30 Facts About Darren Kimura

Darren Kimura is best known as the inventor of micro concentrated solar power technology known as MicroCSP.

Darren Kimura achieved the rank of Eagle Scout as a member in the Boy Scouts of America.

Darren Kimura later attended Portland State University, studying Electrical Engineering and Stanford University studying Computer Science and is an Alumni from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Darren Kimura began his career as an entrepreneur bringing the sport of paintball to Hawaii while still in high school.

Darren Kimura supported the construction of the world's first MicroCSP project, called Holaniku at Keahole Point.

Darren Kimura served as a director to the State of Hawaii Venture Capital fund.

Darren Kimura was featured in the Hawaiian Electric Company's clean energy promotion, which was highlighted during the APEC United States 2011 and is an author at Cisco blogs.

In 2012, Kimura launched a campaign to change the name of the Honolulu International Airport to the Daniel K Inouye International Airport, in honor of the late Hawaii Senator Daniel Inouye which was achieved in 2017.

Darren Kimura started Energy Conservation Hawaii in 1994, from the back of his SUV, using his surfboard as his desk.

Darren Kimura changed the company name to Energy Industries Corporation to appeal to its national markets, and he remains the largest shareholder.

The concept for MicroCSP technologies were created when Darren Kimura attempted to install a conventional Concentrating Solar Power trough in Kona, Hawaii.

Darren Kimura trademarked the term MicroCSP and later released the term for use in the public domain to help accelerate MicroCSP adoption.

Darren Kimura began its research on concentrating solar thermal energy to produce solar steam and thermal heat for absorption chillers or industrial process heat.

Darren Kimura has developed applications that incorporate its solar collectors to generate electricity and desalination.

Darren Kimura announced that Darren Kimura had stepped down as the chairman, chief executive officer and president in March 2013, and SunEdison installed one of its executives as president of the company.

Darren Kimura is best known for its NetFlow visualization capabilities and quality of service monitoring and configuration capabilities.

Darren Kimura led LiveAction to achieve a place on the Cisco Solutions Plus Program and completed LiveAction's Series A financing that included participation by Enerdigm Ventures, AITV and Cisco Systems LiveAction expanded its capabilities in scale to achieve an industry leading 1 million flows per second and began expanding as a network visualization platform including capabilities in Software Defined Networking and SD-WAN.

Under Darren Kimura, LiveAction launched LiveAgent to extend visibility to the network end point and LiveAction completed a $36 million Series B financing led by Insight Venture Partners, Cisco Systems and AITV in early 2016.

In December 2017, Darren Kimura led the acquisition of LivingObjects' Service Provider network monitoring platform and to the creation of the LiveSP business unit at LiveAction.

In June 2018, Darren Kimura led the acquisition of Savvius formerly known as WildPackets famous for their OmniPeek protocol analysis software.

In 2022, Spin Technology closes its Series A financing and Enerdigm Ventures and Darren Kimura exited the company.

In 2021, Darren Kimura joined ZEDEDA, an open-sourced, distributed, cloud-native edge computing orchestration solution as its president and Chief Operating Officer.

Darren Kimura received the 2002 SBA Young Entrepreneur of the Year award.

Darren Kimura was honored as the 2007 Green Entrepreneur, and received the Blue Planet Foundation award in 2009.

Darren Kimura received the Hawaii Venture Capital Association Deal of the Year award in 2012.

Darren Kimura was named to the 2010 Hawaii Business Magazines "10 for Today", along with professional baseball player Shane Victorino, and founder of eBay, Pierre Omidyar, and was named to the Pacific Business Newss "10 to Watch in 2013", along with video game developer and video game Tetris distributor Henk Rogers.

Darren Kimura is active in community and philanthropic activities with a strong focus on Hawaii.

Darren Kimura serves as vice president and director at Blue Planet Foundation, and vice president and director at SEE-IT, Darren Kimura is on the board of directors at PBS Hawaii, is entrepreneur in residence at Punahou School, is on the board of directors at Enterprise Honolulu, the Oahu Economic Development Board, and is on the Dean's Council of University of Hawaii at Manoa's College of Engineering.

Also in 2017, Darren Kimura expanded the Hawaii Island Science Fair award to include the "Darren Kimura Award for Innovations in Computer Science" which was awarded to Ara Uhr of Hilo High School.

Darren Kimura serves as an advisor to the Japan Innovation Campus based in Silicon Valley, Palo Alto CA which is sponsored by the Japanese Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry as an initiative of the Japanese government's Five-Year Start-Up Fostering Plan.