Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
• TERESA HAUNANI MAKUAKANE-Drechsel, a Kamehameha Schools alumna and faculty veteran, has been named to the newly created post of director of financial aid of Counseling and Scholarship Services, a division of Ke Ali'i Pauahi Foundation. She is an author, the editor of several academic publications and the recipient of the Kamehameha Alumni Association Achievement Award.
• SHAWN MALIA KANAIAUPUNI, 1983 Kamehameha graduate, has been named director of policy analysis and system evaluation, the research arm of Kamehameha Schools. She previously served as assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; at Kamehameha Schools as demographer/ research scientist, and on the clinical faculty, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Public Health Sciences and Epidemiology.
• HENRY BENNETT, editor and publications specialist for The Kamehameha Schools Press since 1992, has been named to the new post of director. He has served as director of the Media Production Center and associate managing editor for the Curriculum Research and Development Group at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa. As editor/manager of Bishop Museum Press, he oversaw production of Mary Kawena Pukui's acclaimed "'Olelo No'eau." He remains president of Honolulu-based publishing consultancy Independent Resources.
• Verizon Hawai'i has announced several appointments:
• ANN NISHIDA as media relations manager and company spokeswoman.
• NELSON TANAKA, 32-year company veteran, promoted from senior sales engineer to manager of customer operations for Maui, overseeing residential and business operations for that island, Moloka'i and Lana'i.
• Albert Swierzy as director for network system performance for the Hawai'i region of Verizon Wireless, including overseeing a $25 million network investment plan this year. Before joining the wireless industry, Swierzy managed satellite and spacecraft communication system design and testing for McDonnell Douglas Space Systems.
• JOHN HERMAN has been named president and chief operating officer of Desert Island Restaurants, parent company of the three Ruth's Chris Steak Houses in Hawai'i. The restaurants' founder, RANDY SCHOCH, has been named new chief executive officer.
Both will be based in Scottsdale, Ariz. The restaurant chain also includes Roy's restaurant in Scottsdale and Phoenix, Ariz., and Newport Beach, Calif.
Herman's Hawai'i experience has included serving as president of the Palomino restaurant group for Restaurants Unlimited, owners of Kincaid's Fish Chop and Steak House at Ward Warehouse; Ryan's Grill at Ward Centre; and the downtown Palomino Restaurant Rotisseria Bar.
• JODY KONO, who joined the Hawai'i Convention Center as sales manager before its 1998 opening, has been promoted to national sales manager, overseeing booking of meetings, events and conventions in the Japan market as well as the Western and Midwestern regional markets of the United States. She is a former employee of Grove Farm Land Corp. and Kukui Grove Center on Kaua'i.
MARI TAIT was hired as executive housekeeper at the convention center. She held the same title at the Queen Kapi'olani Hotel and worked for Hawaiian Regent Hotel and Kahala Hilton Hotel.
• SHERRI YIM, former vice president and controller for Central Pacific Bank, has been promoted to senior vice president and controller, overseeing financial management and accounting functions for parent company CPB Inc., CPB and affiliates. She was the supervising senior auditor at KPMG and senior auditor in the Office of the Internal Auditor, University of Hawai'i-Manoa.
• Wayne Ogawa, veteran of more than 30 years of financial institution branch management, has been named regional vice president of branch operations for American Savings Bank, overseeing 14 branches on Maui, Moloka'i and Kaua'i. He previously oversaw the bank's branches on Kaua'i and six on O'ahu.
• TRACIE MUKAI has been named branch manager for the Kapi'olani location of Finance Factors Ltd., replacing ALISON SHIROMA, who was promoted to assistant vice president and manager of the bank's downtown branch. Mukai will be responsible for overseeing branch operations, and internal and external sales.
• Bank of Hawaii has appointed new senior vice presidents:
• GRAHAM "BUCKY" ANDERSON as senior vice president and retail credit manager, responsible for managing the credit risk of all bank products in the retail/consumer and small-business segment. He is a former national bank examiner.
• Derek Baughman as senior vice president and manager of IMSG/Information Delivery Services. He will oversee all computer operations, as well as departments responsible for the bank's network and distributed systems. Baughman has been with the bank since 1995 as an information technologist.
• LEE CARSON, Bank of Hawaii senior vice president, has been appointed division manager of Bankoh Loan Center, succeeding KATHY FUJIHARA-CHONG, senior vice president, who has joined the bank's retail banking division's management team. Carson will be responsible for managing credit approvals for small business and consumer loans in the state and Western Pacific. Most recently, she served in Australia, managing the bank's alliance with Bank of Queensland.
