Trade Winds
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CHERYL SOON, former director of the city Department of Transportation Services under Mayor Jeremy Harris, has been named chief operating officer of HT&T Truck Center, which sells and maintains Peterbilt, Volvo, Autocar and medium-duty GMC trucks. She will retain her position as senior vice president of HT&T parent company, The Marathon Group LLC. Marathon also owns BEI Hawaii, distributor of agricultural and industrial fertilizers and chemicals. Soon has been in planning, transportation and urban development for more than 22 years, and has been with Marathon for six months.
• CHRIS COLGATE, who has shepherded regular donations of leftover food from Duke's Canoe Club to a local program that feeds the hungry, has been added to the program's board of directors. Since its inception in November 1999, the O'ahu nonprofit, Aloha Harvest, has worked with hotels, restaurants and food distributors to distribute more than 1.8 million pounds of food to the hungry. Colgate is senior general manager of both Duke's and Hula Grill Waikiki, owned by the T S Restaurants chain. The donated foods come from sources as diverse as Castle Medical Center, Dunkin' Donuts, First Hawaiian Bank, Meadow Gold Dairies, Starbucks and Y. Hata & Co., and is divided among 102 local social services agencies that feed the hungry.
• The Organization of Women Leaders, an organization of women executives from local business and government sectors — has elected a new board of directors: president, JANICE NIELSEN, director of government affairs, U.S. Army, Pacific; president-elect, BARBRA PLEADWELL, partner, Hastings & Pleadwell, a communication, public relations firm; program vice president, CAT GELMAN, vice president and assistant area office leader, Coldwell Banker Pacific, King Street office; membership vice president for the private sector, JOELLE WADA, vice president and commercial banking officer, Bank of Hawaii; membership vice president for the public sector, PAMELA MARTIN, administrator, Wage Standards Division, state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations; treasurer, SANDRA UYENO, director of human resources, University of Hawai'i Community Colleges; recording secretary, Virginia pribyla, retired U.S. Air Force colonel, and president, U.S. Air Force Association, Hawai'i; and corresponding secretary, MARY SHERIDAN, professor of social work, Hawai'i Pacific University.
• DEREK BAUGHMAN, who joined Bank of Hawaii in 1995 as an information technology process manager, has recently been named an executive vice president and director of technology. He had been a senior vice president, also with the title of director of technology. Besides overseeing all computer operations, Baughman also serves as the chairman for the bank's Executive Technology Committee.
• First Hawaiian Bank has announced three officer appointments: DONNA A. KOJIMA to personal banking officer; 14-year banking veteran, WILFRED TANAP, to card service officer, Card Services Division; and over 15-year banking veteran, LINDA J. VIRTUDES, to personal banking officer in the Main Banking Center. Kojima, who first joined the bank as accounting clerk in 1984, has also served as secretary, senior documentation specialist and customer service representative.
• VICENTE "VIC" SALAS ANGOCO JR. will oversee day-to-day operations of Young Brothers Ltd., including its six Neighbor Island ports, with his recent promotion to vice president and general manager. The Guam native had joined the company last August as vice president of marketing and sales, and has also served with Matson Navigation Co. in a number of locations, including Honolulu, San Francisco and Guam; and with American President Lines Ltd. and Sea-Land Services Inc. (now, Horizon Lines).
• RUTH BOLAN has been named executive director of Pacific Islanders in Communication. Bolan, an almost 10-year veteran of film and television in New York City and Los Angeles, is a former executive director of 'Ohia'a Productions, a local nonprofit theater company. Pacific Islanders in Communications supports and distributes film, video and new media on Pacific Island-related matters, and supports local talent through scholarships, training and professional development.
• REA CALLENDAR has joined the board of directors of Parker School, a Big Island private college-preparatory school in Kamuela. Callendar is portfolio manager at the Portola Group, a wealth-management firm, and divides his time between company headquarters in California's Silicon Valley and Honolulu offices. Kamuela's Parker School serves students grades 6-12; it adds a lower school, grades K-5, this August.
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