Pamela Tumpap has been the President of the Maui Chamber of Commerce over the past 17 years. Before joining the Chamber, she was President & CEO of Maui United Way, Director of Marketing for Oceanic Time Warner Cable and Vice President of the Maui Economic Development Board. Her efforts for private and non-profit organizations during the past three decades focused on business, community and economic development and included extensive interaction with government. This has given her keen insight into each of these three sectors.

She is currently a Board Member for Maui Economic Development Board and Feed My Sheep. Past service includes being a Member of the Hawaii 2050 Sustainability Plan Legislative Task Force, Board Member for the Hawaii Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations (HANO), Past President of the Maui Nonprofit Directors Association, and on boards for numerous nonprofit organizations.

Pamela is a strong advocate for business, working to overcome obstacles detrimental to the business climate and community growth and advancing winning, sustainable solutions. She has won several awards including: Maui Business & Professional Women’s Young Careerist, State of Hawaii’s Business & Professional Women’s Young Careerist, and was one of the Maui Business & Professional Women’s Women of the Year. In 2005, she became a Forty Under 40 award winner. In 2008, she received the SBA’s Small Business Journalist of the Year for both the State of Hawaii and Region IX, and in 2016, she received the Small Business Administration’s Small Business Advocate for Business and Industry Award for the State of Hawaii.