  {"id":117211,"date":"2020-05-01T08:34:48","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=117211"},"modified":"2020-05-01T09:41:14","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T19:41:14","slug":"rcuh-new-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/05\/01\/rcuh-new-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"<abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> board appoints new executive director"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_117213\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-117213\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/system-rcuh-gouveia-l.jpg\" alt=\"Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr.\" width=\"250\" height=\"350\" class=\"size-full wp-image-117213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/system-rcuh-gouveia-l.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/system-rcuh-gouveia-l-214x300.jpg 214w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/system-rcuh-gouveia-l-93x130.jpg 93w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-117213\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rcuh.com\/\">Research Corporation of the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span><\/a> (<abbr>RCUH<\/abbr>) Board of Directors has appointed <strong>Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr.<\/strong> as the new executive director, effective July 1. Gouveia is currently the director of the Office of Research Services for <abbr>UH<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We believe Lenny\u2019s familiarity with the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span>, <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr>, state government and the federal government will allow him to hit the ground running,&rdquo; said <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> Board Chair <strong>Donna Ikeda<\/strong>. &ldquo;He understands the critical role <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> plays in supporting the research enterprise. We look forward to working with him as he leads <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> to greater success in the future.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Gouveia has been affiliated with <abbr>UH<\/abbr> for more than 15 years, at first as a contracts specialist in the Office of Research Services. He then took an <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> position as a technical partnership and development specialist at the <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Âé¶¹´«Ã½<\/span> Space Flight Laboratory in <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa\u2019s School of Ocean and Earth Science and Technology, where he gained experience managing a complex project of more than $40 million with unique administrative, contractual and legal issues. Gouveia has also worked with the vice president for research to establish the university\u2019s first Office of Export Controls in addition to assuming the role of facility security officer, a position held previously by <abbr>UH<\/abbr> President <strong>David Lassner<\/strong>. He subsequently served as the interim assistant vice president\/director of research compliance before becoming the director of the Office of Research Services.<\/p>\n<p>Gouveia follows <strong>Sylvia Yuen<\/strong> who served as <abbr>RCUH<\/abbr> executive director for five years and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2019\/01\/06\/rcuh-executive-director-yuen-to-retire\/\">will be retiring at the end of June 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leonard R. Gouveia, Jr. currently serves as the director of the Office of Research Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1193],"tags":[626,872,947],"class_list":["post-117211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrative","tag-executive-search","tag-research-corporation-of-the-university-of-hawaii","tag-uh-system","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117211"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":117219,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117211\/revisions\/117219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}