---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001104659-21-151732"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FHB"
cik: "0000036377"
company_name: "FIRST HAWAIIAN, INC."
filed_at: "2021-12-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T23:53:27.783679+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# First Hawaiian CFO Ravi Mallela resigns; Ralph Mesick named interim CFO

## Summary
- Ravi Mallela resigns as EVP & CFO effective Jan 7, 2022 for personal reasons.
- Ralph Mesick, Vice Chairman & CRO, appointed interim CFO starting Jan 8, 2022.
- Company will conduct search for permanent CFO.
- Resignation not due to any disagreement over operations or policies.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001104659-21-151732
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FHB
- cik: 0000036377
- company_name: FIRST HAWAIIAN, INC.
- filed_at: 2021-12-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/36377/000110465921151732/0001104659-21-151732-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/36377/000110465921151732/tm2135882d1_8k.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-151732
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001104659-21-151732.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Ravi Mallela departed as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at FIRST HAWAIIAN, INC..
  - Action: resignation
  - Role: Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
  source text: On December 17, 2021, First Hawaiian, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Mr. Ravi Mallela, the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company and its subsidiary, First Hawaiian Bank (the “Bank”), tendered his resignation from his positions with the Company and the Bank effective at the close of business on January 7, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/36377/000110465921151732/0001104659-21-151732-index.htm
- Executive change
  Ralph M. Mesick was appointed as Interim Chief Financial Officer at FIRST HAWAIIAN, INC..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: Interim Chief Financial Officer
  source text: The Company also announced that, effective January 8, 2022, Mr.Ralph M. Mesick, the Vice Chairman and Chief Risk Officer of the Company and the Bank, will be appointed Interim Chief Financial Officer of the Company and the Bank, and will serve as the principal accounting officer of the Company on an interim basis
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/36377/000110465921151732/0001104659-21-151732-index.htm

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