Steven Loui, President and Owner of 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 technology. He holds eleven U.S. patents on his innovative underwater lifting body 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 $96 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 in Hawaii.

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.

Susan Matsuura, 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

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, and leads its grant proposal writing team. A veteran business writer prior to joining Navatek Ltd. in 1986, he began his journalism career as a reporter for a Dow-Jones Group suburban newspaper in Connecticut and spent five years as a freelance journalist in Asia during the Vietnam War before becoming Editor of Hawaii Business magazine. He has been a frequent Op-Ed page contributor to the Asian Wall Street Journal, and a stringer for Forbes magazine.

Audra White - Senior Contracting Administrator
Lori Park - Controller