Cameron Center Staff

 
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César Gaxiola - Chief Executive Officer since 2006

 

Prior to joining Cameron Center, Gaxiola worked with Maui Economic Opportunity Inc. for more than 11 years. He began as a Spanish language translator and moved up the corporate ladder to Operations Director. More ...

Board of Directors
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Clyde Murashige, Board Chair

 

Clyde Murashige, a professional planner, is the Senior Vice President, Real Estate division, with Wailea Resort Company, Ltd., and Vice President with Wailea Golf Resort, Inc. (A&B Wailea LLC.)  More ...

 

 

   
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Greg ChouBoard Vice Chair, BOD Member since 2003

 

Greg is the newest member appointed to the Board of Directors. The financial advisor recently joins the Board as its 15th member. He presently is the Senior Vice President/Branch Manager of Morgan Stanley's Maui office, and has been with the company for 22 years. More ... 

 

   

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 Neil Nunokawa, D.D.S., Secretary, BOD Member since 2006

 

Dr. Nunokawa is a working dentist practicing out of his Wailuku office he established in 1977. He was past president, vice president, and trustee for the Hawaii Dental Association, and past president for the Maui County Dental Society. Outside of his office, Dr. Nunokawa wears another hat as coach for the Wailuku Rainbows Midget football team. In the past he coached the Wailuku Rainbows Pee Wee football team, as well as Wailuku Junior tennis and Baldwin High School tennis programs.

 

   
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Virgilio “Leo” Agcolicol, BOD Member since 1991; member of Investment Committee & Facilities & Maintenance Committee

 

Leo has been a Bank Officer with Central Pacific Bank in Kahului for over 35 years and has been involved in many non-profit organizations throughout Maui for decades. One of his hobbies include hosting his radio show which features Filipino oldies and goodies, and news-related topics on KNUI AM 900.   More ...

 

   
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Councilmember Gladys C. Baisa, BOD Member since 2004

 

Gladys C. Baisa was appointed to J. Walter Cameron Center’s Board of Directors in June 2004.  She participates in several committees, including public relations and fundraising. She is currently a member of the Maui County Council after retiring as the Executive Director of Maui Economic Opportunity (MEO).  More ...

 

   
 

Pam Farnsworth

 
Pam Farnsworth was born and raised on Maui. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in Electrical Engineering. She began her career on Maui at ECM, Inc as an electrical engineer, before relocating to San Diego where she acquired her Professional Engineering license and worked for several firms as a project engineer. Pam and her family returned to Maui in 2005 and coming full circle, Pam now finds herself again at ECM, Inc.

   
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Teri Freitas Gorman, BOD Member since 2007

 

Teri Freitas Gorman was the Director of Corporate Communications at the Maui Land & Pineapple Company prior to being promoted to Corporate Vice President.  She was born in Wailuku and is of Portuguese, Japanese, Chinese, and Hawaiian ancestry.  Teri earned her BA degree in Film & Television from UCLA.  More ... 

 

   
 

Paul Horikawa

 

   
 

John Kreag, BOD Member since 2008

 

John Kreag is a CPA, is a resident of Kula, and is presently the Chief Financial Officer for Haleakala Ranch Company. Prior to that, he worked as CFO for Blue Hawaiian Helicopters, was Treasurer of Maui Land & Pineapple Company, and VP/Controller for HC&S. More ...

 

   
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Hideo Kawahara, Chair of Facilities and Maintenance Committee.; BOD Member since 1999

 

Hideo is presently the Manager of Engineering with Alexander & Baldwin Properties, Inc., a company he has been with for 29 years.  He is married to Joyce Kawahara.  

 

   
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Karlynn Kawahara, BOD Member since 2006

 

Karlynn Kawahara has served on the Facilities and Maintenance Committee for the Cameron Center since 2003, but her ties with the Center started many years ago, through her grandfather, the late Douglas Sodetani who was President of Cameron Center from 1976 till he passed on in 1996.  More ...

 

   
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 Alec McBarnet, Jr., BOD Member since 2006, Finance Committee

 

“Raised barefoot” in Puunene, Alec is the President and CEO of Maui Oil Company, Inc., since 1990.  He worked with Maui Land and Pineapple from 1978 to 1990 and has served as a board member for many non-profit organizations on Maui. Some of the positions he holds include vice president for Ka Hale A Ke Ola Homeless Resource Center, treasurer with Hale Makua Home Health Care, and board member with Hui Malama Learning Center.

 

   
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Priscilla Cabanilla Mikell, BOD Member since 2006; Public Relations Committee & Long Range Planning Committee

 

Born and raised in Lahaina and currently employed by Kamehameha Schools Maui working as a student internship coordinator, Priscilla is a social worker by training, was an instructor and program director for the Ku‘ina Program at Maui Community College to help at-risk youths and has served as Deputy Director in the County of Maui’s Dept. of Housing & Human Concerns.

 

   

 

 

 Directors Emeritus: 

 Nora Cooper  J. Glenn Haines, M.D.
 Charlotte C. Nakamura  Debi Rolfing
 Mary Cameron Sanford  Tommy Sato
 Lloyd K. Sodetani  Representative Joseph Souki
 Fumio Tsuji, D.D.S.  Lawrence N.C. Ing
 Maria Unemori  Jyl Cameron
 Richard Cameron  

 

In Memoriam

 

J. Walter Cameron

President, 1969-1976 

 

Douglas R. Sodetani

President 1976-1996

 

Michael H. Lyons, II

Chairman, 1996-2004