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Entrepreneurs practice pitches
The Wayne Brown Institute, a nonprofit organization that helps entrepreneurs pitch ideas to investors, will hold three seminars in Hawai‘i this month, followed by a venture capital conference June 20-21 on Maui.
Seminars are scheduled March 20 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. at the Maui Research & Technology Center; March 21 from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the Orchid at Mauna Lani on the Big Island; and March 22 from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. on the 8th floor of HEI Pacific Tower in Honolulu.
Attendance is limited to 50 and costs $35 ($25 for members of the Hawaii Trade and Technology Association or Hawaii Venture Capital Association).
Registration is available at www.venturecapital .org/seminars. The deadline for applying to the June conference is April 2. The Salt Lake City-based institute has helped 400 companies raise more than $500 million in the past 17 years.
Pilots’ union gets new leader
Hawaiian Airlines pilots’ union has deposed the unit chairman that sealed the group’s recent contract with the company. The executives of the airline’s unit of the Air Line Pilots Association recalled Kirk McBride late last week by a vote of 4-2. "This pretty much caps the level of dissatisfaction that’s on going with our recent contract," said Joe Mocarski, the union’s communications chairman.
Hawaiian Airlines pilots will receive pay increases of as much as 41 percent under the terms of the contract negotiated in December, but some expressed unhappiness at the time that the agreement did not deliver more, and according to some, lost ground in certain areas.
John Tindall is the union’s new chairman.
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