PIAE Team

DANNY & JAYMI

Danny (co-founder of the Pacific Ink & Art Expo) and Jaymi are a husband and wife team both raised on the beautiful island of Oahu. They reside in Kane'ohe where they work from home while raising their two children. Danny grew up in and around the tattoo industry since he was 11 years old. He credit Larry, Leonard and Jacob Hanks as introducing him to the culture at a very young age while hanging out at Aloha Tattoo most days after elementary school. This started his fascination with art not only in the physical realms of tattooing but the sonic realms of making music. Danny sang for the international known punk band National Product which brought him around the world and deeper into tattoo culture. He would also sing for the legendary punk band Pennywise after Jim left the band as a fill in during their European stint. Following a career in music he got into the management of tattoo artists elevating the careers of several artists on the hit show LA INK. This management career took him around the world to other tattoo conventions which led to the event we now know here in Hawaii as The Pacific Ink and Art Expo aka The Hawaii Tattoo Expo. When not working on the tattoo expo he spends time with his family on their farm. He surfs and has started training in BJJ. He also still makes music under a group known as Turning Roots

MIA & GREG FREY

Every successful business depends upon long lasting & dedicated partnerships and linkages which cooperatively & collaboratively work together over time to "drive & thrive" and to succeed on all levels. MIA & GREG know a thing or two themselves about great, long lasting & successful partnerships. College sweethearts over 40 years ago, these two have been together ever since, getting through life on their terms, TOGETHER. Married for over 38 years now, each improves the other, and neither of these two positive-minded folks stands in the way of the other's dreams, goals & ambitions. The P.I.A.E 'Ohana is lucky to have these two!

As one of Hawaii's premiere (& oft-times highly sought after) Family Law attorneys, GREG donated ungodly hours to PIAE's four founders (Danny Casler, Tama Hall, Palani Fernandez & Kevin Read), tapping into his legal knowledge & experience all those years ago to help develop all the PIAE paperwork, to include legal releases and other formal materials needed & necessary to insure PIAE's success & development & stability. MIA supported GREG's every effort, and along the way, befriended and supported the entire PIAE 'Ohana. Later, in 2014, the PIAE founders offered GREG the opportunity to become a co-owner of this visionary Expo, and MIA was behind the effort 1000%, and was (and still is) totally in support of GREG's decision "to just do it". For many years now, MIA has become an essential & important part of the PIAE team and is both Director of Merchandise & Retail Sales and Stage Entertainment & Event Coordinator, drawing from her decades of Hawaii Retail Management experience at the highest levels. GREG assists MIA at all levels and as PIAE's co-owner, handles all financial and legal matters for the Expo as well as numerous PIAE office matters, artist/celebrity contracts, car & bicycle & motorcycles contests and shows and Trophy selection for the famed PIAE Tattoo contests.

Look for MIA & GREG on the PIAE floor. They are good people, and always willing and wanting to talk story about PIAE and its dedicated 'Ohana, MIA & GREG live in East Honolulu with their Lemon Beagle, LINUS. They have two Island born adult daughters, both of whom are married and now living on the mainland and have two grandchildren.