David Cheever (Oahu)

David Cheever came to the Islands in 1969 from San Francisco to work for an advertising agency. Following a couple of years there, he became vice-president of marketing for Bank of Hawaii. In 1979 he started his marketing consultancy-David Cheever Marketing-which has served a wide range of clients from tourism to financial institutions to food companies.  Twice David has put his consultancy in abeyance while serving as the executive director, first for the American Institute of Architects in 1999 and then Historic Hawai‘i Foundation in 2005. David has written and published four books: two guidebooks-Daytrips Hawaii and Daytrips San Francisco; a coffee table book-Pohaku, The Art & Architecture of Stonework in Hawaii; and a new book about historic preservation-A Close Call, Saving Honolulu’s Chinatown.