PEOPLE.Newsmakers Accounting & Consulting Steve Duffy was named partner at Stanton Chase International, an executive search and management consulting Noun 1. management consulting - a service industry that provides advice to those in charge of running a business service industry - an industry that provides services rather than tangible objects firm 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 be responsible for the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. financial service recruiting practice. Duffy was previously principal with the firm. Architecture Richard Hampel was named vice president and general manager at Nadel Architects in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for overall operations and business management. Hampel was previously managing principal for MCG in Beverly Hills Beverly Hills, city (1990 pop. 31,971), Los Angeles co., S Calif., completely surrounded by the city of Los Angeles; inc. 1914. The largely residential city is home to many motion-picture and television personalities. . Robert Jernigan and Scott Kaufman were promoted to vice presidents of Gensler, an architecture and design firm based 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. . Jernigan will continue his previous role as technical specialist for large-scale office projects. Kaufman is a senior project manager and was previously a senior associate with the firm. Susan O'Connell and Kirk Rose were elected shareholders at SmithGroup, an architecture, planning and interior design company in Santa Monica. O'Connell leads the academic and research studio and was previously an associate with the firm. Rose specializes in entertainment design and was formerly a principal at Hellmuth, Obata + Kassabaum in Santa Monica. Banking & Finance Jonathan Davidson was promoted to partner and managing director of the electronic commerce group at Digital Coast Partners in Los Angeles. He will oversee business-to-business and business-to-consumer e-commerce ventures. Davidson was previously a banker in the division. Glenn Gray was appointed senior vice president at Finova Capital Corp. in Los Angeles. He will oversee the newly merged corporate finance and business credit divisions. Gray was previously senior vice president of corporate development. Chris A. Walters was promoted to vice president and Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, regional sales manager sales manager n → gerente m/f de ventas sales manager n → directeur commercial sales manager sale n → for Mellon Private Asset Management in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for regional sales teams in Los Angeles and Orange County. Walters was previously Los Angeles regional sales manager. Entertainment Cindy Clark was named director of development for the entertainment operations at Dick Clark
Richard Wagstaff "Dick" Clark (born November 30, 1929) is an Emmy Award-winning American television, radio personality, game show host and businessman, he served as Productions in Burbank. She will develop new entertainment properties and also serve as a producer. Clark was previously director of development for Universal Studios. Jorge Ferreiro was promoted to senior vice president of creative resources at Fox Family Worldwide. He will continue to oversee the development of creative and off-air materials for Fox Kids, Fox Family Channel, Saban Entertainment  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. and Saban International. Ferreiro was
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Philip Fier was named senior vice president of business planning 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. . He will be involved in all aspects of business planning for distribution activities. Fier was previously vice president of finance in the international theatrical division at Twentieth Century Fox. Deborah L. Maiocco was appointed vice president of advertising sales at CNX CNX Canceled CNX Certified Network Expert CNX Chiang Mai, Thailand - International (Airport Code) CNX CRISIL NSE (National Stock Exchange) Indices (India stock exchange) Media, a Los Angeles-based media convergence company that produces and distributes programming for television and the Internet. She will be responsible for presenting the company to advertisers and agencies in the Midwest and West territories. Maiocco was previously director of advertising sales at ETM (database) ETM - An active DBMS from the University of Karlsruhe. Entertainment Network in Costa Mesa. Government Manuel Valencia was appointed Los Angeles interim deputy mayor for communications. He will be responsible for all communications for Mayor Richard Riordan's office. Valencia is a founding partner of Valencia, Perez & Echeveste, 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 firm based in Pasadena. Health Care Harlan Cleaver was appointed chief technology officer at Total Renal Care Holdings Inc., a provider of dialysis services in Torrance. He will oversee internal information technology. Cleaver will join the firm this June after finishing his contract as vice president of information technology for Gambro Healthcare. James G. McPherson and Andre Andresian were appointed medical directors at Citrus Valley Heart Center in Covina. McPherson will oversee the cardiac surgery program and currently serves at assistant professor of clinical cardiothoracic surgery at the USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. School of Medicine. Andresian will supervise the cardiac catheterization Cardiac Catheterization Definition Cardiac catheterization (also called heart catheterization) is a diagnostic procedure which does a comprehensive examination of how the heart and its blood vessels function. lab and was previously a practicing cardiologist at the center. Clare N. Resnick was promoted to vice president of finance for the public entities unit of WellPoint Health Networks in Woodland Hills. She will oversee all financial matters for the department, including forecasting and budgeting, governmental reporting and monthly closing. Resnick was previously director of internal reporting and state programs for the company. High Tech Hoon hoon Austral & NZ slang Noun a loutish youth who drives irresponsibly Verb to drive irresponsibly Chung was promoted to 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. at Adexa Inc., a company that provides e-businesses with customized software and consulting services. He will be responsible for day-to-day management and coordination of worldwide field operations. Chung was previously president of Asia and Pacific operations and executive vice president of professional services for the company. Brad Plunkett was named vice president of engineering at Digital Theater Systems in Agoura Hills. He will be responsible for all day-to-day engineering activities. Plunkett was most recently an executive engineer with Harman International in Northridge. Law David J. Barton was named a partner at Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones in Los Angeles. He specializes in bankruptcy and business law. Barton was previously general counsel for Sizzler siz·zler n. 1. One that sizzles. 2. Informal A very hot day. International in Culver City. Jodi M. Lewis was named partner at Wickwire Gavin in Los Angeles. She focuses on construction and business 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. . Lewis was most recently an associate with the firm. Frank Schwertfeger was named principal in the business department at Troop Steuber Pasich Reddick & Tobey in Los Angeles. He represents companies in mergers, acquisitions and general regulatory matters. Schwertfeger was previously vice president and general counsel for Coast Asset Management in Huntington Beach. Also, Lisa Hamilton Klein joined the business department as of counsel. She focuses on mergers and acquisitions, and venture capital financing To start an own company or to bring a new product to the market, the venture may need to attract financial funding. There are several categories of financing possibilities. If it is a small venture, then perhaps the venture can rely on family funding, loans from friends . Klein was most recently a partner with Katten, Muchin & Zavis in Los Angeles. New Media Jeffrey Orridge was appointed chief marketing officer at OneNetNow.com, a multicultural community Web site based in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for marketing and branding the site. Orridge was previously senior vice president of Momentum. Amy Ritz, Brian Newton and Cheryl Lee were appointed vice presidents at Hiplay Media, an online streaming-video site based in Los Angeles. Ritz will be responsible for brand management, marketing and promotions and was previously director of marketing for the Barbie brand at Mattel. Newton will oversee all financial matters and was most recently chief financial officer at Arbor Sports in Pacific Palisades Palisades, cliffs along the west bank of the Hudson River, NE N.J. and SE N.Y., extending from N of Jersey City, N.J., to the vicinity of Piermont, N.Y., with a general altitude of from 350 ft to 550 ft (107–168 m). . Lee will be responsible for system architecture, design and development and was previously a senior developer at 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) . Vik Walia was appointed vice president of technology at Answers.com, a Pasadena company that provides online customer service tools. He will lead development of self-service, question-and-answer technologies. Walia was previously leader of the business metrics division at EarthLink in Pasadena. Also, Dohn Johnson Jr. was named vice president of finance and controller for the company. He will oversee financial and accounting affairs. Johnson was previously corporate controller at Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast (often referred to as WotC or simply Wizards) is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes. Originally a basement-run role-playing game publisher, they popularized the collectible card game genre with in in Renton, Wash. Sherry Weinman was appointed senior vice president at Wirebreak.com, a Venice company that creates and distributes informational, comedy and reality-based Web site content. She will oversee the development and production of programming. Weinman was previously an executive producer at CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. . Also, Michael Berman was named head writer for the company. He will oversee all Writing for interactive and video programming, and scripts in development. Berman was formerly producer for The Tonight Show Online. Restaurants Robin Elledge was promoted to vice president for human resources at International House of Pancakes Corp. in Glendale. She will oversee compensation, benefits, training, employee relations and organizational development. Elledge was previously director of training. Irwin Returns in Effort to Restore Omni to Fiscal Health FOUNDER Klee Irwin is back to whip Omni Nutraceuticals into fighting shape. Irwin is returning as chief executive and president nearly a year after relinquishing management of the firm he formed by merging his Irwin Naturals with Colorado-based 4Health. "We had a hired gun hired gun Forensic medicine A popular term for a physician, lawyer or other highly paid expert who is not a regular employee of a particular enterprise, whose services are paid only as long as necessary; the term is an analogy from the use of mercenaries to fight , and he failed," said Irwin, who returned at the request of Omni's board after the company's stock price had been tumbling for months. He plans to steer the Culver City-based vitamin company back to profitability by carving out an e-commerce niche and expanding its product line through strategic acquisitions. Omni Nutraceuticals now sells several brands of vitamins, herbal supplements and nutrition bars to health food stores and mass-market retailers like Wal-Mart. Its Internet subsidiary, Healthzone.com, sells Omni brands and other products directly to online consumers. "We're going to refocus our business toward the tech aspect," said Irwin, who plans to grow the Web site by buying out poorly performing vitamin dot-com retailers and aggregating their brands on the Healthzone site. He plans a similar acquisition strategy for Omni's offline branded product line and wants to expand through leveraged buyouts of smaller firms that dominate certain markets, like diet products. "We've got everything in place to manage multiple brands," he said. Irwin also has retained an investment banking firm to lighten the company's debt load via an eight-figure equity placement. He has already cut $4.5 million from the advertising budget and what he called "bloated" executiye salaries. Some employees have been laid off while others will now be compensated with stock options. "The company is cash-flow positive," he said. "Now that I'm back, we have all the tools to grow rapidly through acquisitions." Irwin continues to run Aromavera, the aromatherapy firm he acquired during his one-year hiatus from Omni Nutraceuticals. Jennifer Smith |
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