PIO MARASCO

Hey Pio. So I think we’ve had more people tell us “You need to interview Pio from MFC” over any other name in the industry. You clearly have a lot of respect in your field…

That is good to hear, thank you! I like to connect with lots of different people, hopefully I can continue this way.

So firstly, tell us a little bit about your background and how MFC came about.

I’m from Napoli, in the south of Italy, and I came to Hawaii at the end of 1989 when I was 18 years old. I’d been involved in windsurfing and surfing since I was a little kid, dreaming that one day I might move to Hawaii. So I followed my dream and I’m happy I did it. I started helping the guys at MFC right away, importing fins into Italy for the first few years, until I learned the whole fin manufacturing process and design;