August 4, 2005

First Hawaiian Bank Announces Officer Promotion

(Honolulu, Hawaii, August 04, 2005) – Longtime Island banker Brian N. Sunada has joined First Hawaiian's Commercial Real Estate Division as a Senior Vice President. Executive Vice President Robert Fujioka, head of the Commercial Banking & Trust Group, announced that Sunada was named a Senior Vice President and will succeed John Landgraf as division head following Landgraf’s retirement on September 1.

Sunada has 20 years of experience in commercial real estate banking – from 1985 to 2000 at Bank of Hawaii and since then at American Savings Bank. Prior to his banking career, he spent 14 years with two C. Brewer & Co. subsidiaries – Hawaiian Agronomics Co. and Hawaiiana Investment Co. He is a graduate of Iolani School and Lewis & Clark College and a past president of the Honolulu Unit of the American Cancer Society.

First Hawaiian Bank ($11 billion assets) was founded in 1858 and is Hawaii's oldest bank and the state's largest in terms of total assets and deposits. First Hawaiian has 56 branches in Hawaii, three on Guam and two on Saipan.

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