Kelly King

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Feb. 28, 2011

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Kelly King is the Vice President of Pacific Biodiesel, Inc., having co-founded the renewable energy company with her husband Robert King in 1996. As Marketing Director, Kelly helped sell and/or develop 12 biodiesel plants built by Pacific Biodiesel in the U.S. and Japan, and the company’s community-based biodiesel model has become a standard for the sustainable biodiesel industry. She successfully represented her company in UNIDO’s 2005 BlueSky Awards which named Pacific Biodiesel a Top Ten Global Renewable Energy Investment.

In 2006, with Daryl Hannah and Annie Nelson, Kelly co-founded the Sustainable Biodiesel Alliance, a national non-profit organization that is developing a certification for sustainable biodiesel practices. Kelly has served on the boards for numerous local non-profits and as the Maui member of the Hawai`i State Board of Education from 1994-98. As head of Communications for PBI, her current focus in the company is business development and special projects.