First Hawaiian Bank promoted three senior executives to vice chairman, calling them "the core of the bank's senior management team of the future."

Robert Fujioka will become vice chairman and chief lending officer and will be in charge of First Hawaiian's commercial banking group. He will head the bank's lending activities for commercial real estate, corporate banking and leasing.

Raymond Ono will be vice chairman responsible for the business banking and the bank's wealth management group, while Chief Risk Officer Robert Harrison will head the bank's trust and investment functions.

The promotions take effect Dec. 1.

"They each have exceptional leadership skills and their demonstrated core values are very much aligned with those of the bank," said Don Horner, First Hawaiian's president and chief executive officer.

Fujioka joined First Hawaiian in 1996 and has more than 33 years of banking experience in Hawai'i and on the Mainland. The Punahou grad has a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a master's of business administration from the University of Hawai'i.

Harrison joined First Hawaiian Bank in 1996 and has nearly two decades of experience in the financial services industry. He has a degree in applied mathematics from UCLA and an MBA from Cornell University in New York.

Ono joined First Hawaiian in 1978 as a trainee and worked his way through the ranks. The 'Iolani School alum holds an undergraduate degree and MBA from Willamette University in Oregon.

Founded in 1858, First Hawaiian is the state's largest financial institution with $12.5 billion in assets.

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