Robbie Cabral

Roberta Le’a Kapi’olani Cabral (“Robbie Cabral”) founded IDG in 1998 and serves as the Senior Advisor. A Native Hawaiian with a keen appreciation for indigenous cultures, Robbie is the catalyst behind IDG’s Native-to-Native (N2N) community based development model that is breaking barriers in the renewable energy field. To date, IDG has established successful joint ventures, negotiated win-win transactions, and is bringing to fruition two large-scale geothermal power plant projects (each in excess of 50 MW) in New Zealand. In a Senior Advisory capacity, Robbie has leveraged IDG’s strengths in identifying the right alliances (from technical expertise in a highly specialized field to access to capital to investment partners) and created a vision that will bring significant, sustainable value in a replicable model that makes sense commercially, environmentally, and culturally. For the past decade, IDG has been working to promote N2N partnerships in New Zealand. Robbie has played a strategic role in providing consultancy and managing capital building with the intelligent development of indigenous assets. Unique to the model supporting these first geothermal projects is capitalizing on the intrinsic value of assets as equity in the project, assuring participation of the land trust owners in governance and policy-making while creating jobs, providing training and scholarships, and directly benefitting communities through the creation of a viable energy alternative. This model reflects Robbie’s vision that has consistently been the foundation of her work serving Native communities. She has a demonstrated track record of success in identifying and building collaborative bridges across multicultural communities in the Asia-Pacific region. She has proven herself to be a trusted partner. A key element of IDG’s continued commitment to renewable resources will be to replicate the success experienced in New Zealand in other areas of the world, including Hawaii. IDG will continue to promote sensitive, carefully planned development that delivers results to Native stakeholders; provides long-term value to end users in the form of sustainable, renewable energy; assures appropriate rates of return to investors; and ensures preservation of culturally important environmental resources.

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