Metropolitan Movers Archive

METROPOLITAN MOVERS

Congratulations and Condolences

The San Diego County Taxpayers Association has chosen Geoff Patnoe as the new executive director. SDCTA has been without an executive director since the departure of Scott Barnett last December. Patnoe previously was with Weber Shandwick Worldwide.

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Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich has hired Clifford Hyatt as special counsel. Hyatt was previously with the SEC as the deputy assistant regional director of the Pacific regional office.

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John Ross Wertz, an attorney and partner with Sullivan, Wertz, McDade & Wallace, has joined Vista Hill as a member of the board.

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Robert Richley has been promoted to COO and general counsel at Douglas Wilson Cos. Richley, a veteran banking executive and business attorney, previously was senior v.p. for the company.

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San Diego National Bank has announced that Lisa Wright will serve as the new sales and service initiative manager. Wright brings with her more than 20 years’ experience. The bank’s Mission Valley branch has promoted Lori Rimoldi to assistant manager/operations officer. Rimoldi is a veteran of the banking industry, serving more than 13 years in management and customer service. Peter Carr has been promoted to SBA lending officer from the bank’s credit department. Eric Larsen has been promoted to senior v.p./CFO and Gordon Boerner to senior v.p./director of business and community development. Larsen previously served SDNB as an accountant. Boerner has worked in the local banking scene for more than 23 years.

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Genoptix Inc. has appointed Thomas D.Y. "T.C." Chung as chief scientific officer and Samuel D. Riccitelli as senior v.p. of operations. Chung has more than 23 years in the industry and was recently at DuPont Pharmaceuticals Co. Riccitelli was previously at Becton Dickinson & Co.

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Scott McGaugh, executive v.p. and director of matthews/mark, has earned his accreditation in public relations. He is one of only 114 practitioners nationwide who passed the fall exam.

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Gafcon Inc. has promoted Bryan Benso to v.p./director of operations. Benso joined the firm in 1994 as project manager. Ted Bumgardner has been promoted to principal. Bumgardner has been with Gafcon for eight years as the director of consulting services and v.p.

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Scott Ashford, assistant professor of geotechnical engineering at UCSD’s Jacobs School of Engineering, has been named assistant director for education for Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center.

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William Fischbeck, a resident of El Cajon and partner in the law firm of Fischbeck & Oberndorfer, has been recognized as 2001 El Cajon Citizen of the Year. Fischbeck is vice chair of the San Diego East County Chamber of Commerce executive committee and chair of the chamber's membership and marketing committee.

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Mary Lewis has been promoted to v.p. and COO for Alliance Healthcare Foundation. Lewis has been a consultant and senior program officer with the foundation for two years, and has more than 20 years’ experience in health care management and operations.

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Parkloft has hired Diane Rogers as sales manager. Rogers has more than 15 years’ experience in residential real estate.

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Dr. John B. West, UCSD professor of medicine, has won the Edward Livingston Trudeau Medal, the highest award of the American Thoracic Society, for his scientific contributions to the control, prevention and treatment of lung disease.

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Dalouge Smith is new chair of the San Diego Regional Arts and Culture Coalition.

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Allison & Partners has opened a new office in San Diego that will be led by the new managing director, Jeff Davis.

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Psychiatrist Rodrigo A. Munoz has been installed as the president of the San Diego County Medical Society for 2002. Munoz is the first psychiatrist to be named president of the more than 100-year-old organization.

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Angie Dorrington, a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, has been promoted to director of marketing at Castle Advertising. The agency also announces the addition of Louisa Raney and Courtney Regan. Raney is a recent graduate of San Diego State University and Regan graduated from the University of San Diego.

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Diane Pearson has been appointed to the board of the YWCA of San Diego. Pearson, an active member with the YWCA since 1997, previously was the CFO and v.p. of Recon Environmental Inc.

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Congregation Beth Israel has named Harvey Raben to its newly created position of director of education. Raben, who will join the congregation as head of its wide-ranging day school and religious school programs in July 2002, was selected as the result of a national search.

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ZipRealty has hired George Turner as district manager for San Diego County. Turner was most recently at One Source Realty.

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Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch has hired Thomas Coverstone as partner. Coverstone is a former law clerk for U.S. District Court Judge James C. Paine in the Southern District of Florida.

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Klinedinst, Fliehman & McKillop has added Hartford O. Brown to the firm. Previously, Brown was associated with Seyfarth Shaw.

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The Junior Diabetes Research Foundation has appointed Dennis Mesnick as executive director of the San Diego Chapter. Previously, he was with ElderHelp.

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Kevin Cottrell has been selected to head the board of LEAD San Diego Inc. as its new president.

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Tachyon Inc. has promoted Jeremy Guralnick as senior v.p. of strategic marketing and chief scientist, and Tom McCann as v.p. of network operations. Guralnick previously was the company’s v.p. and McCann was director of network services.

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Nation Smith Hermes Diamond has added Dana Basney, Jeff Baumgarten, Mike Lichtenberger and Stuart Starr as new shareholders.

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Bill Davidson was elected v.p. of carrier relations for Qualcomm Internet Services. Previously, Davidson was at AetherSystems.

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Gregory J. Roel, a financial adviser with Merrill Lynch since 1999, has been authorized by the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards to use the CFP certification mark.

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Clifford Hyatt has joined Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich LLP as special counsel. Hyatt brings more than 14 years of securities litigation, regulation and Wall Street experience to the firm.

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Flossie Wong-Staal has joined Immusol on a full-time basis to become its chief scientific officer and v.p. of Genomics. Wong-Staal is a co-founder of Immusol and has maintained ties to the company in varying capacities, including v.p. of Genomics while on sabbatical from UCSD.

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Dr. John C. Reed has been elected to the board at Isis Pharmaceuticals. Reed is president and CEO of the Burnham Institute in La Jolla.

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Barbara Brown has been named manager of McMillin Realty’s branch office in Bonita. Brown joined McMillin almost 10 years ago and has nearly 25 years’ experience.

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Adventure 16 has appointed Dave Towe as v.p. of retail. Most recently, Towe served as v.p. of retail operations, corporate purchasing and loss prevention at REI.

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Joel Holliday is the new president of the La Jolla Playhouse board of trustees. Dr. Edward Dennis and Lee N. Rosenbaum join as returning members, and Trevor Crow, Mary-K Gilbert, Cynthia Goodman, Eric N. Hunter, Debby Jacobs, Margret McBride, Julie Potiker and Tom Shepard join the board as new members.

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The American Institute of Architects, California Council has awarded William J. Kortsch the AIACC Certified Development Strategist designation. Kortsch is the v.p. of RGA Landscape Architects, Inc. and Pinnacle Design Co.

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The California Endowment has hired Olga de la Cruz-Cañon as new program officer. De la Cruz-Cañon most recently served as a program officer for Alliance Healthcare Foundation.

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Licensed attorney and veteran HR professional Jean Bruni has joined the San Diego Employers Association as human resources counselor-at-law. Prior to joining SDEA, Bruni was with The Townsend Agency.

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S2 Technologies named Douglas Willmore as v.p. of sales. Willmore most recently was at Aptix Corp.

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The Counselors Academy of the Public Relations Society of America for 2002 has elected Tom Gable as chairman and Rick Cook as president. Both are with GCS Public Relations, San Diego.

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Southern California Soil & Testing, Inc. has named Charles E. Houser as director of environmental services. Houser has more than 18 years of geotechnical and environmental consulting experience.

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Luk Declerck has been appointed associate university librarian, technology and technical services at UCSD. Declerck previously was at Trent University in Ontario.

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Steve Edwards, executive v.p. of solutions delivery for Wirestone, has been named board president of Fresh Start. Edwards has been a Fresh Start volunteer for close to five years.

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The Legal Aid Society of San Diego Inc. has appointed attorney David M. Logan to the board. Logan is with Pillsbury Winthrop LLP.

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Nancy Pratt has become senior v.p. of clinical effectiveness at Sharp HealthCare. Pratt is a national speaker and was previously at MedAi Inc.

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Polinsky Children’s Center has named Jane Jaffe as board chair. Maudie Bobbitt, Lois Fong-Sakai, Bob Morris and Larry Richman have been appointed trustees.

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Tiffany Bettencourt has joined Amity International as a new program coordinator for the international teachers program.

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Cardiff Software Inc. has hired Dan Shirra as v.p. of worldwide marketing. Previously, Shirra served as chief marketing officer for eGrail Inc.

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David Marion, an attorney in the San Diego office of Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP, has been elected to the board of the Greater San Diego Inner-City Games.

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George Navarro has been appointed finance manager for the Otay Water District. Navarro previously worked as a financial manager in the Navy.

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Spear/Hall Advertising and Public Relations has hired Laura Hayward as bookkeeper, Sarah Gregory as account coordinator, and promoted Hannah Rocheleau to account executive.

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Bulldog Drummond has appointed Erik Enberg as its newest copywriter. Enberg previously was in Seattle.

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Mary Rainwater has been hired as programs officer at The California Endowment and Carolina Reyes has been named v.p. of evaluation and planning activities. Rainwater transfers from the endowment’s Los Angeles office. Reyes will continue to work as faculty at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and as an assistant professor at the UCLA School of Medicine.

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Lisa M. Rustin joins the Brehms Cos. as CFO. Rustin previously worked for several companies in California and Arizona.

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Colliers International has hired Thomas van Betten as v.p. Van Betten most recently served as a regional director at RealCentric.com.

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Kathy Munson joins Roel Construction Co. of San Diego as a project coordinator. Munson has 10 years’ experience in office managing.

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Michael Parks has been appointed the director of purchasing for Greystone Homes’ San Diego division. Parks has worked for Continental Homes, Brookfield Homes and Shea Homes.

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Tony del Muro joins Structural Technology Consultants as project manager. Del Muro previously was structural engineer in charge of project management and structural design for Wallace Engineering in Oklahoma.

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Phillip L. Kossy has been named partner and Marie Burke Kenny has joined as an associate with the Labor & Employment Law Practice Group. Both attorneys specialize in wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment litigation.

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Spear/Hall & Assoc. has named Laura Hayward to keep its books. Hayward will be responsible for customer billing, accounts receivables and accounts payables.

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The Institute of Real Estate Management, San Diego Chapter 18 has presented Gene Setula of Griswold Real Estate Management with a Key Award for completing a prescribed series of courses in property management.

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SDSU’s College of Extended Studies has appointed Joe Shapiro as associate dean. Shapiro comes to SDSU from University of Maryland University College-Europe.

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Michael J. Perez has joined the national law firm of Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps as a partner in the Business Litigation Practice Group. Previously, Perez was at Haight Brown & Bonesteel.

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Avexus Inc. has appointed Don Beahm as director of product marketing. Beahm brings with him more than 20 years of commercial and military MRO industry experience. Previously, Beahm was with MRO Software Inc.

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Stacy Landman has been promoted to director of recreation at the Hilton San Diego Resort on Mission Bay. Previously, she was assistant director of spa and recreation.

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Bettina J. Steffen has joined ProSanos Corp. as v.p. for market development, a newly created position. Before she took this position, Steffen was at InterMap Systems, Inc.

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The University of California Board of Regents has awarded the title of university professor to Shu Chien, professor of bioengineering and medicine, and director of the Whitaker Institute of Bioengineering at the UCSD.

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San Diego Soccer Development Corp. has appointed Scott Crane, v.p. of sales. Most recently, Crane was sales executive for RoadRunner Sports.

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Bill Butler has joined The Walters Management Co. as director of business development. Butler previously owned a company that provided respiratory therapy products and medical oxygen to patients at home.

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Littler Mendelson, P.C. has appointed Jeremy A. Roth to managing shareholder of the San Diego office.