Mark Smith:  

My last traditional job was corporate treasurer for a handful of Silicon Valley Companies. I've had the most fun as a member of the team that brought out AMD 's first microprocessors in the early 80's and for guiding the graphics chip for Sony's first Playstation through a brand new wafer fab in Japan. Not an easy task. After more than 30 years crunching numbers I retired (wrong word) to take up a new challenge in Hawaii. Being one of the fourth generation to live in the islands I volunteered to deal with a failing real estate investment 3 years ago. Since then I've turned that problem into one of the top hostels in the world and radically expanded my horizons while having enormous fun doing so. *(Since then I've turned my attention to the other properties developed by my grandfather and am the trustee for 2 family trusts) I'm politically active, having been elected to the Waikiki Neighborhood Board, a non-paid elected office in the City and County of Honolulu. My oldest, Andrew works in NYC and lives in Brooklyn. My wife (not his mother) and I visited him a couple of times when we were enroute to Mediterranean and Agean cruises. One time we hit the weather at just the right time and had a memorable autumnal visit to Central Park and the Metropolitan Museum. Andrew longs to re...Expand for more