Announcements

PBN to honor Nonprofit Leadership Award winner

Pacific Business News will honor leaders in nonprofits and business at the 2009 Business Leadership Hawaii event to be held on Thursday, Nov. 12 in the Molokai/Lanai Ballrooms of the Sheraton Waikiki. Registration and a no-host cocktail reception will be from 5 to 6:15 p.m. at the Helumoa Playground next to the lily pond on the ground floor of the Sheraton to be followed by a gourmet dinner and the awards program from 6:30 to 9 p.m.

Larry Rodriguez, former managing partner of the Honolulu office of Ernst & Young LLP, will receive the 2009 Business Leadership Hawaii Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's event.

Finalists for the Cades Schutte-The Cades Foundation Nonprofit Leadership Award are:

  • Bay Clinic, Inc.
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Honolulu
  • Castle Medical Center
  • Chaminade University
  • Family Promise of Hawaii

Finalists for the other award categories include:

American Savings Bank Business Leader of the Year:

  • Stanford Carr, President & CEO, Stanford Carr Development
  • Susanna Cheung, President & CEO, ORI
  • John Henry Felix, Chairman & CEO, HMAA (Hawaii Medical Assurance Association)
  • Tyrie Lee Jenkins, Owner, Tyrie Jenkins, M.D. Eye Clinic
  • Art Ushijima, President & CEO, The Queen's Health Systems

Best In Business I (companies with more than 100 employees):

  • ALTRES, Inc.
  • Diagnostic Laboratory Services, Inc.
  • Hawaiian Airlines, Inc.
  • Outrigger Enterprises Group
  • The Queen's Health Systems

Best In Business II (companies with less than 100 employees):

  • Coldwell Banker Pacific Properties
  • Grove Farm Company, Inc.
  • Kiewit Building Group
  • Retina Institute of Hawaii
  • Sunetric

Innovative Company of the Year:

  • Aloha Air Cargo
  • ALTRES, Inc.
  • Baldridge & Associates Structural Engineering
  • Oceanit
  • Sunetric

Community Spirit:

  • Architects Hawaii, Ltd.
  • Group 70 International
  • Haseko, Inc.
  • Hawaii Self Storage
  • Honblue, Inc.

Individual tickets are $150 each and tables of ten are available for $1,500, 2,500 and $3,500. Validated parking is available for $8 (self park) or $12 (valet). To purchase tables and seats, go to http://pacificbusinessnews.com, email dtavares@bizjournals.com or, for more information or to make a purchase, call PBN's Doreen Tavares, (808)955-8074.