{"id":306639,"date":"2019-08-26T06:06:11","date_gmt":"2019-08-25T20:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=306639"},"modified":"2019-08-26T06:06:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T20:06:11","slug":"fhb-hires-ward-as-vp-business-banking-team-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/fhb-hires-ward-as-vp-business-banking-team-leader\/","title":{"rendered":"FHB hires Ward as VP, Business Banking team leader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam\u2014First Hawaiian Bank chair and CEO Bob Harrison announced that Kieron \u201cPip\u201d Ward has joined First Hawaiian Bank as a vice president and business banking team leader in its Maite Branch.<\/p>\n<p>Ward joins the bank with over 25 years of commercial banking experience throughout Guam, Tonga, Kiribati, and Fiji, including roles as senior relationship manager, head of Commercial, Corporate Relationship manager, and head of Small Business. He also has experience with asset management.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very happy to have Kieron join our business banking team and First Hawaiian Bank family,\u201d said Ed Untalan, First Hawaiian Bank senior vice president and Guam-CNMI Region manager. \u201cHe is a great addition to the team and his experience and knowledge in the industry is an asset for the bank.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_306644\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-306644\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kieron-\u201cPip\u201d-Ward.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Kieron-\u201cPip\u201d-Ward-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-306644\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-306644\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kieron \u201cPip\u201d Ward<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ward will lead a team of business banking officers and business banking service representatives while managing a portfolio of the Bank\u2019s commercial customers in the Guam and CNMI Region.<\/p>\n<p>First Hawaiian Bank (www.FHB.com) was founded in 1858 as Bishop &amp; Co. and today is Hawaii\u2019s leading bank offering a comprehensive suite of banking services to consumer and commercial customers, including deposit products, loans, wealth management, insurance, credit cards, and private banking. The bank operates 53 branches in Hawaii, three on Guam and two on Saipan. First Hawaiian, Inc. (NASDAQ: FHB), the parent company of First Hawaiian Bank, is the largest publicly traded company based in Hawaii. (PR)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HAG\u00c5T\u00d1A, Guam\u2014First Hawaiian Bank chair and CEO Bob Harrison announced that Kieron \u201cPip\u201d Ward has&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":306644,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[10286,669,4475],"class_list":["post-306639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-business-banking","tag-fhb","tag-vp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306644"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}