Kevin Hughes (LinkedIn profile) is an internationally-recognized pioneer in Web design and software. Hughes started Hawaii's first Web server at Honolulu Community College in May of 1993 and soon joined Enterprise Integration Technologies (EIT) in Palo Alto, California as their Webmaster. EIT was acquired by VeriFone and bought by Hewlett-Packard in 1997. One of only six members of the World Wide Web Hall of Fame, in March of 1994 Hughes was presented the award by Tim-Berners Lee (the recognized inventor of the Web) at the First International World Wide Web conference in Geneva.

Hughes has worked with the World Wide Web Consortium on the Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) standard and holds three patents for the interface for VeriFone's vWallet, their consumer wallet application. He also developed "imagemap", which allows images on the Web to have multiple clickable regions. Hughes' many other "firsts" include:

• First campus-wide information service on the Web;
• First online cable TV listings on the Web (for the Jones Cable Network);
• First shopping site (for the Internet Shopping Network);
• First site for CommerceNet, the first ecommerce consortium;
• Interface for the first XML-based procurement system (with NTT);
• Interface for the first business-to-business trading portal (MarketSite.net), and
• First Web presence for Wells Fargo and BankOne (now CitiBank).

Until 2002 Kevin Hughes was a Senior Software Engineer for Commerce One in Cupertino, California, where he helped develop the core software architecture for their platform. That year he became the youngest recipient of the University of Hawaii's Distinguished Alumni Award.

He is currently a full-time resident of Honolulu.

He is currently a full-time resident of Honolulu and has started a non-profit organization called the Forward Foundation which aims to improve the arts, music, and environment via the use of technology.

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