Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
• LISA WONG, named human-resources manager last year by Hawai'i Convention Center managing company, SMG Hawaii, has become a member of the state Civil Rights Commission. Her term on the five-member body expires in June 2007. She is an almost 25-year veteran of the human-resources field.
• Real-estate development and consulting firm Avalon Development Co. has named COLLIN MIYAMOTO real-estate analyst. The firm provides acquisition, feasibility, management and development services. Miyamoto holds a Japan-focused master's of business administration from the University of Hawai'i, in conjunction with the Japan America Institute of Management Science (JAIMS), and is a former Finance Factors Ltd. assistant branch manager.
• MATT DELANEY, who continued as president after Sunterra Corp. sold Marc Resorts in 2002, has turned over the hotel and condominium management company to a new executive team: chairman and chief executive, MITCHELL HELLER, vice chairman KENT WHITE, executive vice president PAUL TOMONARI and newly elected vice president WAYNE TOMITA.
Delaney will continue as a company owner and director while pursuing other business interests. He was assigned to Hawai'i and Marc Resorts in 1997 and promoted to chief executive officer in August 2000.
The company manages 14 resort, hotel and condo properties on O'ahu, Maui, Kaua'i, Big Island and Moloka'i.
• TANYA ANDREWS has been named general manager of the new Long John Silver's and A&W All American Food restaurant in Mililani Town Center, their first freestanding unit in the state. Andrews was most recently general manager of the Hawai'i Kai Taco Bell, another TheoDavies restaurant. The former Moloka'i resident joined TheoDavies, which operates 86 Pizza Hut and Taco Bell restaurants in Hawai'i, Guam and Saipan, in 1992.
• City Mill Co. Ltd. has announced the promotion of six City Mill associates to supervisors: LAWRENCE DOI, ANI LONTOC and MATT FISHER at the Honolulu store; AARON KNAPP and DAVID KUH at the Kaimuki store; and JOHN DONOVAN at the Pearl City store. In addition, the home-improvement center chain operates stores in Waipahu, Kane'ohe, Mililani, Hawai'i Kai and Wai'anae.
• JANIS KOZA has been promoted to accounting manager at employee-owned M. Dyer & Sons Inc. The licensed certified public accountant joined the moving and storage company in 1996 as an accountant.
• ROBERT K. FRICKE, retired judge advocate and U.S. Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, is among five new associates of the law firm Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel. He will concentrate on litigation. Also joining the firm of more than 70 full-time attorneys is AMY KAY THOMPSON-SMITH (concentrating in environmental and health law), PAMELA ANN FONG (corporate and tax law), MICHAEL E. ORLANDO (corporate and real-estate law) and JOIE M.B.C. YUEN (real-estate law).
• Two people with backgrounds in real estate have joined Finance Factors' Kaua'i Mortgage Center: KIMBERLY SLOGGETT, new residential loan officer, formerly a Realtor for Coldwell Banker Legacy; and PAULA TAKENAKA-ACOBA, new loan processor. Finance Factors specializes in residential and commercial real-estate loans.
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