Bank of Hawaii names two new senior VPs

HONOLULU, Hawaii—The Bank of Hawaii announced Thursday this week the appointment of two new senior vice presidents, including one for the CNMI, Guam, and Palau within the Pacific Sales Division.

Antonita “Nette” Camacho has been promoted from vice president and regional sales manager to senior vice president and regional sales manager for Guam, Saipan and Palau. Camacho continues her responsibilities for all retail banking activities, including consumer and residential mortgage lending, branch operations, compliance and consumer sales and service.

Camacho, who joined the bank in 1976, most recently managed the service and operations group as well as the division’s cash management department. A life-long resident of Guam, she began in the data processing department and was also responsible for information technology functions within the bank’s Pacific region. She has a strong managerial background and a broad base of experience in project and process management.

Camacho currently serves as vice president of the Guam Bankers Association, represents the bank at the Guam Chamber of Commerce, and is a member of the Rotary Club of Tumon Bay.

Bank of Hawaii opened its first branch on Guam in 1961 and today operates three branches and three in-store branches on the island. Bank of Hawaii offers a full range of financial services, including retail and commercial banking, private client services, and individual and institutional investments. It also operates two branches in Saipan and one in Palau.

Blane E. Bixler has been promoted from vice president and wholesale credit administrator to senior vice president and wholesale credit administrator. In his new role his primary areas of responsibility include commercial real estate, auto finance, middle market commercial lending, and middle market leasing portfolios at Bank of Hawaii. He also oversees Bank of Hawaii’s commercial appraisal and environmental risk management.

Formerly with Pacific Century Bank—California, a subsidiary of Pacific Century Financial Corporation (now known as Bank of Hawaii Corporation), Bixler has a broad range of experience in commercial lending. At Pacific Century Bank, Bixler served as a senior commercial lending officer, later moving on to become a senior vice president and credit administrator overseeing commercial real estate and commercial lending areas.

Widely respected as a banker and a businessman in Southern California, Bixler received the Ethics in America Recognition Award by the Leatherby Center for Entrepreneurship & Business Ethics in conjunction with Chapman University in 2000 and was awarded City of Brea’s Business Man of the Year Award in 1999. He has served as president of the Brea Chamber of Commerce, and director and president of the Lomita Chamber of Commerce.

Bixler currently serves on the board of directors for the Hawaii Chapter of the Risk Management Association.