Erin Lopez

Erin did not plan to end up in Hawaii. She planned to visit her best friend — the one she's had since junior high, who'd been living on the island for four years — and then go home. She visited. She did not go home. Within three months she had liquidated her Oregon life, packed everything she owned into four suitcases, and moved to Honolulu without a single professional contact on the island.

Indevtech found her within two weeks. That is not the most surprising thing that has ever happened to Erin, but it is close.

Before Hawaii, she spent five-plus years in staffing and business development in Oregon — an industry that rewards exactly two things: genuine connection and relentless follow-through. Neither was learned so much as already installed. Before that, five years in Las Vegas designing custom built-ins — closets, wine bars, entertainment centers — with CAD software and hand-drawn blueprints. Before that, eight years selling deed-titled property on the Las Vegas Strip, a job that required half a real estate license and a particular gift for helping people say yes to something they had made a solemn pact, before ever walking through the door, to refuse to even entertain. Running underneath all of it, a parallel life as a freelance copywriter and brand voice strategist. Words have always been her favorite tool on the belt.

At Indevtech, Erin owns the full growth cycle — from the first conversation with a prospective partner firm to their first day as a TechFuel client. She works Oahu's professional-services community the way she's always worked: like a human being who genuinely wants to make sure the person across from her is being taken care of. No pressure. No pitch. More than one prospect has described her as "not what I expected from an IT company." She takes that as a compliment.

Outside of work she's drawn to the ocean, her FurBabies, reading, and photography — and to a long-held dream of publishing a coffee table book: one original poem paired with one original photograph, page by page. Which tells you most of what you need to know about how she sees the world.

One more thing, because if not in a bio, where exactly does it belong? Erin has appeared on two reality television programs, and sought out neither. On Pawn Stars, she sold a 1960s Alvin and the Chipmunks marionette to the Old Man — on her birthday, a detail the producers did not know and she did not mention. On Ghost Hunters, the episode was called "Hoover Damned." She deploys both facts sparingly, and with great personal satisfaction.