Trade Winds

Advertiser Staff

• RONALD WILLIAMS, since 1996 chief operating officer of Atlantis Adventures, owner/operator of Atlantis Submarines and Navatek Cruises, has been named president and chief executive officer. Williams joined the company in 1995 as general manager of Atlantis Submarines' Maui location, one of 10 in Hawai'i, the Caribbean and Guam. He is also a veteran of 14 years in the local visitor and car rental industry, most recently as senior vice president of Tropical Rent-A-Car. Atlantis is also the manager of Sea Life Park Hawai'i and Waimea Falls Park, as well as the marketing agent for the Battleship Missouri Memorial.

• MAILE KANEMARU, overall project coordinator of Weed and Seed Hawai'i, has been named executive director. Her appointment comes as the organization works to establish a third focus site, adding to programs in Kalihi-Palama/Chinatown and Waipahu.

• Also joining the Weed and Seed program: REINA MIYAMOTO, new coordinator of the Kalihi-Palama/Chinatown site. She was most recently youth program director for the YMCA.

• Starwood Hotels & Resorts Hawai'i has appointed general managers for three of its 13 state properties. CRAIG ANDERSON, former general manager of the Princeville Resort on Kaua'i, has been named general manager of the 760-room Westin Maui near Ka'anapali. Anderson's successor at the four-star, 252-room Princeville Resort is KELLY HOEN, previously general manager of Kapalua Bay Hotel on Maui. She in turn has been succeeded at Kapalua by Jon Gersonde, who was hotel manager at The Westin Maui.

Other visitor industry appointments:

• Benchmark Hospitality, the management company based on Woodland, Texas, has named DALE R. TERRY as controller at the Turtle Bay Resort, formerly the Turtle Bay Hilton Golf and Tennis Resort, as the Kahuku oceanfront property undergoes a $35 million renovation. Terry most recently was director of finance for Vanion, a Colorado telecommunications company, and is a past controller for Cheyenne Mountain Resort, also a Benchmark property, in Colorado Springs. Renovation on the 485-room hotel at Turtle Bay, financed by new owners Oaktree Capital Management LLC, is expected to be complete in September, with its meeting and event space more than doubled. It will also expand one of its two golf courses and add a full-service spa.

• MYRA KAMIHARA, previously sales manager at the Miramar at Waikiki hotel, has been named director of sales for Marc Resorts Hawai'i, manager of 20 properties statewide.

• Sixteen-year Marriott veteran MARK BARNES, most recently Maui-based direction of national accounts for Marriott and Renaissance Resorts Hawai'i, has been named director of marketing for the JW Marriott 'Ihilani Resort and Spa at Ko Olina. He will be responsible for all advertising, public relations and sales for the hotel and spa.

• Outrigger Enterprises has named ALAN WHITE to the newly created position of vice president of operations and information technology, overseeing both Outrigger and 'Ohana hotel brands. White is a 20-year senior management veteran in the lodging and travel software and service industries. He a former senior vice president of ENCORE system Inc., where he was responsible for design and development of the Hyatt Hotels property management system, central reservations systems for Ritz-Carlton Hotel Co. and Harley Hotels, and a shipboard management system for the luxury cruise industry.

• Lana'i Resorts has two new sales managers. JOAN MORGAN, a past director of sales with Prince Hotels Hawai'i and Doubletree Hotels, is sales manager for the Midwestern region; and Paul Rapozo, a former national sales manager for the Westin Maui and Princeville Resort, is sales manager with the Lana'i resort and will focus on the independent traveler.

• SALVATORE R. FROIO, a registered public accountant and former Sheraton Corp. and accounting firm executive, has been named general manager of the 11-acre, 312-room Kaua'i Coconut Beach Resort fronting Waipouli Beach.

• The Honolulu chapter of Executive Women International has chosen its new board of directors: president, Cathy Iwai of Pearl City Nursing Home; vice president/president-elect, Susan Tanigawa of C.S. Wo & Sons; secretary, Kay Sasaki of Aon Risk Services; and treasurer, Estelle Hayashi of IBM Corp.

• Monique Faulkner has been named food-and-beverage director for the three-acre Maui Ocean Center marine park, overseeing operations at its Seascape Ma'alaea Restaurant and Reef Cafe, as well as banquet functions. Faulkner most recently was assistant food-and-beverage manager at the Grand Wailea Resort and Spa and, before that, a manager for Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. in Lahaina.

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