Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
• BARRY INOUYE, a veteran of 22 years of Internet, telecom and high-tech experience worldwide, has been named chief executive officer of Inovaware Corp., a Hawai'i-based billing and customer management software firm. Inouye was most recently director of broadband marketing for Cox Communications and before that in the operations and marketing field with companies in Latin America, Asia, California, Florida, Kansas and Honolulu. He has also served as a consultant with various high-tech startups in Silicon Valley and Los Angeles. He originally joined Inovaware as executive vice president of operations in October 2003.
• Bishop Museum has named AMY MILLER as director of development, overseeing the museum's annual capital and endowment fund-raising efforts. Her most recent position, as development coordinator and graduate researcher at Kewalo Basin Marine Mammal Lab and The Dolphin Institute in Honolulu, follows experience in the science field that includes Amazon River Basin environmental studies, dolphin research and marine mammal aerial surveys around Hawai'i.
Bishop Museum also announced the election of board officers and members:
Officers: chairman, DAVID C. HULIHE'E; vice chairman, MICHAEL E. O'NEILL, former Bank of Hawai'i chairman and chief executive officer; and secretary, S. Haunani ApolionA, chairman, state Office of Hawaiian Affairs.
New members (three-year terms): Dr. Charman Akina, Robert A. Alm and Gaylord Wilcox.
• BENJAMIN S. UGALE, previously an associate project coordinator and project manager for Wimberly Allison Tong and Goo, has joined WCIT Architecture as senior associate. Ungale's responsibilities will include project management, construction documentation and administration and quality control. He is a veteran of design and development of public and private sector projects in the hospitality, leisure, entertainment and residential fields.
• A 19-year company veteran, LAURIE-ANN HODGES, has been named retail store manager of Education Works, the Mapunapuna outlet for educational products for parents, teachers and schools. She will oversee inventory purchase and daily operations. The firm, one of the family of Servco Pacific Inc. companies, is located in the old Gibson's store.
• Vincent E. Barfield, a Bank of Hawaii senior vice president, has been named manager of Retirement Plan Services, directing a team of 33 employees who manage $2 billion in retirement plan assets. Replacing Barfield as development and sales manager in the bank's Hawaii Commercial Group, is MIKE CURTIS, also a senior vice president. Most recently, Curtis was the bank's efficiency improvement manager.
Also named at the bank was senior vice president, KIERAN A. YAP, appointed manager of the Personal Trust Department, offering private banking, investment, trust and insurance services to affluent clients.
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