Board of Directors

Ruth L. Erickson joined the Executive Committee in 2020 and was promoted to senior executive vice president in the Marketing Division in 2021. Her responsibilities include overseeing the bank’s Channel and Content Marketing departments and the bank’s marketing functions for its E-commerce and Demand Center, boh.com and online banking. She first joined Bank of Hawaii in July 2019 as senior vice president and director of marketing operations.

Ms. Erickson has nearly 20 years of marketing experience, most recently as director of marketing at ProService Hawaii. She also spent 16 years at Microsoft in Washington in various leadership roles including director of marketing strategy, and director of integrated marketing and product releases for their Cloud + Enterprise business.

Ms. Erickson earned her bachelor’s degree in communications and English from Concordia College in Minnesota.