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UH gives business-plan awards

Pipeline Communications and Technology Inc. was named the winner of the annual business plan competition at the University of Hawaii Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship and E-Business.

Pipeline won the $25,000 first prize for developing antenna prototypes and getting provisional patents for a new method of radio transmission enabling high-security, point-to-point communications using lighter, more compact and energy-efficient equipment than is currently available.

Agri-Wastewater Solution was awarded the $15,000 second prize for its reactor, clean-up system and consulting service offering dairy farmers tools for managing wastewater purity.

Biotransit, winner of the third-place $10,000 award, pioneered what judges believed to be the first one-stop processing for biological material transfers, providing information and tools needed for such transfers.

The winners, chosen Tuesday night from 60 initial qualifying teams, will receive invitations to the Wayne Brown Institute's Investors Choice International venture capital conference giving them an opportunity to raise more funds.

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[Hawaii Inc.]

New Jobs

>> Verizon Hawaii has selected Derrick Uyeda as customer operations and construction director. He supervises construction, installation and maintenance, customer engineering and operations and business operations. He rejoins the company after retiring in 2000.

>> KIKU-TV has hired former KITV local sales manager Jason Hagiwara as a consultant. He will be responsible for daily station management and operations while General Manager Phyllis Kihara reduces her role for the next eight months. He has nine years of experience in local television sales and also operates his own advertising agency, Medialogy Consulting. KIKU-TV has also hired Kirsten Fujitani as senior account manager and Linda Bade as production manager. Fujitani was a KGMB senior account manager for seven years and also runs her own marketing consulting firm, Kukui Marketing. Bade has 25 years of experience in local television and video production.

>> Ina Chang has joined PacificBasin Communications as Hawaii Business Magazine traffic coordinator.

>> Grant Thornton has hired Kenneth J. Kretzer as its newest tax manager. He will oversee tax compliance and planning for the company's clients, including individuals, trusts, corporations and nonprofits. He previously worked for global organization Jacuzzi Inc. as tax director. Before that, he was a tax attorney for Dillingham Corp. and senior tax attorney for Detroit Edison.

>> Halekulani Corp. has engaged James F. Pedone as sales and marketing vice president. He will be responsible for all sales and marketing initiatives for the Halekulani and Waikiki Parc, as well as future hotels. He was previously director of sales and marketing at the Fairmont Miramar Hotel.