Hawaiian Electric Names Alan Oshima President And CEO

(RTTNews) - Hawaiian Electric Company, a subsidiary of Hawaiian Electric Industries (HE), announced that Alan Oshima has been named president and chief executive officer of Hawaiian Electric Company, effective October 1, 2014. Oshima will succeed Dick Rosenblum, who has served in the position since 2009.

Oshima has served with Hawaiian Electric since 2008 when he joined Hawaiian Electric's board of directors. In 2011, he left the board to join parent company, Hawaiian Electric Industries, as executive vice president for corporate and community advancement and president of the HEI Charitable Foundation. In May 2014, he joined Hawaiian Electric's executive team full time.

Oshima also served as senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Hawaiian Telcom from 2005 to 2008 and later as a senior adviser and director helping the company successfully emerge from reorganization in 2010. Oshima was founding partner of the law firm, Oshima Chun Fong & Chun. Prior to that, he practiced law with Carlsmith Ball.