{"id":382664,"date":"2023-01-04T06:06:19","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=382664"},"modified":"2023-01-04T06:06:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T20:06:19","slug":"magazine-names-2022-executive-of-the-year-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/magazine-names-2022-executive-of-the-year-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Magazine names 2022 Executive of the Year nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BARRIGADA, Guam<\/strong>\u2014<em>Guam Business Magazine<\/em> is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2022 <em>Guam Business Magazine<\/em> Executive of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>The nominees are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Frank Cruz, vice president and general manager of Guam Fast Foods Inc., which does business as KFC Guam and Sbarro Guam;<\/li>\n<li>Jimmy T.C. Hau, president, Mobil Oil Guam Inc., president, Mobil Oil Mariana Islands Inc. and president, Mobil Oil Micronesia Inc.;<\/li>\n<li>Charles B. Hazzard III, president, CEO and project director, DZSP 21;<\/li>\n<li>Charlie Hermosa, general manager, Guam-Micronesia, APL; president, Bella Wings Aviation; and president, Hermosa Ventures LLC, which does business as Guam Gift Baskets;<\/li>\n<li>Siska S. Hutapea, founder and president of Cornerstone Valuation Guam Inc.;<\/li>\n<li>Thomas G. Shimizu, general manager, Ambros Inc.; and<\/li>\n<li>Ken Yanagisawa, general manager, the Tsubaki Tower, president\/director, PHR Management Inc.; managing director, Ken Real Estate Lease Ltd.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Executive of the Year will be revealed at the Feb. 11, 2023, Executive of the Year Gala at the Hyatt Regency Guam, together with the release of the January-February 2023 issue of <em>Guam Business Magazine<\/em>, which will feature the awardee on the cover.<\/p>\n<p>Since 1983, the title of Executive of the Year has been awarded annually (except in 2021 for 2020), recognizing executives who have made outstanding contributions to the business communities of Micronesia, have raised the bar in their fields and are considerably involved in the community.<\/p>\n<p>The 2023 Gala will mark the 40th anniversary of the <em>Guam Business Magazine<\/em> Executive of the Year program.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mugs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-382665\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/mugs-1024x230.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"216\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Past Executive of the Year recipients include <strong>Robert H. Jones<\/strong> of Triple J Enterprises Inc. (1983); <strong>John M. Borlas<\/strong> of IT&amp;E Overseas Inc. (1984); <strong>Philip J. Flores<\/strong> of BankPacific (1985); <strong>Doris Flores Brooks<\/strong> of the Office of Public Accountability (1986); <strong>Mark V. Pangilinan<\/strong> of M.V. Pangelinan Enterprises Inc. (1987); <strong>Allen A. Pickens<\/strong> of Tax-Aide (1988); the late <strong>T. Roy Sullivan<\/strong> of Jones &amp; Guerrero Co. (1989); <strong>Kurt S. Moylan<\/strong> of Moylan\u2019s Insurance (1990); the late <strong>Akira \u201cMike\u201d Baba<\/strong> of Baba Corp. (1991); <strong>Paul M. Calvo<\/strong> of Calvo Enterprises Inc. (1992); <strong>Antoinette D. Sanford<\/strong> of Sanford Technology Group (1993); the late <strong>Kenneth T. Jones<\/strong> of Jones &amp; Guerrero Co. (1994); the late <strong>Edward M. Calvo<\/strong> of Calvo Enterprises Inc. (1995); <strong>L. Carl Peterson<\/strong> of Money Resources Inc. (1996); <strong>William R. Thompson<\/strong> (1997) of Atkins Kroll Inc.; the late <strong>John K. Lee<\/strong> of First Hawaiian Bank (1998); the late <strong>Henry L. Schnabel<\/strong> of Calvo\u2019s Insurance Underwriters (1999); <strong>Marian Aldan-Pierce<\/strong> of DFS Saipan (2000); <strong>Manfred H. Pieper<\/strong> of Voyages Indigenous Tourism Australia (2001); <strong>Thomas G. Ahillen<\/strong> of Asia Pacific Solutions LLC (2002); <strong>Juan T. Guerrero<\/strong> of Herman\u2019s Modern Bakery Inc. (2003); <strong>Joseph M. Crisostomo<\/strong> of Cars Plus LLC, Cycles Plus and Payless Car Rental (2004); <strong>Joseph \u201cJerry\u201d Kramer<\/strong> of Pacific International Inc. (2004); <strong>David M. Sablan<\/strong> of Century Group of Companies (2005); the late <strong>Alfred C. Ysrael<\/strong> of Tanota Partners (2006); <strong>Lee P. Webber<\/strong> of MDA Guam (2007); <strong>Laura-Lynn V. Dacanay<\/strong> of First Hawaiian Bank (2008); <strong>Jerry Cho Yee Tan<\/strong> of Tan Holdings Inc. (2009); <strong>Lourdes A. \u201cLou\u201d Leon Guerrero<\/strong> of Bank of Guam (2010); <strong>Jay R. Shedd<\/strong> of IT&amp;E (2011); <strong>Jerrold C. Johnson<\/strong> of Hawaiian Rock Products (2012); <strong>George Chiu<\/strong> of Tan Holdings (2013); <strong>Norman T. Tenorio<\/strong> of Joeten Enterprises Inc., Pacifica Insurance Underwriters Inc., Tropical Instant Press Inc., Saipan Shipping Co., Saipan Stevedore and Advance Carrier (2014); <strong>Jeffrey B. Jones<\/strong> of Triple J Enterprises Inc. (2015); <strong>Jose C. \u201cJoe\u201d Ayuyu<\/strong> of McDonald\u2019s of Guam and Saipan, RJ Corp. and RJ Guam LLC (2016); <strong>Leonard K. Kaae Sr.,<\/strong> senior vice president and general manager, Black Construction Corp. (2017); <strong>Bernadette N. Valencia<\/strong> of Matson Navigation Inc. (2018); <strong>AnneMarie T. Muna<\/strong>, president and general manager of AM Insurance (2019) and <strong>Edward G. Untalan<\/strong>, executive vice president and Guam-Northern Marianas region manager of First Hawaiian Bank (2021).<\/p>\n<p>For additional information or inquiries, contact Maureen N. Maratita, publisher of Guam Business Magazine at <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">publisher@glimpsesofguam.com<\/a> or on (1-671) 687-2505. <strong><em>(Guam Business Magazine)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BARRIGADA, Guam\u2014Guam Business Magazine is pleased to announce the nominees for the 2022 Guam Business&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":382666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[4620,3566],"class_list":["post-382664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-barrigada","tag-guam-business-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382664","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=382664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}