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Awards and
awards galoreThe International Association of Business Communicators Hawaii chapter presented its first Lifetime Achievement Award as part of its annual Ilima awards ceremony last night.
Arnold Kishi, executive assistant to the governor, was honored for four decades of involvement with IABC-Hawaii starting in the 1970s when he was a student and the organization was called the Hawaii Communicators Association.
His career has taken him through daily newspapers to Asia-focused organizations such as the East-West Center.
Kishi left the center in 2000, joining the governor's staff to provide oversight of planning and management of information technology within 20 departments encompassing 40,000 employees.
He also serves as liaison for technology matters between the branches of state government and the city and county and federal governments.
For the list of this year's IABC Ilima award winners, please see page C4.
Loomis is looming
Loomis Inc.'s newest client is, geographically speaking, its largest.Honolulu-based Kamakura Corp., with offices around the world, has awarded the Loomis advertising agency a contract to redesign the company's corporate identity.
On its Web site Kamakura claims to be "the first software company in the world to provide a single fully integrated software package" that performs such tasks as: Default probability estimation from market and accounting data; credit-adjusted value at risk; market risk; asset and liability management; net income and balance sheet simulation; performance measurement; and transfer pricing.
"What's sexy about this stuff is that the industry has gotten a big boost from the Enron fiasco," Loomis CEO Arkie Koehl said, using a word that did not come to your columnist's mind when typing that list. "Financial risk management is a huge part of audit consulting."
Kamakura President and CEO Donald van Deventer was traveling and unavailable for comment.
The branding work won't aim to make Kamakura Corp. a household name for the masses, since its target audience is companies with minimum assets of $4 billion, Koehl said. Its client list includes Harvard Economics, Shinsei Bank, National Australia Bank, Daishin Securities and MIT Sloan School.
The "visual overhaul of the look, feel and style," of the corporate image will include a redesign of the company's Web site.
"We do have a color scheme in mind, but I can't tell you what it is or I'd have to kill you," Koehl laughed.
Erika Engle is a reporter with the Star-Bulletin.
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