Newsmakers.Advertising & P.R. Jim DiBiasi has been appointed to the newly created position of chief operations officer/chief financial officer at Jeff McClusky & Associates, an entertainment promotion company 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. . He will oversee the financial matters of the core business as well as the further expansion of JMA's interests through mergers and acquisitions. Most recently, DiBiasi served as director of commercial development for Foster Wheeler. Ryan Knoll has joined the Los Angeles office of Nichols Dezenhall, a crisis communications Crisis communications are generally considered a sub-specialty of the public relations profession that is designed to protect and defend an individual, company, or organization facing a public challenge to its reputation. firm, as vice president. He will lead the L.A.-based crisis management and marketplace defense group, which includes a new service to help companies fight Internet-based attacks on brands and reputation. Knoll was a senior counselor with the company's Washington, D.C., office prior to accepting his new position. Lawrence Lokman has been hired as a vice president at Rogers & Associates, an independent 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 in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for overseeing the agency's communications on behalf of the California Children and Families Commission. Previously, Lokman was vice president of the Century Council, a $100 million national initiative of the U.S. distilled spirits industry to combat alcohol abuse. Kristi VandenBosch has joined Direct Partners as executive vice president. She is based in Marina del Rey Del Rey may refer to:
Banking & Finance Keith Matthews has been promoted to senior vice president at Bank of America
Bank of America (NYSE: BAC TYO: 8648 ) is the largest commercial bank in the United States in terms of deposits, and the largest company of its kind in the world. . He will serve as small-business market manager, responsible for managing the bank's small-business efforts in 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 , Vernon, Commerce and parts of South Los Angeles South Los Angeles is the official name for a large geographic and cultural area lying to the southwest and southeast of downtown Los Angeles, California. The area was formerly called South Central Los Angeles, and is still sometimes called South Central. . Prior to his promotion, Matthews was a vice president at the company. Tonya Page has been named vice president of member services and business development at Tiger Federal Credit Union in 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. . In this position, she will lead branch and member services as well as marketing and business development. Most recently, Page was vice president, branch operations for First Entertainment Credit Union. Education Margaret Klee has been named to serve as chief information officer of the Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. . In her new position, she will plan, direct and manage all technology endeavors for the country's second-largest school system, including all internal information and communications systems, and the use of technology in the classroom. Klee joins the LAUSD LAUSD Los Angeles Unified School District (Los Angeles, CA) after 22 years in the Navy. Entertainment Harry Donenfeld Harry Donenfeld (1893-1965), was an American publisher who is known primarily for being the owner of National Allied Publications, which famously distributed Detective Comics and Action Comics, the originator publications for the superhero characters Batman and Superman. has been named vice president of marketing and new business development at Station X Entertainment, a computer graphics company in Santa Monica Santa Monica (săn`tə mŏn`ĭkə), city (1990 pop. 86,905), Los Angeles co., S Calif., on Santa Monica Bay; inc. 1886. Tourism and retailing are important, and the city has motion-picture, biotechnology, and software industries. . He will be responsible for securing new business opportunities in film, television, the Internet, video games See video game console. and industrial markets while helping Station X capture a larger share of the 3D animation market. Donenfeld was vice president of U.S. markets for broadcast and distribution at Alice Entertainment Inc., prior to accepting his new position. Justin Pierce Justin Charles Pierce (March 21, 1975 – July 10, 2000) was an English-American actor and professional skateboarder, active in the United States from 1995. Born in Paddington, England to an English mother and an American father, Pierce and his parents moved to the Bronx has been promoted to executive vice president at Columbia TriStar Television Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. was the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, adopted with the Columbia-TriStar merger of 1991 and last used in 2002. Columbia TriStar Television was launched in 1994 as a joint venture between Columbia Pictures Television and . In his new position, Pierce will be helping to develop, and implement business strategies for a broad range of television operations, including TriStar's network television unit, Sony Pictures Entertainment's family entertainment division, and the studio's Game Show Network. He has been with the company since 1992, most recently serving as executive vice president of media relations for the Columbia TriStar Television Group. Jill Proctor Ramirez has been named to the new position of vice president of business development at Unbound unbound said of electrolytes, e.g. iron and calcium, and other substances which are circulating in the bloodstream and are not bound to plasma proteins so that they are available immediately for metabolic processes. See also calcium, iron. Studios, an animation and interactive entertainment company in Los Angeles. She is responsible for developing projects for interactive television, broadband entertainment and hand-held wireless devices. Prior to joining the company, Proctor Ramirez was an independent producer for The Nosotros Foundation. Health Care Charles E. Payton has been appointed chief medical officer as QueensCare, a public charity providing health care services to low-income, uninsured working individuals and families in Los Angeles County. He will oversee all of QueensCare's direct health care services. Most recently, Payton served as chief executive and medical director of Huntington Medical Foundation in Pasadena. High Tech Susan Clayton-Nakashima has joined Metro Information Services See Information Systems. , an information technology consulting Information technology consulting (IT consulting or business and technology services) is a field that focuses on advising businesses on how best to use information technology to meet their business objectives. company, as director of the Los Angeles division. She will manage recruitment, sales and administration at the El Segundo-based office. Previously, Clayton-Nakashima was director of business services at Transamerica Business Technologies Corp. Insurance Peter Arkley has been appointed head of the Southern California region for Aon Risk Services, an insurance brokerage firm in Los Angeles. In addition to his duties in managing the Southern California region, he will continue in his current role as managing director of Aon's construction practice for North America. Law Edward Poplawski has joined the Los Angeles-based law firm Sidley & Austin as head of the intellectual property practice group. His practice includes negotiating and preparing licensing agreements, counseling clients on the interplay between intellectual matters and the business aspects of transactions, and providing entrepreneurial intellectual property advice to startup and emerging growth companies. Previously, Poplawski was a partner at the Los Angeles law firm of Pretty Schroeder & Poplawski. Marketing Sharon Markowitz Bennett has been promoted to senior vice president of licensing at Saban Consumer Products in Los Angeles. She oversees all licensing matters for the growing organization, which serves as the domestic licensing agent for Fox Kids Network and Fox Family Channel. Previously, she was vice president of licensing. New media Chris Howe has joined Fandom Inc. as chief technology officer, and Tom Watkin has been named senior vice president of auctions. Both are based in Santa Monica. Howe will direct day-to-day technology operations for all of Fandom's properties in addition to setting the company's technology direction and overseeing new application development. He joins Fandom from Deloitte Consulting, where he was a senior manager. Watkin will be focusing his efforts on expanding Fandom's repertoire of services to include a live, online auction program. Previously, he was a co-founder of BoxLot.com, an online auction site. Peter Howe has been appointed president of the image group at Los Angeles-based RightSpring, an online marketplace for searching, licensing and digital delivery of creative assets to professional users. He is responsible for development and operations of all client-partner relationships within the image group and oversees its marketing and sales departments. Howe was previously a vice president at Corbis. Real Estate Duane B. Cody and Ronnie D. Wade have both been promoted to directors at the north Los Angeles office of Cushman & Wakefield, a worldwide real estate services firm. Cody specializes in the leasing and sales of commercial office buildings throughout the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . Prior to the promotions, both were brokers within the firm. Jim Schulte has been hired as project manager for the Southern California region of Boeing Realty Corp. He is based in Long Beach and will be involved in the corporation's development projects, working as a financial analyst. Previously, he served as acquisitions associate for Archstone Communities. Time Warner Moving to Wire L.A. With New Cable Lines As the new general manager of Time Warner Telecom Time Warner Telecom NASDAQ: TWTC is headquartered in Littleton, Colorado. The company provides managed network services, specializing in Ethernet and transport data networking, Internet access, local and long distance voice, VoIP and security, to enterprise in Los Angeles and Orange counties, Steve Sergi is at the nerve center of the area's rapidly expanding fiber-optic network. In his new role, Sergi will oversee the building and connection of fiber-optic networks in the area while also taking charge of the company's marketing efforts and responsibility for the region's sales and operations. "We're going to continue to expand and build throughout the Los Angeles area," said Sergi. "There is an increased demand for all levels of telecommunications services, especially Internet and data." At least for now, the company won't be forced to share those valuable lines with any competitors. While media giant Time Warner does own a 47.5 percent stake in Time Warner Telecom -- hence the namesake -- the companies remain separate entities. Thus, Time Warner Telecom is not expecting to be directly affected by the impending im·pend intr.v. im·pend·ed, im·pend·ing, im·pends 1. To be about to occur: Her retirement is impending. 2. AOL-Time Warner merger, which will likely require Time Warner to share cable access with rivals as way to avoid antitrust, problems. Time Warner Telecom is based in Colorado and provides local business telephone service, in addition to dedicated Internet connectivity via a national backbone. Even though it won't be required to open up access to its cables, Sergi does expect other challenges to arise as the company proceeds with wiring the complex L.A.-area market. "One will be mastering the dynamic of L.A., working with the multiple cities to understand all of the regulations and policies, and making sure we're getting to the growth areas," he said. The Los Angeles/Orange County network marks the 24th market for Time Warner Telecom, which also provides service in San Diego, New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of and other major cities. Last year, Sergi helped launch the company's service in Dallas, as sales director. Conor Dougherty |
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