Larry is an accomplished professional with over 30 years of experience in government and nonprofit services. Larry’s background includes affordable housing development, asset management, human resources, grant administration, fund raising, proposal writing, nonprofit agency finance, public speaking, mediation, and grant compliance.  Larry has worked in local government in California helping finance affordable housing projects and reducing homeless populations through a balanced approach to services and enforcement. As an administrator of nonprofit agencies, Larry has been an Executive Director providing housing as well as an Assets and Operations Director managing 749 units of low-income housing at 52 locations.

Larry is dedicated to serving the community and brings a level of expertise in nonprofit administration, program management, and affordable housing to Hawaiʻi and Permanently Affordable Living Hawaiʻi that represents his love for humanity and the aloha spirit. Larry is also the co-founder of an event that has taken blind people surfing with the Swamis Surf Association in California for the past 23 years, and you can always find him once a month volunteering at Kauaʻi Ocean Recreation Experience (KORE) helping people with disabilities experience the joy of surfing.