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Mr. Kobayashi has been a member of our Board of Directors since December 2004. Mr. Kobayashi is senior partner of the law firm of Kobayashi, Sugita & Goda in Honolulu, Hawaii. He currently is director of the First Hawaiian Bank (1974 to present) and BancWest Corporation (1998 to present). Mr. Kobayashi also was a member of the Board of Directors of Western Airlines (from 1976 to 1986, when it was sold to Delta Airlines) and on the Board of Directors of Schuler Homes (from 1992 to 2001, when it merged with Western Pacific). He formerly sat as chairman of the State of Hawaii Judicial Selection Commission and is the immediate past president of the University of Hawaii Athletic Foundation and a member of its executive committee. He is the vice chairperson of the Friends of Hawaii Charities, the organization that runs the PGA event, the Sony Open in Hawaii and also serves on the executive committee of the Japan Hawaii Economic Council. He is listed in the Best Lawyers of America and also in the Best Lawyers in Hawaii in four categories. He served with the U.S. Army in Vietnam with the 519th MI Bn from 1966 to 1967 and was honorably discharged as a Captain in 1967. Mr. Kobayashi has a J.D. from Hastings College of Law and a B.A. from the University of Hawaii and Gettysburg College. | 