Sponsorship Recognition   Acknowledgment and great appreciation extended to the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Steering Committee chaired by Walter A. Dods, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive officer of First Hawaiian Bank. Thank you to the following sponsors:   Overall ADB Sponsors   Platinum Sponsors First Hawaiian Bank Compaq   Gold Sponsers United Airlines Xerox   Silver Sponsers Alexander & Baldwin, Inc. BNP Paribas Ford Motor Company/Hertz Rent a Car Verizon   Bronze Sponsers Aloha Airlines, Inc. Bank of Hawaii Central Pacific Bank City Bank Consuelo Zobel Alger Foundation DFS Hawaii Hawaiian Electric Industries, Inc. JTB Hawaii, Inc. Kobayashi Development Group LLC/Dowling Company, Inc. Louis Vuitton Hawaii, Inc. Oceanic Cablevision Outrigger Enterprises, Inc. Sony Hawaii Company Territorial Savings & Loan Association Tesoro Hawaii Corporation   ADB-HBF Sponsors   Bays Deaver Lung Rose Baba   Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism   Hawaii/Pacific Export Council   Hilton Grand Vacations Club   PAMI/CIBER, College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii at Manoa   Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade & Douglas, Inc.   Steering Committee   Piia M. Aarma Piia Aarma Communication Strategies Saleem Ahmed AXA Advisors, LLC Doug Aton Hawaii Convention Center Rosalyn Baker Office of Economic Development County of Maui Gary Baldwin Kauai Economic Development Clarita Barretto Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism Pete Bower Private Capital Corporation Sherri Rienzi Bulkley Bank of Hawaii Jack Carreiro The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii Shirleyanne Chew Verizon Mamo Cummings Normandie Enderton The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii Bob Fishman Hawaii Tourism Authority & Hawaii Convention Center Wesley F. Fong Koyanagi and Fong Brenda L. Foster Office of the Governor Lisa Gibson Thelma Gretzinger The Gretzinger Corporation Rob Hale Architects Hawaii Limited Paula Helfrich Hawaii Island Economic Development Board Mike Herb Hawaii Business Connections Marlene Hiraoka Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism Stanley W. Hong The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii Margarita Hopkins Department of Research & Development Alex Jampel Chun, Kerr, Dodd, Beman & Wong Virginia Kapali Office of the Mayor, County of Kauai Maurice Kaya Department of Business, Economic Development and Tourism Luke Kirch Hawaii Technology Trade Assoc. Robert G. Lees Pacific Basin Economic Council Lisa Maruyama Pacific Asian Affairs Council Keith T. Matsumoto Pacific International Center for High Technology Research Michael Matsumoto, PE, FACEC SSFM International, Inc. Manuel Menendez III Office of Economic Development City and County of Honolul Kim Mills The Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii Mike Murphy U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service/ITA Kris Nakata Kauai Economic Development Board Seiji F. Naya Department of Business, Economic, Development & Tourism Laura Noda Oahu Hawaii Small Business Development Center Network Steve Olson Pam Parker Carol M. Pregill Retail Merchants of Hawaii Dan Reeves Oahu Economic Development Board Paul J. Rehob Art Richardson PAMI/CIBER College of Business Administration, University of Hawaii at Manoa Robert B. Robinson Peter Rosegg Starr PR / Starr Seigle Communications Mary Shimizu WGID LLC Gerry Silva Hawaii Tourism Authority Hawaii Convention Center Jeanne Skog Maui Economic Development Board Gerry Sumida Office of the General Counsel John Tantlinger Department of Business, Economic Development & Tourism Eleanor Thommes Charlotte Vick Starr Seigle Communications, Inc. Greg Wong Lorinda Wong-Lau Hawaii Tourism Authority Anne Wright Office of the Governor Yvonne Yamashita UH Conference Center, Outreach College