50 will be honored at
technology awards gala
Fifty business executives and officials deemed to have made positive contributions to high technology and other industries will receive honors Oct. 12 at the 3rd annual Flavors of Technology Awards Gala at the Sheraton-Waikiki Hotel.
"In the light of how current events have affected the growth of business and technology here in Hawaii, we would like to honor the leaders who have truly made an impact on our market," said Lincoln Jacobe, chairman of the Flavors of Technology Awards Gala, and chief executive of PacificNews.Net.
Tickets are $95 each, and proceeds will go to a high-tech scholarship fund run by PacificNews.Net.
Awards will be presented by Lt. Gov. Duke Aiona and Manny Menendez, executive director of Mayor Jeremy Harris' Office of Economic Development.
Honorees
Keoni Ahlo, Honolulu City and County Employee Federal Credit Union
Kathy-Lou Ayano, BriteSmile Inc.
John Bingman III, Comp USA
Richard Bratt, Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Eric Brown, Punahou School
Richard Cox Jr., University of Hawaii, Office of Technology Transfer & Economic Development
Gerald Denton, Exp@nets
Christopher Duque, Honolulu Police Department
Vince Dydasco, Panasonic
Ed Felipe, Panda Travel
Roger Forness, The Honolulu Advertiser
Victor Fresca, Bank of Hawaii
Lawrence Futa, FBI
Kit Grant, LavaNet
Courtney Harrington, City & County of Honolulu
Monir Hodges, PCATT
Lynne Horiguchi, Saint Louis School
Roy Irei, T-Mobile
Dr. Gordon Jones, Hawaii Pacific University
Everett Kaneshige, Hand e Corp.
Umma Kayvalyam, Ticketmaster
Les Kiyuna, Hawaiian Airlines
Kenneth Kudla, Affiliated Computer Services Inc-Queen's HealthCare
Greg Lee, Landscapes by Tropical Images Inc.
Christopher Leonti, Aloha Petroleum Ltd.
Larsen Luke, Hawaii Pacific Health
Rick Marine, Century Computers
Sheldon Miller, Hurricane Internet
Irene Motonaga, Syncadd Systems Inc.
Aryn Nakaoka, Progressive Communications LLC
Kevin Okawa, Servco Pacific Inc.
Karl Okemura, Sony Hawaii
John Olkowski, EyeSight Hawaii
Dean Pang, Castle Medical Center
Debra Pyrek, Title Guaranty of Hawaii Inc.
Shelley Quinones, Oceanic Time Warner
Thomas Reed, Oceanic Imaging Consultants Inc.
Seth Reiss, Godbey Griffiths Reiss
Steve Sakamoto, Aloha Airlines
Thomas Simon, Heald College
Karl Stahlkopf, Hawaiian Electric Co.
Alan Stewart, MidWeek/Honolulu Star-Bulletin
David Takeyama, Oceanit
Lawrence Tong, U.S. Attorney's Office-Hawaii
Mike Travis, La Pietra-Hawaii School for Girls
Francis Tulu, CompuTant
Michael Walder, Secure Technology Hawaii Inc.
Dr. Roger White, Holistica Hawaii
Dr. William Wiecking, Maui High Performance Computing Center
Leslie Wilkins, Maui Economic Development Board Inc.
