Posted on: Monday, August 22, 2005
Trade Winds
Advertiser Staff
Former Time Warner Telecom executive GALEN HANEDA has joined Hawaiian Telcom as vice president, sales. He will head Hawaiian Telcom's Enterprise Accounts organization, focusing on the company's largest business customers. Haneda joined Time Warner in 1995 and held a variety of positions, including sales manager and director of sales. He began his telecommunications sales career with GTE Telemarketing in 1986 and was promoted thereafter as part of GTE and GTE Hawaiian Tel.
JIM LaBADIE has been hired by Hawai'i Convention Center as sales manager for the Midwest region. LaBadie's responsibilities will include selling citywide conventions, reserving and booking function space, creating and evaluating sales programs, and responding to sales inquiries and leads. LaBadie is a board director for the International Association of Association Management Companies and also has served as adjunct professor in the hospitality and tourism department at Grand Valley State University.
KITTY LAGARETA, chief executive officer and chairwoman of Communications Pacific and STEVE METTER, chief executive officer and principal of MW Group Ltd. diversified commercial real estate development company, and principal broker of MW Commercial Realty Inc., have been named to the corporate advisory board for McDonald's Restaurants of Hawai'i. Lagareta has been a strategic adviser to McDonald's locally for many years and was one of the founders of Ronald McDonald House Charities-Hawai'i. The local McDonald's region includes 86 restaurants and more than 3,500 employees in the Hawai'i /Guam/Saipan region.
Hawai'i Air Ambulance has named ALEX KLUGER assistant vice president of business and finance and director of the firm's national programs. Before he joined the company, Kluger provided educational materials for Hawai'i Air Rescue, an air medical transport membership service program offered by Hawai'i Air Ambulance. The 26-year-old air ambulance company flies about 2,000 missions annually, transporting seriously ill, critically ill and injured patients. Its medically trained flight crews include registered nurses and mobile intensive-care technicians on call 24 hours a day.
Marriott International Inc. has named PAUL TONER regional vice president, sales and marketing, for the Asia, Pacific and Australia region, representing five Marriott lodging brands: JW Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Marriott Hotels & Resorts, Renaissance Hotels & Resorts, Courtyard by Marriott and Marriott Executive Apartments. Most recently, Toner had served as area director of marketing for the Pacific Islands and Japan. Since joining the company in 1985, he has served in Washington, D.C.; Boston; Orlando; and Hawai'i.
Former U.S. Ambassador ALVIN ADAMS has been appointed by Bishop Museum as a counselor for international affairs, to help museum president Bill Brown strengthen the institution's work in the international arena. Adams is retired from the U.S. Foreign Service after 30 years of service, including tours as U.S. ambassador to Djibouti, Haiti and Peru. He has also served within the State Department as deputy executive secretary, and special assistant to several secretaries of state. Most recently, he served as president and chief executive officer of the United Nations Association of the United States, and, since March, honorary consul of Peru for Hawai'i.
BOB STARKMAN has been named deputy director of the Hawai'i Job Corps Center, overseeing all operational aspects. Starkman, who began with the corps in 2001, transferred to Hawai'i in May 2004 as human resources manager. The center has campuses on O'ahu and Maui, and160 employees. It prepares more than 350 young adults for the work force each year.
Dr. Allen C. Riggs has been named aquaculture veterinarian for the state Department of Agriculture's Aquaculture Development Program. Most recently, Riggs was an aquatic animal veterinarian in private practice in Florida; staff veterinarian for the College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Florida; and consultant and aquarist at Key West Aquarium. Commercial aquaculture is one of Hawai'i's fastest-growing agricultural segments, with local companies ranking as technology leaders in several areas, including microalgae, marine shrimp broodstock, open ocean aquaculture (submerged cages) and marine aquarium products.
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