Trade Winds

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• City Bank has announced the hiring of NANCY FUJII as its Lihu'e Branch Manager. She has more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry while working for First Hawaiian Bank and Davenport Bank in Iowa.

• Tiki's Gill & Bar, a casual, retro South Pacific-style restaurant in Waikiki, has named AARON TANGONAN as marketing, sales and public relations coordinator. Prior to joining Tiki's, Tangonan served as a sales gallery associate at the Hilton Grand Vacations Club. Born and raised in Kane'ohe, he is a graduate of Saint Louis School and the University of Hawai'i-Manoa with a degree in Travel Industry Management.

• JAMES ONG has been promoted to Director of Operations for Lana'i by Castle & Cooke Resorts. Ong will oversee the island's support operations, including laundry, bakery, retail, motorpool and transportation services, as well as business development. Prior to joining Castle & Cooke Resorts, Ong was general manager of the 600-room Regal Kowloon Hotel in Hong Kong.

Castle and Cooke Resorts has also announced that HAROLYN SHIMABUKURO-MIYASHIRO will serve as Director of Food and Beverage for The Manele Bay Hotel, supervising Manele Bay's signature Ihilani dining room, the Hulopo'e Court and the Challenge at Manele clubhouse restaurant. Prior to joining Manele's team, she held catering management positions at the Princeville Resort on Kaua'i and the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort & Spa.

MARK TSUCHIYAMA has joined The Manele Bay Hotel as executive chef. Most recently the executive sous chef at Hotel Inter-Continental in Chicago, Tsuchiyama received his degree in culinary arts from the Culinary Institute of America. He trained in the kitchens of Hotel Inter-Continental properties in Geneva, New Orleans and London before joining the culinary staff at such properties as the Drake Hotel in Chicago, Sheraton Maui Hotel and the Beverly HIlls Hotel & Bungalows. He was born and raised on Kaua'i.

• Honolulu resident DANELLE GERBER recently joined the Longaberger Company as an independent sales associate. More than 70,000 associates market and sell the Longaberger line of products in all 50 states through home shows. The company is recognized as the 18th largest woman-owned company in the United States by "Working Woman Magazine."

• The Home Depot has named KEONI QUEYPO store manager of its new Kona store, scheduled to open this month. Queypo will oversee operations including merchandising, hiring and training of managers and sales associates. He was previously co-manager of Home Depot's Pearl City store. Queypo was born and raised in 'Ewa Beach. The Kona Home Depot store is located in the Kaloko Business Park. It is looking to employ 150 to 200 full- and part-time sales associates.

• Mauna Kea Resort has announced that GARY ROCKWOOD will be overseeing its Human Resources Department. He was most recently with Sheraton Waikiki and The Royal Hawaiian hotels. Rockwood served as Director of Personnel and Manpower for U.S. Forces of Japan for four years and has been an associate professor at Hawai'i Pacific University for 20 years.

• DOUG SOBIN of Honolulu recently became a consultant for Tastefully Simple Inc., a national direct-sales company based in Alexandria, Minn. As a consultant, Sobin conducts in-home presentations of gourmet foods.

• Bank of Hawaii has hired new residential loan officers to serve at loan service centers statewide. They are:

• BRANDI CORPUS, who recently joined the bank's mortgage banking division as a residential loan officer and serves the Kapolei Loan Center. She has been with the bank for three years, most recently as a consumer sales representative in private client services.
• KATHY HASEBE recently joined the bank's mortgage banking division as a residential loan officer and serves the West Oahu Loan Center. She has been with the bank for more than 18 years, serving most recently as a senior lending officer in private client services. Hasebe is fluent in Japanese.
• MICHAEL MEDINA recently joined the bank's mortgage banking division as a residential loan officer and serves the Kona Loan Center. He has been with the bank for more than 13 years, most recently as a private banking officer in private client services.
• GLORIA YEE MENOR has joined the bank's mortgage banking division as a senior residential loan officer and serves the West Oahu Loan Center. She has more than 20 years of experience in the finance industry, having served briefly as a residential loan officer at Hawaii Home Loans. Before that, she was a loan center manager at Bank of Hawaii's Kapolei Loan Center.
• ANN SAKAMOTO recently joined the bank's mortgage banking division as a residential loan officer and serves the Maui Loan Center. She was previously a business banking officer, focusing on West Maui and Moloka'i.
• SCOTT SUMI recently joined the bank's mortgage banking division as a residential loan officer and works at the Kapolei Loan Center. He has been with the bank for more than seven years, most recently as a business banking officer in the Pearlridge branch.
• TARA CONKLIN has joined the bank as a residential loan officer and serves the Kauai Loan Center. She has more than six years experience in the mortgage banking industry.

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