Hawaiian Bank Exec to Focus on Mortgage Unit

Blenn A. Fujimoto will now work full time as president and chief executive of Central Pacific HomeLoans Inc., the mortgage banking unit of Central Pacific Bank, Honolulu. He resigned the positions of vice chairman of parent company Central Pacific Financial Corp., and vice chairman, Hawaii market at Central Pacific Bank; those jobs have been eliminated as the company moves to a leaner management structure. Fujimoto was responsible for establishing CPHL in August 2005. In 2009, the company had origination volume of $1.9 billion in Hawaii.