Newsmakers.Accounting & Consulting Herminey Pakhanians and Steven Singer have been admitted to the partnership in the Century City office of Ernst & Young. Pakhanians provides audit services to real estate companies, including real estate investment trusts, property owners, developers and property management companies. Singer is responsible for leading the internal audit team for the Walt Disney Noun 1. Walt Disney - United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966) Disney, Walter Elias Disney account. Advertising & 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 Brian Keenan Brian Keenan may be:
Joshua Shea has been added as an account executive at Media Distribution Services, a public relations printing, mailing, fax and email service in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for counseling clients and distributing press and marketing materials for roughly 60 active accounts. Previously, Shea coordinated press and consumer mailings at Disney Art Classics. Architecture Caroline Bang has been appointed vice president at Cannon Dworsky, an architectural, engineering and planning firm in Los Angeles. She will be responsible for advancing Cannon Dworsky's health sciences practice on the West Coast as well as contributing to the firm's marketing and business development efforts. Prior to joining the firm, Bang was a senior medical planner at Lee, Burkhart, Liu. Dennis Tanida has joined WWCOT WWCOT Whisker Wall Coated Open Tubular Column , a Santa Monica-based architecture and interiors firm. As an associate, he will focus on public assembly, entertainment and planning projects. Prior to joining WWCOT, Tanida was design principal with HNTB HNTB Howard Needles Tammen and Bergendoff (Architecture) HNTB Holland Nordic Basketball Tournament (Groningen, the Netherlands) HNTB How Not to Babble (Toastmasters Club) Architecture. Education Audre Levy has been appointed president of Los Angeles Southwest College  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , a community college with 6,500 students from Crenshaw cren·shaw also cran·shaw n. A variety of winter melon (Cucumis melo var. inodorus) having a greenish-yellow rind and sweet, usually salmon-pink flesh. [Origin unknown.] , Watts, Willowbrook, Gardena, Carson and Inglewood. Most recently, Levy served as provost of Edison Community College in Naples, Florida. Engineering Roger Frank has joined the Los Angeles office of Korve Engineering, an Oakland based civil engineering and planning firm, as business development manager for the Southern California region. He will be responsible for leading the marketing and business development efforts for Southern California and the Salt Lake City region. Previously, Frank was senior director of sales and marketing at Fluor Daniel Inc. Entertainment Angela Emery and Leslie Hollingshead have both joined the corporate communications department at Vivendi Universal Interactive Publishing North America in Los Angeles. Emery has been named director, communications and will be responsible for corporate games communications as well as overseeing affiliate label product publicity. She was most recently director of Worldwide Communications at Fox Interactive. As senior manager, corporate communications, Hollingshead is responsible for managing VUIPNA's internal and external communications activity. Previously, she handled corporate communications at Stamps.com. John J. Garand has been promoted to executive vice president, planning and control, for Walt Disney Co. in Burbank. He will be responsible for developing the company's operating profit Operating profit (or loss) Revenue from a firm's regular activities less costs and expenses and before income deductions. operating profit See operating income. , cash flow and capital spending capital spending Spending for long-term assets such as factories, equipment, machinery, and buildings that permits the production of more goods and services in future years. plans as well as its external and internal financial reports and its internal audit and corporate travel programs. Previously, Garand was senior vice president, planning and control. Randy Haberkamp has been named program coordinator of educational and special projects for the Academy Foundation of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in Beverly Hills. He will be responsible for Academy Foundation lectures and seminars, the visiting artists program and various Academy Awards-related projects. Haberkamp was previously employed by CBS (Cell Broadcast Service) See cell broadcast. as director of specials and feature films. Stephen H. Powers has been named president of Miller & Kreisel Sound, a developer of home theater and professional speaker systems in Los Angeles. Since 1992 Powers has been chief executive of Drive Entertainment, which he founded. Keith Walner has been appointed president and 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. of the U.S. office of Milan Entertainment, a Paris based record company. Based in Los Angeles, Walner will oversee all departments of the company's U.S. office, including all creative, business and legal affairs matters. Walner previously ran the business and legal affairs department for Milan's U.S. office. Michelle Denton has been promoted to vice president and chief financial officer at Milan. She will be responsible for handling all pecuniary Monetary; relating to money; financial; consisting of money or that which can be valued in money. pecuniary adj. relating to money, as in "pecuniary loss. matters as well as assist Walner in overseeing all aspects of the U.S. Milan office. Previously, Denton served as director of finance. Also Rene Kiansen, Lanthe Zevos and Heather Long have all joined Milan. Klaasen will be serving as director of sales, Zevos as creative director and Long as marketing manager. Hospitality Claude Boudoux has joined the Beverly Hills Hotel The Beverly Hills Hotel is a hotel in Beverly Hills, CA, at 9641 Sunset Boulevard. It was opened on May 12, 1912 and started by Margaret J. Anderson and her son, Stanley S. Anderson, who had been managing the Hollywood Hotel. as food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. director. In this position, he will have responsibility for the daily operations of the hotel's dining areas as well as oversee the room service and multimillion dollar catering and banquet operations. Most recently, Boudoux was vice president of food and beverage with Mirage Resorts. Insurance John Norfleet has joined Dodge, Warren & Peters, an insurance brokerage in Woodland Hills, as senior vice president branch manager. He will be responsible for daily internal management at the firm. Norfleet was most recently general manager of Royal/Sun Alliance Southern California. Law Greg Lapidus has joined Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld in Los Angeles as senior counsel in the firm's entertainment practice group. Lapidus' practice will focus on music industry-related matters, including the representation of music publishing The contractual relationship between a songwriter or music composer and a music publisher, whereby the writer assigns part or all of his or her music copyrights to the publisher in exchange for the publisher's commercial exploitation of the music. companies; record labels; major motion picture studios; television, film and video production companies; recording artists; record producers; and composers in transactional and 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. matters. Lapidus was most recently a partner in the entertainment practice of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp. New Media Alex Godelman and Suzanne Stover stover stalks of maize plants from which mature corn cobs have been harvested as grain, or grain sorghum plants from which heads have also been removed. The stover is usually fed by turning the cattle into the field and is subject to fungal infection, sometimes causing mycotoxicosis. have been appointed to new positions at B3 Corp., an e-business solutions provider in Sherman Oaks. Godelman has been named executive director of information technology infrastructure. He will be responsible for managing the company's e-commerce transaction processing and Web store hosting systems, communication networks and corporate MIS activities. Before joining B3, Godelman was senior director of technology infrastructure and change management at WHN WHN Wireless Home Network .com Stover has been named executive director of finance and controller. She will be responsible for directing 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 accounting functions for the company. Most recently, Stover was director of finance and controller and BizBuyer.com Professional Services Bill Garcia has been named vice president of business development for the Los Angeles office of M2 Inc., a broker of consultants and interim managers. He will be responsible for building relationships with clients and consultants in Orange County and San Diego, with special emphasis in the areas of finance, healthcare and technology. Prior to joining the company, Garcia was a sales manager at Xerox Corp. Real Estate Christopher L. Stewart has joined Kosmont Cos., a real estate consulting firm in Los Angeles, as executive vice president and chief operating officer. He will be responsible for overseeing the development of public and private real estate partnership projects. Retail Gerald J. Siehel has been appointed general manager of the L.A. Mart. Most recently, Siebel served as executive vice president of the L.A. Mart, overseeing the leasing efforts of the building's permanent showrooms. Joanne Wells has been hired to spearhead the national and international licensing and negotiation efforts at Applause LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , a gift and collectible company in Woodland Hills. Executive Analysis Provides Studio Edge JOHN Cacavas is the numbers man. Recently promoted to vice president, worldwide distribution analysis at Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group, Cacavas is responsible for analyzing the worldwide motion picture industry and in particular how the company's different film genres perform during key holiday and vacation times. "History is everything," said Cacavas, who is based in Culver City. "I spend a lot of time looking at holidays and providing information on how they will play." When analyzing theatrical releases Cacavas said the two most important things to consider are, not surprisingly, size and competition. In analyzing weekend box office figures, Cacavas starts by looking at previous releases on a particular weekend. Studio higher ups take this data and other reports from Cacavas' office into consideration when making a final release decision. Competition doesn't just come from the other studios in town. Besides the release dates slated for competing films, Cacavas considers everything from weather to school calendars. In addition to collecting data, Cacavas said he has to be on the lookout for in search of; looking for. See also: Lookout changes in how people spend their leisure time. "Summer seems to begin in the first week of May and end in the middle of August, whereas there was a time when summer began around Memorial Day," he said. "These dynamics change, and the weekend (numbers) with them." As an example, Cacavas cited the importance of summer data when considering the release date of a film geared towards children. In addition to his analysis duties, Cacavas will be in charge of developing systems to monitor the global film distribution business. - Conor Dougherty |
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