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Robert Fujioka, First Hawaiian Bank vice chairman and chief lending officer, plans to retire at the end of 2017 after 21 years with the company. Read more

Robert Fujioka, First Hawaiian Bank vice chairman and chief lending officer, plans to retire at the end of 2017 after 21 years with the company.

Fujioka, 65, who has been in banking for 43 years, joined First Hawaiian in 1996 as a senior vice president and manager overseeing the main banking center and cash management. He has led the bank’s commercial banking area since 2002, and has held his current position of vice chairman and chief lending officer, commercial banking group, since 2007. He has been a member of the bank’s senior management committee since 2003 and also serves as CEO of First Hawaiian Leasing Inc., a subsidiary of the bank.

Fujioka will remain with the bank through the end of this year to facilitate the commercial banking group’s leadership transition that began Wednesday.

“First Hawaiian Bank has been very fortunate to have someone with Bob Fujioka’s extensive knowledge of the commercial lending landscape and the ability to identify market trends ahead of business growth areas,” First Hawaiian Chairman and CEO Bob Harrison said Wednesday in a statement. “Bob Fujioka is a remarkable and insightful leader who has made tremendous contributions throughout his tenure in helping to grow our bank’s loan portfolio and providing sound counsel to our senior management committee.”

Lance Mizumoto, executive vice president and the manager of the commercial real estate division, has been promoted to executive vice president and manager, commercial banking group, and will be joining the bank’s senior management committee. He will assume all day-to-day responsibilities overseeing the development and growth of the bank’s commercial lending. Mizumoto has over 35 years of banking experience and rejoined First Hawaiian in January as executive vice president and commercial real estate division manager.

Dan Nishikawa will replace Mizumoto as senior vice president and commercial real estate division manager. Nishikawa has over 30 years of experience in the areas of commercial real estate, construction, development and banking. He previously was senior managing director with real estate developer OliverMcMillan.