PEOPLE.Newsmakers Advertising & P.R. Janet Kirker has been appointed executive vice president of the interactive division at the Cimarron Group, a Hollywood-based producer of advertising and marketing campaigns for the entertainment industry. She will oversee production and day-to-day operations for entertainment and corporate clients. Kirker was previously vice president of project development at GlobalFulfillmet.com. Architecture Jonathan Watts has been named owner/principal at the Cunningham Group, an architectural design This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. 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 oversee museum, discovery center and zoo projects. Watts was most recently head of the entertainment development studio at the same firm. Banking & Finance Glen Dizon was named vice president of investment banking at Wedbush Morgan Securities in Los Angeles. He will oversee department expansion and will focus on the health care industry. Dizon was previously manager of corporate finance at Atlantic Richfield Co. Eric V. Johnson has been appointed senior vice president at Broadway Federal Bank in Los Angeles. He will oversee all retail banking operations. Johnson was most recently a senior vice president at Home Savings of America. Entertainment Curt Doty has been promoted to executive vice president at Pittard Sullivan, an entertainment marketing communications Marketing communications (or marcom) are messages and related media used to communicate with a market. Those who practice advertising, branding, direct marketing, graphic design, marketing, packaging, promotion, publicity, sponsorship, public relations, sales, sales company 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 oversee the product, process and structure of the broadcast group. Doty was most recently creative director, a title he continues to hold. Rick Hinton was named vice president of marketing at Technifex Inc., a Valencia-based design and production company that specializes in creating special effects special effects, in motion pictures, cinematographic techniques that create illusions in the audience's minds as well as the illusions created using these techniques. for live audiences, show action systems and other high-tech entertainment technologies. He will oversee all marketing efforts. Hinton was most recently creative director of the digital theater division at Evans & Sutherland. Gary M. Robinson has been promoted to executive vice president of business and legal affairs at Granada Entertainment, USA in Brentwood. He will oversee all domestic business, financial and legal operations. Robinson was previously senior vice president of business and legal affairs. Health Care Deborah Cordano has been named vice president of major gifts and campaign director at the Los Angeles Orthopaedic Hospital Foundation. She will oversee 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. and developmental efforts. Cordano was previously assistant vice president of the engineering programs at USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. , Cal Poly Cal Poly may refer to:
Hospitality Paul Leclerc Paul LeClerc is president and chief executive officer of the New York Public Library. He attended Holy Cross High School in Flushing, NY and was part of their first graduating class in 1959. He is a former president of Hunter College and is a trustee of the Andrew W. has been named executive assistant manager at Loews 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. Beach Hotel. He will oversee all room operations and systems. Leclerc was previously director of rooms at the Sutton Place Hotel Sutton Place Hotel is a collection of luxury hotels located in Canada and United States, owned and managed by The Sutton Place Grande Hotels Group with office in Vancouver, BC. Properties currently located in: Vancouver, BC; Toronto, ONT; Edmonton, AB; and Chicago, IL. in Vancouver. Law Barry S. Glaser has been named partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps in Los Angeles. He specializes in business, real estate and bankruptcy 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. . Glaser was most recently a partner at Resch, Polster, Alpert & Berger. Norbert M. Seifert has been named partner at Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal in Los Angeles. His practice will focus on real estate investment, development and finance, and capital transactions. Seifert was most recently senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary at Imperial Credit Commercial Mortgage Investment Corp. Amanda Susskind was named partner at Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & MacCuish in Los Angeles. She specializes in public law and land use. Susskind was most recently a partner at Richards, Watson & Gershon. Manufacturing Dennis Ammon has been promoted to president at Impressions, a Los Angeles-based manufacturer of women's sportswear. He will oversee all day-to-day operations. Ammon was previously executive vice president of sales and marketing. Media Matthew King Matthew King is a fictional character portrayed by Matt Healy on the soap opera Emmerdale. About Matthew Ever since the King family arrived in March 2004, Matthew has remained the most calculating and scheming of his dysfunctional clan. has been named vice president of strategic planning at BPI Communications Film Group in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for business development of trade publications. King was most recently international executive editor at the Hollywood Reporter. New Media Walter Buttkus has been named director of 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, sales at PureMarkets Corp., an online commercial equipment finance company in Los Angeles. He will oversee all sales efforts. Buttkus was previously vice president and senior account manager at GE Capital 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. . Stephen M. DuBose has been appointed vice president of planning and corporate development at WebVision Inc., an e-business solutions provider in Torrance. He will oversee planning for business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets , research and development, administration and corporate development. DuBose was previously 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. and chief financial officer at the Anderson DuBose Co. Bruce Elbert has been appointed executive vice president and president of Asian operations at eSat Inc., a broadband Internet See broadband. service provider in Los Angeles. He will be responsible for strategic development, project management, corporate financing, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate joint venture opportunities. Elbert was most recently director at Galaxy Systems. Patrick McCabe Patrick McCabe may refer to:
Mary Price Mary Wolfe Price was an American citizen and secretary to journalist Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald. Sometime prior to March of 1941, Mary Price allegedly agreed to furnish Jacob Golos, controller of the secret apparatus of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA) on behalf has been named vice president and general merchandising manager at AsSeenIn.com in Los Angeles. She will be responsible for facilitating relationships between apparel manufacturers and production wardrobe designers. Price was previously vice president and regional manager at Bloomingdale's. Gregory Thomas has been appointed vice president and dean at R35 edu, an online Web communications design school in Santa Monica. He will be responsible for curriculum development, faculty procurement and overall direction. Thomas was previously acting chair of the graphic design department at Art Center. Real Estate Daniel Bothe and Richard Davis have been promoted to co-chief financial officers at Arden Realty Inc. in Los Angeles. They will oversee financial functions, reporting and information systems, investor relations Investor relations The process by which the corporation communicates with its investors. and capital market strategy. Both Davis and Bothe were previously senior vice presidents and will retain those titles. Also, Andrew J. Sobel has been named executive vice president. He will oversee corporate strategy, allocation, investor relations and technology initiatives. Sobel was most recently president at 555-1212.com. Arthur Buser has been promoted to executive vice president at Jones Lang LeSalle Hotels, a hotel investment banking services group. He will be responsible for hotel asset management, equity and debt marketing at the Los Angeles office. Buser was previously senior vice president. Also, John Strauss was promoted to vice president of the Los Angeles branch. He will oversee underwriting and property marketing for transactions. He was previously an associate. Donald W. Kelly Jr. has been named chief financial officer at Haagen Co., a Torrance-based developer of retail properties. He will be responsible for financial management and property management. Kelly was previously chief financial officer at Watson & Associates in Seal Beach. Rakow Takes Helm of MGM's Legal Affairs Division JAY Rakow knows a thing or two about making Hollywood deals. In fact, the longtime L.A. entertainment lawyer recently made one involving himself when he became senior executive vice president and general counsel at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc., where he will head up the legal division. Rakow will oversee legal affairs at the Santa Monica-based entertainment studio, a job that mainly consists of contract negotiations. "Virtually everything from the acquisition of the right to make a movie, to the signing of talent, to the retention of the crew, to distribution of the movie requires a contract," said Rakow. "It's a very law-intensive business." Rakow came to MGM MGM in full Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc. U.S. corporation and film studio. It was formed when the film distributor Marcus Loew, who bought Metro Pictures in 1920, merged it with the Goldwyn production company in 1924 and with Louis B. Mayer Pictures in 1925. from the Los Angeles law firm of Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro, where he was a founding partner and head of the entertainment/intellectual property practice. "Given the volume of legal work that takes place in a studio, I will have to be more of a supervisor," said Rakow. "But in certain circumstances, it is necessary for me to be hands-on." The new job could be made somewhat easier because Rakow has done a great deal of work for MGM in the past, having served as outside counsel on a number of cases since 1980. MGM Vice Chairman Chris McGurk said in a prepared statement that the addition of Rakow's "vast entertainment background and accomplished track record" are keys to the reorganization of the company's legal unit. Rakow said that the reorganization simply involves streamlining what is now a staff of 25 people. "Our philosophy is to keep the department as lean as possible," he said. Rakow is no rookie when it comes to practicing entertainment law in L.A. In 1993, he became senior vice president and general counsel at Paramount Pictures Corp. and helped steer ownership of the studio to Viacom Inc. He left that position in 1996. Kristin Wilder |
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