July 6, 2001
Contributed by Kekoa Paulsen
Mr. Murata has 35 years of experience as a successful real estate professional and is a member of Lambda Alpha honorary real estate society. He holds a CRE designation and a Hawaii Real Estate Broker License. Mr. Murata is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley, where he studied architecture and urban land economics. He has since been involved extensively in a broad range of real property activities and projects. As a founding principal of the full service real estate organization, Graham Murata Russell, Mr. Murata provided executive leadership and strategic counseling in the planning, investment, development, management and brokerage of office, retail, commercial, hotel, industrial and residential projects. He has participated in numerous projects, as a developer and as a consultant to landowners, developers, financial institutions and others. Representative projects in which he has been involved include: ANA Kalakaua Center, an office building in Waikiki; Lanihau Center, a neighborhood shopping center in Kailua-Kona; Maui Marriott Resort, a 720-room luxury resort hotel in Kaanapali; and Discovery Bay, a 667-apartment residential condominium in Waikiki. The Commercial Assets Division director reports to Kamehameha's Chief Investment Officer, Mr. Wendell F. Brooks, Jr. Mr. Brooks had been serving as acting CAD director since the position was created in 2000.
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