• Dean Hirata • Emory Bush and Mike Hartley • Paul Booth • Heather Brown The following individuals recently launched a business, were appointed to a leadership position or honored for their work in the business community: Dean Hirata Central
• Dean Hirata • Emory Bush and Mike Hartley • Paul Booth • Heather Brown
The following individuals recently launched a business, were appointed to a leadership position or honored for their work in the business community:
Dean Hirata
Central Pacific Financial Corporation, parent company of Central Pacific Bank, announced Friday the resignation of Dean Hirata, vice chair and chief financial officer of CPF and CPB, effective May 31. Hirata has more than 20 years experience in the banking industry and served as CFO for CPF and CPB since joining the organization in September 2004 and will be leaving to pursue other interests. The company also announced that it has started a search for a new CFO.
Emory Bush and Mike Hartley
Hawaiiana Group Incorporated President and Chief Operating Officer Jay Bloom has announced the expansion of its subsidiary company — Hawaiiana Management Company, Ltd.’s corporate leadership, which will go into effect May 1.
Emory Bush will be promoted to the new position of Chairman of the Board, and Mike Hartley will succeed him as President.
Hartley has served as Vice President of Hawaiiana’s Commercial Property Group and has more than 20 years experience in residential and commercial property management. Hartley joined Hawaiiana in 2007 after serving as management executive for a portfolio of premier properties on the islands of O‘ahu and Maui. Hartley previously served as Regional Manager for Trammell Crow Company, one of the nation’s leading real estate developers. He also held senior management positions for three major commercial and residential real estate management companies in California. Hartley holds a Bachelor’s Degree from Stetson University as well as two Masters Degrees.
For more information, log on to www.hmcmgt.com www.hmcmgt.com or contact Phyllis Kacher at 808-593-6896.
Paul Booth
Paul Booth of Lihu‘e, a multi-award winning independent feature film producer, former film festival director, short film writer/director, is offering his services as a production consultant. He currently consults with independent filmmakers in California and Honolulu. Booth has won nine awards and three nominations. His work has screened all over the world from Kaua‘i to New York and Los Angeles to Vancouver, Japan and Brazil. His projects have been screened on public access TV, cable, in art-house cinemas, film festivals and at colleges and universities. Paul has produced for Time Warner on the Universal Studios lot, and garnered two international broadcasting Awards (a Telly and a Davey).
An alumni of KCC and the Vancouver Film School, he has worked on films in Honolulu, LA, Vancouver, Sacramento, San Francisco, Phoenix and Kaua‘i. He’s been a crew member in the departments of camera, sound, locations, casting and production assistance, and has experience working on short films, feature films, documentaries, concert films, music videos, promotional materials, industrial films and network TV. He is currently working on the development of a feature film sequel to his award-winning short, ‘Empty Streets’ (2007), which marked his directorial debut, as well as co-producing the CD compilation of a separate soundtrack of ‘Empty Streets’, featuring several Grammy-winning artists, scheduled for release May 31.
Booth currently writes classic DVD reviews in the Kaua‘i Times section of The Garden Island and curates a Film History night at Lihu‘e Library. He also offers guest lectures at Chiefess Middle School. Booth was also the founder of Hawai‘i’s first student film festival (Hawaii Student Film Festival 1999-2003).
A self-taught film historian, watching up to 30 movies a week, he loves to learn, share and grow from interacting with filmmakers.
Visit www.emptystreetsmovie.blogspot.com for more information or e-mail pkb_1@hotmail.com.
Heather Brown
Heather Brown, a Hawai’i artist who has run her own business for more than 4 years has developed a re-usable shopping tote which can be seen in stores everywhere from Louis Vuitton to Safeway.
Brown is a Californian born transplant to Hawai‘i that, like many, reportedly has found their true home, according to a press release. Brown dabbled in many diverse careers on her way to finding where her true passion laid — the world of art. Brown received her Bachelors degree in Fine Art from the University of Hawai‘i, Manoa campus and shortly thereafter hit the ground running.
Brown, now 36, started completely on her own out of her quaint Hale‘iwa rental while still working as a boat captain/dive master on the North Shore of O‘ahu. Four years later, Brown’s dream of being a working artist not only has come true, but it has reportedly surpassed her wildest dreams. Now with galleries around the world selling her original acrylics, limited editions reproductions, and prints, Brown finds herself not only working as an artist but also as an entrepreneur managing all of her own production, shipping, sales and marketing efforts.
Brown has been active not only for her own gallery and galleries around the world but also as the “Artist of the Search” for popular surf clothing line Rip Curl. She is the artist behind the extremely strong “Plastic Free Hale‘iwa” campaign and has done many posters for such events as the Kokua Foundation, The Vans Triple Crown of Surfing, and the Women’s Pipeline Pro.
Visit www.heatherbrownart.com for more information.
