Posted on: Monday, May 31, 2004

Trade Winds

Advertiser Staff

• DR. ERNEST SILVA JR. has been promoted to Medical Office Program coordinator at Hawai'i Business College. Silva is a monk currently on sabbatical from his monastery in Spain. He joined the order at an early age and just returned from Rome, where he had a conference with the pope. He has served as a visiting professor in Hawai'i Pacific University's nursing program and is one of the top five residents in the University of Hawai'i John Burns School of Medicine.

• SKIP BROWN has been named director of fleet/commercial sales at Mike McKenna's Windward Ford in Kailua. He was formerly fleet/commercial manager at Valley Isle Motors on Maui.

• VAN CORNWELL has joined Pacific Guardian Life as assistant vice president of real estate investments. His responsibilities will include asset management of downtown Honolulu's Pacific Guardian Center, as well as commercial mortgage lending for POL. He was formerly with Bank of Hawaii in commercial real estate lending.

• NEAL ARITA of Heide & Cook Ltd. will be president of the Sheet Metal Contractors Association for the 2004-06 biennial term. Other officers installed were: vice president CLARK "SKIP" MORGAN of Alaka'i Mechanical Corp.; secretary BRIEN SEN of Oahu Plumbing & Sheetmetal Ltd.; and treasurer OWEN MURAMATSU of Elite Mechanical Inc. Installed directors were ELBERT SAITO of Commercial Sheetmetal Co. Inc.; GABRIEL ZEE of HSI Mechanical, a division of Honolulu Shipyard Inc.; JEANETTE MONMA of American Mechanical & Service Corp. and YOSHIKO KAWAKAMI of Quality Sheetmetal and Air Conditioning Co. Ltd.

• Bank of Hawaii has announced the following senior management appointments:

• ALLAN LANDON, president and chief financial officer, is now also chief operating officer. He will oversee the commercial banking, investment services and corporate regulatory administration departments while continuing his responsibilities in finance, investor relations, human resources, legal and technology operations. His expanded role will allow him to work more closely with delivery of services to customers while continuing his leadership involvement in community activities.
• DONNA TANOUE, vice chairman of the Investment Services Group and a member of the managing committee, has assumed the newly created position of vice chairman and chief administrative officer. She advises Landon on community affairs and will now oversee regulatory relations, compliance, the law department, the corporate secretary's office, security, corporate communications, charitable giving through the Bank of Hawaii Foundation, Community Reinvestment Act activities and government relations. She will continue to serve on the bank's board of directors.
• PETER HO, group executive vice president of the Hawaii Commercial Group and a member of the managing committee, has been promoted to vice chairman of the Investment Services Group. In his new role, he oversees private banking and personal trust, asset management and institutional services.
• RICHARD KEENE has been promoted to vice chairman, chief financial officer and member of the managing committee. He oversees the treasury, controllers, investor relations, corporate sourcing and facilities management departments.

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