Notable individuals on valley's roster of affluent people.The following are profiles of some of the wealthiest individuals who live or do extensive business in 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. area. John Anderson John Anderson may be: Science:
Age 88 President, 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. Topa Equities John Anderson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Topa Equities, has a far-flung empire which includes banking, insurance, real estate, and beverage and automobile companies. In the San Fernando Valley, Anderson owns the Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. Auto Mall. Forbes Magazine listed Anderson, who resides in Bel-Air, among the world's billionaires with a worth of $1.4 billion. A native of Minnesota, Anderson attended UCLA UCLA University of California at Los Angeles UCLA University Center for Learning Assistance (Illinois State University) UCLA University of Carrollton, TX and Lower Addison, TX on a hockey scholarship. He co-founded the Kindel & Anderson law firm and Kayne, Anderson Investment Managements Inc. His Topa Equities investment firm oversees some 30 companies, including Ace Beverages, Mission Beverages and Paradise Beverages. In 1987, Anderson made the third-largest donation to a business school in 1987 for which UCLA's Graduate School of Business was named for him. --Mark R. Madler Billy Blanks Billy Blanks (born September 1, 1955) is an American fitness guru, martial artist, actor, and the inventor of Tae Bo. Biography Career Blanks began his study of the martial arts at the age of fourteen. Age 50 Owner, Billy Blanks World Training Center Blanks, famous for developing the Tae Bo Tae Bo is an aerobic exercise routine developed by tae kwon do practitioner Billy Blanks, and was one of the first "cardio-boxing" programs to enjoy commercial success. Such programs use the motions of martial arts at a rapid pace designed to promote fitness. martial arts This is a list of martial arts, broken down by region and style. African martial arts Eritrea
His first celebrity clients included Paula Abdul Paula Julie Abdul (born June 19, 1962) is an American multi-platinum selling Grammy Award-winning singer, dancer, television personality, jewelry designer, and Emmy Award-winning choreographer. , Pamela Anderson
Pamela Denise Anderson (born July 1, 1967) is a Canadian-born actress, sex symbol, glamour model, producer, TV personality, and author. , Jessica Alba and others. He launched a series of well-known infomercials, sold a series of fitness videos, and he appeared on talk shows and made television guest appearances as his fame grew. In 1999, Blanks and his wife Gayle started the Billy Blanks Foundation, which works to give high-risk people, mainly women and children, skills that can make them productive members of society. He's also become involved in a national campaign which aims to raise awareness of obesity throughout the country. Blanks, who lives in Hidden Hills, frequently appears as a motivational speaker at universities, corporations and professional societies, and in 2005 and 2006 he traveled to Iraq, Bosnia, Kosovo and several other countries to work with members of the U.S. Armed Forces and visit injured troops. He started acting in the 1980s, and has appeared in 18 movies including "Kiss the Girls," "The Last Boy Scout," "Lionheart Lionheart can refer to: People
--Jonathan D. Colburn Bert Boeckmann Age 75 Owner of Galpin Motors Owning the largest Ford dealership in the world is only part of what makes Bert Boeckmann one of the best-known businessmen in the San Fernando Valley. Boeckmann also oversees a foundation in his name that contributes to charities around the world. Boeckmann started his 50-plus year career in the automotive sales industry at a Glendale Nash dealership before taking a position with Boeckmann Galpin in t953. In 1968, he bought out the dealership from Frank Galpin and proceeded to turn it into one that was selling 20,000 cars a year based on a philosophy of treating the customer right. As well as being a generous donor to political--primarily Republican--campaigns, Boeckmann has also served two stints on the Los Angeles Police Commission. He has attended presidential inaugurations and presented an award to Mother Teresa. "I think we've been blessed by the lord and I think we work very hard," Boeckmann said in a 2004 interview explaining a few of the reasons for his success. "We really do care for our customers. We know how important they are to us. I tell my employees the only reason why we're in business is to serve our customers. Some people argue and say 'no we're here to make a paycheck.' But I tell them 'No, the paycheck comes from our being here to serve our customers.'" --Mark R. Madler Roy Disney Age 76 Chairman, Shamrock Capital Advisors Walt Disney's nephew spent two years heading the stockholders' revolt against Michael Eisner's control over his uncle Walt Disney's company. He initially protested the board's approval of Robert Iger, saying it was obliged to look more thoroughly, but has since pledged his full support to Iger. Disney's interests range from racing yachts in New Zealand New Zealand (zē`lənd), island country (2005 est. pop. 4,035,000), 104,454 sq mi (270,534 sq km), in the S Pacific Ocean, over 1,000 mi (1,600 km) SE of Australia. The capital is Wellington; the largest city and leading port is Auckland. to spending time at his castle in Ireland. Last August, he donated his $7 million, 86-foot championship boat to the Orange Coast College's School of Sailing and Seamanship sea·man·ship n. Skill in navigating or managing a boat or ship. seamanship Noun skill in navigating and operating a ship Noun 1. . Last year his private investment firm, Shamrock Capital Advisors, announced it had raised another $104 million for a fund that will invest in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods in Kern County and every county to the South. Genesis Real Estate Fund II will assist developers on projects ranging from $10 million to $80 million. The first Genesis fund invested in Hollywood Studios in Hollywood and also helped develop the Van Nuys Industrial Park and a retail center in Hawthorne. Shamrock Holdings' Capital Growth Fund also purchased 80 percent of the Harlem Globe Trotters. Disney's personal fortune is about $1.2 billion. Disney worked at his uncle's company for decades as a film editor, writer and producer. After disagreement with management he left in the '70s and came back as vice chairman in 1984, where most of his attention was directed toward animated movies. --Jonathan D. Colburn Alfred Mann Age 80 Chairman and CEO MannKind Corp. Mann's entrepreneurial efforts have given rise to some of the region's most recognizable medical and biotechnology companies. He founded Minimed, diabetes treatment company, which he sold to Medtronic in 2001 with another company for $3.7 billion. He also started Advanced Bionics, which develops ear implants and treatments for chronic pain. The company was sold to Boston Scientific in 2004 for $4.5 billion, which will be paid over 10 years. Mann is personally worth $2.1 billion. His newest company, MannKind Corp., went public in 2004. It's developing an inhaled insulin product to compete with products like Exubera, developed by Pfizer, which is the first inhaled insulin product on the market. Mann has said the drug could be one of the most valuable medical advancements ever, and experts expect that with the number of people with diabetes continuing to grow, the inhaled insulin market could easily be in the billions of dollars. Mann has donated hundreds of millions of dollars over the years, giving $50 million to the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering The Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering, commonly known as the Alfred Mann Institute, AMI or Mann Institute of Biomedical Engineering, is located on the University Park campus of the University of Southern California (USC). at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , and has said he plans to give money to close to a dozen other research institutions. He's pledged, for example, $100 million to Technion-Israeli Institute of Technology. --Jonathan D. Colburn Michael Milken Michael Milken As an executive at Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc. during the 1980s, Milken used high-yield junk bonds for financing and corporate takeovers. While his personal wealth was enormous, he spent two years in prison after pleading guilty to charges of securities fraud. Age 59 Chairman, Milken Institute; Founder, FasterCures, Prostate Cancer prostate cancer, cancer originating in the prostate gland. Prostate cancer is the leading malignancy in men in the United States and is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death in men. Foundation Since 1993, Milken has raised more than $250 million for the Prostate Cancer Foundation and has helped to move drugs to trial stages faster and fund research through FasterCures/The Center for Accelerating Medical Solutions, which he founded in 2003 in Washington, D.C. Milken was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 1993, and 10 members of his family have died from cancer. He owns a stake in Knowledge Universe, which invests in day care centers, private schools and educational toys, and is invested elsewhere, which sustains his $2 billion fortune. Milken, who lives in Encino, rose to huge success in the 1980s working during the spate of leverage buyouts in the financial industry. He was in charge of junk bond junk bond, a bond that involves greater than usual risk as an investment and pays a relatively high rate of interest, typically issued by a company lacking an established earnings history or having a questionable credit history. trading at Drexel Burnham Lambert Drexel Burnham Lambert was a major Wall Street investment banking firm, which first rose to prominence and then was driven into bankruptcy in the 1980s by its involvement in illegal activities in the junk bond market, driven by Drexel employee Michael Milken. and is credited with founding the high-yield debt market. In 1990, he pleaded guilty to six counts of securities fraud and ended up paying a $200 million settlement to the government, creditors and litigators and serving 22 months in prison. He has an undergraduate degree from UC Berkeley and an MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from the Wharton School. Milken also supports education, presenting 100 outstanding teachers with $25,000 every year. --Jonathan D. Colburn Angelo Mozilo Age 67 Chairman and CEO Countrywide Financial Corporation Mozilo helped to found Countrywide Financial Corp. in 1969. The company has been the largest mortgage lender in the country for the last several years, and Mozilo's compensation, including salary, bonuses and exercised stock options, was close to $160 million last year. He won an award from the UCLA Anderson School of Management UCLA Anderson School of Management is one of eleven professional schools at the University of California, Los Angeles. The school is consistently ranked among the country’s top-tier programs (currently #16 by US News and World Reporthttp://www.usnews. in 2002 for pioneering the application of information technology within his company, which was years ahead of the industry as a whole. He is seen as extremely influential in the world of real estate, having doggedly pursued partnerships with real estate brokerages and home builders, a practice that the rest of the industry is imitating. Mozilo is an influential voice in the real estate world, making headlines in October, for example, when he said that the real estate market appears to have reached its peak. He did not expect a sharp drop in single-family home prices, but expected that prices will likely level off. He also said in January that the company expected further consolidation in the mortgage industry and will be actively 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. possible acquisitions. --Jonathan D. Colburn David Murdock Age 82 Owner of Dole Foods and Castle & Cooke Murdock's involvement with the giant fruit company began in 1985 when he became chief executive officer of Castle & Cooke, of which Dole Foods was a division. Eighteen years later, he acquired the company outright, a move that propelled Murdock into the ranks of the world's richest people. Forbes Magazine listed Murdock's value this year at $4 billion. A high school dropout (1) On magnetic media, a bit that has lost its strength due to a surface defect or recording malfunction. If the bit is in an audio or video file, it might be detected by the error correction circuitry and either corrected or not, but if not, it is often not noticed by the human , Murdock started his financial career in the 1940s when he bought and later sold a restaurant. The proceeds were the beginning of a real estate empire in Arizona that culminated in the purchase of Dole and taking the company private. Dole's Westlake Village campus also includes the Dole Nutrition Institute and the Dole Wellness Center, Spa and Hotel. Murdock is also chief executive office of Castle & Cooke, a developer of hotels and resorts, residential and office projects. Properties owned by Castle & Cooke in the Valley include the 18-hole championship Sherwood Country Club and the Lake Sherwood Residences; and an aviation services company based at Van Nuys Airport Van Nuys Airport (IATA: VNY, ICAO: KVNY, FAA LID: VNY) is a public airport located in Van Nuys, California in the San Fernando Valley, within the Los Angeles city limits. . Last year, Murdock unveiled his plans for a $1 billion research facility in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. . --Mark R. Madler Alan Purwin Age 43 Chairman Helinet Aviation Services When Hurricane Katrina devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. the Gulf Coast last summer, helicopters from Helinet Aviation Services were the only aircraft documenting the damage to land and property. That use of Helinet's fleet was yet another feather in the cap. of company owner and founder Alan Purwin. Holder of a helicopter pilot's license since he was in his teens, Purwin went into business for himself in 1987 when he and a partner started West Coast Helicopters. The name was later changed to Helinet Aviation Services and became headquartered at the Van Nuys Airport. Today, Helinet has 13 bases around the country employing 50 people, including pilots, camera operators and administrative staff. Helinet services the helicopters used by Los Angeles area television stations and provides charter services. Helinet was a recipient of a 2006 American Spirit Award from the U.S. Small Business Administration for its work in Louisiana following Hurricane Katrina. --Mark R. Madler Edward Roski Jr. Age 67 Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Majestic Realty Although none of his development projects are located in the San Fernando Valley, Roski has left his mark on the Los Angeles area as a whole. The Toluca Lake resident is the largest commercial developer in Southern California, as well as the co-owner of the Los Angeles Kings The Los Angeles Kings are a professional ice hockey team based in Los Angeles, California, USA. They are members of the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL). hockey team. He has built the Staples Center with Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz; and three business parks in the City of Industry. Forbes Magazine listed Roski, 67, as among the world's billionaires with an estimated value of $1.1 billion. His other projects include a 424-acre business park in Las Vegas and the Silverton Casino, also in Vegas which underwent a $150 million renovation. Roski and wife Gayle are long-time patrons of the arts who in March donated $23 million to the USC School of the Fine Arts, believed to be the largest single donation to a visual arts school in the nation. Both Roski and his wife are USC graduates and Roski serves on the school's Board of Trustees board of trustees Politics The posse of thugs who oversee an institution's administration. See Board of directors. . Roski also serves on numerous boards of directors/governors such as the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County opened in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, California, USA in 1913 as the Museum of History, Science, and Art. The moving force behind it was a museum association founded in 1910. , the Bowers Museum of Cultural Art, and the Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission. --Mark R. Madler |
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