• Attorney MARIE L. MISAWA, a recent visiting scholar to the University of Tokyo, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, has joined the law partnership of Oshima Chun Fong & Chung. She is a former judicial intern under Judge Simeon R. Acoba Jr. of the Hawai'i Intermediate Court of Appeals. In Japan, Misawa spent the past year studying intellectual property and Internet law, with emphasis on Internet commerce, trademarks and domain name regulation.

• Several new vice presidents have been named at Bank of Hawaii:

• PAUL ANDES, previously broker-in-charge and vice president of agent services for Prudential Locations, Honolulu, has joined the bank as vice president and retail loan origination manager of retail loan centers in Pearlridge, downtown and Kahala.

• MARGARET DANG, manager of the bank's client experience department, has been promoted from assistant vice president to vice president, continuing as department manager and overseeing all customer points of contact at bank branches and the Internet.

• LYNNETTE DINELL, market research manager, was promoted from assistant vice president to vice president, continuing her duties as research manager.

• TIMOTHY YOUNG has been named vice president and manager of therecently formed real estate investment banking unit, part of the bank's commercial real estate loan division.

• RON KOMINE, resident manager of the 242-unit Banyan Tree Plaza, at South Beretania and Punahou streets, has been chosen resident manager of the quarter by Certified Management Inc. Komine has been assigned to the condominium for less than a year. The complex is best known as the location of ground-floor Spa Fitness Center.

• Visitor industry appointments:

• ALEX KAHULUWALIA has been named food and beverage director of the Maui Marriott Resort and Ocean Club. He is former director of operations at the Renaissance Wailea Beach Resort, Renaissance Denver Hotel and Renaissance Los Angeles Hotel. Among responsibilities will be oversight of the refurbished Va Bene-Italian Beachside Grill, Nalu Sunset Bar and Sushi, Pool Bar, and Beach Walk Market Place and Pantry; and supervision of the resort's catering operations.

• WAYNE STERLING, a 25-year hospitality industry veteran in Hawai'i and the Pacific, and former general manager of the Outrigger Waikiki on the Beach hotel, has been named general manager of the new 'Ohana Keauhou Beach Resort. The 311-room resort became the first 'Ohana-managed property on the Big Island in August. Sterling has held executive positions at a number of local properties — including the former Royal Waikoloan (now the Outrigger Waikoloa Beach), the Coral Reef and Pacific Monarch hotels, and the Coco Palms Resort — and oversaw the opening of the then-Outrigger Hotel Tahiti.

• Replacing Sterling as general manager of the Outrigger Waikiki is KIMBERLY AGAS, former assistant general manager of the hotel and, most recently, acting general manager. Agas is a veteran of serval other Outrigger hotels — including hotel manager of the Outrigger Village and Coral Seas hotels.

• The Grand Wailea Resort Hotel and Spa on Maui has added three new members to its food and beverage team: KEVIN B. MCDONOUGH, formerly director of food and beverage at The Orchid at Mauna Lani on the Big Island, named to the same position at Grand Wailea; ERIC D. FAIVRE, formerly executive chef, also at The Orchid at Mauna Lani, named new executive chef at Wailea; and ISAAC TAMADA, new Wailea executive pastry chef, formerly pastry chef for The Lodge at Ko'ele and Manele Bay Resort on Lana'i.