Dean Kawamura

Dean Kawamura serves as the Marketing & Communications Manager at Hawaii Employers Council since April 2023. Previously, Dean held the position of Senior Account Director at iQ 360, Inc. from January 2022 to November 2022, and worked at Central Pacific Bank as both Community Development Manager and Corporate Communications Manager from September 2016 to December 2021. Dean's earlier experience includes serving as Marketing Manager at WATG from March 2000 to April 2016 and as Director of Marketing & Finance at Retail Merchants of Hawaii, where oversight involved marketing and operating a 250-member not-for-profit retail trade association from February 1992 to March 2000. Dean earned a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Hawai‘i - Shidler College of Business between 1989 and 1991.