Newsmakers.Advertising & P.R. David Nobs has been named executive vice president of Shandwick International, a reputation management firm. He is based in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and will assist with the management of the agency's growing consumer and "lifestages" business. Most recently, he was executive vice president of Cone Communications. Architecture Christopher W. Coe was promoted to vice president at Arquitectonica, an international architectural firm An architectural firm is a company which employs one or more licensed architects and practices the profession of architecture. History Architects (master builders) have existed since early in recorded history. The earliest recorded architects include Imhotep (c. . He will now be the managing director of the entire Los Angeles office, which includes business development and design for architecture and interior design products. Previously, his title was director of the Los Angeles office. Jonathan Durfield has joined the Culver City Culver City, city (1990 pop. 38,793), Los Angeles co., S Calif., a residential suburb of Los Angeles; inc. 1917. It is a center of the U.S. motion-picture industry, whose roots in the city date to c.1915. Its chief manufactures are rubber products and computers. office of Morris Architects as a marketing specialist. He will be presenting the company's design services to key target markets within the geographic area. Durfield was an associate for BSMG Worldwide, a leading public relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most firm, prior to accepting the assignment. Banking & Finance E. John Doyle John Doyle may refer to:
Mark S. Maron and Robert J. Levitt have been hired to head up the new Lehman Brothers western region banking team as co-managing directors. They will be responsible for overseeing the firm's expansion of regional M&A and corporate finance business. Both Maron and Levitt were formerly at CSFB CSFB Credit Suisse First Boston CSFB Cyclically Shifted Filter Bank . Maron was head of that firm's activities in California and neighboring states, while Levitt headed the western region office. Also joining Lehman Brothers is Robert Bertanga, who will be responsible for the region's M&A practice, and Michael A. Hartmeier, also a managing director. Bertanga comes from CFSB CFSB Colorado Federal Savings Bank and was head of M&A for the western region. Hartmeier is also from CFSB, where he was named head of its gaming and leisure investment banking group. Thomas G. Miller has been promoted to managing director of capital markets, responsible for the western United States Noun 1. western United States - the region of the United States lying to the west of the Mississippi River West Santa Fe Trail - a trail that extends from Missouri to New Mexico; an important route for settlers moving west in the 19th century at Jones Lang LaSalle Jones Lang LaSalle (NYSE: JLL) is a major real estate and money management services firm headquartered in the Aon Center in Chicago, Illinois and the only company in its industry making it into Fortune magazine's list of the 100 Best Places to Work in the U.S. , a real estate services and investment firm. He is based in Los Angeles but has responsibilities for the company's activities throughout the western U.S. Miller comes to this position after serving a year as managing director of Jones Lang LaSalle in Japan. Kevin W. Shultz was appointed managing director of the Seidler Cos., a private investment banking, public finance and brokerage firm. In his new position, Shultz will be responsible for the generation of private placement and M&A activity. Prior to joining Seidler, he was managing director of EBI See electron beam imaging. Securities/Westpark Capital. Entertainment Services David Wallace has been appointed vice president of sales for the video and DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. division of Deluxe, a motion picture lab services company. He will be responsible for all of Deluxe's sales activities. Prior to joining Deluxe, Wallace was vice president of sales and marketing at AmenDisc. Law Nowland Hong, Michael M. Mullins and Michael S. Simon have joined Brown Winfleld & Canzoneri as shareholders. They will continue their practice as trial and appellate specialists in construction, inverse condemnation inverse condemnation n. the taking of property by a government agency which so greatly damages the use of a parcel of real property that it is the equivalent of condemnation of the entire property. , insurance, eminent domain eminent domain, the right of a government to force the owner of private property sell it if it is needed for a public use. The right is based on the doctrine that a sovereign state has dominion over all lands and buildings within its borders, which has its origins in and public entity 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. . All three are former shareholders of Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara & Samuelian. Brant brant or brant goose, common name for a species of wild sea goose. The American brant, Branta bernicla, breeds in the Arctic and winters along the Atlantic coast. H. Dveirin also has joined the firm. He will practice environmental, land use, eminent domain and real estate development litigation. Dveirin is a former partner of Loeb & Loeb. Shelly E Reid has joined the law offices of Katten, Muchin & Zavis as special counsel to the firm's entertainment practice. She will handle the transactional component of the firm's entertainment practice and continue to represent Voxxy Inc., where she was executive vice president before accepting her new position. Manufacturing Christopher T. Metz has been placed in a newly created position at Black and Decker: president, North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. hardware and home improvement group. He will oversee Black and Decker's two hardware and home improvement group companies. He continues to be the president of Kwikset, his title before the new position was created. Also, Mark A. Gold has been promoted to vice president and general manager of Price Pfister, a manufacturer of faucets, showerheads and bath accessories; part of Black and Decker's Hardware and Home Improvement Group. He will oversee the company's strategic division of plumbing products and the Price Pfister brand. Gold has served as the Pacoima-based company's vice president of marketing since July 1999 and will continue his responsibilities in marketing and product planning in addition to his new duties. Media Debra Salgado Vinson is now director of traffic and programming at KMEX-TV. She will be responsible for overseeing all the day-to-day traffic and programming duties at the station. Before joining the station, Vinson served as the director of traffic and sales operations at KCAL-TV Channel 9. New Media Brendon Cassidy is the new director of technology at Radio Free Virgin, a digital technology company. He will now be the head technologist, responsible for exploration, development and implementation of all technical aspects of the recently launched digital radio company. Cassidy previously helped launch Farmclub.com as director of technology. Rick Persley has been appointed senior vice president of sales and Tom Spath has been named editor-in-chief at CoolTravelMail.com, an e-newsletter in West Los Angeles
RMSA Rocky Mountain Scottish Athletes RMSA Rocky Mountain Soaring Association RMSA Retail Merchandising Service Automation RMSA Rectangular Microstrip Antenna RMSA Rural Music Schools Association , a specialty retail consulting firm. Spath has writing and project management experience as a result of his affiliations with Hollywood production companies, including Metro-GoldwynMayer and 20th Century Fox. Nonprofits Patricia Boucher is the new chief financial officer of QueensCare, a $400 million public charity in Los Angeles. She will oversee the financial and information systems operations of the organization. Boucher was the owner of Boucher & Associates, a financial consulting company, before taking her new position. Judy Martinez has joined TELACU, a Los Angeles based nonprofit community development corporation, as public relations director. She will be responsible for all aspects of public relations, including development as well as media relations. Before joining TELACU, Martinez was press secretary for State Sen. Hilda Solis. Katie Osterloh has been elected president of the Assistance League of Southern California, a nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. that provides help to children, families and seniors with critical needs. She will be a full-time volunteer and will oversee the board of directors as well as preside over the activities of nine community services. Osterloh was the league's vice president of public relations before being elected to her new position. Stuart J. Rogoff has been named vice president of the California region for the National Neurofibromatosis Neurofibromatosis Definition Neurofibromatosis (NF), or von Recklinghausen disease, is a genetic disease in which patients develop multiple soft tumors (neurofibromas). These tumors occur under the skin and throughout the nervous system. Foundation. He will oversee major gift fund-raising, cause-related marketing campaigns, and industry-based councils and campaigns supporting NF medical research and services. Rogoff was most recently director of development at City of Hope in its national development headquarters in Los Angeles. Phyllis Shapiro has been appointed director of volunteer services at Optimist Youth Homes, a residential program for adolescent boys in Los Angeles. She will head a new program aimed at finding and training qualified volunteers to work within the agency's multidimensional programs and services. Shapiro was the volunteer coordinator at Vista Del Mar Child and Family Services Child and family services are nonprofit organizations designed to better the well being of individuals who come from unfortunate situations, environmental or biological. prior to accepting her new position. Personnel Loren Miner has been named director of finance and administration at Decision Toolbox, a recruiting firm in Long Beach. She will be responsible for all financial and administrative functions of the company. Prior to Decision Toolbox, Miner was a private consultant with Resources Connection. Real Estate Brian Dunne has joined Charles Dunn Co. as the regional manager for property management in the West Los Angeles office. He will be responsible for new business development. Most recently, Dunne managed a high-rise office building at 8484 Wilshire Blvd. Jeffrey R. Jennison has been named vice president of real estate asset management at Watson Land Co. in Carson. He will be responsible for managing Watson's entire portfolio of industrial and office space. Previously, he was an asset manager at Charles Dunn Co. in Irvine. Frobes Is First Woman to Crack Top Ranks of Law Firm PATRICIA Frobes has broken new ground by becoming the first woman to serve in a senior management role at O'Melveny & Myers, California's largest law firm and also the oldest in Los Angeles. Her position as a new vice chair and member of the office of the chair is similar to a chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. at a major company. The promotion makes her one of the three top managers of the law firm. Frobes will be in charge of client development and strategic planning, among other things. She is already off and running after spending two weeks in Asia looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. growth opportunities for the firm. Another one of her goals in the new position will be to keep the firm current with the quickly changing times. "Most of the clients from the 1980s aren't even in the business anymore," Frobes said. "The whole real estate market as it existed in the '80s has been restructured and capitalized." She said real estate has gone from being a business once financed by mortgage loans to a sector financed by capital markets. Many of the real estate giants are no longer privately, held regional firms but publicly traded companies publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. , she said. "We live in a rapidly changing world and as the markets shift, the clients shift," she said. Frobes expects to spend a good deal of time maintaining existing relationships with major clients like The Irvine Co., Marriott International and Catellus Development Corp. "I have several relationships that are extremely important to me," she said. "Clients are the reason for our existence." Frobes has been with the firm since 1979 and previously headed up its nationwide retail department, where she represented institutional developers, lenders and investors. She will no longer do day-to-day real estate transactions, an area she has been moving away from since taking a role in management. Norinne De Gal |
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