Name: Jeannette C. Sullivan
Age: 39
Position: President, Hawaii Insurance Bureau
First job: Janitor
Pastimes: Scuba diving, boogie boarding with her sons

"The bureau's new theme is 'employees as partners' and our new logo is a petroglyph of a paddler because they have to work in harmony," said Jeannette Sullivan, new bureau president.

Sullivan came to the bureau five years ago as operations manager, then advanced to corporate secretary and chief operations officer. She also has worked at the U.S. embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, and at Garuda Imports, which imported art and clothing into Southeast Asia.

She earned a bachelor's degree in political science at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Va., and a master's degree in international affairs at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.