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From Hawai‘i Business Magazine:

Richard Matsui has been an innovator in the clean energy industry for nearly 20 years – an old tree inside a young forest, as he puts it – and judging by his entrepreneurial agenda, he’ll be at it for decades more as that forest matures.

Honolulu born and raised, Matsui studied at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., was a founding member of McKinsey & Co.’s Global Solar Practice while based in Taipei, founded his first company in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2012, joined the Biden Administration’s Energy Department in 2023 to help speed deployment of advanced clean energy technologies nationally, and built and sold an AI company to investors in India.

Meanwhile, after returning to Honolulu in 2020, he has co-founded a couple of nonprofits, is a board member for at least two companies and has launched a pair of new companies in the last year.

All of this while the national political environment and policies have turned hostile toward the renewable sector.

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