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The Honolulu Advertiser
Posted on: Monday, November 11, 2002

Trade Winds

Advertiser Staff

MICHAEL E. O'NEILL, chairman, chief executive officer and president of Bank of Hawaii Corp. and its principal subsidiary, Bank of Hawaii, has been named to the board of trustees of Hawai'i Pacific University.

Also named to the private university's board of trustees: STEVEN K. BAKER, a former Citibank executive who serves as a board member at three telephone companies and two investment firms. Baker is founder and chairman of Lanka Bell (private) Ltd., a fixed-wireless telephone company based in Sri Lanka.

DIANE PETERS-NGUYEN, vice president of corporate and public affairs for the marketing and public relations firm The Limtiaco Co., has been named to the city Planning Commission. Peters-Nguyen is a veteran in business development, communications and public relations, nonprofit fund raising and management, and education.

KEITH VIEIRA, senior vice president and director of operations for Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide Inc.-Hawai'i, has been named chairman of the 11-member volunteer board of directors of the new Ho'okako'o Corp. The nonprofit body helps in the transition of certain public schools are turning into charter schools.

Other board officers are vice chair CLAIRE ASAM, who is the executive director of Queen Lili'uokalani Children's Center; president ROSE YAMADA, retired state Department of Education administrator; vice president ROBERT WITT, executive director of the Hawaii Association of Independent Schools; secretary JILL KOUCHI, coordinator of Native Hawaiian Vocational Education Programs at Kaua'i Community College; and treasurer H. MITCHELL D'OLIER, president and chief executive officer of Kane'ohe Ranch and the Harold K.L. Castle Foundation.

CHENG HSIAO, who holds degrees in diplomacy and hospitality management and comes with global experience in the restaurant industry, has been named general manager of MORTON'S, The Steakhouse Honolulu. Hsiao began with the Morton's of Chicago restaurant in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., and a year later was chosen to oversee the opening of the Morton's in Hong Kong. The Honolulu restaurant opened about a year ago on the second level, makai side, of Ala Moana Center.

• Two additions have been named to the 15-member volunteer board of directors of the Ronald McDonald house Charities of Hawai'i: DR. DANIEL K. ROBIE and DENNIS OKAZAKI.

Robie is a pediatric surgeon at Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children and is affiliated with Tripler Army Medical Center, where he was formerly chief of pediatric surgery. Previously, he was pediatric surgery consultant to the Army surgeon general and was chief of pediatric surgery at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Okazaki is vice president of administration for Koga Engineering & Construction Inc.

Since its 1987 opening in Honolulu, the Ronald McDonald House has served thousands of seriously ill children and their families. The charities recently established the Dole Street House.

HAROLD SUGIYAMA, former wastewater division chief in the Hawai'i County Department of Public Works, has been promoted to manager of the consulting engineering firm M&E Pacific Inc. and will be coordinating Big Island projects. Sugiyama previously oversaw the Big Island construction management division of the engineering firm, which maintains offices in Honolulu and Hilo and on Maui.

• Team Vision, a full-service marketing and Web development agency specializing in advertising, copy writing, public relations and promotional work, has hired two graphic designers: TAD SAIKI, primarily responsible for print design, and ANNE SAKUTORI, with primary responsibility for Web development and print design.

Both will work with clients such as Castle & Cooke Homes Hawai'i, the island of Lana'i and Paradise Cove.

Saiki was previously with Dana Labels Inc., Southern Wine and Spirits of Hawai'i and Hawai'i Digital Printing Center; Sakutori, was with RevaComm.

Team vision also hired JULIE FUNASAKI as account executive.

• Castle & Cooke Resorts has named PAUL HORNER and TINA HARLOW as general managers, respectively, of The Manele Bay Hotel and The Lodge at Koele on Lana'i.

Horner was manager at The Lodge at Koele. Harlow was most recently general manager of the Hotel Phillips in Kansas City, Mo.

Announcements of promotions and job changes can be sent to: Trade Winds, Business Section, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; faxed to 525-6763, or e-mailed to business@honoluluadvertiser.com. Photographs may be included but must be identified on the back.