Kahanu, LLC

kahanu is an open-source bridge ventilator project based in hawai‘i. the team includes project lead kai matthes, m.d., ph.d., a harvard-trained pediatric anesthesiologist, entrepreneur, and scientist; jeffrey hayashida, who works for google’s hardware division which includes their pixel phones and previously led mobile accessory projects at apple; peter how, a mechanical engineer who works in silicon valley and was the mechanical engineering lead on tesla’s powerwall battery technology, and has a master’s in mechanical engineering from mit; olin lagon, a native hawaiian serial social entrepreneur and software engineer; and native hawaiian technologist ryan ozawa. for more information, visit kahanu.org.