Awards
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Tech leaders recognized
Hawai'i's Top 50 High Tech Leaders for 2003 were recently chosen by an elite panel of judges for their impact on the business and technology fields within the past year. These leaders were chosen for their commitment to excellence, exemplary leadership and contributions to community service.
The recipients are: Keoni Ahlo of Honolulu City and Company Employees Federal Credit Union; Kathy-Lou T.A. Ayano of BriteSmile; John Ralston Bingaman III of CompUSA; Richard F. Bratt of the Department of Homeland Security; Eric I. Brown of Punahou School; Richard F. Cox Jr. of the Office of Technology Transfer and Economic Development at the University of Hawai'i-Manoa; Gerald C. Denton of Expanets of Hawaii; Detective Christopher Duque of the Honolulu Police Department's Criminal Investigation Division; Vince T. Dydasco of Panasonic; and Ed Felipe of Panda Group.
Roger R. Forness of The Honolulu Advertiser; Victor A. Fresca of Bank of Hawaii; FBI Special Agent Lawrence J. Futa; Kit Grant of LavaNet Inc; Courtney Harrington of the city and county of Honolulu; Monir Hodges of the Pacific Center for Advanced Technology Training; Lynne R. Horiuchi of Saint Louis School; Roy K. Irei of T-Mobile USA; Dr. Gordon L. Jones of Hawai'i Pacific University; and Everett S. Kaneshige of Hand e Corp.
Umma Kayvalyam of TicketMaster; Les S. Kiyuna of Hawaiian Airlines; Kenneth A. Kudla of Affiliated Computer Services; Greg K. Lee of Landscapes by Tropical Images, Inc.; Christopher A. Leonti of Aloha Petroleum Ltd.; Larsen Luke of Hawai'i Pacific Health; Rick W. Marine of Century Computers; Sheldon (Kalani) Miller of Hurricane Internet; Irene N. Motonaga of SyncAdd Systems; and Aryn Nakaoka of Progressive Communications LLC.
Kevin K. Okawa of Servco Pacific Inc.; Karl T. Okemura of Sony Hawaii; Dr. John D. Olkowski of EyeSight Hawaii; Dean E. Pang of Adventist Health Castle Medical Center; Deb L. Pyrek of Title Guaranty Hawaii; Shelley Quinones of Oceanic Time Warner Cable; Thomas B. Reed of Oceanic Imaging Consultants, Inc.; Seth M. Reiss of Godbey Griffiths Reiss; Steve M. Sakamoto of Aloha Airlines; and Thomas C. Simon of Heald College.
Dr. Karl E. Stahlkopf of Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc.; Alan Stewart of MidWeek and the Star Bulletin; David Takeyama of Oceanit; Assistant U.S. Attorney Lawrence L. Tong; Mike Travis of La Pietra; Francis Tulu of CompuTant; Michael O. Walder of Secure Technology Hawaii Inc.; Dr. Roger L. White of Holistica Hawaii at Hilton Hawaiian Village; Dr. William D. Wiecking of the Maui High Performance Computing Center; and Leslie R. Wilkins of the Maui Economic Development Board/Women in Technology Project.
Nature group honors hotel VP
Jean Rolles, vice president of community relations for Outrigger hotels, has received an Oak Leaf Award from the The Nature Conservancy. She has been an active board member of the Hawai'i chapter for two decades. Among her accomplishments have been her leadership of and participation in the Development Committee, which over the years has allowed The Nature Conservancy to finance a multitude of projects and programs throughout the Islands, most recently the Hawai'i Forest Campaign and the Kamehame Beach acquisition.
She was one of the first Hawai'i board members to support the Conservancy's Asia-Pacific program. She led a field trip to Palau and, through her efforts, a half-ton outrigger canoe and 1,500 orchid lei were shipped to New York for The Nature Conservancy's "First Great Party to Save the Last Great Places" fund-raising event.
