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Ace PR man Henry DeVries has left Roni Hicks, again, this time to oversee public relations and publicity for all Elite Racing events, including the inaugural Suzuki Rock 'n' Roll Marathon on June 21. DeVries was at Roni Hicks & Associates from August 1984 to July 1990 and then from December 1996 to May 1998. For parts of the interim, he hired the agency to work for him at the Independent Order of Foresters where he was a v.p. from 1990 to 1996. When financial scandal shook the IOF, DeVries, 41, left and rejoined Hicks. Hicks, a longtime leading San Diego marketing executive, named him president of her company on Jan. 1, 1998, and the firm — one of San Diego’s largest PR shops — was renamed Roni Hicks & DeVries. With DeVries' departure, the agency loses the rock marathon contract he helped land. DeVries, who is now a partner at Tom Murphy's Elite — Tracy Sunlin is the third partner — confides the switch was financially lucrative. If you meet him and want to ask about this, put the question in the form of an answer in acknowledgment of DeVries' appearance a decade ago on Jeopardy. (He didn’t win.) Strengthening its event-production abilities, the Greater San Diego Chamber of Commerce has hired event producer Stephen Redfearn to oversee the annual Insights World Conference and more than 100 other chamber events each year. Redfearn has 28 years in producing special events, six of them locally with Bill Silva Presents.
Linda Corsetti is chair of the 24th annual SAM awards presented by the Sales and Marketing Council of the Building Industry Association of San Diego County. The awards will be given on Nov. 7.
Nanette Onizuka-Handa was named director of regulatory affairs by Hollis-Eden Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company engaged in the development of products for treatment of infectious diseases and immune system disorders. She formerly was associate director of regulatory affairs at Gilead Sciences. Promoted to senior v.p. at John Burnham was one of the company’s top producers, Steve Bollert. Also, in Burnham's real estate and asset management division Anne Pappas was promoted to senior real estate manager and Tracie Hager to portfolio manager. Together they will oversee management of 1.6 million square feet of office and industrial properties throughout San Diego County. Gil Evans, senior v.p, is managing Scripps Bank's new equipment leasing department. He was an account executive at Imperial Business Credit before joining Scripps. Thomas P. Hillebrecht was promoted to v.p. and manager of Scripps' international department. He has been with the bank for a year. Orincon Industries, a privately held research and development company, appointed Michael H. Chaffin Jr. president and COO of Orincon Technologies Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary. He has more than 20 year’s experience as an executive in high-tech firms.) Juan Alonzo III will head a newly formed aircraft lending department at Fallbrook National Bank as a v.p. The new department will be centralized in the bank's Temecula office and will provide loans for personal and corporate aircraft throughout the western United States. Susanne T. Smith joined Advanced Bioresearch Associates, an FDA regulatory consulting firm and contract research organization, as v.p. of clinical affairs. She previously was v.p. of clinical and regulatory affairs for Norian Corp., an orthopedic medical device company based in Cupertino. Dr. Shahram Azordegan was named dean of the National University School of Management and Technology after serving as interim dean since January. His main goal is to integrate technology into the curriculum. Donald A. Cerone has established D.A. Cerone Inc., a real estate development and consulting firm with offices in Sorrento Valley. For the past eight years, Cerone has been v.p. of land management for CalMat Properties Co. He is being replaced at CalMat by Patricia A. Schreibman, who joined the company in 1983. Brian J. Smith joined Peninsula Bank of San Diego as assistant v.p./relationship development officer for Peninsula Bank of San Diego. Before taking this job Smith was with Bank of America. The Gable Group added Donald Mathias as director of the technology division. He has more than 20 years in the business. James L. Durbin Jr. was named provost of Foundation College San Diego. Durbin joined FCSD in 1996 and was named acting provost in October 1997. He retired from the United States Navy with the rank of captain in 1992 after 32 years of active duty. His last Navy assignment was as chief of staff for the "Navy Mayor" of San Diego. Joining Nicholas-Applegate Capital Management as head of Mid Cap Investing is William H. Chenoweth, one of the country's top small and mid cap portfolio managers. Chenoweth comes to the firm from Turner Investment Partners of Berwyn, Penn., where he served as co-manager of the firm's mid cap area, including institutional accounts and the top-ranked Turner Mid Cap Growth Fund. Virireader Robinson, who joined Ryland Homes San Diego-Riverside division in 1996 as a contracts administrator, has been promoted to purchasing manager. Jessica Nelson, joined the same Ryland division as home options consultant at the new design center at Ryland's Carmel Mountain Ranch headquarters. Stacia Fiore joined Di Zinno Thompson Integrated Marketing Solutions as an account manager. Fiore came from the Nestlé Food Co. in Los Angeles where she was assistant manager of promotions. Scott Peterson joined the San Diego-based CPA firm of Lavine Lofgren Morris & Engelberg as audit manager. He formerly held the same position with Deloitte & Touche. Ken Sulzer, executive director of the San Diego Association of Governments received the Directors' Award from the Centre City Development Corp. for his strong commitment to the downtown redevelopment program. Three appointments announced by Douglas E. Barnhart Inc., a general contractor, engineering and construction management firm, are David Atkinson and Douglas Muirhead, construction managers, and James Lewis, conceptual estimator. Xerox of San Diego named the following appointees to its South Coast Operations Color Program Management Team: Laurie Collins, color and network marketing executive; Sonya Taylor-MacMillan, printing systems marketing executive, and Brian von Der Ahe, customer service field manager. Shelley Miller is the first executive director of the Pacific Beach Business Improvement Assn., which was created in 1996. She has a background in journalism and public relations. The new Business Improvement District is the second largest of San Diego’s 16 such districts with 1,100 members. Architect Edward M. Holakiewicz joined San Diego-headquartered Carrier Johnson as senior design associate. He has more than 15 years of planning and design experience in the U.S., Asia and the Mideast. Robert F. Kiesling and Gregory V. Wade joined Project Design Consultants, a San Diego planning and engineering firm. Kiesling is v.p. overseeing public works projects, and Wade, who was with Centre City Development Corp., is senior project planner with a focus on urban and redevelopment projects. WD-40 Co. promoted Graham P. Milner to senior v.p., The Americas, and Michael J. Irwin to v.p., marketing, The Americas. The company, with San Diego headquarters, is making a move to increase growth in North, Central and South America. Ginny Ollis, a broker associate with Coldwell Banker, was named Agent of the Year by the Metropolitan Realty Organization for the second time. (Her first was in 1990 as the honor's first recipient.) In addition, Ollis was voted Agent of the Year by her Coldwell Banker office in Hotel Circle, and for 1997 she achieved President's Circle, which is the top five percent nationally for production. Becky Biegelsen is the new associate director of public relations at the Old Globe Theatre. She most recently was director of media relations and publications at Pine Manor College and lived in Boston. Honored for volunteer leadership was Charles Dulaney, community outreach director of the Elizabeth Hospice in Escondido when he received the 1998 Alumnus of the Year award from LEAD San Diego. A 1994 graduate of LEAD San Diego, a nonprofit community leadership program, he will represent the local organization at the annual conference of the National Association for Community Leadership. Elizabeth M. Ruch has opened her own office of Waddell & Reed Inc., for which she has served as a senior financial adviser for the past 17 years. The Meyers Group, a national real estate consulting company, named Ada Chen Kaiser as director. Working out of the Solana Beach office, Kaiser specializes in the San Diego and Riverside county markets. The San Diego Association of Realtors honored Art S. Leitch for long-time service to the real estate industry. Retired now, Leitch still is an honorary director of the organization, which he joined in 1946. At one time, he operated a brokerage firm of 10 San Diego offices. Joining Ninteman Construction Co. as a senior estimator is Roy Lechner. He was superintendent and estimator for the company in the 1970s, and his 25 years of experience includes 18 years as owner of his own construction firm. Steve Woods joined the consulting civil engineering and land surveying firm of Pountney & Associates as director of surveys. Jack Roth, senior surveyor, will be assigned to the construction staking for surveying projects. Sonja Banks was named senior business development consultant in the North County office of the Eastridge Group. She has been with the group since 1996 when she left Wells Fargo Bank in San Diego. Mitchell Thompson, affordable housing manager for Bank of America's Community Development Bank, was promoted to senior v.p. He joined BofA in 1989 after serving as housing coordinator for the city of Chula Vista. Leticia MacPherson was named assistant v.p. and manager of the bank's Ramona Branch. She joined the bank as a teller in 1975. Kathleen Roche-Tansey is 1998 president of the San Diego International Sister Cities Corp. Other officers are Earl Saunders, executive v. p.; Teofilo Reynoso, treasurer; and Patty Howell, secretary. Bill Parks opened the Law Offices of Bill Parks in Vista to work in the areas of bankruptcy, criminal, family and Indian law. Steve Martin was named v.p. controller of Aldila Golf Corp., which has a golf shaft manufacturing plant in San Diego. Joining West & Associates as a business valuations and litigation consultant was Cheryl M. Rhode, a certified valuation analyst. She was a consultant with West, Turnquist & Schmitt. David Nugent, an attorney with Nugent & Newnham, served as 1998 Miracle Maker chairman, overseeing the Miracle Makers' celebration, a recognition event for donors to Children's Hospital and Health Center. Mike Stansbury, retired as CEO, president and co-founder of National Decision Systems, was named executive v.p. of the Software of the Month Club, a 13-year-old Carlsbad-based software distributor. Tom Holland will serve as senior v.p. for corporate development. Harry Markowitz, director of research of Daiwa Securities Trust Co. and president of Harry Markowitz Co., was awarded the Nicholas Molodovsky Award, presented periodically to those who have made outstanding contributions toward raising the profession of economics to higher standards. In 1990, Markowitz shared the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work on portfolio theory. Newly appointed architectural specifier for Shaw Contract Group is Regina "Gina" Coony. She will assist educational and institutional customers of the San Diego commercial floor covering firm with interior design. Sandiego.com hired Larry M. Edwards as staff manager of research and development after working with him as a consultant for the past three and one-half years. Edwards, a long-time print journalist, wrote the "Official Netscape Internet Business Starter Kit" and is editor for e-business Advisor Magazine. Terrance A. Meador joined the Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich Intellectual Property & Technology Group as a partner practicing patent law. Ervin Johnston joined the firm's storage technology area. Both previously were with Baker Maxham Jester & Meador. SDSU Professor Dipak Gupta was appointed as the first Hansen Chair for Peace Studies by the SDSU Foundation. This newly created position recognizes the recipient's expertise in social conflict resolution and public policy analysis. The chair was funded through a $500,000 donation from the Fred J. Hansen Institute for World Peace, which was established at SDSU in 1981 and is administered by the SDSU Foundation. Cobblestone Golf Group Inc., a Del Mar-based golf course ownership and operating company, appointed Alan Rosenblatt as director of acquisitions, and Bobby West as v.p. of corporate affairs. Jeff Johnson was named g.m. for Carmel Mountain Ranch Country Club and Redhawk Golf Club; Michael Czarcinski was named g.m. of Cobble-stone's Morgan Run Resort & Club in Rancho Santa Fe; Ray Dznowski was appointed senior operations director for the Eastern Region, based in West Palm Beach, Fla.; and Glenn Karp was appointed director of acquisitions for the group. Joining Matthews/Mark communications firm are art director Derek Kirkman, from Seattle and copywriter Lisa DeMaggio from Virginia Beach. Brookfield Homes' San Diego/Riverside division has promoted Debra Bermudes-Dziewit to marketing manager. She was formerly marketing coordinator, and has worked with Brookfield since 1995. Three additions to its executive management team were announced by Pentech Energy Solutions Inc. They are Robert "Bob" Cicerchi, formerly of Proliance Energy, director of national accounts; Kurt Streule, formerly of Honeywell DMC Services, v.p. of sales; and Ronald "Ron" Chebra, formerly senior manager of AT&T's Solutions Utilities and Consulting practice, director. Neal Hickman joined Answers Research, a market research company in Solana Beach that specializes in advanced technology industries as research manager. He has been in the field nine years. The Townsend Agency promoted three members of its creative team: Laura Pierson to production supervisor; Danielle Honea to traffic manager; and Dana Meyer to copywriter. Pierson, who joined the agency in 1995, has 15 years of production experience. The San Diego Natural History Museum in Balboa Park hired Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra as director of the Biodiversity Research Center of the Californias, the museum's scientific research and collections division. Two other professionals welcomed to the staff were Ann Laddon, director of planned giving and major gifts, and Linda Giannelli Pratt, director of community sustainability programs. Mark Clements, business manager of Enartec, a San Diego-based civil engineering firm, was elected president of the San Diego chapter of the Society of Design Administration, an affiliate organization of the American Institute of Architects. James H. Hunter was promoted to executive v.p. of land acquisition at National City-based McMillin Companies. He joined the firm in 1990 as a project engineer and most recently was senior v.p. of land acquisition. He formerly worked for Exxon USA. Dr. Ernest E. Pund Jr. received the prestigious Mastership designation from the American College of Physicians. He is a cardiologist and private practice member of Scripps XIMED Medical Associates, and was the only San Diego physician and one of three in the state to receive the 1998 Master of the American College of Physicians award. In addition to his practice, he is a clinical professor of medicine at UCSD Medical School. Bank of Coronado announced that Janeen Pizzagoni joined the bank as an SBA loan officer. She has nearly 20 years of experience in SBA lending. Joe Kennedy has joined Platypus Wear Inc. as corporate controller. Kennedy was formerly controller and v.p. of finance for American Kelp Corp. Renowned musicologist and longtime San Diego Opera lecturer Nicolas Reveles has been named the company’s new director of education and outreach. Reveles, affiliated with San Diego Opera as a preview lecturer since 1979, has been the company’s primary lecturer since 1991. He replaces Adam Eisenberg, who leaves San Diego Opera on July 2 to move to Great Britain to pursue a career in arts management. Francine Di Blasi was named managing director of the Anthony Robbins foundation, an organization created in 1991 to provide resources to inspire, educate, develop and train those who may be overlooked by society such as children, homeless, prisoners, elderly and disabled. The organization was founded by Anthony J. Robbins. Di Blasi has worked with nonprofit management for 22 years. |
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