Kelly Urban is the Chief Marketing Officer of Maui Jim, the Hawaii-born sunglasses maker now part of the Kering Eyewear group. Based in New York, she leads brand and marketing for a company famous for its PolarizedPlus2 lenses and aloha-rooted identity. Before Maui Jim she built a marketing and communications career that included time at GoPro and the agency Formula Public Relations, with strengths in strategic communications, brand storytelling, and team leadership.

Alex Abelin is the co-founder and CEO of PlantBaby, the Hawaii-based company behind Kiki Milk, a whole-food, organic plant-based milk built for kids. A three-time founder who spent seven years at Google and sold his smart-city startup LQD WiFi to Verizon in 2016, he traded payphone kiosks for pumpkin seeds after he and his wife Lauren couldn't find a clean plant milk for their son. PlantBaby has raised roughly $7M and hit $4.8M in revenue in 2024, selling through its own site plus Sprouts, Wegmans, Erewhon, Amazon and Thrive Market.
Colby Takeda is the co-founder and CEO of Pear Suite, a digital health company that gives community health workers the software, billing tools, and data infrastructure to be recognized as a foundational part of the healthcare system. A fourth-generation Japanese American from O'ahu, registered community health worker, and former senior living executive, he built Pear Suite during the pandemic on Google Sheets and Typeform before turning it into a care navigation platform that supports thousands of frontline workers. In October 2025 the company raised a $7.6 million Series A led by Rock Health Capital to expand its reach into Medicaid and Medicare markets.

Chris Burniske is a partner and co-founder of Placeholder, a venture capital firm that has invested in over 75 blockchain companies and networks since 2017. He co-authored the influential book 'Cryptoassets: The Innovative Investor's Guide to Bitcoin and Beyond' and led ARK Invest to become the first public fund manager to offer bitcoin exposure in 2015. Known for his unconventional approach - famously rolling up barefoot on a skateboard to pitch Cathie Wood - Burniske combines deep technical knowledge with a surfer's mentality toward finding uncrowded opportunities in crypto markets.

Marc Benioff is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce, the company that invented cloud-based CRM and pioneered the SaaS model. He built Salesforce from a San Francisco apartment in 1999 into the world's largest enterprise applications company, while simultaneously pioneering the 1-1-1 corporate philanthropy model that has been adopted by thousands of companies globally. Owner of Time magazine since 2018 and a vocal advocate for stakeholder capitalism, Benioff sits at the intersection of tech innovation, spiritual practice, and social activism — swimming with dolphins in Hawaii one day, staging fake protests outside competitor conferences the next.