Executive Profile
Friday, January 15, 1999

Name: Victor A. Fresca
Age: 54
Position: Exec. V.P., Bank of Hawaii
First job: Cabana boy, New York City
Favorite pastimes: Basketball, baseball

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Getting Bankoh ready
for Year 2000

Victor A. Fresca heads the information management and systems group at Bank of Hawaii. He is responsible for all of the bank's corporate technology services, including disaster preparedness, and the bank's computer readiness effort for the Year 2000.

"We anticipate to be ready (for 2000)," Fresca said. "We are in compliance with all the (government) guidelines in getting prepared for the year 2000."

He joined the bank in 1994 as vice president and group manager of systems engineering for First National Bank of Arizona, a Bank of Hawaii affiliate. He became senior vice president in 1996. Fresca also held data processing management and consulting positions at BEI Golembe, a division of Electronic Data Systems Corp. in San Diego, Calif., and Security Pacific Automation Co., The Berton Group, and First Interstate Bancorp, all in Los Angeles.

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By Jerry Tune, Star-Bulletin