Newsmakers.Advertising & P.R. Anne-Marie Schaffer has joined Team One Advertising in El Segundo as group communications director in the company's communication division. She was most recently vice president, associate media director at Rubin Postaer & Associates in Santa Monica. Entertainment Alex Ferrari has been promoted to executive vice president and chief financial officer for MTV Networks in Santa Monica. He has been with the company since 1982, most recently serving as senior vice president and chief financial officer. Bill Immerman has joined Los Angeles-based Crusader Entertainment as executive vice president. He will share responsibility with the company's president in directing the day-to-day operations, as well as act as Crusader's senior negotiator. Immerman most recently served as the senior member of his own law firm, a role he will continue to fill on a limited basis. Leslee Perlstein has been named senior vice president, human resources at E! Networks in Los Angeles. She will oversee all human resources activities, including staffing and recruitment, benefits and compensation, training and employee development, HRIS HRIS Human Resource Information System HRIS High-Resolution Imaging Spectrometer HRIS Highway Research Information Service HRIS High Resolution Infrared Sounder , employee relations and organizational matters for E! Entertainment Television, style and E! Online. Perlstein previously served as senior vice president, human resources, at Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp. Nancy H. Schultz has joined Jim Henson Co. as chief financial officer. She will oversee all financial operations of the company, including accounting, finance, tax and information systems worldwide. Shultz was most recently a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where she worked on the Henson account for eight years. Hospitality Tony DiRaimondo has been appointed director of marketing at the Omni Los Angeles Hotel at California Plaza. He will be responsible for the overall direction of marketing efforts for the downtown Los Angeles Downtown Los Angeles is the central business district of Los Angeles, California, located close to the geographic center of the metropolitan area. The sprawling, multi-centered megacity is such that its downtown core is often considered just another district like Hollywood or property. DiRaimondo was previously director of sales and marketing for the Radisson Los Angeles Westside in Culver City. Law Breton A. Boechieri has joined Perkins Coie LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. His practice will focus on intellectual property and patent law. Allen Matkins Leek leek: see onion. leek Hardy, vigorous, biennial plant (Allium porrum) of the lily family, native to the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East. It has a mild, sweet, onionlike flavour. Gamble & Mallory LLP has named six associates to the position of partner. Sonia Ransom of the Los Angeles office specializes in land use, redevelopment and administrative law administrative law, law governing the powers and processes of administrative agencies. The term is sometimes used also of law (i.e., rules, regulations) developed by agencies in the course of their operation. and has been involved in negotiating major projects such as TrizecHahn's Hollywood & Highland development. Peter Roth in the Century City office focuses on office, retail, industrial and mixed-use projects. Tom Crosbie in the San Diego office deals with finance, land use. and real estate and Sandra Young in that office specializes in employment law. Drew Emmel in the Orange County office is involved, in industrial, retail and office projects and Stephen Lieske in San Francisco focuses on real estate finance law. Mark Sieke has been added to the tax practice group at Silver & Freedman, a professional law corporation in Los Angeles. He will represent high-net-worth individuals, publicly traded and closely held A phrase used to describe the ownership, management, and operation of a corporation by a small group of people. In a closely held corporation, the same people often act as shareholders, directors, and officers, and no outside investors exist. entities, trusts, estates, public charities and private foundations. Sieke was previously a partner at Jeffer, Mangels mangels Beta vulgaris; called also mangel-wurzel. , Butler & Marmaro. Media Mark Houska has been named news director for Fox Sports Net and Fox Sports Net 2's Southern California sports report in Los Angeles. He will supervise all content for Southern California sports reports and is responsible for hiring talent and producers for the show, as well as overseeing all production elements. Prior to this position, Houska spent three years as coordinating producer of the National, Sports Report. Kathy Nicholas has been hired as the Los Angeles sales manager for Business 2.0. She will lead. all the advertising initiatives in Los Angeles. Nicholas was most recently the L.A. manager of Inc. magazine. New Media Sam Gallucci has been appointed executive vice president and chief markets officer at The Brain Technologies Carp., a provider of visual information environments in Santa Monica. He will be responsible for overseeing the development and execution of The Brain's sales, marketing, customer service and business development strategies. Gallucci was previously executive vice president and general manager of People Soft's CRM (Customer Relationship Management) An integrated information system that is used to plan, schedule and control the presales and postsales activities in an organization. division. Andrea Hartman has been named senior vice president and deputy general counsel at 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. . Hartman is based in Burbank and will handle legal issues as they relate to the network's West Coast operations, including over-seeing the legal department and handling contract preparation for NBC Entertainment and NBC Studios. She joined NBC in 1994 and was previously vice president of litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute. When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. . Mehmood Merali has been appointed vice president of product development and operations at Media.net Communications Inc., a provider of high-speed networks in Manhattan Beach. He will be responsible for the growth and development of the company's global high-speed network/server, infrastructure. Merali was formerly vice president of information systems & technology at InternetConnect Inc. in Torrance. Non-Profits Laura Schenasi has been named executive vice president of fund development for Torrance Memorial Health Care Foundation, a non-profit corporation created to develop funding sources for Torrance Memorial Medical Center. In her position, she will oversee the foundation. Schenasi served most recently as the director of major gifts for the Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission . She has 19 years of experience in non-profit development campaigns. Louise B. Wein has been named director of human resources at Optimist Youth Homes & Family Services, a Highland Park-based agency dedicated to the treatment and education of at-risk youth. She will oversee the operation of the human resources department, implementing and managing recruitment, compensation, benefits and training programs for management and staff. Wein most recently held a similar position at PWS See personal Web server. Inc. Real Estate Calvin Frese has been promoted to the position of chief operating officer/Americas at CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. , a commercial real estate services firm in Los Angeles. He will oversee the financial planning Financial planning Evaluating the investing and financing options available to a firm. Planning includes attempting to make optimal decisions, projecting the consequences of these decisions for the firm in the form of a financial plan, and then comparing future performance against and strategic operations of all the business units within the Americas with exception to the company's L.J. Melody and CBRE CBRE CB Richard Ellis (real-estate firm) CBRE Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Explosive CBRE Component-Based Reliability Estimation CBRE Coldwell Banker Richard Ellis (Boston, MA) Investors companies. Prior to assuming his new role, Frese served as executive managing director of CB Richard Ellis' central region. Elaine Seaholm has been named director of real estate asset management at Watson Land Co. in Carson. She will be responsible for the management and lease administration activities of Watson's 11.7 million-square-foot portfolio. Prior to joining the company, Seaholm was a portfolio manager for Arden Realty. Transportation Richard M. Janisse has been named deputy executive director for properties and concessions at Los Angeles World Airports Los Angeles World Airports or LAWA is the airport oversight and operations department for the city of Los Angeles, California. This department owns and operates Los Angeles International Airport, LA/Ontario International Airport, Palmdale Regional Airport, and Van . He will be responsible for leading those functions at LAWA's four airports: Los Angeles International, Ontario International, Palmdale Regional and Van Nuys. Most recently Janisse provided consulting services to local governments in airport economic planning, development marketing activities through his business development firm, RMJ RMJ Richard Mentor Johnson (ninth Vice President of the United States) & Associates LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control . Franklin Sterling has also been hired at LAWA LAWA Los Angeles World Airports LAWA Lawrence's Warbler (bird species) . He will be serving as chief information officer, responsible for LAWA's information technology division and overseeing the information system and telecommunications functions at LAWA's four airports. Executive to Oversee ABC Radio Stations The ABC operates 46 local radio stations, in addition to four national networks and international service Radio Australia. In addition, DiG Radio launched on digital platforms in 2002, currently offering three separate stations. IT was an offer John Davison couldn't refuse. When asked to become president and general manager of ABC's four Los Angeles-area radio stations, Davison decided to. leave his post as sales director at the company's San Francisco. stations and come south to the much larger L.A. market. "How do you turn it down?" he asked. Davison is set to take on his new duties at KABC-AM, KDIS-AM, KSPN-AM and KLOS-FM this month. "They are...four great formats," he said of the stations. "The question will be, 'How do we fine tune them to be more successful?"' That could be a challenge, given a softening ad market. But Davison is used to the ups and downs ups and downs pl.n. Alternating periods of good and bad fortune or spirits. ups and downs Noun, pl alternating periods of good and bad luck or high and low spirits of radio. "I'm coming from a market where we experienced the biggest upturn and, unfortunately, we experienced the biggest downturn," he said. "San Francisco really has felt the good times and the bad times more than any other market." When times are bad, Davison's approach is to emphasize sales and try to outperform the market. "You return to basics," he said. "You block and tackle when you're selling, and you make lots of calls and you try to convince business people that people are still listening to radio. In fact, more than ever." At the L.A. stations, Davison will deal with programming ranging from news to sports. "Each format in radio tries to approach a distinct audience," he said. "You can't be all things to all people in radio." Claudia Peschiutta |
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