CITY MILL

City Mill has announced a new addition to the senior management team, as well as several management promotions.

Elise Burkart has been promoted to chief financial officer. She has worked as City Mill's controller for the past five years and has been responsible for overseeing financial, credit and information technology aspects of the firm.

Toby Ginoza has been promoted to controller. She will continue to be responsible for day-to-day accounting and financial reporting for the firm and its subsidiaries.

Lena Young joins City Mill as human resources manager. She has 32 years of human resources experience and was most recently vice president of human resources at Hilo Hattie's.

David McKale has been promoted from loss prevention supervisor to loss prevention manager.

NAGAMINE OKAWA ENGINEERS

George Gutierrez Jr. has been promoted from associate to senior associate at the structural engineering firm of Nagamine Okawa Engineers Inc. His recent experience includes the structural design of the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian Hotel public space renovations.

COMMUNICATIONS PACIFIC

Communications Pacific has hired six new staff members. They are:

Bree Dallwitz, account supervisor, from Melbourne, Australia, with nearly 10 years of public relations experience in the Asia-Pacific region.

Andrew Pontti, senior account executive, previously with global public relations agency Weber Shandwick in New York, where he executed programs for multinational corporations.

Nicole LaBerge, account executive, former assistant program coordinator and information specialist at the Hawaii National Guard Youth Challenge Academy.

Makana Shook, account executive, previously communications specialist with the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement.

Duane Ikeda, production assistant, former advertising, marketing and promotions coordinator for Team Vision.

Marga Genova, IT specialist, former office technician and computer operator for San Fernando High School in California.

WATTS CONSTRUCTORS

Mabini Zuniga has joined Watts Constructors as senior estimator.

Watts also appointed John Sage as general manager overseeing the firm's Micronesia operations.

ARC OF HILO

Arc of Hilo has hired Tanya Yamanaka Aynessazian as marketing director. She has more than 15 years of experience in marketing and project management in the healthcare and manufacturing industries.

Also hired was Dixie Kaetsu as controller. She has more 30 years of experience in finance and management, 10 of them with Hawai'i County and eight as managing director under former Mayor Harry Kim.

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