Ex-chief of Kaiser seeking CEO post
By Vicki Viotti
Advertiser Staff Writer
As Kamehameha Schools approaches its declared end-of-year deadline to name a new chief executive officer, one of the remaining contenders is a woman who once managed Kaiser Permanente in Hawai'i.
Dee Jay Mailer, a Kamehameha graduate, is now chief operating officer of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a nongovernmental organization supported through the United Nations Foundation. Mailer lives in Geneva, where the fund is based.
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Kamehameha officials have not returned calls for comment about the status of their CEO search.
However, Mailer, who until 1999 was senior vice president and regional manager of Kaiser Permanente Hawai'i, confirmed that she is a candidate.
She wrote in an e-mail to The Advertiser that she remains "hopeful" about her application for the school's top post, vacated by the resignation of Hamilton McCubbin in May. She described herself as a 1970 graduate, "one of many students who have greatly benefited from the schools."
Colleen Wong, formerly the schools' chief legal officer, has served as acting CEO since McCubbin's departure, for which he cited "family reasons."
Before assuming her current post, Mailer was senior vice president and chief administrative officer of Health Net, a California health plan.
Mailer headed Kaiser in Hawai'i for 4 1/2 years; for the preceding four years she was its regional hospital administrator.
She graduated from the University of Hawai'i with a masters in business administration, and has a history of community service, having served on the boards of the Hawaii Business Roundtable, Aloha United Way, YMCA of Hawaii, Hawaii Employers Council, Institute for Human Services and Pacific Health Research Institute.
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