PEOPLE IN BUSINESS : GOSFORD NAMED CREATIVE DIRECTOR.Following a merger with Toronto-based Fabulous Footage, Studio City-based The Energy Film Library has named Alwyn Gosford its creative director. Gosford had held that post at Fabulous Footage. In his new position, Gosford will oversee marketing of the company's library of stock film footage and will help determine what new footage is added to the library from contract producers and from the library's own film crew. The Energy Film Library supplies stock film footage to moviemakers. Gosford said he plans to work with contract producers to improve the production value of their product and make it more relevant to moviemakers' needs. Crane named senior VP Cherie Crane has been named senior vice president of media at Columbia TriStar Motion Picture Group 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. . Crane joins the studio after five years at Ogilvy & Mather as senior partner and media director. At Ogilvy & Mather, she oversaw accounts including Mattel Toys, Microsoft, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , PacBell Mobile Service and Korean Airlines. Crane will devise and implement media strategies for the studio's new releases and interface with its advertising agency, McCannErickson. Columbia TriStar is a Sony Pictures Entertainment company. Grubb & Ellis add staffers Grubb & Ellis Company recently hired Dennis Marciniak and Mark Rauch for its north 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. office. Marciniak had been working at Daum Commercial Real Estate Services, where he was an industrial properties specialist. In his new position as associate vice president, he will concentrate on industrial properties in the west 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. . Marciniak has a bachelor's degree from the University of Wisconsin and is active in the Valley Development Forum and in Agoura Pony Baseball. He lives with his wife and two children in Agoura. Marciniak will report to Rauch, who was hired as senior vice president and district manager. Rauch, who is active in the Jewish Federation A Jewish Federation is a confederation of various Jewish social agencies, volunteer programs, educational bodies, and related organizations, found within most cities in North America that host a viable Jewish community. Council and Chabad of the Valley, joins Grubb & Ellis from Lee & Associates, where he was a principal specializing in site selection, property management and lease negotiations. Rauch holds a bachelor's degree from Pepperdine University Pepperdine University is a private institution of higher learning affiliated with the Church of Christ in unincorporated Los Angeles County, California, United States. The university's location overlooks the Pacific Ocean and is adjacent to the city limits of Malibu. . Singleton named Turbodyne CFO See Chief Financial Officer. Woodland Hills-based Turbodyne Technologies Inc. has named John Singleton as its new chief financial officer. Singleton will keep his existing positions as a member of Turbodyne's board of directors and chairman of the board's finance committee. Before joining Turbodyne, Singleton was vice chairman 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 Security Pacific Corp., then the fifth-largest U.S. bank. He has been a board member of the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, D.C., and Great Western Financial Corp. Turbodyne provides environmentally friendly retrofitting equipment to the automotive industry. The company recently moved its corporate headquarters from Canada to Woodland Hills. Dreyer named senior VP Burbank-based The Walt Disney Co. has promoted John Dreyer to senior vice president of corporate communications. Dreyer, 50, has served as vice president for corporate communications at Disney since 1992. In that role he has been the company's chief spokesman and has been responsible for media relations, financial press releases and for production of the company's annual report and annual meeting. Prior to joining Disney 21 years ago, Dreyer was a 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 representative for the Delta Queen Steamboat steamboat: see steamship. steamboat or steamship Watercraft propelled by steam; more narrowly, a shallow-draft paddle-wheel steamboat widely used on rivers in the 19th century, particularly the Mississippi River and its tributaries. Co. He has also been a free-lance writer and high school English teacher. Turner selected division president Jana Turner has been named president of institutional management services for Los Angeles-based CB Commercial Real Estate Services Group Inc. Turner joined Koll Real Estate - which CBC (1) (Cell Broadcast Center) See cell broadcast. (2) (Cipher Block Chaining) In cryptography, a mode of operation that combines the ciphertext of one block with the plaintext of the next block. bought last year - in 1990 and most recently served as vice president and manager of CBS/Koll's western division. In that position she was responsible for managing an 80-million-square-foot portfolio of office, industrial and retail properties. Turner, who is a certified property manager  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , will be based in Los Angeles and succeeds Richard Abraham, who resigned in January to pursue consulting and investment opportunities. CB Commercial has 211 million square feet under management internationally. NATPE NATPE National Association of Television Programming Executives announces numerous promotions Santa Monica-based NATPE, a nonprofit group that lobbies for improved television programming worldwide, recently announced numerous promotions. Susan Davis was elevated to the position of vice president for seminars. In her new role Davis will be responsible for production of panels, general sessions and other forums at the association's annual program conference and other trade shows. Shirley Neal has been upped to vice president of video production. Neal, like Davis, had been a director at NATPE and will continue to manage her own company, Park Hill Entertainment, which specializes in video marketing, program development and post-production. NATPE also has appointed Bonnie Landau to the position of manager for creative services from her current job as art and production manager. Before joining NATPE, Ladau served as print editor at the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation, founded by filmmaker Steven Spielberg. Maria Moscowitz has been promoted from exhibition sales coordinator to exhibition sales manager. In the new job she will work on exhibitor prospect development. Rudolph, Humphries get new assignments The digital studios division of Sony Pictures Entertainment has promoted Mark Rudolph to the post of vice president and controller for Sony Pictures Imageworks Sony Pictures Imageworks, Inc. is an Academy Award-winning, state-of-the-art visual effects and character animation company. Individuals at the company have been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences with Oscars for their work on Spider-Man 2 and has named William Humphries to the position of controller for select operations. In his new job, Rudolph is responsible for coordinating finances for Imageworks, a Sony unit that produces visual special effects, and digital animation for feature films, television and multimedia. He holds 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 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 and started his career at Arthur Andersen Consulting. Humphries will oversee financial support for several of the business units that make up the division, including its advanced entertainment systems, the DVD Authoring Center and its Worldwide Satellite Operations. Before joining Sony, Humphries spent four years as a public accountant, including thee years as a senior auditor for Deloitte & Touche. 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