Jeanne Unemori Skog has been affiliated with MEDB for more than 30 years. When she became the fourth President & CEO of MEDB, she brought considerable experience in fund and partnership development, project development and management, community relations, and conference planning. Skog spearheaded development of the High Tech Maui program focused on growing innovation sectors in Maui County, exemplifying MEDB’s commitment to spurring economic diversity. She also advanced MEDB’s history of convening community around economic issues by initiating the groundbreaking Focus Maui Nui community visioning process in which 1,700 residents articulated key values, priorities, and strategies. To support the workforce needs of innovation, Ms. Skog launched the Women In Technology (WIT) program to prepare women, girls, and other underrepresented minorities for emerging careers founded on science, technology, engineering and math (STEM).

Frank De Rego Jr. | Director of Business Development Projects, Maui Economic Development Board, Inc. (MEDB)

Frank De Rego has over 35 years of experience in education and the nonprofit sector. Prior to joining MEDB, he developed curricula, trained and coordinated graduate engineering teaching assistants, and, for a time, was national coordinator at Purdue University for a program called Engineering Projects in Community Service. At MEDB, Frank has provided leadership in the development of the Maui County Model for Energy and Water in collaboration with the Millennium Institute. He earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of San Francisco with a double major in Philosophy and Religious Studies; a Master’s Degree in Religious Studies from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Leuven, Belgium; and a Master’s of Science Degree in Sociology from Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana.