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[ HAWAII INC. ]

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NEW JOBS

>> Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur Nicholas Mitsakos has joined HMS Hawaii Management as a special limited partner. He focuses on networking communications systems, subsystems, software and components companies. Other special limited partners are John Dean and Ron Higgins. Dean is managing director of Tuputele Ventures Fund. Higgins was founder of Digital Island and is now a Hawaii-based investor.

>> Marriott International has appointed Glenn Okamoto to new general manager of the company's first Courtyard brand hotel in Hawaii, on Waipouli Beach, Kauai. He will oversee all resort operations. He was most recently director of guest relations at Maui Marriott Resort and Ocean Club.

ON THE BOARD

>> Big Brothers Big Sisters has inducted Neal Yokota, of Stryker Weiner & Yokota Public Relations Inc., as 2004 chair. Other officers are Chair-elect J.P. Damon, Kaimana Ventures; Treasurer Russell Gifford, Barnwell Industries Inc.; Secretary Tim Ho, Hawaii Employers Council; Resource Development Committee Chair Ken Uemura, Pomare; Program Services Committee Chair Richard Lau, State Farm Insurance; Public Relations and Recruitment Chair Karen Robertshaw, Prudential Locations; and Immediate Past Chair Nita Williams, HR-Pacific.

Directors include chef Sam Choy, John Fink, Bonnie Freitas, Wes Fujimoto, Stephanie Gonsalves, Glenn Inouye, Jan Kuromoto, Gary Lee, James Lee, Chuck McCrary, Eric Miyasaki, Michael J. Murakoshi, Brian Nakashima, P. David Quandt, Henry Sumida, Sheila Sumida, Patricia Tam, Frank Teskey, Stephanie Tom, Ronald Wright and Debra Yoshino.