CB RICHARD ELLIS

CB Richard Ellis has added Carol VanCamp and Michael Oh to its Big Island commercial real estate service team.

VanCamp, a brokerage services associate, will serve the Big Island's retail, office and industrial real estate needs from the firm's Hilo office. She is the former general manager of General Growth Properties at Prince Kuhio Plaza Shopping Center.

Oh has been appointed general manager of The Shops at Mauna Lani on the Kohala Coast. He has professional experience in hospitality management with the Four Seasons Hotel in San Francisco.

MW GROUP LTD.

Greg Wood has been promoted to general manager (O'ahu properties) for MW Group Ltd., a commercial real estate development firm. Wood is now responsible for the management and leasing of all properties in the firm's O'ahu portfolio.

CENTRAL PACIFIC HOMELOANS

Central Pacific HomeLoans has announced the hiring of David Quandt as executive vice president. Quandt has more than 12 years of experience in mortgage banking. Prior to joining the firm, he was regional vice president at Charter Funding and First Magnus Hawaii.

HAWAII VENTURE CAPITAL ASSOCIATION

New directors of the Hawaii Venture Capital Association for the 2008-2009 fiscal year are: vice president, John Chock, president of Hawaii Strategic Development Corp.; Ann Chung, director of economic development, City and County of Honolulu; Jay Fidell, founder and principal, Bendet, Fidell, Sakai & Lee, specializing in business and real estate law; David Fisher, Maui Center director, 2006 U.S. Small Business Administration Financial Services Champion; Debra Guerin-Beresini, co-founder and managing director of International Venture fund; Lori Hiraoka, attorney with Goodsill Anderson Quinn & Stifel; Peter Kay, president of high-tech services firm CyberCom Inc.; Virendra Nath, founding president of Information Industries Association of Hawaii, involved with diversification of Hawai'i's economy; Stewart Pressman, partner in the law firm McCorriston Miller Mukai MacKinnon; Robert Robinson, co-founder of Kolohala Venture Fund and founder of Hawai'i Angels investor network; Henk Rogers, who brought the computer game Tetris to the world market; and Bill Spencer, volunteer president of the nonprofit Hawaii Venture Capital Association.

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