Trade Winds
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• MARIAN TSUJI has been appointed head of Lanakila Rehabilitation Center. She is former deputy director in charge of corrections for the state Department of Public Safety, and before that was chief of staff for Lt. Gov. Mazie Hirono. Tsuji's appointment as president and chief executive officer comes at the start of the first-ever capital campaign for the nonprofit rehabilitation center for people with physical, cognitive or age-related challenges. Money raised will be used to improve the kitchen facilities, which generate an average of 2,700 meals a day for the Meals on Wheels program for homebound people, Alu Like and Wai'anae Comprehensive Health Center, and for groups such as preschools without cooking facilities.
• GREGG YAMANAKA, president of the computer training firm TeraBiz, is among nine new members of the 31-member Hawai'i Workforce Development Council. The gubernatorial and legislative advisory body also serves as the state's federally mandated Workforce Investment Board. The new council also includes state Rep. SCOTT NISHIMOTO and state Sen. NORMAN SAKAMOTO; TODD K. APO, vice president, Ko Olina Community Association, and board member and officer of the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp.; MARCIA ARMSTRONG, chairwoman, collective bargaining committee, University of Hawai'i Professional Assembly, and Kapi'olani Community College professor; MICHAEL FITZGERALD, president and chief executive officer, Enterprise Honolulu; SIGNE GODFREY, president, Olsten Staffing Services; ERWIN HUDELIST, president, Hagadone Printing Co.; and STEPHEN METTER, chief executive officer and principal of MW Group Ltd., and principal broker, MW Commercial Realty Inc.
• HAIDEE O. KANAKANUI has been promoted to vice president of D. Buyers Enterprises LLC. The company was formed in 2001 when J.W.A. "Doc" Buyers acquired assets from C. Brewer & Co. Ltd. Kanakanui was most recently assistant vice president and treasurer with the new company, after transferring from C. Brewer & Co. Besides being involved in several real-estate ventures, the new company is the world's leading producer of guava-based juices, and manages the world's largest macadamia grower, ML Macadamia Orchards.
• DENNIS H. MIYASHIRO has been named manager of the First Hawaiian Bank Wai'anae branch. He was promoted from personal banking officer. Also promoted was KIMBERLY K. GREENLY, to assistant vice president and product management analyst in the deposit products department. Greenly has been product management analyst officer since 2001. ANDREW B. CONBOY was named a trust real-estate officer in trust real-estate services.
• CINDY McMILLAN has been named a director in the Communications Pacific community building group. Previously a Honolulu City Council legislative aide, she joined the public relations, advertising, marketing and interactive communications company in September. Also recently hired is CARISSA SHIMON, as assistant account executive in the company's corporate communications group. She was previously an account coordinator in the sports marketing and media groups division of Hill & Knowlton, Irvine, Calif.
• Sheraton Hotels in Waikiki — including the Sheraton Waikiki, Royal Hawaiian, Sheraton Moana Surfrider and Sheraton Princess Kaiulani hotels — has announced a newly restructured sales team, in part to offer "total customer account management" and "one-stop shopping." PAUL CHICOINE heads the new sales team in the newly created position of director of sales and marketing for the four hotels. With more than a decade in hotel sales and marketing, he is former director of sales and marketing for the Sheraton Waikiki and Royal Hawaiian.
Reporting to Chicoine will be CO LE, promoted to director of sales for the Hawai'i market — created as part of Sheraton's new concept for local customers — and LAURIE WONG IHARA, new director of group sales for the Waikiki hotels. She will manage all Mainland meetings, conventions and incentive activities, with responsibility for nearly 4,300 rooms.
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