PEOPLE.Newsmakers Advertising & P.R. Jack R. Brumfield was appointed general manager of Stoorza, Ziegaus & Metzger 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 oversee all office operations, including 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 and strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. . Brumfield was most recently senior executive vice president. Linda Duttenhaver was named vice president and accounts director for Alexander Ogilvy Alexander Charles Ogilvy (born 12 November, 1996) is a distant relative of the British Royal Family and is 35th in the line of succession to the British Throne. He is also related to the royal families of Greece and Denmark through his great grandmother Princess Marina, Duchess of Public Relations Worldwide in Los Angeles. She will handle multiple account teams and help with agency management and professional development. Duttenhaver was previously director of corporate communications Corporate communications is the process of facilitating information and knowledge exchanges with internal and key external groups and individuals that have a direct relationship with an enterprise. at Havas Interactive. Alan Hall was appointed vice president and director of account management at WiseGuys, an integrated marketing firm in Pasadena. Hall was previously director of relationship marketing for Team One Advertising in El Segundo. Jeri Love was appointed senior vice president of Lagrant Communications in Los Angeles. She will oversee the account team and serve as executive director of the Lagrant Foundation. Love was most recently a strategic communications consultant for Sempra Energy. Banking & Finance Ryan Dietz and Deborah Schiller were named vice presidents and senior business development officers for U.S. Trust in Los Angeles. They will be responsible for developing business in investment management, private banking and trust services for high-net-worth individuals and families as well as maintaining ongoing client relationships. Dietz was most recently a national account executive at jeTech Data Systems. Schiller was formerly interim income development director for the American Cancer Society American Cancer Society, n.pr established in 1913, this national volunteer-based health organization is committed to the elimination of cancer through prevention and treatment and to diminishing cancer suffering through advocacy, scholarship, research, in Los Angeles. Construction Kim Petersen was promoted to vice president and chief financial officer at Charles Pankow Builders in Altadena He will manage corporate programs and continue to oversee various financial functions. Petersen was most recently the firm's corporate controller. Education Donald E. Biederman was appointed director of the Entertainment and Media Law Institute and professor of law at Southwestern University School of Law in Los Angeles. He will coordinate the institute's curricular and extracurricular offerings, develop relationships with law firms and continue to teach entertainment and media law. Biederman was formerly executive vice president and general counsel at Warner/Chappell Music. Entertainment Catherine Adams Wells was named executive producer at 525 Studios in Santa Monica. She will oversee the production team and develop new business opportunities for the 3-D animation group. Wells was most recently an executive producer for Backyard Productions in Chicago. Charles L. Dages was named senior vice president of emerging technology at Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . New Media in Burbank. He will be responsible for technical systems, architecture and software while serving as creative technical counsel for the company's new-media partners. Dages was previously senior vice president of technical operations at Warner Bros. Dean C. Hallett. was promoted to senior vice president and chief financial officer at Walt Disney Studios The name Walt Disney Studios may refer to:
Nancy Kirkpatrick was named executive vice president of worldwide publicity for the motion pictures group at Paramount Pictures in Los Angeles. She will be responsible for all feature film publicity campaigns. Kirkpatrick was formerly senior vice president of theatrical publicity at Warner Bros. Edward Sabin Sa·bin , Albert Bruce 1906-1993. American microbiologist and physician who developed a live-virus vaccine against polio (1957), replacing the killed-virus vaccine invented by Jonas Salk. was appointed vice president of business and legal affairs at Fox Television Studios in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for business and legal activities relating to the company's television, nonfiction and alternative cable production units. Sabin was previously a partner at Greenberg, Glusker, Fields, Claman & Machtinger. Government Stephen H. Lantz was named director of strategic development and communications for the Southern California Regional Rail Authority (Metrolink) in Los Angeles. He will direct planning, marketing and government relations, among other things. Lantz was most recently metro system integration director for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. High Tech Brian Daly was appointed vice president of business affairs at Traffic Station, a Los Angeles firm that supplies personalized traffic information through the Internet and wireless communication devices. He will be responsible for developing contracts and overseeing all business matters. Daly was most recently general counsel for PeopleSupport Inc. Insurance Robert M. Bryar was promoted to president of Speare & Co. in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for administrative management, sales and marketing. Bryar was previously vice president of sales. Law Maria J. Aspinwall, Timi A. Hallem, Gregory D. Schetina, Douglas W. Beck, Mark A. Borenstein, Lewis E. Kempinsky and Marc L. Brown -- all partners at Tuttle & Taylor in Los Angeles -- were named department heads at the firm. Aspinwall, Hallem and Schetina will lead the benefits and compensation, real estate, and hospitality practices, respectively. Beck and Borenstein will be responsible for the professional liability and commercial 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. practices, respectively. Kempiasky will handle bankruptcy matters while Brown oversees corporate agribusiness practices. Chris Laukenmann was named partner at Pillsbury Madison & Sutro in Los Angeles. He focuses on securities, banking and insurance matters. Laukenmann was most recently assistant general counsel at Transamerica/Aegon in Los Angeles. Zia Modabber, a partner at Katten Muchin Zavis in Los Angeles, was appointed co-chair of the firm's litigation department. He specializes in complex business, intellectual property and entertainment litigation cases. Media Joie Bonilla wasnamed producer of the 5 p.m. news at KNBC-TV Channel 4 in Burbank. Bonilla was formerly the 5 pm. news producer at the NBC NBC in full National Broadcasting Co. Major U.S. commercial broadcasting company. It was formed in 1926 by RCA Corp., General Electric Co. (GE), and Westinghouse and was the first U.S. company to operate a broadcast network. affiliate in San Diego. Also, Grant Morrow was named director of new media and information technologies. He will be responsible for the station's Web site, new-media operations and information technologies infrastructure. Morrow was previously director of information technology systems. New Media Rafi Gordon was appointed chief executive at FilmTracker.com, a Los Angeles-based business-to-business site for the film industry. He will be responsible for implementing strategic partnerships: Gordon was most recently an associate with Credit Suisse First Boston Credit Suisse First Boston was originally the trading name of the Financière Crédit Suisse-First Boston, a London-based 50-50 investment banking joint venture formed in 1978 between the First Boston Corporation and Credit Suisse. . Also, Ryan Williams was named vice president of creative affairs. He will be responsible for business development. Williams was formerly a feature development executive at Trilogy Entertainment Group. Tom Govreau was named chief financial officer at BizRate.com. He will oversee and manage the firm's financial and administrative activities. Govreau was formerly chief financial officer at Sandpiper sandpiper, common name for some members of the large family Scolopacidae, small shore birds, including the snipe and the curlew. Sandpipers are wading birds with relatively long legs and long, slender bills for probing in the sand or mud for their prey—all Networks Inc. Also, Eva Boker was appointed vice president of e-commerce. She will be responsible for Web site production, merchandising, database marketing and customer service. Boker was most recently vice president and general manager of e-commerce at Go.com. Rachael Shapiro was appointed vice president of marketing and creative affairs at Reelplay.com, an online business-to-business marketplace for the film and television industry based in Santa Monica She will oversee corporate marketing and the company's launch into the independent filmmaking market. Shapiro was formerly director of the Independent Feature Film Market in New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of . Real Estate Mark Einbund was promoted to senior vice president at Grubb & Ellis Co. in Los Angeles. He specializes in representing landlords and tenants in the sales and leasing of retail properties. Einbund was most recently a retail broker with the firm. Bryan Lewitt was named senior vice president at Cresa Partners in Los Angeles. He specializes in commercial tenant representation in West Los Angeles
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. . Lewitt was formerly vice president at the Staubach Co. in West Los Angeles. Marc Pollock was appointed first vice president at the Century City office of CB Richard Ellis CB Richard Ellis Group, Inc. NYSE: CBG is a multinational real estate corporation currently based in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.. On December 20, 2006, the corporation, also known as CBRE, completed acquisition of Trammell Crow Co. in a transaction valued at $2. . He will specialize in representing Westside retail property owners. Pollock was previously vice president of the retail services group at Grubb & Ellis Co. Glen A. Williams was named vice president at Colliers Seeley in Los Angeles. He specializes in investment sales of office, retail, industrial and hotel properties. Williams was most recently a managing consultant with PCR PCR polymerase chain reaction. PCR abbr. polymerase chain reaction Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) Kotin in Santa Monica. Kaplan Seeks New Deals for Hollywood Stock Exchange AFTER four years, the Hollywood Stock Exchange is finally getting a chief executive. Andy Kaplan signed on as the first 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. of the popular Web site, where users receive non-negotiable "Hollywood dollars" in exchange for their demographic information and can then use the currency to buy virtual. "shares" in celebrities, films and music. As the fortunes of those investments rise and fall, so does the value of a user's portfolio. "Right now it's the entertainment corollary of day trading Day trading Establishing and liquidating the same position or positions within one day's trading. ," said Kaplan. "They brought me in to give the company a higher profile with the media and entertainment business." The site, which generates most of its revenue from advertising, has garnered a cult following among the young and affluent. Some fans actually buy successful HSX HSX Hollywood Stock Exchange HSX Helicopter, ASW, Future Version HSX Horizontal Surface Extensometer portfolios from others traders at auction sites like eBay. Since its launch in 1996, the Santa Monica-based firm has been run by David Herman, who continues to hold the titles of 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. . Kaplan was hired to grow the firm by forging new partnerships within the entertainment industry. He plans to start by leveraging HSX's database of user demographics. He hopes to sell market research extrapolated from that database and trading activity on the Web site to the entertainment industry for use in development of new films and other projects. Several joint marketing campaigns with movie studios are now in the works, following a recent deal with Lions Gate Films promoting the movie "American Psycho." The promo offered HSX users who invested their mock dollars in the film a chance to reap actual cash if the film hit $20 million at the box office in its first month. Kaplan is also examining the legal issues involved in using the exchange as a vehicle for users to actually invest real money in film projects. "But it's not going to happen tomorrow," he says. Kaplan was most recently executive vice president of the Columbia TriStar Television Columbia TriStar Television, Inc. was the third name of the television studio Screen Gems, adopted with the Columbia-TriStar merger of 1991 and last used in 2002. Columbia TriStar Television was launched in 1994 as a joint venture between Columbia Pictures Television and Group at Sony Pictures Entertainment. He received his MBA MBA abbr. Master of Business Administration Noun 1. MBA - a master's degree in business Master in Business, Master in Business Administration from USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. . Jennifer Smith |
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