Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
• TOBY MARTYN returns to Bank of Hawaii as executive vice president and chief investment officer after about a 15-year absence, He will succeed 23-year department veteran WILLIAM BARTON.
Barton hired Martyn in 1984, as a Hawaiian Trust Co. manager, before the company was acquired by Bank of Hawaii the following year. After Martyn left the bank in 1989, he served as vice president-investments for the Honolulu office of A. G. Edwards & Sons Inc., and before that, as president and co-founder of Hawaiian Capital Securities.
In his new position in the bank's Investment Services Group, he will oversee the bank's institutional sales and service division, and serve as chairman of the group's investment strategy committee.
Barton becomes chief market strategist.
• PATRICIA TAM, a vice president of Halekulani Corp. since 2000, has been named to the expanded position of vice president, standards and corporate relations. The corporation owns and manages the Halekulani and Waikiki Parc hotels.
Tam, a former general manager of both the company's hotels, will take on standards practices and service training for both, as well as represent the properties on a variety of executive boards, and community and industry organizations.
Tam is the first woman to hold the position of general manager of a Hawai'i hotel with a five-diamond rating from the American Automobile Association. She began her hotel career in 1983, with the re-opening of the renovated Halekulani.
• SONG CHOI has been named marketing and communications manager for the Contemporary Museum, overseeing all marketing, communications and public relations for the art museum's Makiki and downtown locations.
He has been owner of a marketing consultancy; marketing director of CTA technical company; and marketing strategist for multimedia studio Six D. He is on the board of directors for the Public Relations Society of America, American Marketing Association, the Ad 2 national organization and local chapter, and HiTech Quest.
• JOE WILLIAM RAMOS has joined Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i as a researcher in the natural products program, which tests novel anti-cancer drugs made from Hawai'i and Pacific Basin natural sources, such as plants and microorganisms.
Previously, he had worked for four years as an assistant professor at Rutgers University, New Jersey; and a research assistant and postdoctoral fellow in vascular biology at Scripps Research Institute.
Among the local cancer center's research focuses is determining differing rates of cancer among Hawai'i's various ethic groups, as well as studying anti-cancer agents from local plants and marine micro-organisms.
• PUA AIU, a former policy analyst with the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs, has joined the public relations, advertising and marketing firm Communications Pacific.
The new senior account executive in the firm's community building practice also was once a research officer working on native Hawaiian health issues with Papa Ola Lokahi.
• Communications Pacific also announced two new account executives in the firm's corporate communications practice: former KITV-TV (Channel 4) producer and weekend assignments editor CHAD LOVELL; and STARR WEDEMEYER, most recently senior editor of Hawaii Woman magazine, and earlier, a West Hawaii Today reporter, and freelance contributing writer for Hawaii Business and Honolulu magazines.
• Public relations executive and former Honolulu Advertiser reporter ANN BOTTICELLI will join the nonprofit organization Child and Family Service as vice president for communication beginning Sept. 1.The former television (KHON and KITV) and newspaper reporter leaves Communications Pacific, which she had joined as vice president in the Corporate Group in 2002.
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