Darren Kimura
[citation needed] When attending the University of Hawaii at Manoa he worked in the Information and Computer Sciences department, where he launched Nalu Communications, an internet service provider.[21] He was featured in the Hawaiian Electric Company's clean energy promotion, which was highlighted during the APEC United States 2011[22] and is an author at Cisco blogs.[29] Kimura changed the company name to Energy Industries Corporation to appeal to its national markets, and he remains the largest shareholder.[34] The concept for MicroCSP technologies were created when Kimura attempted to install a conventional Concentrating Solar Power trough in Kona, Hawaii.Realizing that it was uneconomical and not practical to ship, install and operate such large components in remote locations like Hawaii, Kimura worked on reducing the dimensions of the solar collector which led to reconfiguring the technology and incorporating the use of state of the art materials.Kimura created the company name from taking sections of key words including "SO" from Solar, "PO" from "Power", and "GY" from "Energy and Technology".[63] Sopogy completed a Series E preferred financing in October 2012 led by Mitsui & Co. and SunEdison, a U.S. solar company, Sempra Energy, 3M, and others.[79] In December 2017, Kimura led the acquisition of LivingObjects' Service Provider network monitoring platform[80] and to the creation of the LiveSP business unit at LiveAction.In 2021, Kimura joined ZEDEDA, an open-sourced, distributed, cloud-native edge computing orchestration solution as its president and Chief Operating Officer.[93] While at ZEDEDA, Kimura served on the steering committee of Margo, a Linux Foundation initiative for interoperability at the edge of industrial automation ecosystems.