Trade Winds

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• Island radio personality NOE TANIGAWA and former Hawai'i Public Radio president AL HULSEN — also a founder of National Public Radio — have been named to new on-air posts with HPR, beginning this month.

Hulsen, president and general manager of HPR from 1992 to 1996, will take over as local host for the broadcast, "All Things Considered," a program he helped create, on KHPR (88.1 FM), KKUA (90.7 FM, Maui) and KANO (91.1 FM, Hilo).

Included will be his "Pacific Island News" and "The Asia Report."

Hulsen is the 1979 recipient of public radio's highest honor, the Edward R. Murrow Award.

Tanigawa, HPR legislative reporter, will cover arts and culture. She was news director and news anchor at KINE and KCCN, and program director and announcer for I-94 FM. She is also an artist.

• ADAM "AKA" WEDEMEYER and WILLIAM J. LALLY have been named broker-in-charge and vice president, respectively, for new Kona offices of real estate brokerage services company CB Richard Ellis. The office is in the Kona Marketplace on Ali'i Drive in Kailua. Wedemeyer was formerly an industrial sales and leasing agent; Lally, vice president, commercial real estate, with CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group, in Anaheim, Calif.

CB Richard Ellis, headquartered in Los Angeles, provides property sales, leasing and management, corporate services, facilities and project management, mortgage banking, investment management, capital markets, appraisal and valuation, research and consulting.

• ALYSON J. NAKAMURA has been promoted to assistant general counsel at Alexander & Baldwin Inc. She will continue to serve as corporate secretary, a position she assumed in February 1999. With expertise in ever-changing corporate governance laws and developments, she has been instrumental in management activities, such as the company's code of conduct, and implemented shareholder voting by telephone and Intranet. Nakamura joined A&B in 1994 as assistant corporate secretary and, before that, was an attorney for Cades Schutte Fleming & Wright.

• ALLAN R. LANDON, vice chairman and chief financial officer for Bank of Hawaii Corp., has been elected to the 27-member community board of directors for the Hawaii Medical Service Association. He fills a "community-at-large" seat on the body, which is composed of representatives, also, from healthcare, business, labor, government, education and clergy. Landon also serves as a member of the board of directors for Bank of hawaii and its various subsidiaries.

• FRANK CHO, former business reporter for The Honolulu Advertiser, has been hired by Communications Pacific as an account supervisor.

At The Advertiser, Cho reported on Hawai'i's banking and health insurance industries, real estate development, airlines, utilities and the nonprofit community. He has also worked for Pacific Business news, Bloomberg Financial News and The Environmental News.

Former St. Francis Medical Healthcare System of Hawaii spokeswoman MAGGIE JARRETT has also been hired by Communications Pacific as a director in the company's corporate communications group.

At St. Francis, the public relations veteran had been vice president, handling crisis communications — including serving as hospital spokeswoman during the hospital's nurses strike in 2002 — directing all internal and external communications, advertising and community relations, as well as being responsible for volunteer programs, telecommunications and the gift shop. She has also worked as director of public and physician relations for The Queen's Medical Center, and with the Secret Service, White House medical team, and national and local media during disasters.

• YVETTE SANTIAGO has been named director of human resources at the Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort. The 17-year industry veteran is former area director for Marriott International's Senior Living Services division, serving as liaison for the training, development and consulting of 21 senior-living services communities nationwide. She has also worked in human resources at Marriott properties in New York, Florida and New Jersey.

Also appointed at the resort:

• DONNA LYNN NAKAI and IRIS SHIMOKAWA as director of event planning and associate event manager, Asia Pacific, respectively. Nakai was previously convention services manager at the Hawai'i Visitors & Convention Bureau, and before that, catering and convention services manager for Hilton Hawaiian Village Resort.

• SMG Hawaii, manager and marketer for the Hawai'i Convention Center, has named MARITESS GEPIELAGO client services coordinator responsible for assisting clients with planning and conducting their convention. She is former executive assistant for The Recording Academy, responsible for the Grammy Awards, and has worked locally with Tom Moffatt Productions and 93.9 FM radio station.

• Honolulu attorney MICHAEL NAUYOKAS has become the second attorney in Hawai'i to be inducted as a fellow in the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. The organization consists of 75 of the most qualified mediators nationwide.

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