{"id":190826,"date":"2024-01-25T13:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=190826"},"modified":"2024-03-05T15:47:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T01:47:02","slug":"pbn-women-who-mean-business-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2024\/01\/25\/pbn-women-who-mean-business-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"东精影业<\/abbr> ties strong in PBN<\/abbr>\u2019s ‘Women Who Mean Business’ awards"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>
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Bianca Mordasini, Shidler College of Business’ senior director of alumni and external relations, is one of the honorees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

More than a dozen honorees of the 26th Pacific Business News<\/em> Women Who Mean Business awards<\/a> have ties to the University of Hawaiʻi<\/span>, including a current staff member at 东精影业<\/abbr> Foundation<\/a>, with 东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa’s Shidler College of Business<\/a>. The annual awards recognize women who excel in business and community leadership.<\/p>\n

Bianca Mordasini, Shidler college\u2019s senior director of alumni and external relations, is one of the 31 honorees. Mordasini builds and sustains a comprehensive alumni engagement program, as well as oversees all of the college\u2019s marketing, events, public relations and community outreach initiatives. Before joining 东精影业<\/abbr>, Mordasini served as director of communications at the Chamber of Commerce Hawaiʻi<\/span>, and director of public relations for a luxury hotel property with Irongate. Mordasini earned her bachelor of arts degree in communications<\/a> from 东精影业<\/abbr> M\u0101noa and currently serves as chair for the Chamber of Commerce Hawaiʻi<\/span>\u2019s Young Professionals (YP<\/abbr>) Program<\/a>, a volunteer-driven organization dedicated to enhancing opportunities for YP<\/abbr>s to thrive personally and professionally.<\/p>\n

“I am incredibly honored to be nominated for such a prestigious accolade,” Mordasini said. “This recognition came as a complete surprise, and I am grateful and humbled to be in the company of such amazing female leaders. A heartfelt congratulations to all the awardees!”<\/p>\n

Mordasini and the other honorees will be celebrated at an awards ceremony on March 28 at The Royal Hawaiian, a Luxury Collection Resort.<\/p>\n

Other awardees with 东精影业<\/abbr> ties<\/h2>\n
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  • Angela Britten, Hawaiʻi<\/span> Land Trust chief operations and philanthropy officer<\/li>\n
  • Tricia Buskirk, Hawaiʻi<\/span> Community Federal Credit Union president and CEO<\/abbr><\/li>\n
  • Carol Higa, Hawaiʻi<\/span> State Federal Credit Union senior VP<\/abbr> of business banking and credit administration<\/li>\n
  • Lori Kahikina, Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation executive director and CEO<\/abbr><\/li>\n
  • Shirley Lau Chan, Prince Resorts Hawaiʻi<\/span>\/Prince Waik\u012bk\u012b director of human resources<\/li>\n
  • Reina Miyamoto, Hawaiʻi<\/span> Homeownership Center executive director<\/li>\n
  • Cyd Miyashiro, American Savings Bank first vice president, corporate banking<\/li>\n
  • Cayenne Peʻa<\/span>, Alakaʻi<\/span> Development principal and co-founder<\/li>\n
  • Alana Peacott-Ricardos, Finance Factors Ltd<\/abbr>. vice president general counsel and compliance officer<\/li>\n
  • Agatha Viernes-LeGros, Bank of Hawaiʻi<\/span> senior vice president<\/li>\n
  • Leanne Kealoha Fox, Institute for Climate and Peace president<\/li>\n
  • Marie (Mari) Villa, Villa Business Consulting CEO<\/abbr><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The awardees will be honored at a ceremony on March 28, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,679,498,146,698,319,9,1626],"class_list":["post-190826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-alumni","tag-alumni-recognition","tag-business","tag-shidler-college-of-business","tag-staff-recognition","tag-uh-foundation","tag-uh-manoa","tag-women-of-uh","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":190841,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190826\/revisions\/190841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}