Name: Dennis Ching
Age: 53
Position: Vice president, escrow manager, Security Title Corp.
First job: Dole Pineapple cannery
Pastimes: Golf, caring for teen-age son

"(U.S. companies are) down-sizing. Upper management has to be able to type letters," Ching said.

"We're reorganizing, training and teaching managers to be managers while putting in new computers."

Ching most recently was president and chief executive officer at Long & Melone Escrow Ltd. He was at the company for six years, three as president. Ching also was with Bank of Hawaii for 23 years.

Ching earned a bachelor's degree in personnel industrial relations at the University of Hawaii.

Security Title is part of the Finance Factors Family, which includes real estate, home building, insurance, investment, mortgage and financing units.