BRIEFCASE HERNANDEZ CHOSEN FOR RYLAND'S BOARD.Byline: - Staff and wire services CALABASAS - The Ryland Group Inc. announced Thursday the election of former Telemundo Group Inc. executive Roland A. Hernandez to the board of directors of the home builder and mortgage finance company. Hernandez was most recently chairman of the board and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Telemundo Group, a job he held for six years. Prior to Telemundo, the Pasadena resident was founder and president of Interspan Communications, which engaged in a variety of services related to Spanish media. He serves on the board of Wal-Mart Stores Inc., where he is chairman of the audit committee. Hernandez is affiliated with the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication There are two schools named Annenberg School for Communication.
Former Gore aide will join MetWest Peter S. Knight, a former Democratic National Committee deputy chairman and adviser to Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore , has joined Metropolitan West Financial Inc. as a managing director, the company announced Thursday. MetWest Financial announced last month the appointment of Gore, the former vice president and presidential candidate, as vice chairman of the Los Angeles-based company. Knight will report to Richard S. Hollander, MetWest Financial chairman and chief executive officer, and will be responsible for new business development for the financial services The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. holding company. Prior to joining MetWest Financial, Knight was president of Sage Venture Partners, a Washington D.C.-based investment firm, and deputy chairman of the DNC DNC Democratic National Committee DNC Democratic National Convention DNC Do Not Call DNC Delaware North Companies DNC Domain Name Commissioner DNC Direct Numerical Control DNC Do Not Change DNC Does Not Compute DNC Digital Nautical Chart . Knight, who was the campaign manager for Clinton-Gore's successful 1996 re-election campaign, served as chief of staff to Gore from 1977 to 1989 when Gore was a member of Congress and later the U.S. Senate. Metropolitan West Financial is a diversified financial services holding company with ownership interests in various financial companies and investment advisers. The firm and its affiliates manage about $55 billion and operate offices in Los Angeles, Sacramento, Newport Beach, St. Petersburg, Fla., and Short Hills, N.J. National Golf hires financial advisers SANTA MONICA - National Golf Properties Inc. announced Thursday that it has engaged financial and legal advisers to help evaluate restructuring alternatives. Those alternatives include a review of the Santa Monica company's leases with its primary tenant, American Golf Corp. Lazard Freres & Co. will act as its financial adviser, and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz as its legal adviser. NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. drawing fire for liquor ad move WASHINGTON - Lawmakers asked NBC on Thursday to reverse its decision to begin airing advertisements for distilled alcoholic beverages and threatened to ban such ads on TV if the network doesn't cooperate. ``NBC has been a good corporate citizen,'' said Rep. Frank Wolf, R-Va. ``Why spoil that now by a shameful act that hurts American families, is detrimental to young people and will have an extremely harmful consequence for those who are fighting to overcome addiction problems?'' The network announced last week it would start accepting ads for distilled beverages, breaking a longtime tradition of refusing the commercials to avoid being branded socially irresponsible. Last week, spokesmen for CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. , ABC ABC in full American Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. television network. It began when the expanding national radio network NBC split into the separate Red and Blue networks in 1928. and Fox said they were not planning to change their advertising policies ``at this time.'' |
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