Posted on: Monday, September 6, 2004

Trade Winds

Advertiser Staff

• KAHBO DYE-CHIEW and NATALIE HIU have joined the law firm of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel as counsels. Dye-Chiew will concentrate on immigration and nationality law, including all aspects of family-related immigration matters, and real-estate and business transactions in those areas. She will assist foreign and local companies seeking classification as multinational corporations and treaty-investor and immigrant-investor companies, and maintaining immigrant or nonimmigrant employment-authorized visas for employees. Hiu, who first joined Goodsill in 1992, rejoins the firm after three years as a city deputy corporation counsel, handling real-estate transactions and construction matters. She will continue to concentrate on real-estate transactions, including negotiation and documentation of land acquisitions and sales; commercial and residential leases; and residential condominium development, land registration and real-estate licensing issues.

• WESLEY S. SUZAWA has been named senior vice president-sales and business development manager at Raymond James Financial Services Inc. He is a former assistant vice president at First Hawaiian Bank.

• ISAAC KAWAMOTO has been named operations manager for Pacific Waste, a Big Island commercial and industrial refuse collector. The company, with offices in Kailua and Kawaihae, is a subsidiary of Komar Investments of Newport Beach, Calif. Kawamoto was previously with Air Liquide American Corp. sales.

• BRIAN LOUGHRAN, whose career in radio and television spanned a half-century, has retired from KHVH radio (830 AM). Loughran, 80, who began his broadcasting career with KHSL in Chico, Calif., in 1953, has also worked with KGU radio in Honolulu.

• Atlantis Adventures, which operates Atlantis Submarines in 10 locations worldwide, including the Caribbean and Guam and the Big Island, Maui and Waikiki, has named STEPHANIE KOLP sales manager for its Big Island operation. She will oversee sales and promotions for consumers as well as wholesalers, travel agents, cruise lines and hotel activity desks. She most recently managed a luxury retirement community facility in Washington state.

• RUTHANN S. YAMANAKA has been named vice president, human resources, for Alexander & Baldwin Inc. She succeeds John Gasher, who will retire at year's end, culminating a 44-year career. Yamanaka joins Alexander & Baldwin from Hawaiian Airlines, where she served as senior vice president within the People Services Group, overseeing personnel-related functions for the 3,356-employee company.

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