Walter Arthur Dods

Background

Dods, Walter Arthur was born on May 26, 1941 in Honolulu. Son of Walter Arthur Senior and Mildred (Phillips) Dods.

Education

Bachelor of Business Administration, U. Hawaii, 1967.

Career

Marketing officer, 1st Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, 1969; assistant vice president marketing division, 1st Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, 1969-1971; vice president, chairman marketing and research group, 1st Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, 1971-1973; senior vice president marketing and research group, 1st Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, 1973-1976; executive vice president retail banking group, 1st Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, 1976-1978; executive vice president general banking group, 1st Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, 1978-1984; president, 1st Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, 1984-1989; chairman, ceo, 1st Hawaiian Bank, Honolulu, since 1989; chairman, president, Chief Executive Officer, First Hawaiian, Inc., 1989-1990; chairman, Chief Executive Officer, First Hawaiian, Inc., since 1989; chairman, Chief Executive Officer, First Hawaiian Creditcorp., 1989-1992. Board directors First Hawaiian Inc., 1st Hawaiian Bank, First Hawaiian Creditcorp Inc., First Hawaiian Leading, Inc., Alexander & Baldwin Inc., A&B-Hawaii Inc., Duty Free Shoppers Advisory Board, Matson Navigation Company Inc., 1st Insurance Company Hawaii Ltd., GTE California, GTE Hawaiian Telephone Сompany, GTE Northwest, Grace Pacific Corporation, Oceanic Cablevision Inc., Pacific Guardian Life Insurance Company, Princeville Advisory Group, RHP, Inc., Restaurant Suntory United States of America, Inc., Suntory Resorts, Inc.

Achievements

• Walter Arthur Dods has been listed as a noteworthy Bank executive by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Board of directors Ahahui Koa Anuenue, East-West Center Foundation. Past secretary, treasurer The Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific. Executive Board member Aloha Council, Boy Scouts American.

Trustee, past chairman, trustee Blood Bank Hawaii. Past Chairman of the Board Aloha United Way. Past chairman Board Water Supply.

Board of Governors, vice president finance Center for International Commercial Dispute Resolution. Board directors, treasurer Coalition for Drug-Free Hawaii. Trustee Contemporary Museum co-chairman corporation campaign committee.

Member Duty Free Shoppers Advisory Board. Past chairman Gubernatorial Inauguration, 1974, 82. Board of Governors Hawaii Employers Council.

Trustee Hawaii Maritime Ctr. Member Governor's Advisory Board Geothermal/Inter-IslandCable Project, Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on the Future of Healthcare in Hawaii. Director, past chairman Hawaii Visitors Bureau.

Executive Committee HawaiianOpen. Past special director Homeless Kokua Week. Board governor Honolulu Country Club, Japanese Cultural Center Hawaii, Pacific Peace Foundation.

Trustee Japan-American Institute Management Science, The Nature Conservancy Hawaii, Punahou School. Hawaii chairman Japan-Hawaii Economics Council. Chairman, director Pacific International Center for High Technology Research.

Past co-chairman, chairman building fund St. Louis High School. Treasurer The 200 Club. Director World Cup Honolulu 1994.

Member American Bankers Association, Bank Marketing Association, Hawaii Bankers Association, Hawaii Business Roundtable, Chamber of Commerce of Hawaii, Honolulu Press Club.

Connections

Married Diane Lauren Nosse, September 18, 1971. Children: Walter A. III, Christopher L., Peter D., Lauren S.