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METROPOLITAN MOVERS Congratulations and Condolences |
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*** Nicola A. Pisano has been named partner at Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps as part of the firm’s business and litigation team. *** Mark J. Miller has been appointed president/COO of entertainer technology company ESports Arena. The first ESports Arena opened Jan. 1, 2003, at the Pacific Theatres Gaslamp 15 and an estimated 400 additional locations will be opened with other major theater chains throughout the U.S. *** J. Robert Beyster, chairman of SAIC, Andrew S. Grove, chairman of Intel Corp., and Irwin M. Jacobs, chairman of Qualcomm Corp., were elected to the world level of the Hall of Fame for Engineering, Science and Technology. *** Security Business Bank of San Diego has named Chris Burr as v.p. of commercial lending. Burr previously served as v.p. for US Bank/Peninsula Bank of San Diego. *** Miguel A. Smith has been appointed managing partner of the law firm of Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith LLP. He specializes in real estate and business transactional law. *** Doug Sawyer, president and CEO of the Legacy Bank, has been named the 2003 chairman of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. Immediate past chairman is Theodore D. Roth. *** Lex Lyon, v.p. of PRA Destination Management, has begun his year-long term as president of the Association of Destination Management Executives. *** SDSU has named Michael J. Corr as the first Norman Brinker Executive-in-Residence to teach in the hospitality and tourism management degree program. He retired as president of upscale operations for Six Continents Hotels. *** Kathleen Riley has been named sales manager of Rilington Communities, a San Marcos-based building firm. She has been with the company for five years. *** Sherry Tobey has joined the Business Roundtable for Education, a division of the Chamber Foundation, as the v.p. of development. She was the senior membership manager for the Greater San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce. *** Joining Graham Downes Architecture Inc. are Yamel Salomon, project design and production, and Jo Anne Trajano and Janice Guido, project design and administration. *** Laurie C. Fisher has been promoted by Tucker Sadler Noble Castro Architects to director of sustainable design. Most recently, she served as designer/job captain for the firm. *** Tom Welch has been hired by Cuyamaca Bank as senior v.p., manager of the SBA department. He worked at Scripps Bank as senior v.p., manager of the SBA Department and has 23 years of banking experience. ***
*** Roel Construction Co. has hired Patty Talamantes as marketing assistant and Luis Hernandez as inspection technician/estimator for the company’s consulting group. Talamantes worked for 18 years at Nielsen Dillingham Builders, and Hernandez most recently worked for Mark Mitchell A.I.A. Architectural & Planning. *** Stutz, Gallagher, Artiano, Shinoff & Holtz has announced that education attorney Christina Dyer is now an owner of the firm. Her career has spanned three decades working with school districts including San Diego Unified. *** Robin Lentz, president/CEO of Cabrillo Credit Union for 23 years, has been named to the California Credit Union League’s Image Enhancement Task Force. *** Robin Wilson has been hired as transaction manager for HomeBuyer Agents Inc. *** Ron Alpert has joined Solutions Real Estate and Mortgage specialists in Carlsbad. He has been involved in real estate and lending since 1979. *** Congressman Bob Filner named Inez Gonzalez as the district director of his community office in Chula Vista. She previously worked with Community Health Group and the Metropolitan Transit Development Board. *** David M. Theno, senior v.p. of quality and product safety for Jack in the Box Inc., has joined the advisory board of the Partnership for Food Safety Education, a public-private coalition for preventing foodborne illnesses. *** GovPartner has hired Kristin MacLeod-Grierson as its marketing coordinator. Previously, she oversaw public relations at the San Diego Symphony. *** John Chalker, managing director of LM Capital Group, has been appointed to the board of directors for the San Diego World Trade Center to serve on the advocacy committee. *** Ron Alpert has joined Solutions Real Estate and Mortgage specialists in Carlsbad. He has been involved in real estate and lending since 1979. *** Terrell P. Salmon, former wildlife specialist at the University of California at Davis, has been appointed the San Diego County director for the Farm and Home Advisors Office. *** Mama’s Kitchen, a nonprofit meal delivery service providing meals for AIDS patients, named Bill Patten volunteer manager. He has been a volunteer in the community for 15 years. *** The San Diego/Imperial Counties Chapter of the American Red Cross has appointed Greg John as the chief disaster services officer. He has 20 years of proactive and nonprofit administration experience. *** Good Earth Plants, a commercial and interior landscape design firm, has hired landscape technician Michael Blatnica as project manager, and Maggie Pound as director of business development. *** The San Diego Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Community Center has elected four members to its board. They are Joel Valenzuela, Elenore “Lennie” Alickman, Dale Kelly Bankhead and Robert Jones. *** Duke University Medical Center has named Dr. Richard Schatz the Distinguished Alumnus Award for 2003. Schatz is research director of cardiovascular interventions, co-director of cardiology and director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory at Scripps Clinic’s heart, lung and vascular center. *** Janet Klauber has been named the director of development for the Timken Museum of Art. She is a native San Diegan who has been a volunteer and professional fund-raiser for nonprofit organizations. *** Gringo’s Cocina y Cantina’s new management team includes James Weisiger, who previously worked for Dakota Grill & Spirits, as g.m.; Joseph Baldwin, v.p.; and Jason Bernardo, sommelier. *** Steve Pinning has been appointed the North County Area Coordinator for the San Diego County Regional Occupational Program. Most recently, Pinning was the director of ROP for the Ramona Unified School District. *** RosArt Multimedia, Inc. has hired Adam Milazzo as web programmer. *** Stephen R. Copely has been named president and CRO of Prime Consultant. He was previously the owner of Tierra Landscape Architecture. *** San Diego Transit Corp. has appointed Jeffery M. Stumbo as its v.p. of human resources and labor relations. For the past eight years Stumbo has served as chief of staff for the San Diego City Fire Fighters. *** The San Diego Chapter of the International Facility Management Association has recognized Marcia Fisher of Parron Hall Office Interiors as the Chapter’s Associate Member of the Year and Rozlin Guthrie of Jack in the Box as the Professional Manager of the Year. *** Miramar Wholesale Nurseries has named Rick Dominge nursery division manager. Dominge has been in the nursery business for more than 25 years. *** San Diego Clipping Service promoted Gabriel Orozco to production manager. He will be responsible for processing between 8,000 and 10,000 newspaper articles a month to be sent to around 250 clients. Orozco has been with the company since 1998. *** Dr. Lawrence A. Palinkas, professor of family and preventive medicine at UCSD, has been appointed chair of the External Advisory Council for the National Space Biomedical Research Institute. He also serves as director of the Immigrant/Refugee Health Studies Program at UCSD. *** Fish & Richardson has hired Alan H. Blankenheimer, a patent and antitrust litigator, as a principal. He has been a partner at Brown & Bain in Phoenix since 1983. He brings with him four other litigators: Laura E. Underwood, principal; and Roger A. Denning, Jo Dale Carothers and Nathan R. Hamler, associates. Also named new principals in San Diego are Kenyon S. Jenckes, patent group; and Todd G. Miller, litigation group. *** Patrick Lam has been appointed private banker for private client services by Wells Fargo & Co. and is based out of La Jolla. Lam is a 13-year veteran of banking and v.p. and manager with City National Bank in Carlsbad. *** Two employees added at Dominy + Associates Architects are Thuan Ton and Laurel Okvat. Ton was employed at Austin Veum Robbins Parshalle. Okvat previously worked at McCann Relationship Marketing in Manhattan. *** Chuck Hoffman has been appointed to San Diego’s newly created Affordable Housing Task Force. Founder and president of ACI Commercial, he has more than 30 years of experience in San Diego’s housing and real estate market. *** SeaWest WindPower Inc. has added two senior managers, Martin Crotty, senior v.p. of operations and maintenance, formerly director of operations for the western region of NRG Energy, and Soumen Ghosh, senior project manager of data services, who has 15 years of experience in his field. *** Pete Reeb, president and founder of Reeb Development Consulting, has been elected to a two-year term as president of BIA Cares for Kids, the charitable arm of the Building Industry Association of San Diego. *** Richard J. Liekweg has been named CEO of the UCSD Medical Center, starting March 24. He leaves a position as CEO of the Durham Regional Hospital, part of the Duke University Health System in North Carolina. *** Craig Thompson has joined Wermers Multi Family Corp. as a senior project manager. He previously worked with Fairfield Development. Also hired is Iliana Sanchez as a project accountant. She has four years of accounting experience. Both are in the San Diego office. *** Larry Fitch, president and CEO of the San Diego Workforce Partnership, was installed as president of U.S. Conference of Mayors Workforce Development Council. *** The board of San Diego Grantmakers, a formal association of philanthropic organizations, has selected Ruth Lyn Riedel as chairwoman. She has served on the board for four years. *** The San Diego Business Roundtable has expanded its staff by adding Sherry Tobey as v.p. of business development, and Jennifer Meyers as event and communications coordinator. *** La Costa Glen Carlsbad has appointed of Reiner D. Sommer as food and beverage director. Previously he was general manager for the Park Plaza Hotel and Convention Center in Oshkosh, Wisc. *** Michael Knapp, general manager of the Surfside Race Place at the Del Mar Fairgrounds, was elected board chairman for the California Authority of Racing Fairs. *** San Diego Metropolitan Credit Union has entered a partnership with the Law Offices of Scott O’Mara to provide estate planning. *** Attorney William E. O’Neil has opened his own law practice in San Diego. He previously was an associate attorney at Post Kirby Noonan & Sweat and the Lendrum Law Firm. *** Kimberly Dotseth, owner and director of a gallery in La Jolla, has been appointed as the fine arts exhibit coordinator for the 2003 San Diego Count Fair. She has been active in the San Diego art scene since the early 1980s. *** Raymond Causey has joined Tatum CIO Partners LLP in the San Diego practice. He has more than 30 years of experience in technology and information systems. *** Kristine Skoglin has been promoted to community sales manager for William Lyon Homes at Sonora Ridge at EastLake Vistas in Chula Vista. She has been with the company for five years. *** NBC 7/39 has named Warren “Chip” Ermish v.p. of sales. Previously, he was the general sales manager at KOVR-TV, a CBS affiliate. *** John Zygowicz, a managing director in U.S. Bank’s Private Client Group, has been named an annual Pacesetter Award winner. The award is given to the top 2 percent of private client group employees in the country. *** Priscilla Ochoa has joined R.W. Beck Inc. as a civil engineer for the infrastructure services group in the San Diego office. She previously worked with LJA Engineering and Surveying, Inc. *** Barona Valley Ranch Resort & Casino has hired Doris Kuan as player development executive to handle all services for Asian guests as she has done at Bellagio, MGM and Mirage in Las Vegas, and Jim Gibson as casino host manager. He was director of casino marketing at the Atlantis Casino Resort in Reno. Greg Liggett has been promoted to director of slot operations, he joined Barona in 2001 as assistant casino manager. *** CB Richard Ellis has promoted Jeff Woolson to managing director of the San Diego North County office. He was senior v.p. with the Golf Properties Group of CB Richard Ellis. *** Ellen M. Miller, a San Diego Superior Court employee, has become the first nonjurist and the first San Diegan to win the Emil Gumpert Judicial Services Award from the Dispute Resolution Services division of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. *** 760 Media Inc. promoted Nicole Kenshur to sales assistant, and added Conor J. Sammaritan as sales executive, and Christina Herrera as an intern. *** Formula public relations has hired Michelle Metter as business development director, to create a division dedicated to travel and tourism. *** Kristin Faulstich, a fourth year communications student at the University of San Diego, and Kara Savena, a fifth year communications student as SDSU, have joined Heying & Associates as interns. |
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The San Diego Venture Group has announced Jeremy Glaser as its president for 2003. Glaser is a partner in the business department of Cooley Godward LLP.
Ted Miller has become a partner at ACI Commercial. Miller joined ACI Commercial in 1997 as an agent, having previously worked for AT&T.Home | Info | Cover Story | About Us | Back Issues | Search
