Trade Winds

Advertiser Staff

• HARRY SAUNDERS, president of Castle & Cooke Hawaii, one of the founding companies of the Hawaii Employers Council, has been elected chairman of the council's board of governors.

Also elected to the council's executive committee are SIGNE GODFREY, president of Olsten Staffing Services; EDWARD S. VAN LIER RIBBINK SR., vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer of Hawaii Medical Service Association; Dr. ROBYN YIM, president and medical director, Blood Bank of Hawaii, and PETER YUKIMURA, president of Koa Trading Co., Inc.

Founded in 1943 to promote positive employer-employee relations, the council provides professional services to management in human resources and labor relations, employment law, research and supervisory training programs.

• PETE MOYNAHAN, Hawaii Preparatory Academy alumnus, and Waimea, Big Island, resident, has been named to the board of governors of the school. He is an 18-year veteran of C. Brewer & Co. Ltd., and a past president of its real-estate development and management division. Moynahan will be chairman of the HPA board's strategic planning committee and serve on the governance, and buildings and grounds, committees. The 600-student, independent, co-educational college-preparatory boarding and day school is located on two campuses on the Big Island's Parker Ranch.

• First Hawaiian Bank Senior Vice President KRISTI MAYNARD has been promoted to manager of the bank's Treasury and Investment Division. Maynard, who joined First Hawaiian in 1984 as an investment assistant, has also served as assistant vice president and vice president.

New postmasters at three Hawai'i post offices are among reassignments announced recently by the U.S. Postal Service:

• JANET MAU, former postmaster in Ka'a'awa, has been named postmaster at the Kunia Post Office. Assuming her position as postmaster at the Ka'a'awa post office will be AMY SATO, formerly supervisor of customer services at Kane'ohe. CHRISTINA SARMIENTO, former distribution window clerk at Kaunakakai, Moloka'i, was named postmaster at Kualapu'u, Moloka'i.

In other assignments:

• MYRNA GULLION has moved from supervisor of customer services in Honolulu, to the same position at the Wahiawa Post Office.
• TERRY GERBER was promoted to transportation networks specialist.
• After several years in the sales department of Kaua'i Visitors Bureau, JORY MATA returns to Aston Hotels and Resorts Hawaii as sales manager of its 716-room Waikiki Beach Hotel. From 1998 to 1999, she had served as reservations and front-desk clerk at the Aston at Poipu Kai on Kaua'i.

A&B Properties Inc., the property development and management subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin Inc., has announced several management promotions:

• PAUL W. HALLIN was promoted to senior vice president, development, from vice president. He is spearheading the development of the company's recently acquired Wailea Resort properties.

• MICHAEL G. WRIGHT was promoted to senior vice president, acquisitions and investments, from vice president. He has led recent expansion of acquisition and investment efforts, including the Alakea Corporate Tower.

• DANIEL LOO was promoted to manager, investment analysis, from senior financial analyst.

Announcements of promotions and job changes can be sent to: Trade Winds, Business Section, The Honolulu Advertiser, P.O. Box 3110, Honolulu, HI 96802; faxed to 525-6763, or e-mailed to business@honoluluadvertiser.com. Photographs may be included, but must be identified on the back.