The Gas Company (TGC), Hawaii's clean gas energy provider, named Joe Boivin as Senior Vice President of Marketing & Strategic Initiatives. He is leading critical company initiatives and developing programs to increase customer awareness of the importance of gas as part of a balanced approach to energy conservation and use.

In this role, Boivin is overseeing a number of renewable and advanced energy initiatives. These include biofuel refining to produce gas from fats and oils, hydrogen distribution for fuel cell vehicles and solar water heating with gas providing backup service.

?These are exciting times for our Company as we create jobs here in Hawaii that will help move us away from petroleum-based fuels and develop technology to deliver clean renewable energy to our community and elsewhere,? said Jeffrey Kissel, TGC's President and Chief Executive Officer. ?Joe's skills are a critical part of our effort to achieve our goals.?

Boivin was previously Vice President of Operations, responsible for overseeing daily operations throughout Hawaii and developing and executing strategic business initiatives. He is an engineer with experience in project management. Before joining TGC in October 2009, he served as a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton in Honolulu where he managed the Economic and Business Analysis team across the Pacific Region providing management and technology consulting services to both public and private sector clients. His background also includes private equity investment management and aerospace engineering. He served four years in the United States Air Force and completed his service in 1992.

Boivin earned a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Arkansas.

The Gas Company has been in business since 1904 and has a workforce of 300 professionals. It provides clean, reliable and energy-efficient gas to residential, business and government customers throughout the state of Hawaii ? Oahu, Maui, Hawaii, Kauai, Molokai and Lanai. The Company manufactures synthetic natural gas (SNG) at its 16.7-million-cubic-foot-capacity plant located on Oahu and supplies SNG through a 1,100-mile pipeline network, and supplies propane gas (LPG) statewide. TGC is developing technology to further reduce its carbon footprint by incorporating domestically produced, renewable alternatives to petroleum for gas supply in Hawaii.

The Gas Company LLC (www.hawaiigas.com) is a Hawaii-based, wholly owned subsidiary of Macquarie Infrastructure Company (NYSE: MIC ? www.macquarie.com/mic). MIC owns, operates, and invests in a diversified group of infrastructure businesses that provide basic services to customers across the United States.

The Gas Company
Stephanie C. Ackerman, 808-535-5913
Mobile: 808-226-6666
sackerman@hawaiigas.com