>> American Savings Bank has hired Steven Nakahara as executive vice president, chief credit officer. Nakahara joins the bank’s Management Committee with 25 years’ experience in commercial underwriting and loan approval functions, technology and process improvement and client relations, serving in senior management roles for numerous financial institutions in Hawaii.

>> Bank of Hawaii has hired Scott LaFountaine as vice president and trust officer in the bank’s Personal Trust-Estate Settlement department. LaFountaine was previously an associate attorney at Coates & Frey for nearly three years and deputy prosecutor for the Office of the Prosecuting Attorney for more than four years.

>> EyeSight Hawaii has hired Dr. Kristin Hirabayashi as an ophthalmologist specializing in dry eye, corneal, pterygium, cataract and laser vision correction surgery. Hirabayashi holds a medical degree from UC Irvine with corneal fellowship experience at Stanford University.

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