Hot Shots: 05/28/25

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CPB Business Customers Honored

Several of Central Pacific Bank’s customers have been recognized by the U.S. Small Business Administration Hawai‘i District Office for their outstanding contributions to Hawai‘i’s business market. These exceptional entrepreneurs and their CPB bankers (pictured) were celebrated at the 2025 Small Business Week Winners ceremony, held May 16 in Honolulu.

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Trust Donates To Lifesaving Program

The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust donated more than $1.6 million to support the expansion of The Queen’s Medical Center and Clarence T.C. Ching Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Program, which helps patients whose lungs and/or heart are unable to function on their own. Pictured are (from left) Dr. Erick Itoman, Queen’s ECMO medical director; Alex Wroe, Queen’s chief operating officer; Jill Slade, Queen’s senior director of critical care services and systems trauma; Dr. Chris Fiack, Queen’s chief of pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine; Walter Panzirer, trustee of Helmsley Charitable Trust; Jason Chang, president and CEO of The Queen’s Health Systems; Wayne Booze, director of Helmsley Charitable Trust’s Rural Health Care Program; and Dr. Whitney Limm, the The Queen’s Health Systems chief physician executive and executive vice president of clinical integration.