PEOPLE IN BUSINESS.UNIVERSAL CITY HILTON APPOINTS THREE: Alex W. Delgado, Barbara Leipper and Katherine Petica recently received appointments at Universal City Hilton and Towers, a 471-room hotel next to Universal Studios. Delgado was appointed front office director and will oversee all office operations and quality standards to ensure guest satisfaction. Delgado previously worked for the Walt Disney Swan Resort. Leipper has been appointed sales manager for the hotel after coming from a sales manager position at Holiday Inn Select. Leipper will be responsible for attracting new corporate business as well as maintaining relations with existing clientele. Petica has been promoted from reservations manager to reservations sales director. Petica will oversee operations of the reservations department while accommodating the various needs of hotel guests. RAY NAMED DEPARTMENT CHAIRWOMAN AT OTIS: Mary-Ann Ray has been named chairwoman of the Santa Monica-based Otis College of Art and Design's environmental design department. An educator, lecturer and designer,Ray is a principal of Studio House, a Los Angeles design house. BOLES NAMED DIRECTOR OF AARM AARM Association for the Advancement of Relationship Marketing AARM Aquaculture & Aquatic Resources Management AARM American Association on Mental Retardation AARM Agrupación Astronómica de la Region de Murcia AARM ASEAN Armies Rifle Meet : Alan Boles has been named director of the American Advanced Reverse Mortgage, or AARM, division of Metrociti Mortgage Corp., overseeing the Sherman Oaks company's business with senior citizens. GERSHON APPOINTED TO PARTNER: Jeffrey D. Gershon has been appointed a partner and senior vice president of TOLD Partners Real Estate, specializing in commercial sales and leasing out of the company's 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. office in Woodland Hills. Gershon, a Tarzana resident, comes from the Seeley Company as a marketing executive, responsible for forming their commercial division. SMITH ELECTED TO NAWBO NAWBO National Association of Woman Business Owners BOARD: Madeleine Smith, president of Valencia-based Songwriter Services, has been elected to the board of directors of the National Association of Women Business Owners The National Association of Women's Business Owners (NAWBO) is an organization in the United States founded in 1975 that has the purpose of networking the approximately 10. , or NAWBO, which represents 8 million women business owners Many online and offline organizations have been created to collect information about businesses around the world owned and operated by women. Many other organizations have been created to assist the women that own and operate those businesses. in the United States. LUCAS APPOINTED GRANT THORNTON MANAGER: John Lucas has been appointed manager of the Southern California assurance practice of Grant Thornton LLP  This article or section is written like an .Please help [ rewrite this article] from a neutral point of view. Mark blatant advertising for , using . , an international accounting and management consulting firm. Lucas will be working with the financial services group out of the Los Angeles, Irvine and Woodland Hills offices. DATES APPOINTED AUDIT PARTNER: Michael Dates has been appointed the new audit partner at the Los Angeles office of Deloitte & Touche LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol , an accounting firm. Dates has worked in the firm for 12 years serving in the high-technology group. VINSON Vin·son , Frederick Moore 1890-1953. American jurist who served as the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1946-1953). Noun 1. JOINS WEDC WEDC Water, Engineering and Development Centre (Loughborough University) WEDC Water Engineering Development Centre (Leicestershire, UK) WEDC World Economic Development Congress : Judy L. Vinson has joined the Long Beach-based Women's Enterprise Development Corporation, or WEDC, as program director. Vinson, the former assistant executive director for the Yonkers Community Action Program, will be responsible for the oversight of WEDC's entrepreneurial training courses, counseling and seminars. MARSHALL ELECTED ATAS ATAS Academy of Television Arts & Sciences ATAS Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme ATAS Air-to-Air Stinger ATAS Advanced Tank Armament System ATAS Active Towed Array Sonar ATAS Australian Tsunami Alert System ATAS Association of Turkish American Scientists PRESIDENT: Meryl C. Marshall was elected to a two-year term as president of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences by the ATAS board of governors. Marshall is the third woman in the 50-year history of the academy to be elected a president. A television executive for 19 years, Marshall has served ATAS for 15 years, including three terms as treasurer. Other ATAS officers elected include: Nancy Bradley Wiard, vice president; George Sunga, second vice president; Sheila Manning, secretary; Lee Miller, treasurer; and Nelson Davis, vice president of the Los Angeles area. CONTE APPOINTED EXECUTIVE VP: Courtney B. Conte has been appointed to the newly created position of executive vice president of production for the Carsey-Werner Company, a Studio City-based entertainment enterprise and independent producer and distributor of television programming. Conte will be responsible for overall supervision of physical production of current programming, including ``3rd Rock From the Sun,'' ``Grace Under Fire,'' ``Cybill,'' and ``Men Behaving Badly Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy, which first broadcast in 1992 on the ITV network, however moved to BBC One (and a later timeslot) from the third series onwards. It was written and created by Simon Nye. .'' CAPTION(S): 7 Photos Photo: (1) DELGADO (2) LEIPPER (3) PETICA (4) RAY (5) DATES (6) MARSHALL (7) CONTE |
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