People.Newsmakers Accounting & Consulting James A. Cordova Cordova, Spain: see Córdoba. , Donita M. Joseph and Peter J. Scribner have all been named partner at Windes & McClaughry Accountancy Corp. in Long Beach. Cordova is in the tax department and specializes in matters involving passthrough entities. Joseph is also in the tax department and has a professional focus in estate and trust services for high-net-worth individuals and business owners. Scribner was admitted to partnership in the audit department with a concentration in audits, reviews and related accounting services for manufacturing, construction contractors, retail, hospitality, banking and credit union businesses, as well as 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. support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services . Brad Mello has been named director of computer and information services See Information Systems. for Torrance-based Zdonek & Wolowicz Accountancy Corp. He will be responsible for assisting the firm's clients with technology issues such as hardware and software capabilities, Internet connectivity, network design and accounting and reporting systems. Prior to joining the firm, Mello was an independent computer consultant. Advertising & P.R. Carly Rondinelli has been promoted to partner at Urge 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 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. . She will continue to oversee day-today operations, as well as assist in the acquisition of new business. Rondinelli joined Urge PR in March 1999 and has served as general manager since January 2000. John Tellem has joined Tellem Worldwide, a public relations firm in Malibu, as vice president. He will be responsible for heading up the firm's entertainment division. Tellem was previously a tour publicist at SFX SFX Special Effects SFX Self Extracting (data compression) SFX SpreadFireFox (IRC) SFX Sound Effect(s) SFX Side Effects (counter-strike gaming clan) Entertainment. Architecture Alexi Rappaport and Steve Lesko have been promoted to associates at Clive Wilkinson Architects in Los Angeles. Rappaport joined the firm in 1999 and has spearheaded the firm's consulting work on strategic workplace design for Sapient sa·pi·ent adj. Having great wisdom and discernment. [Middle English, from Old French, from Latin sapi , Avanade and Andersen Consulting See Accenture. . Currently she is providing management direction on Netlock Technologies and Foote, Cone & Belding projects. Lesko has background in research and design work and is currently managing design, production and construction administration on advertising agency projects, including the new 100,000-square-foot Foote, Cone & Belding 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, headquarters facility. Joseph R. Serar has been appointed principal in charge at the Glendora office of NTD NTD Neural tube defect, see there Architects. He will lead and manage educational and institutional projects. He has been an associate with the firm since 1994. Banking & Finance Evon G. Rosen has been promoted to senior vice president and director of marketing for Celtic Capital Corp. 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. . She is responsible for all marketing efforts and will spearhead special projects designed to enhance business development throughout Southern California and the Western states. Most recently, Rosen was director of marketing. Andy Yen has been appointed president of United National Bank, a medium-sized commercial bank with its head office in San Marino San Marino, city, United States San Marino (săn mərē`nō), residential city (1990 pop. 12,959), Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1913. Of interest is the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens. . He will be responsible for oversight of the banks operations and improving the bank's overall profitability. He was most recently the bank's executive vice president and branch administrator. Construction Dan A. Penn has joined Ray Wilson Ray Wilson can refer to:
Entertainment Wendy Kram has been named vice president, TV movies and mini-series, at Granada Entertainment USA in Los Angeles. In her position, Kram will oversee the company's television movie and mini-series development. She was most recently executive vice president for Craig Anderson Productions. Jim Packer has been named vice president-television sales, North America, at MGM Worldwide Television MGM Worldwide Television (now MGM International Television Distribution) is the global television arm of MGM Television established in 1996, as the name implies it is responsible for the production/distribution of MGM's vast television library around the world. Distribution in Santa Monica. In his new position, Packer will be responsible for the licensing of all 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. programming to broadcast outlets in North America, including free television, basic and pay cable, as well as overseeing all of MGM's regional syndication sales offices, including Los Angeles, Chicago, 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 , Boca Raton and Toronto. He most recently served as senior vice president and general sales manager, West Coast, at the Walt Disney Co. Health Care Erika Laskey has been selected to be the director of sales and marketing at Chad Therapeutics Inc., a developer, manufacturer and distributor of oxygen-conserving devices and oxygen-delivery systems in Chatsworth. She will have primary responsibility for all areas of sales and marketing. She recently spent eight years at Mallinckrodt Inc. Insurance Jane Wilkens has joined the Los Angeles headquarters of Heritage General Agency as vice president. She will be responsible for producing new business in the Los Angeles and Tri-Cities areas. Most recently, Wilkens spent the last 17 years at another large brokerage firm. Andrea Zenner has been appointed vice president at Western Security Surplus Insurance Brokers Inc. in Pasadena. She has been with the company for 12 years, most recently in charge of the contract facility. Law Sunny Brenner has joined the litigation department of Loeb & Loeb LLP LLP - Lower Layer Protocol as a partner in the firm's Century City office. He represents clients in a broad range of commercial litigation, with particular emphasis on the entertainment industry, intellectual property, traditional and new media, and white-collar crime white-collar crime, term coined by Edward Sutherland for nonviolent crimes committed by corporations or individuals such as office workers or sales personnel (see white-collar workers) in the course of their business activities. . Brenner was most recently a partner at Rosenfeld, Meyer & Susman LLP. Robert A. Darwell, Rik Toulon and Benjamin R. Mulcahy have joined the entertainment and new-media group at Los Angeles law firm Katten Muchin Zavis as partners. All three were previously associated with the Los Angeles firm of Troop, Steuber, Pasich, Reddick and Tobey and will be practicing in the new-media group's transactional practice. Peter J. Gurfein has joined Akin, Gump, Strauss, Huer & Feld LLP as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office. He is practicing in the financial restructuring practice group. Gary E. Klausner has been named partner at Stutman, Treister & Glatt Glatt may refer to:
Kimberly R. Wells has been named a partner in the Los Angeles office of Baker & Hostetler. Wells concentrates her practice in the area of employment litigation and counseling on employment issues. Media John A. Russell has been named chief engineer for Young Broadcasting's KCAL-TV in Hollywood. He will oversee all technical aspects of KCAL's operations. Russell most recently served as chief engineer for KLCS-TV. New Media Brian Dearth has been appointed CEO of Hollywood Stock Exchange, an integrated marketing research and technology company in Los Angeles. Steven Lehrhoff has been appointed to the position of president and COO. As a team, Dearth and Lehrhoff will work to establish strategic alliances with entertainment, new media and consumer product companies. The two will also assume responsibility for Hollywood Stock Exchange's corporate organizational development and day-to-day operational management. Prior to his appointment, Dearth was HSX's vice president of research, while Lehrhoff was senior vice president and general counsel. Debra Valencia, Stanley Ng and Rob Bynder have all been appointed creative directors at Guidance, a convergent business studio in Marina del Rey. Valencia is in the consumer brands and retail group. Ng will be working with the media and entertainment group, while Bynder has been selected for Guidance's e-business and exchange group. Real Estate John Miller has been appointed regional president for the southern region of Legacy Partners Commercial Inc., a commercial and residential real estate firm in Pasadena. Miller will manage all commercial real estate activities in Southern California and Nevada. He was most recently a partner with MaguirePartners. Retail William W. Beebe III has been appointed to senior vice president of sales and marketing at Bandai America Inc., a children's toy manufacturer in Cypress. He will oversee all of Bandai's North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. toy division and is responsible for managing all sales, marketing, research and design, and new property acquisition efforts, as well as developing relationships with entertainment companies. He was most recently senior vice president of sales at Playmates Toys. Thomas S. Paccioretti has been appointed president and chief executive for Strouds Inc. He has been actively involved in the direction and operation of Strouds since the company began its voluntary restructuring under Chapter 11 last September, and will be responsible for leading the company into the next critical phase of its restructuring. Internet Banking Draws New Sanwa VP Conor Dougherty DEVELOPING personal banking relationships in the world's least intimate space may sound daunting daunt tr.v. daunt·ed, daunt·ing, daunts To abate the courage of; discourage. See Synonyms at dismay. [Middle English daunten, from Old French danter, from Latin . Yet it's the task being taken on by David Espenschied, as Sanwa Bank California's new first senior vice president and manager of its Web banking business unit. Espenschied will be responsible for all of the bank's Web-based initiatives, covering both the retail and commercial banking divisions. "I have responsibility across the enterprise to get all of our business units and services online, or to enhance whatever online presence they have," said Espenschied, who is based in Los Angeles, "I think this is a tremendous opportunity to show what the Web can do." At present, Espenschied said the group is busy finding out exactly what online banking services its customers want. "We are in the process of surveying our customers to help us prioritize the functionality they're looking to access over the Web," said Espenschied. Espenschied comes to the position from Countrywide Home Loans, where he was CEO of its electronic business division and responsible for all of its e-commerce initiatives. "We plan to use the Web and e-commerce to enhance the relationship (between the bank and its customers), and build our customers," he said. It was Sanwa's list of services that attracted him to the position. "In this position, I'll be able to take the things I've learned and be exposed to a broader product set," he said. |
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