Mike joined Maui Jim as President after two decades of experience in the ophthalmic industry in various management positions with RLI Corporation. He is a graduate of the College of St. Scholastica in Duluth, Minnesota, which he attended on a hockey scholarship and was the school’s first All-American. Mike was president of RLI Vision and the mainland USA distributor for Maui Jim Sunglasses prior to being purchased by Maui Jim in 1996. Since 1996, Maui Jim has grown from a small regional sunglass company to the third largest sunglass company in the world. From their small office in Maui, Maui Jim today has 13 subsidiaries around the globe, and has enjoyed 20 years of double digit growth. Now with over 900 employees and payrolls in over 40 countries, Maui Jim truly operates as a small multinational company.