SSCR3494

STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3494

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE: GOV. MSG. NOS. 522, 797, 905

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Economic Development and Technology, to which was referred Governor's Message Nos. 522, 797, and 905, submitting for study and consideration the nominations of:

Board of Directors of the Hawai'i Strategic Development Corporation

G.M. No. 522

ALAN HAYASHI,

for a term to expire 6-30-2013;

G.M. No. 797

JAMES MOONIER,

for a term to expire 6-30-2016; and

G.M. No. 905

PHILIP BOSSERT,

for a term to expire 6-30-2015,

begs leave to report as follows:

Your Committee has reviewed the personal histories, resumes, and statements submitted by the nominees and finds Alan Hayashi, James Moonier, and Philip Bossert to possess the requisite qualifications to be nominated to the Board of Directors of the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the nomination of Alan Hayashi from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation; The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii; The Defense and Dual Use Technology Committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii; and Lend Lease Hickam Communities LLC.

Alan Hayashi is the Public Affairs and Communications Director for BAE Systems, and has been with BAE Systems Spectral Solutions (formerly STI, a Hawaii based optical imaging systems company acquired by BAE Systems) for over ten years. He served as the Executive Director of the State of Hawaii's Convention Center Authority for eleven years, and oversaw the location, development, and construction of the $350,000,000 Hawaii Convention Center. Mr. Hayashi holds a Bachelor of Science Engineering degree from Stanford University and a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He currently serves or has served on the boards of directors of the Friends of Hawaii Robotics, Army Hawaii Housing Foundation, Military Affairs Council of The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, and is a member of the Rotary Club of Metropolitan Honolulu.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the nomination of James Moonier from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism and the Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation.

James Moonier is the Managing Member of Alpha Capital Research, an independent investment management and advisory firm that focuses on alternative investments. In addition, he has twenty years of experience as a Managing Director for Morgan Stanley in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Singapore, where he was responsible for management and oversight of a full range of institutional sales and trading businesses including fixed income, commodities, FX, equities, and private wealth management for clients. Mr. Moonier is a graduate of Princeton University with a Bachelor of Arts in Russian and East Asian Studies, and has studied at Leningrad University in the Soviet Union and Taiwan Normal University in Taipei, Taiwan. He has served on the boards of directors of the UCLA Anderson School of Management, Stanford Graduate Business School, and Le Jardin Academy.

Your Committee received testimony in support of the nomination of Philip Bossert from the Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism; Hawaii Strategic Development Corporation; and one individual.

Philip Bossert is currently Co-Founder of and Senior Consultant with OrienTech, an education technology services company focusing on Internet-delivered learning resources; Director of the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools' Institute for 21st Century Teaching & Learning; and an adjunct faculty member in the Education Division of Chaminade University of Honolulu. He has nearly forty years of senior management and entrepreneurial experience in business, government, and academia, primarily focusing on technology and its application in government and the private sector. Dr. Bossert is a graduate of Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, with a Ph.D. in Philosophy and has studied at the University of Hawaii, Louvain University in Belgium, and Freiburg University in Germany, among others. He is active in a wide range of professional, academic, and community organizations, and has published extensively on the topics of information technology, education, and philosophy.

As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committee on Economic Development and Technology that are attached to this report, your Committee, after full consideration of the background, experience, and qualifications of the nominees, has found the nominees to be qualified for the positions to which nominated and recommends that the Senate advise and consent to the nominations.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Economic Development and Technology,

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CAROL FUKUNAGA, Chair