Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
With a $55 million yearlong renovation of Waikiki's Royal Hawaiian Shopping Center expected to begin early next year, The Festival Companies, a real-estate advisory and shopping center development firm, and management company for the shopping center, has announced two additions to its Royal Hawaiian team:
• Stephen M. Jacobson has been named development manager of the 293,000-square-foot shopping center. Jacobson has more than 20 years experience in project management, capital strategic planning, and project and cost control. Before joining the center, he was agency project control manager for Sound Transit's $4.2 billion capital program in Seattle.
• ANNE MURATA has been named the center's marketing director. She was formerly vice president of marketing at Media-HI, a Hawai'i publishing group; Hawai'i group publisher and national marketing manager of Guest Informant, the national visitor media company; and president of Medline & Associates Advertising in California. She also is the founder and president of her own Murata Creative Marketing & Advertising.
Changes to the 24-year-old facility, Waikiki's largest mall, will include softening the center's bunkerlike appearance, adding landscaping and transforming the central performance area into a more grovelike setting.
• BE-JAY KODAMA, who previously headed promotions for University of Hawai'i Rainbowtique Shops and for KSSK radio, has been named alumni relations officer for Chaminade University. She most recently was marketing coordinator of local CBS affiliate KGMB-TV. Before that she served as UH Auxiliary Enterprises marketing and promotions manager, and as KSSK promotions director.
• ALVIN IGE of Finance Factors will continue as manager of the Commercial Real Estate Loan Department with his recent promotion from vice president to senior vice president. In the new position, he will continue to oversee sales production, underwriting and operations of the department.
• Mike Kinoshita has been hired by locally owned Atlas Insurance Agency Inc. as a vice president in its new Construction Services Division.
Also joining the company, as account manager, is ARLENE TANAKA, who will be responsible for overseeing administration of the surety department, issuing bid and performance bonds for contractors and developers, and assisting in management of Construction Services Division operations.
• Former Bank of Hawaii manager ROGER KHLOPIN, most recently chief investment officer of Honolulu-based Khlopin Financial Services, has rejoined the bank as executive vice president and manager of institutional equity. He will oversee growth, income and value product offerings in the company's Asset Management Group. He also will be a member of the group's Investment Strategy Committee, which is responsible for setting economic forecasts and asset allocation, and for interpreting industry and market analysis.
• WAYNE T. YOSHIMURA, former chief financial officer, then managing director of the limited law partnership of Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel, has been named controller of Hawaiian Host Inc., manufacturer of chocolate-covered macadamia nuts. His responsibilities include general accounting, billing and accounts receivable, accounts payable, tax filing and reporting, financial audit, cash management, foreign currency transactions and management information systems.
• Greg Yamanaka, former chief technologist for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging section in the Diagnostic Imaging Department at Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center, has been hired as director and chief MRI technologist with Honolulu Open Medical Imaging. Also working in the firm are office administrator Denise Paclib, and ARTHUR HANNEMANN, director of patient-physician services.
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