A voluntary fifteen member-elected Board governs the Hawai‘i Academy of Reocording Arts, a non-profit organization founded in 1982 to promote Hawai‘i's recording industry and the music of Hawai‘i.

President
Ku‘uipo Kumukahi

Vice President
Pali Ka‘aihue

Secretary
Lea Uehara

Treasurer
John Aeto

Governors
Keola Donaghy
Hailama Farden
Maria Hickling
Gaylord Holomalia
Fred Krauss
Mailani Makainai
Kenneth Makuakane
Tim Mathre
William G. Meyer, III
Skylark Rossetti
Marlene Sai