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• Servco Insurance Services (SIS), one of the Servco Pacific Co. family of businesses, has named BRADFORD M. TOKIOKA vice president. He will be responsible for new commercial businesses and will be a member of the account development unit. He was most recently vice president for Atlas Insurance Co. SIS offers businesses and families a range of commercial and personal insurance coverage, with offices on O'ahu, the Big Island and Maui.

• CLAUDIA ARBAUGH has been hired as community relations/marketing director for the 108-unit independent and assisted-living rental condominium, The Plaza at Punchbowl, expected to open in December. The six-story project at 918 Lunalilo St. is designed to cater to residents as they age, with rental units providing independent living; services such as bathing and dressing assistance, or medication management, to those who need help with daily needs; and memory care for those with Alzheimer's or dementia. Arbaugh is a 20-year veteran of healthcare marketing in Hawai'i, most recently as senior staffing manager at Nursefinders.

• Finance Factors Ltd. has announced a reorganization and expansion of its Information Systems Department, with added focus on electronic delivery and information security of customer and company information. As part of the move, two promotions were announced:

• STEPHEN WATANABE, most recently the company's information systems security officer, named vice president/information technology manager.
• BOB SOUZA, formerly in a number of capacities in the department, including Data Center manager and systems administrator, was promoted to assistant vice president of the Data Center services.

The bank also announced the hiring of CHRISTOPHER CHUNG and EVERETT AKAGI as information systems security administrator, and information systems network administrator, respectively.

• KRISTI MANGUCHEI and CAROL BRITTINGHAM have been named catering sales manager and sales coordinator, respectively, for the Hawai'i Convention Center. Manguchei was previously assistant director of operations for Panache, a big Island destination management company. Brittingham was most recently assistant systems analyst for Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa.

• JACQUE MARTIN has been named to the newly created position of communications director of the Hawaii Medical Association, also to be involved with events planning, membership relations, and coordinating publications and Web site efforts, for the nonprofit professional organization. She is a retired National Guard major; most of her military career was spent as a public affairs officer. She has also served as communications director for an economic development firm in the Rocky Mountain Front Range.

• CDS International, a Honolulu-based multidisciplinary design firm providing architectural, planning and interior design services throughout Hawai'i and the Pacific, has promoted GLENN Y.H. YOKOTAKE to associate. He joined the firm in 1996, and serves as project manager and architect for a variety of projects for public agency, institutional and private sector clients, and leads master-planning and feasibility study projects.

• JIM P. DELANEY — a 33-year veteran of the U.S. Navy's Nuclear Propulsion Program and a past recipient locally of the Thomas Jefferson Award for community service — has been named vice president for engineering services, for BES, a provider of environmental and engineering services in Hawai'i. Most recently, he worked with Perot Systems Government Services as senior project director, assigned to manage the Office of Congressional Affairs for the Program Executive Officer, Submarines. While in the Navy, Delaney served in a variety of capacities, including nuclear chemistry and radiological controls supervisor and nuclear incident response manager. BES is a member of the Marathon Group of companies, which includes BEI Hawaii, distributor of industrial chemicals, fertilizers and agricultural chemicals, and HT&T Hawaii, full-service truck dealer.

• Honolulu-based NetEnterprise, a full-service information technology company, has hired JEFF BALLARD for the newly created position of vice president of sales and marketing. Ballard comes to NetEnterprise from Satellite Marketing, the marketing services firm he founded to provide emerging and fast-growing technology companies with sales and marketing expertise.

• MARC S. KENNEDY has been promoted from operations manager to vice president, operations, of Sunny Hawaii, wholesaler of tropically inspired handbags. He will be responsible for distribution, administration, accounting and customer service, and brings more than 35 years of retail and wholesale apparel/accessory experience in Hawai'i, with such firms as Liberty House, Ocean Pacific and Tori Richard.

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