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Named new president of H.G. Fenton Co. was Mike Neal, who has been with the company since 1988. Geoff Swortwood, with the firm since 1992, was promoted to head commercial building development and acquisitions; and Shelly Weld and Mary Day Dewart are together managers of the company’s commercial portfolio. Harry Hunte remains CEO and board chairman. *** Troy A. Franzen has joined the private banking department of Comerica Bank-California as v.p. He comes to Comerica with eight years’ experience in the financial service industry, most recently as a financial adviser in Irvine and Beverly Hills, specializing in advanced estate planning and wealth management. *** Robert Rose joined the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as a lateral partner in the business crimes group in the firm’s San Diego office. He formerly operated Rose & Associates, a boutique San Diego law firm that opened in February 2000. ***
*** Gini Craig, manager of the executive search division of BancForce Staffing was installed as president of the San Diego County Group of Financial Women International. Serving as v.p.s are Sandy Norman, v.p./ compliance manager for San Diego National Bank; and M. Catherine Wright, CFO of proposed Landmark National Bank; Donna Burch, secretary; Melissa Smith, treasurer; and Jan English, Kathy Keith and Fran McCrackin, directors. *** Pulse Metric Inc. has hired William Bydam as CEO. Bydam is a 20-year veteran of heath care and was previously with American Healthcare Systems. *** Wermers Corp. has hired Barry Weber as project manager. Weber previously was with VCL Construction. *** Gerald LaFlamme has joined Davidson Communities as CFO. He spent the last 20 years with E & Y Kenneth Leventhal Real Estate Group. *** Bob White received an achievement in public service award from San Diego State University’s Ambassadors for Higher Education, in recognition of his support to colleges and universities throughout his political career. He was former Gov. Wilson’s chief of staff during Wilson’s tenures as San Diego mayor, state assemblyman, U.S. senator and governor. *** Tiffany Lynn Harrison was named escrow closing specialist for Chicago Title’s Southern California Builder Services Division. She has five years of experience in the Southern California market and most recently worked with Shea Homes Mortgage and Continental Escrow. *** Graham Downes Architecture Inc. appointed Dennis Rogers as senior architectural designer. He has more than 20 years of experience, most recently with a Seattle firm. *** Judith R. Glickman has been named head of the La Jolla Country Day School. She joined the Country Day community in July as interim head for the 2001-2002 school year. She served for 10 years as superintendent of public schools for the La Cañada and Moraga, Calif., school districts, headed the American School in London for six years, and spent the 2000-2001 school year in New Jersey as interim head at Princeton Day School. *** The Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison partnership has elected Richard L. Parker as firmwide managing partner to succeed James E. Burns Jr. Parker has served as the San Diego office managing partner since May 2000. ***
*** The University of San Diego named Gwendolyn S. Lytle as associate v.p. for human resources. She was director of human resources at Clark Atlanta University in Georgia, and before that was assistant director of human resources at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Also new to USD is Jack Kelly, director of alumni relations. He formerly managed business development at Silicon Space Inc. A USD graduate, he earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in 1987. *** Patricia M. Boer has joined Spherion Human Capital Consulting Group’s San Diego office as a senior consultant. Most recently, Boer consulted with Monster.com, where she served as the site's Career Guru, writing articles, conducting online chats and responding to message boards dealing with career issues and online job recruitment. *** John W. Norman has joined Brookfield Homes as v.p./project manager who will oversee Otay Village II in Chula Vista. He has more than 20 years of experience, which includes many master planned Southern California communities. *** Steve Lower has joined Keeton Construction as superintendent. Until recently, Lower owned and operated Stephen K. Lower Construction Inc. *** Ron Nehring was elected chairman of the Republican Party of San Diego County. He is director of government affairs for San Diego-based Woodfin Suite Hotels. *** Hank Cunningham, director of the city’s Community and Economic Development Department, has been appointed to the board of the International Economic Development Council. *** San Diego National Bank has hired Marcia Weir as v.p/SBA loan officer at its Chula Vista office and Steve Harrington as v.p. and commercial lending officer at its San Marcos branch. ***
*** Marston+Marston Inc. has added Aundene Hugg as v.p. and Lauren Walsh as account coordinator. In addition, Rob Schupp has been promoted to executive v.p. Schupp has been with Marston+Marston since 1998 as v.p. Hugg comes to Marston+Marston as a veteran of San Diego City Hall as management assistant to former City Manager Jack McGrory and as policy aide to former Mayor Susan Golding. Walsh has experience working in high-tech public relations and strategic marketing accounts. *** Maxine Gellens, Prudential California Realty, received the 2001 McNaught-Davis/Knox Award from the La Jolla Real Estate Brokers Association Inc. The award recognizes personal integrity, community activity, service to the real estate profession, salesmanship and cooperation with associates. Gellens received Prudential’s Pinnacle Award and was named one of the top three producers in the nation in 2000 with close to $100 million in sales. *** Six new associates added by Morrison & Foster’s San Diego office are Jose Patino, David Zaveri and Corey Salsberg, litigation department; David Radel, labor employment law; Paul Konopka, business department; and David Devernoe, intellectual property practice group. *** The Flannery Group public relations firm added Jon M. Myers as assistant v.p. He previously worked as senior policy adviser to Supervisor Bill Horn and before that held the same position with San Diego Mayor Susan Golding. *** Named to the board of Sharp Chula Vista Medical Center were Buck Martin, g.m. of Coors Amphitheatre, and Lowell Billings, assistant superintendent for business services and support for the Chula Vista Elementary School District. *** James Donald Flood II joined the Brehm Companies as v.p. of forward planning. His 15 years of experience includes 10 years with Polygon, a group of real estate entities in Orange County. *** Chula Vista dentist Dr. Anne E. Bowman was installed as president of the San Diego County Dental Society. The third woman to serve in this capacity, she succeeds Dr. V. Roger Tibbetts. *** Dale Holbrook was promoted to v.p. of operations for Shea Homes, and Joe Anfuso was named director of finance. Holbrook has been with Shea Homes for 10 years and before that worked for Brock Homes, a subsidiary of the Ryland Group. Anfuso has been in financing for 17 years, most recently with Pat & Oscars Restaurants. Tod Fontana was named by Shea Homes as product development manager. Before joining Shea in 1999, Fontana worked for architectural firms. *** Jazzercise Inc. appointed Shanna Missett Nelson as executive v.p., succeeding Margaret Stanton who retired after filling the position since 1978. Missett Nelson has been a Jazzercise instructor for 14 years and is a principal spokeswoman and presenter at conventions for the organization. *** Garry Papers from Portland has joined Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle, a full service architecture firm. Papers has been an architect for 18 years. *** Christine Gee, a real estate agent since 1977, has teamed up with her daughter, Summer, in the Willis Allen Co.’s Point Loma Real Estate office. Summer Gee has worked as an assistant to office agents since 1999. *** Burnham Real Estate Services promoted Peggy Thrailkill to v.p. and senior real estate manager and Carmela Vitrano to real estate manager. Thrailkill joined Burnham Real Estate Services a year ago. She previously was v.p. of asset management transitions for Burnham Pacific, a nonaffiliated company. Vitrano’s 10 years of real estate experience includes serving with Burnham Real Estate Services from 1994 to 1997. She rejoined Burnham a year ago. *** The San Diego-based law firm of Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith announced that attorneys Michael J. Brown, Marti L. Lewis and Helena Wallentin have joined as associates. Brown and Wallentin formerly were with Gray Cary Ware & Friedenrich. Lewis specializes in civil litigation. *** S. Elizabeth Foster joined the law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps as an associate resident in the San Diego office. She specializes in international business transactions and mergers and acquisitions. *** New to the accounting department of Keeton Construction is Ibys Castilla. *** Viejas Casino has named Mario Esquerra as director of guest hospitality. He previously worked as controller and general manager at Viejas and most recently was g. m. of Gold Country Casino in Oroville. Also new at Viejas is Dee Dee Castro, community relations manager, and Frank Lee, chief information officer. *** Penni Mangan has joined Capital Consulting Group’s San Diego office as a job placement consultant. Formerly she was a senior technical recruiter for inCode Telecom Group in La Jolla. *** Structural Bioinformatics Inc. named David D. Muth as president and COO. For the past five years he has been senior v.p. of business operations for NABI Inc. a biopharmaceutical company. *** Grant Waterkotte has been hired by the Klinedinst Fliechman & McKillop law firm. He works primarily on professional liability matters with a special focus on legal malpractice. *** Dave Carter has joined the Dudek & Associates Inc. corporate office in Encinitas as CFO. He has more than 16 years of experience holding positions of senior associate, internal auditor, CFO and v.p. of financing. *** Joining Smith & Hawken are Dee Marie Rawlinson, v.p. and general merchandise manager, and Andrew Wadhams as v.p. of Stores. Rawlinson moved from Banana Republic, where she was merchandise manager for home and men’s accessories. Wadhams was a v.p. with Bebe stores. *** Harold G. Pell, owner of San Diego-based Pell Interiors, has been elected president of the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers for the 2001-02 term. Other officers are Judy Hallberg, president-elect; Peni Wilson, v.p. programs; Stephanie Mathews, past president; Kathy L. Miller, secretary; and Dan Stoddard, treasurer. Additional board members are Mary Brannon, Susan Eaton, Renae Farley, Beverly Feldman, Lisa Tapp-Koska, Anjum Razvi and Gloria Sharkey. The ASID Industry Partners’ board representative is Art Ferber and the student representative is Zany Rumon. *** Betsy McClendon has been named development volunteer of the year by the local chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She has supported many local charities including, Sharp HealthCare. Las Patronas, United Way, Boy Scouts of America, LEAD San Diego, the Junior League of San Diego and La Jolla Presbyterian Church. *** Attorney Lorna Alksne Brown was named new court commissioner by Superior Court judges. She will hear traffic and minor offense matters and fills a position vacated by the governor’s appointment to the bench of Judge Margie G. Woods. *** New to the staff of the Arthritis Foundation, San Diego Area Chapter, are Kathryn Grosnoff, director of health promotion, and Jacki Taylor, director of development. *** The California Endowment appointed Steve Eldred and Gregory Hall as program officers in the San Diego office. Eldred most recently served as health planning and program specialist for the county Health and Human Services Agency’s Office of AIDS Coordination; and Hall most recently was a program officer at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation in Princeton, N.J. *** John N. Stinnett has joined Roel Construction’s Surety Group to spearhead the expansion of its construction management division. Mike Moore has been hired as superintendent. Stinnett was formerly with Douglas E. Barnhart and Moore was with KBI. Also new at Roel is Jonathan White, project engineer, who has been in construction since 1995. Promoted by Roel Construction Co. were Rachel Huffman, from assistant project manager to project manager, and Brian Buchanan to assistant project manager. Both joined the firm in 1999. *** Burkett & Wong Engineers has hired Karyn Beebe as structural designer and Robert Erwin as survey technician/field coordinator. *** Larry Deeder will lead the new network security serviceline at enterprise Solution Group. Deeder has more than seven years’ experience in network security, design and deployment. *** The Southwest Region of TruGreen LandCare has hired Dan Hays at its San Diego branch and Ron Penney at the Escondido Branch as commercial sales representatives. Joe Sirek was hired as the commercial account representative for the Chula Vista branch and Craig Gerber was promoted to regional information systems manager. *** Staff promotions and new employees at the San Diego/Hawaii Chapter of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society include Andrea Fair, director of team in training; Yvette Roberts, TNT Triathalon coordinator; John Loggins, TNT Run manager; Angel Chapman, special events director; and Judy Cleborne, director of planned giving and major gifts. *** The East County Performing Arts Center promoted Emma Lea Moorman, assistant to v.p./director of operations, to facilities manager; Sally J. Buckalew, formerly an independent contractor serving as ECPAC's marketing manager, was hired as the director of marketing and advertising; Denise Keck, formerly the assistant box office manager, was promoted to assistant to the president, and Robin Jones, formerly a box office associate, was promoted to assistant box office manager. *** San Diego City appointments include the following: Richard Mendes, formerly an assistant city manager in Cincinnati, was named utilities general manager; Scott Tulloch, a seven-year city employee, was appointed director of the Metropolitan Wastewater Department; Daniel E. Weinberg, with 22 years of fund-raising experience, was named development director of major gifts; Alfredo Lopez, formerly an organization effectiveness specialist for the city, was named assistant to the human resource director; Lakshmi Kommi, a city employee since 1993, is the new financing services manager; and Elizabeth Kelly, with the city since 1990, is now financing services manager in the city treasurer’s office. *** El Dorado Stone, a manufacturer of architectural stone veneer, named Chuck Baer as v.p. of sales for the company’s eastern division, and Paul Chialdikas to the same position for western sales. *** The San Diego Chapter of the Institute of Real Estate Management elected the following officers: Fred Caminite, president; Cherrie Giles, president-elect; Elizabeth Bachmann, senior v.p.; Nancy Eagle, v.p./public relations; Richard Shope, v.p./finance; Corrie Armstrong, v.p./membership; Mike Rowe, v.p./programs and education; and Harry Gersten, v.p./administration and communications. *** Southwestern College named Angelica L. Suarez and Silvia Cornejo-Darcy as directors of the college’s Higher Education Centers at National City and San Ysidro respectively. Suarez was a counselor at the National City Center, and Cornejo-Darcy formerly was director of service learning programs and AmeriCorps program coordinator at Southwestern. *** Nereus Pharmaceuticals Inc. appointed Kin Sing (Ray) Lam as director of microbiology and Antonio D. Caso as v.p. of corporate development. Lam was previously senior principal scientist of the Lead discovery division of Bristol-Myers Squibb’s natural products department. Previously Caso held senior executive positions in business operations in Europe. |
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Mark Batten has been promoted to principal at Burkett & Wong Engineers. He joined the firm in 1984 and will be structural project manager for the Garden Buildings at the new Padres Ballpark.
Promoted to senior auditors in the San Diego office of Calderon Jaham & Osborn Certified Public Accountants and Consultants were Dora Dominguez and George Choi. Newly hired by the firm are auditors Donald Selway, Christy Brescia, Martha Medina, Alejdro E. Duhart, Boovina Gorjian, Eric Martinez and Alicia Molina. New bookkeeper is Davette P. Cameron; audit manager is Marcelle Voorhies Rossman; and senior and information systems auditor is Don Lathus.
John N. Stinnett has joined Roel Construction’s Surety Group to spearhead the expansion of its construction management division. Mike Moore has been hired as superintendent. Stinnett was formerly with Douglas E. Barnhart and Morre was with KBI. Also new at Roel is Jonathan White, project engineer, who has been in construction since 1995. Promoted by Roel Construction Co. were Rachel Huffman, from assistant project manager to project manager, and Brian Buchanan to assistant project manager. Both joined the firm in 1999.Home | Info | Cover Story | About Us | Back Issues | Search
