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Hawai‘i— Kaua‘i-based Aqua Engineers, Hawai‘i’s largest and most experienced water and wastewater management company and one of the state’s largest defense contractors, has announced changes to its board of directors. Aqua founders and previous board chairs Ian Kagimoto and Frank Kiger, have resigned from the board to retire.
Formal proceedings concluding with an annual meeting of the shareholders, as represented by the board of trustees, were held on Friday, February 3, signifying the “passing of the torch” and the conclusion of a four-month transition from the former board to the new board. Sheldon Hunt, who was hired as President of Aqua Engineers and its subsidiary—Briant Construction—in October 2011, was officially named Chairman of the Board.
The trustees approved the expansion of the board of directors to five members, two internal and three external members. Senior Vice President of Aqua Engineers, Hugh Strom, was selected as the second internal member, while Dennis Tulang will continue as the sole former board member from the transition board (2006 to 2011). Two new members were selected from the community at-large: Lenie Nishihira, former Aqua Chief Financial Officer and current Chief Financial Officer for the non-profit Hale Opio, and Kim Lord, Senior Managing Director, of CBRE, Hawaii Region, were selected for the coming year.
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