Posted on: Monday, November 14, 2005
Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
Chocolate manufacturer Hawaiian Host Inc. has named KEITH SAKAMOTO president, replacing DENNIS TERANISHI, who was named vice chairman while retaining his title as chief executive officer. Sakamoto joined Hawaiian Host in 1994 as senior vice president, finance and administration, and was most recently executive vice president, overseeing sales and marketing. Also, DENNIS MAEDA was named executive vice president, responsible for overseeing the company's administrative and financial activities. He will also handle all special projects and oversee farmer relations with more than 600 macadamia nut growers.
MONICA GRANT has been named vice president of resource development for the YMCA of Honolulu, overseeing all YMCA capital campaigns, currently including construction of the new Leeward YMCA in Waipahu. Grant will also plan and coordinate association-wide fundraising and marketing strategies for the nine YMCA branches.
LAUREN NAHME has been named chief financial officer of Hawaii State Federal Credit Union. The 62,322-member organization has a field of membership open to nearly one-third the state's population, including all state and county employees — and their immediate families — statewide.
Island Air has named ROSS M. FUJIMOTO director of information technologies and PAULETTE L. TOLEDO sales and marketing manager for the U.S. Mainland. Fujimoto was previously program manager and senior advisory systems engineer for Verizon Communications in Honolulu and Dallas. Toledo was most recently director of sales and marketing for SunTrips Inc.
MYRON K. THOMPSON, son of the late Bishop Estate trustee Myron B. "Pinky" Thompson, has been named president of Hawaiian Homestead Technology Inc., part of a national initiative of Native Hawaiian, Indian and Alaska native peoples and interests to establish technology jobs in rural native communities. The locally owned and operated document conversion/digitization firm has 21 employees at technology centers in Anahola, Kaua'i, and Waimanalo, and is set to open a third site in Papakolea in 2006. The firm is a subsidiary of the nonprofit Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement.
ALVIN PARKER and JOHN ALAMODIN have been named co-chairs of the Council for Native Hawaiian Advancement. Parker has represented Na Lei Na'auao Alliance on the council for two years. Alamodin is executive director of Lunalilo Home. Also, the council has announced the reappointment of ROBIN DANNER as chief executive officer and president; NAPALI WOODE as senior vice president; and LILIA KAPUNIAI and Jade Danner, as vice presidents.
Hui Malama Ola No 'Oiwi has named B. NINIAU SIMMONS chief operations officer/chief financial officer for its Big Island Native Hawaiian Healthcare system. Also, PAULETTE CHING was named as the organization's new executive secretary. Hui Malama Ola No 'Oiwi, established by Congress in 1991 as a result of the Native Hawaiian Healthcare Act, provides no-cost/low-cost health services — including nutrition and diabetes counseling, cancer awareness and perinatal classes — for Native Hawaiians.
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