Daniel Nahoopii

Background

About Daniel Nahoopii

Daniel has gained enormous expertise in tourism research in the past decade and his background in sophisticated large and small scale market research, social media monitoring and Hawaiian community programs is extremely valuable as SMS addresses the future needs of research in Hawai‘i. Daniel brings 28 years of extensive experience in marketing research and evaluation to SMS. Since 2006 he has been the Director of Tourism Research and Planning for the Hawai‘i Tourism Authority. Prior to HTA Daniel was: Manager in the Strategic Planning & Implementation Group at Kamehameha Schools; Senior Project Director at SMS Research; Research Manager at the Hawai‘i Visitors and Convention Bureau; an Integrated Resource Engineer at Hawaiian Electric Company, and a Management Information Consultant at Anderson Consulting. Born and raised in Honolulu, Daniel is a graduate of Kamehameha Schools. He earned Bachelor of Science degrees in Industrial and Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University, and an M.B.A. from the University of Hawai‘i. He was also selected as one of the Top Forty Under 40 by Pacific Business News, named a Pacific Century Fellow, and he received a certificate from the First Nations’ Futures Institute at Stanford University. He is also a ho‘opa‘a in Hālau Nā Kamalei O Līlīleihua, completing his traditional ʻūniki rites with Kumu Hula Robert Cazimero in 2016.