Posted on: Monday, July 30, 2007
Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
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Brian Takeda has been named president of the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Hawai'i, operator of facilities and programs assisting seriously ill children and their families. He replaces Dr. Daniel Robie, a pediatric surgeon with Kapi'olani Medical Center, who rotated out of the presidency on June 30. Takeda is a project planner for R.M. Towill Corp. Also on the Ronald McDonald House board of directors for 2007-2009 are first vice president RICHARD RAND, an attorney with Torkildson, Katz, Fonseca, Moore and Hetherington; second vice president FRANKIE CHUNG, McDonald's Restaurants of Hawai'i multi-department head; secretary TERRI CANO, Designing with TLC interior designer; and treasurer PAUL TAKAYESU, vice president/commercial banking for Bank of Hawaii. Newly elected this year to the volunteer group of business and community leaders that governs the organization are DOREEN GRIFFITH, office managing partner at the accounting firm of Grant Thornton, and BETH LUM, executive vice president of Creative Fundraising Associates.
Raymond S. Ono, executive vice president of First Hawaiian Bank, has been elected to the board of the Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific, for a term through February 2008. Ono manages FHB's Main Banking Region and the Business Banking Segment for Hawai'i, Guam and Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
The Hawai'i Foodbank board of directors has named Mary Sellers, vice chairman and chief risk officer at Bank of Hawaii and a member of the bank's Managing Committee, to a three-year term. Sellers also serves on the board of the Young Women's Christian Association and is a member of its Finance Committee, the board of trustees of the University of Hawai'i Foundation, and the board of the Risk Management Association.
Leah Marx, a former Hawai'i court monitor program specialist for Mothers Against Drunk Driving, has been named executive director of the state organization. She will oversee Mothers Against Drunk Driving program development and management, employees and volunteers; budget and expenditures; and community awareness programs. For more than two decades, MADD-Hawai'i has worked to stop drunken driving and underage drinking, and increase highway safety.
Former Board of Education member, Noemi Pendleton, was appointed by Gov. Linda Lingle as director of the state Executive Office on Aging, an agency attached to the state Department of Health. She was elected to the state school board in November 1996, serving a four-year term as an O'ahu-at-large member. Pendleton has also been a substitute teacher, focusing on history and business law. The Executive Office on Aging funds aging and caregiver support services. It also administers federally funded programs that provide Medicare and health insurance counseling, Medicare and Medicaid fraud prevention education, and advocacy for residents of licensed care facilities. The appointment is effective Aug. 20.
Ameron Hawai'i has promoted Eric Y. Shimabukuro to sales manager, responsible for concrete and aggregate sales on O'ahu. Since 1981, he has held various company positions, most recently, general superintendent of the Ready Mix Department. With more than 250 employees, the almost century-old firm is one of the state's largest producers of concrete and quarry products. It operates out of facilities at Sand Island, Kapa'a Quarry in Kailua, Campbell Industrial Park, and Pu'unene, Maui.
Retired travel and hospitality industry executive — and 31-year Rotarian — DAVE BERRY, has been elected president of the Rotary Club of Ala Moana. Other officers include president-elect Richard Kagehiro, secretary Kevin McCrary, treasurer Greg Concilla and sergeant-at-arms Steve Voight. The club, one of 43 in Hawai'i with more than 2,200 members, was founded in 1972. The international organization of business and professional leaders provides humanitarian service and helps build good will worldwide.
Lance K. Parker has been promoted to vice president, acquisitions and investments, at the real estate subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin Inc. He joined the subsidiary, A&B Properties Inc., in October 2004, as project manager, acquisitions, and was named director, acquisitions, in April 2006. Among his duties will be acquisition and investment in income producing properties, entitled development land, and joint venture development projects in Hawai'i and on the Mainland. He most recently handled A&B Properties' joint venture investment in the Waiawa, O'ahu, master planned community. He is a former associate vice president of Grubb & Ellis Commercial Real Estate, Anaheim, Calif.
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