent Op-Ed page contributor to the Asian Wall Street Journal, and a stringer for Forbes magazine. |
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Audra White - Senior Contracts Administrator Vicki Nagahiro - Accountant Lorna Bolosan - Engineering Assistant Kathy Loui-Yasui - Corporate Administration |