Avalon Group has hired the following:

>> Nana Takahashi-Saines is a new project sales agent for the company’s Sky Ala Moana sales team. She previously served as a corporate simultaneous English and Japanese interpreter for the Walt Disney Company. Takahashi-Saines’ responsibilities were to handle presentations and high-level meetings for Walt Disney Company projects, including the opening of Tokyo DisneySea.

>> Marcel Chan has been hired as a project sales agent for Avalon Group’s Sky Ala Moana sales team. He previously was with Heyer & Associates working with Mark Berkowitz, an Avalon Project sales manager, as well as Rosalei Rankin, a project sales agent at Waihonua at Kewalo and The Collection. Chan also worked at Hawaii Living, selling luxury condos.

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