C. Barry Raleigh, Ph.D.
Chairman & Co-Founder
Dr. Raleigh is an experienced manager of large research organizations. He held key appointments as coordinator of the Earthquake Prediction Program of the US Geological Survey and as director, Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, one of the nation’s leading research institutions. From 1989 through 2003, Dr. Raleigh served as dean of the School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, University of Hawaii, one of the top three marine research institutions in the nation with an annual operating budget of more than $70 million. Dr. Raleigh received his Ph.D. in Geophysics from UCLA.
Michael May
T. Michael May Advisor Services, former CEO HECO
May, founder of T. Michael May Advisor Services, was CEO of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HECO) from 1995 to 2009. He serves on the board of directors for Sopogy, American Electric and The James Campbell Company. He is an adviser to Natural Power Concepts and two other energy start-ups. He also served for over 13 years on the boards of the Electric Power Research Institute and the Edison Electric Institute. He serves on numerous community services organizations including the Aloha Council of the Boy Scouts, The Chamber of Commerce and is beginning to serve on the University of Hawaii Foundation board in 2011. At HECO, May developed and executed the company’s long-term growth strategies, leading the company’s drive of renewable energy and energy efficiency in Hawaii.
He joined HECO as a senior vice president in 1992 and was elected president and CEO in 1995; he retired on August 1, 2008. Prior to joining HECO, he was the founder and principal of Management Assets Group, president of Caterpillar Capital Company and held the roles of vice president and general manager of the Energy Services Division at Solar Turbines Inc., a Caterpillar Company and vice president, Finance and Planning, and chief financial officer at Solar Turbines, Inc. and Caterpillar, Inc.
Martin Sabarsky, JD, MBA
Cellana President & Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Sabarsky was promoted to President and CEO of Cellana in April 2011. Prior to this he had been CFO and COO of HRBP since 2008. He has significant leadership experience in the industrial biotechnology industry, as well as extensive transactional experience across multiple industries, including the biotechnology industry, having worked as an investment banker and attorney on over $13 billion of transactions in aggregate. Prior to joining HRBP, from 2000 to 2007, he led the corporate development function at Diversa Corporation and led a number of additional functions within the Finance and Accounting department during his tenure with Diversa, with increasing levels of management responsibility, most recently as Vice President of Corporate Development and a member of the Executive Committee. Before Diversa, Mr. Sabarsky worked from 1999 to 2000 as an investment banker with Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc., where he focused on financings and mergers and acquisitions within the life sciences industry and was a lead banker on Diversa’s $200 million IPO in February 2000. Prior to joining Bear Stearns, from 1995 to 1999, he worked as a transactional attorney with Latham & Watkins LLP, where he focused on the corporate, securities, and tax aspects of financings and mergers and acquisitions for clients in the real estate, healthcare, venture capital, and biotechnology industries, among others. Mr. Sabarsky has an A.B. in Biology and Political Science from Brown University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an M.B.A. from the Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego.
