Bank of Hawaii Promotes New Senior Vice Presidents: Linda Ho, Robyn Tanaka and Gary Trepte

Linda Ho, director commercial credit group, has been promoted to senior vice president from vice president in Bank of Hawaii’s Credit Administration department. She is responsible for leading a team of analysts and underwriters for the bank’s commercial lending line of business in the Credit Administration Division.

Ho has more than 25 years of banking experience, beginning when she first joined the bank in 1996 as a credit analyst in the Credit Services department. During her career at BOH, she has acquired a wealth of banking experience, and held a variety of positions such as vice president and primary relationship officer in Corporate Banking, senior credit analyst in Credit Services, and vice president and commercial credit team leader in the Commercial Credit Group.

Ho earned her master of business administration in finance from the University of Miami and her bachelor’s in business administration in marketing from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.

Robyn Tanaka has been promoted to senior vice president and director retail credit risk in the Credit Administration Division at Bank of Hawaii. She is responsible for leading the Retail Credit group, which provides mission critical reporting and analytics to support the bank’s consumer loan portfolios and strategies.

Tanaka joined BOH in 2008 as vice president and reporting manager in the Retail Credit department. With more than 20 years’ experience, she previously held positions at American Savings Bank and Charles Schwab Inc. in San Francisco.

Tanaka graduated from Punahou School and earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Tufts University, followed by a master’s degree in operations research – industrial engineering and financial engineering from Cornell University.

Gary Trepte, director commercial credit group, was promoted to senior vice president from vice president in Bank of Hawaii’s Commercial Credit Group. He is responsible for co-managing a team of commercial credit analysts and underwriters, who provide credit administrative and approval support to the bank’s commercial banking centers.

Trepte has more than 26 years of experience in the financial services industry having worked for a variety of financial institutions in Hawaii and in Oregon, including American Savings Bank, Umpqua Bank, Excelsior Management Group and LIME Financial Services. He earned his master’s in business administration from Marylhurst University in Oregon and his bachelor of business administration degree in accounting and finance from the University of Portland.