Cameron W. Nekota
Director
Non-Executive Chair of the Board
Cameron W. Nekota is an Executive Vice President and Division Manager at First Hawaiian Bank, Hawaii’s largest financial institution, where he is responsible for overseeing the bank’s commercial real estate portfolio. He also currently serves as President of the First Hawaiian Bank Foundation. Prior to joining First Hawaiian Bank, Mr. Nekota served as Vice President at D.R. Horton – Schuler Division; Development Project Manager at James Campbell Company, LLC.; Associate Attorney at Imanaka, Kudo and Fujimoto; and Deputy Prosecuting Attorney at the City and County of Honolulu. He also served more than six years as a business law lecturer at the University of Hawaiʻi - West Oʻahu.
Mr. Nekota serves on several boards, including The Queen's Health Systems, Waianae Coast Comprehensive Health Center, and St. Andrew's Schools. He received his bachelor's degree in Political Science, with distinction, from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and earned his juris doctor from the University of Hawaiʻi William S. Richardson School of Law.

