Shelee Kimura

Director
President and Chief Executive Officer
Hawaiian Electric

Shelee Kimura is the president and chief executive officer of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. (HECO), which serves 95% of Hawai‘i’s population. Kimura previously served as senior vice president of Customer Service & Public Affairs and senior vice president of Business Development & Strategic Planning of HECO. Before joining HECO, Kimura led Investor Relations and Strategic Planning at Hawaiian Electric Industries (HEI), the parent company of Hawaiian Electric and the largest publicly traded company in Hawai‘i. She previously worked as HEI’s director of corporate finance and investments and prior to that was a consulting manager at Arthur Andersen and its successor firm in Honolulu, KMH LLP.

Kimura has been recognized for her leadership and service to the business and non-profit communities, including awards from the University of Hawai’‘i Shidler College of Business, the American Lung Association, the Girl Scouts of Hawai‘i, the U.S. Department of Energy and the O‘ahu YWCA. She is an Omidyar Fellow, a member of the Women Corporate Directors Foundation and an ambassador for the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment Initiative. She serves on the Shidler College of Business Advisory Council of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and on the boards of Mid-Pacific Institute and the nonprofits Parents and Children Together and Nā Kama Kai.

Kimura earned a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa and is an executive education graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

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