Trade Winds
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• SUSAN AU DOYLE, a former head of the YWCA on O'ahu, has been named Aloha United Way vice president and chief operating officer. The promotion, from vice presidenticommunity building, will include responsibility for resource development and will put her in charge of operations during any absences of Irving Lauber, president and chief professional officer. Doyle, who joined AUW in 2001, is a former deputy director of the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs.
• BRADLEY F. TOTHEROW has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of the Honolulu investment counseling firm Cadinha & Co. He has been with the firm for 15 years — a principal for nine years — and most recently was chief investment officer.
• Former KGMB-TV reporter KELLI ABE TRIFONOVITCH, with Hawaii Business since 1999, has been named the regional business magazine's editor. She is formerly the publication's managing editor and senior editor and, most recently, television and new media editor.
Trifonovitch is also a former executive producer for news and public affairs at PBS Hawaii and communications coordinator for former Lt. Gov. Mazie K. Hirono.
• CORALIE CHUN MATAYOSHI, executive director of the Hawaii State Bar Association for the past 13 years, was named chief executive officer of the Hawaii State Chapter of the American Red Cross.
During her career, she served as a trial attorney for the antitrust division of the U.S. Department of Justice; special assistant U.S. attorney for Washington, D.C.; an attorney in private practice; chief policy analyst with the state Senate Committee on Business Development and Pacific Relations; and executive director of the Hawaii Institute for Continuing Legal Education. She is an editor of the Hawaii Bar Journal and was the 1976 Narcissus Festival queen.
• WENDELL KALEI-ANUENUE LEE has been named partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers' Honolulu office and will be the tax and accounting services company's first partner of Hawaiian ancestry. As tax partner, Lee will help lead the tax practice's professional staff of 30, oversee the department's daily operations and develop strategies to meet client needs. Previously, Lee served as senior tax manager, tax manager, senior associate and associate.
• CP Advertising, the full-service advertising agency division of Communications Pacific, has added two staff members, both with prior experience at local medical organizations. MIKE KUWAHARA, formerly art director for Hawaii Pacific Health (and Straub Clinic and Hospital before its incorporation into HPH ), has been named art director of the advertising firm. STEVEN KWOK, formerly a management assistant with Kaiser Permanente, was hired as production manager.
• Easter Seals Hawaii has added three members to its board of directors: EDWARD SULTAN, president and chief executive officer of Edward D. Sultan Co. Ltd.; MARK FELMET, executive vice president at First Hawaiian Bank; and JEFF JERVIK, owner of Papa John's Pizza Hawaii.
• JOSAY FERNANDES, a veteran of spa management at Maui's Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa and at the Hyatt Regency Waikiki Resort and Spa, has been named spa director at the Mandara Spa in the Kalia Tower of the Hilton Hawaiian Village Beach Resort & Spa. In addition to day-to-day operations, Fernandes will be in charge of on- and off-site training for all staff.
• JOHN B. HAPP, most recently senior vice president of marketing and sales with Hawaiian Airlines, has joined the staff of ATA Holdings Corp., parent company of ATA Airlines, the nation's 10th largest airline. As senior vice president of marketing and sales, he will oversee all revenue-related functions for the company. He will be headquartered in Indianapolis.
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