Staff Bios
Dana Shapiro
Chief Executive Officer
Dana is our co-founder and CEO of the Hawaiʻi ʻUlu Cooperative.
Holokai Brown
Operations Director
Holokai is the director of our operations team, and works to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Tamara Armstrong
Sales Representative
Tamara is our sales representative who strategically plans our revenue growth.
Kyle Jackson
Membership Lead
Kyle is our crucial connection between the operations and the farmers.
Leilani Aveiro
Operations Assistant
Leilani is the operations assistant who assists Holokai with daily operations.
Morgan Tooch
Fulfillment Lead
Morgan is our Fulfillment Lead who ensures efficient delivery of our products.
Kenta Nemoto
Marketing Lead
Kenta is our marketing lead, he works to promote the ‘ulu co-op’s brand and share the stories of our farmers.
Agricultural Processing Team
Our processing team works to turn our farmer’s harvest into market ready products.
Maja Thomsen
Agricultural Processor
Xavier Chung
Agricultural Processor
Anja Thomsen
Agricultural Processor
Eli Ednie
Agricultural Processor
Employee value statement:
As Hawaiʻi ʻUlu Cooperative employees, we represent the support system for our growers and we are committed to positively engaging with our members, partners, and community at large in order to advance the mission of the organization.
- Employees create added value that provides economic stability and critical market share to the farmers.
- Empower HUC’s farmer-members to be successful in producing high quality, sustainable food.
- Engage positively with our partners and community to increase awareness of the importance of our purpose and mission.
- Increase the operational efficiency and capabilities of the cooperative in order to expand membership and production, remain economically viable, and ensure the continued presence of the co-op as a leader in the local food system.
- Employees are creative, energized self-starters who offer solutions and are positively motivated by the work and mission of the cooperative; we continuously strive to improve our performance, are accountable to ourselves and each other, value every team member, and communicate clearly and constructively while remaining open to learning new things and being challenged each day.
