PEOPLE.Newsmakers Advertising & P.R. Benny Lai was named accounts supervisor at Imada Wong Communications Group 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 account management and adapting and translating commercials from English to Cantonese. Lai was most recently an independent advertising and marketing consultant for clients in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. and China. Rei Wei Chu was appointed chief copywriter at the firm. She will be responsible for writing ad copy, creative development, translation and proofreading Proofreading traditionally means reading a proof copy of a text in order to detect and correct any errors. Modern proofreading often requires reading copy at earlier stages as well. . Chu was previously with McCann-Erickson. Also, Kevin Wang was named art director. He will be responsible for print layouts, campaign concepts, and photo and TV shoots. He previously worked on Fantasia fantasia (făntā`zhə) [Ital.,=fancy], musical composition not restricted to a formal design, but constructed freely in the manner of an improvisation. In the 16th and 17th cent. 2000 for Disney Feature Animation. Steven Schlein was appointed vice president and general manager of the new Los Angeles office of Nichols Dezenhall Crisis Communications Crisis communications are generally considered a sub-specialty of the public relations profession that is designed to protect and defend an individual, company, or organization facing a public challenge to its reputation. Management Group. He will oversee all 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 activities. Schlein was previously vice president of the Washington, D.C. office. Temra Wald was appointed senior vice president and director of account planning at Colby Effler & Partners in Santa Monica. She will work on all client and new business projects. Wald was most recently a senior account planner at DDB DDB - device independent bitmap in Los Angeles. Banking & Finance Marty Kulman was appointed vice president at Prudential Securities in Los Angeles. He specializes in fixed-income securities Fixed-income securities Investments that have specific interest rates, such as bonds. , equities and stock options for high-net-worth individuals. Kulman was formerly a vice president with M.L. Stern and Co. in Beverly Hills. Babram Nour Omid was named technology partner at Shelter Ventures, a digital business incubator and venture capital firm in Los Angeles. He will identify and evaluate hightech investment opportunities and emerging technologies. Omid was previously founding chairman and chief executive officer of StudioXchange (now iFilm). Also, David B. Kaplan David B. Kaplan (born 1958) is the director of the Institute for Nuclear Theory (INT) at the University of Washington. He was a student of Howard Georgi and has been a Senior Fellow at the INT since 1994. was named partner and venture capital fund manager at the company. He will oversee investments in private tech companies. Kaplan was formerly a senior partner at Apollo Advisors. Construction Donald J. Blodgett was appointed vice president of Internal audit at Kaufman &Broad Home Corp. in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for preparing the annual audit plan and directing all audit activities. Blodgett was most recently vice president of internal audit at APL (A Programming Language) A high-level mathematical programming language noted for its brevity and matrix generation capabilities. Developed by Kenneth Iverson in the mid-1960s, it runs on micros to mainframes and is often used to develop mathematical models. Limited. Entertainment Dolf Berle was named 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 HOB hob a male ferret. Entertainment, the Los Angeles-based company that owns the House of Blues House of Blues (HOB) is a chain of music halls and restaurants founded in 1992 by Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett and his friend and investor Dan Aykroyd. It is a home for live music and southern-inspired cuisine, whose clubs celebrate African-American culture, specifically chain of restaurants and music venues. He will be responsible for day-to-day operations and marketing as well as developing systems to support House of Blues locations throughout North America. Juliet Blake was appointed senior vice president of creative affairs at Jim Henson Television Jim Henson Television is the television production arm of The Jim Henson Company. Some of the more notable television programs produced by the Henson organization include:
Gina Ross was named vice president of marketing at Nickelodeon Movies in Los Angeles. She will oversee the development of marketing plans for all releases and will serve as the main liaison with the marketing team at Paramount Pictures. Ross was previously director of multicultural marketing at Disney's Buena Vista Pictures. Health Care Rebecca Bales was named chief financial officer at Good Samaritan Hospital Good Samaritan Hospital may refer to: In the United States:
Neil T. Higashida was promoted to vice president of pharmacy programs for Health-Net in Woodland Hills. He will be responsible for managing member pharmacy benefits. Higashida was previously associate vice president of pharmacy programs. High Tech Anne Eddings was promoted to senior vice president of customer service at Elite Information Systems in Los Angeles. She will be responsible for customer service and support. Eddings was previously vice president of field operations for the company. Bland McCartha was named vice president of business development at Archion, a Studio City company that makes networked storage systems for the video industry. He will oversee the U.S. sales team. McCartha was previously director of business development for the video and networking division of Tektronix. Law Donald Karl was named partner in the technology practice at Perkins Coie in Los Angeles. He specializes in advising entertainment and new-media companies on corporate matters, licensing, venture capital and financing. Karl was most recently with the technology group at Stern, Neubauer, Greenwald and Pauly in Santa Monica. Media Chris Dorsey was named vice president and editor in chief of Sports Afield in Van Nuys. He will oversee the relaunch of the 113-year-old hunting and fishing magazine. Dorsey was most recently group manager of publishing and communications for Ducks Unlimited. New Media Thomas G. Conforti was appointed president and chief operating officer at eMind.com (formerly Yipinet), a Los Angeles-based Web site that provides online business education courses. He will oversee operations and finance while serving on the board of directors. Conforti was previously executive vice president of business operations at Disney's consumer products division. Steven Corn was named vice president at the Los Angeles office of LicenseMusic.com, a Web site providing licensed music tracks to the entertainment, commercial, gaming and interactive industries. He will be responsible for developing and implementing alliances with film, TV, advertising and Internet companies. Corn was most recently vice president of Megatrax. Ian Leicht was appointed chief technology officer at MXG MXG Maintenance Group MXG Marlborough, Massachusetts MXG Merrill's Expanded Guide (to Computer Performance Evaluation) Media, a Manhattan Beach company that provides interactive online entertainment and shopping targeted toward teenage girls. He will provide strategic support for application development and enhancement of cross-media capabilities. Leicht was previously with Inspired Arts in La Jolla. Mason Wiley was appointed vice president of membership marketing at CUShopper, an online and offline shopping service for credit union members based in Burbank. He will be responsible for all database marketing, Web site design, promotional efforts, collateral production and branding. Wiley was most recently creative director at Universal Pictures Marketing. Allen Wolfsheimer was named senior vice president and publisher at RENTV.com, a commercial real estate Web site based in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for all aspects of news content development. Wolfsheimer was formerly publisher of the California Real Estate Journal. Real Estate Thomas Arai was appointed senior vice president of the Western region of Grubb & Ellis Management Services in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for planning and directing management and business development activities for the region. Arai was most recently vice president of asset management for PM Realty Advisors in Newport Beach. Also, Angela Siuta was named vice president and director of management services. She will direct management activities for the firm's Northern and Southern California portfolio. Siuta was previously executive vice president and regional managing director at Kennedy Wilson Properties. Gary DiMartino was named partner at Told Partners in Woodland Hills. He specializes in selling investment properties throughout Southern California. DiMartino was formerly an associate vice president in the investment services group of Grubb & Ellis' 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. Telecommunications Sharon D. Garrett was appointed chief executive officer at Zyan Communications, a Los Angeles-based DSL DSL in full Digital Subscriber Line Broadband digital communications connection that operates over standard copper telephone wires. It requires a DSL modem, which splits transmissions into two frequency bands: the lower frequencies for voice (ordinary service provider. She will be responsible for developing strategic direction, business relationships and corporate expansion. Garrett was previously senior vice president and chief information officer at Walt Disney Co. Sean McDermott was named Pacific division vice president of Allegiance Telecom in Los Angeles. He will oversee the division's expansion from seven to 12 markets. McDermott was formerly vice president and general manager for MCI (1) (Media Control Interface) A high-level programming interface from Microsoft and IBM for controlling multimedia devices. It provides commands and functions to open, play and close the device. (2) (Microwave Communications Inc. WorldCom. Shell Trying to Score Points for Fox Cable Programming WHEN senior Fox executives decided to launch an all-sports cable network a few years ago, they tapped Jeff Shell to make it happen. Shell was so successful in building Fox Sports Network into a legitimate challenger to the supremacy of ESPN ESPN Entertainment and Sports Programming Network , that parent company News Corp. has now asked him to oversee all its non-news cable operations. As new president and chief executive of Fox Cable Networks (FCN FCN First Coast News (Florida) FCN Function FCN Federation of Canadian Naturists FCN Fox Cable Networks FCN Free Core Nutation FCN Federal Communicators Network FCN Fußball Club Nürnberg (Germany) ), Shell is working to turn the new division of Fox Entertainment into a competitive player in the emerging digital cable and direct television markets. He's facing some tough competition, in the form of Viacom Inc. and Walt Disney Co. "We're in an elite class now," Shell said. "It used to be about selling channels to people. Now, instead of offering 50 to 60 channels, AT&T is putting in digital boxes (with hundreds of channels) and, ultimately, interactive options." Shell hopes to make FCN the programming choice for cable providers 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. more channels to offer customers. He has already secured long-term contracts for content with heavyweight cable providers like AT&T and Time Warner. Shell's plan involves providing cable firms with packages of Fox channels to distribute through a variety of service tiers. For instance, while the Fox Family Channel would be shown on most cable systems, the Fox Movie Channel would only go to customers with the pricier digital boxes. Under his strategy, operators would agree to carry newer Fox channels - like the National Geographic Channel
Shell was most recently president of Fox Sports Networks and will continue to oversee ad sales, distribution and rights negotiations for the cable sports business. He joined Fox Television in 1994 as head of new business development. Jennifer Smith |
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