Bankoh announcessome new positions

Kathy Fujihara-Chong and Ralph Thomas have been appointed to new positions at

Bank of Hawai’i. Fujihara-Chong is senior vice president and division manager

of the Bankoh Loan Center, and Thomas is information systems manager in the

Information Management and Systems Group.

Fujihara-Chong is responsible for

managing credit approvals for small business and consumer loans in Hawai’i and

western Pacific, and handling the preparation, documentation, booking and

servicing of loans originated by consumer and commercial lending groups in

Hawai’i, Western Samoa and the western Pacific.

Since joining the bank in

1981 as manager of cost and profitability reporting in the controllers

department, she has held numerous lending and retail positions.

She holds a

master’s degree in finance and marketing from Northwestern University, and a

bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Hawai’i at

Manoa. She also conducted graduate research at the London School of

Economics.

Thomas, who most recently served as manager of the Bankoh Loan

Center, will now oversee the bank’s corporate technology services in areas

outside Hawai’i (west Pacific, south Pacific, Asia and portions of the U.S.

mainland).

He joined the bank in 1989 as manager of Operations Services. He

has held numerous management positions with the bank, and served as Pacific

Century Bank Arizona technology manager.

Prior to joining Bank of Hawai’i,

Thomas was a vice president at Wells Fargo Bank. He holds a bachelor’s degree

in liberal arts from the University of Virginia, and did course work in

industrial engineering for production operations at Stanford University, and

managing information resources at the University of California at Los

Angeles.

Bank of Hawai’i is the largest commercial bank in the state, and

the principal subsidiary of Pacific Century Financial Corporation, a regional

financial services holding company with locations throughout the Pacific

region.