BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

TECHNICAL ADVISOR

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

BOARD OF DIRECTORS

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

MANAGING DIRECTOR

FINANCE DIRECTOR

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING

Jasmine is a Maui-based marketing and communications professional with a background in brand storytelling, content strategy, and audience engagement. A graduate of Washington State University, she originally began her career in broadcast journalism and now works in tech marketing. She is passionate about mentoring others, helping them achieve their goals, and contributing to the growth of her local community. In her free time, Jasmine enjoys traveling, cooking, and hiking across the islands.

Kyle is a mortgage lender and real estate investor with a background in Finance and Economics from Washington State University. Based in Kihei, he brings analytical expertise and a passion for financial education to his work and community involvement. He loves helping his clients and community build wealth through homeownership and smart investing. Outside of work, you can find him on the mats training jiu jitsu, backpacking, traveling, snowboarding, running or doing anything in the water.

Linda is a 40-year resident of the Island of Maui, continuing her journey from the Boston suburbs, California Bay Area, and the foothills of the Sierra Blanca in New Mexico. As the Executive Director of the Maui A.I.D.S. Foundation and previously also of the Maui County Workforce Development, she provides executive management to agencies with client-based community services. Her other work has included being the Clinic Manager of the Planned Parenthood Clinic and the Operations Manager of an eighty-acre flower farm in Kula, Maui, Hawaii. She is known in the Maui County Community for her work as an advocate for children’s issues, nonprofit administration and accounting, and her years of community service, which led to being named the 1992 Women of Maui Award recipient by the Maui County Committee on the Status of Women. In 2022, Linda was named National Workforce Professional of the Year by the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals.

Marshall brings extensive experience in workforce development, education administration, and social-impact program design to the Imua ʻOnipaʻa Advisory Board. Throughout his career, he has led and directed initiatives in collaboration with private operators, nonprofit organizations, and all levels of government to ensure lasting community benefit and economic resilience.

In his current role with the University of Hawai‘i Community Colleges system, Marshall has witnessed firsthand how industry sector partnerships and aligned career and technical education can rapidly evolve Hawai‘i’s workforce by bridging talent with emerging industry needs across healthcare, clean energy, technology, and skilled trades.

As an advisory board member, he contributes his deep understanding of Hawai‘i’s workforce ecosystem and his commitment to creating pathways that empower local residents to learn, work, and thrive.

For the past 20 years, Praveen Khurana has worked at the intersection of enterprise technology and human potential, building the learning and certification ecosystems that turn platforms into careers. Most recently at Salesforce, he led a global team of more than 150 people across customer and partner enablement, certification, and AI-powered learning infrastructure spanning over 100 countries, following earlier roles at VMware and NetApp. He currently serves as Vice President, Customer and Partner Enablement at Cornerstone. Throughout, one belief has stayed constant: learning only matters when it changes what people can do and what organizations can achieve. That belief is what drew him to Imua ʻOnipaʻa. The same certification and enablement pathways he has built for global enterprises, covers the very platforms that represent real career opportunity for Hawaiʻi’s local workforce. These can open sustainable, high-paying careers for local residents and help keep opportunity in Hawaiʻi’s hands. He is especially interested in how AI is reshaping work, both as a tool for upskilling into in-demand roles and as a path to independent entrepreneurship. His commitment to developing talent is long-standing and hands-on: for years he has volunteered as a math coach for school-age students preparing for competitions, work that earned his teams numerous awards. Outside of work, Praveen is a husband and a father of two college-age sons, which gives this work a personal dimension for him: he knows firsthand the hope every parent holds for a young person finding meaningful, lasting work, and he wants that same opportunity within reach for Hawaiʻi’s next generation. He also loves to cook and bring people together over a good meal, and tries to live by four values: integrity, empathy, impact, and family. goes here