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• BENNETTE MISALUCHA EVANGELISTA has been named to the board of regents of Chaminade University. Evangelista is vice president and regional director for community relations for Actus Lend Lease LLC, a national development company specializing in military housing privatization, including local Army and Air Force projects. Evangelista also is involved in several community service organizations. The 16-year banking veteran is a former senior vice president and senior manager at Central Pacific Bank. She spent seven years in television, here and in her native Philippines, as a reporter, writer and news producer.
• B.J. WHITMAN has joined Communications Pacific as director in the company's corporate communications practice. For the past 15 years Whitman has served in several public relations director positions for Sheraton Hotels. Whitman's career has also included positions as manager of customer service and sales for Young Brothers Ltd. and as public relations administrator for its predecessor, Dillingham Maritime Pacific.
• DEBI HALCRO , has been named president of Valenti Print Group. She coordinated the company's expansion of its 21,000-square-foot Kaka'ako production plant and oversaw its computer-to-plate pre-press technology conversion. The 25-year veteran of production, management and sales joined Valenti in 1991 and was most recently vice president of operations and sales. She will lead an executive management team of David Hayter, vice president of creative services; Greg Concilla, vice president of information technology, and Michele Mulkey, vice president of finance. The Valenti Print Group is employee-owned and -managed.
• GAIL ANN CHEW, former longtime senior executive and frequent spokeswoman for the Hawai'i Visitors and Convention Bureau, has been named executive director of the local restaurant trade association The Hawai'i Restaurant Association. Following her stint at HVCB — where she managed communications response after the Sept. 11 attacks — Chew operated her own marketing firm. She will represent the restaurant group at an upcoming National Restaurant Association convention in Chicago; work on the July Hotel, Lodging & Restaurant Expo at Blaisdell Center; and expand the group's Web site. She has secured for Hawai'i relationships with such global brand partners as Disney, Hewlett-Packard, Mercedes-Benz, Hallmark, McDonald's and United Airlines.
• As new director of information technology for Roberts Hawaii, ED SCHWARZINGER will be overseeing technology for widely varying operations, such as tours and transportation, dinner cruise sails, interisland travel packages and school buses. The 20-year veteran of information technology has been senior data systems engineer for the commander of the 7th Fleet, Yokosuka, Japan; information technology manager of UNISYS Japan Ltd.; consultant for JP Morgan Japan; and, most recently, director of information technology for the global distribution company Nishimoto Trading Co. Ltd. Roberts' divisions include Ali'i Kai Catamarans, Captain Beans, Regency Culinary Services, Magic of Polynesia magic show and Roberts Hawaii School Bus.
American Savings Bank has announced these appointments:
• KENNETH NEWMAN has been hired as vice president of security, responsible for information- and physical-security. The 13-year veteran of security in the financial services realm was most recently global head of infrastructure security assurance for Deutsche Bank, New York.
• PATRICIA TERRY has been promoted to assistant vice president and branch manager of the bank's newest outlet, in the Wal-Mart store on Ke'eaumoku Street. She joined the bank in January 2004 as branch manager in the retail division of the Financial Plaza of the Pacific office, and before that had worked at Bank of Hawai'i's banking center in Hampton, Va.
• ANGIE LAU, a banking veteran of more than 20 years, has joined the bank as a residential loan officer.
• LORIE FUKUHARA has been hired as a real-estate loan officer in the residential loan sales department. She has also worked as a Stanton Mortgage mortgage broker and First Hawaiian Bank teller.
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