Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
• Small Business Hawaii has given Dale Evans, president of Charley's Taxi Radio Dispatch, the Small Business Person of the Year award, and given Deborah Micek and John Paul Micek of RPM Success Group recognition as Small Business Boosters.
At Small Business Hawaii's annual business and investment conference, the organization also named Matt Longfellow of Valpak of Hawaii its Small Business Young Entrepreneur, and gave its Jean Fukuda Civic Leadership Award to Gary Arizala of Alphabetland Preschool.
The organization also gave a Public Servant Leadership Award to Robert Watada of the State Campaign Spending Commission.
• Realtor Dale K. Bordner of Bordner Realty has been named the 2003 Realtor of the Year by the Honolulu Board of Realtors.
The former teacher — who established herself in the fields of education and women's issues before entering the real-estate business 25 years ago — has served recently on the Honolulu Board of Realtors board of directors, is active with the Hawaii Association of Realtors and is a member of the Punahou Faculty Association. The 82-year-old Honolulu Board of Realtors, with about 4,500 members, is one of the largest of 1,500 boards of Realtors in the nation.
• Ken Ikeda has joined Panda Travel as operations manager. He has been a marketing and management consultant with M2C, and a vice president of passenger service with Japan Airlines. In the new position, he will oversee operations for The Panda Group, work with staff of all departments and provide training.
• Morgan Stanley veteran financial adviser Greg Chou has been appointed to the board of directors of Maui's J. Walter Cameron Center. Chou is senior vice president/branch manager of Morgan Stanley's Maui office.
The center, established in 1973, houses and supports a number of nonprofit agencies that provide assistance in health, social service, and culture and the arts. These include such agencies as the American Heart Association, American Cancer Association, American Lung Association, Mediation Services of Maui Inc. and the Mental Health Association.
• Real-estate management company Hawaiiana Management Co. Ltd. has announced the appointments of two new management executives, Rocksford Takamatsu and Thomas Heiden.
Takamatsu comes to Hawaiiana from Equity Properties Inc. in 'Aiea, where he managed residential and recreational condominium associations. Before entering the property management field, he was a longtime title examiner for title insurance and escrow companies, and a financial reporter for West Coast business publications.
Heiden is a former James Campbell Estate administrator for agriculture and natural resources, overseeing the estate's 'Ewa and Kunia lands. He is a 26-year veteran of real-estate and deluxe hotel management.
• Ken Kessler has been named cruise manager for ocean tour operator Atlantis Cruises' Navatek I vessel.
Most recently, Kessler served as general manager of the two popular Manhattan Chill Co. restaurants in Times Square. He has worked in New York in such areas as restaurant management, historic tours, tours as a publicist and professional acting.
• Frank Cho has been promoted to vice president of the civic affairs and community building group at the communications, public relations and advertising firm Communications Pacific, which he joined last year.
Cho previously was a business reporter for The Honolulu Advertiser, writing about Hawai'i's banking and health insurance industries, as well as real-estate development, airlines, utilities and the nonprofit community. He has also worked for Pacific Business News, Bloomberg Financial News and The Environmental News.
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