Martha B. Díaz has taken over the duties of her late husband, Victor, at XLNC1, FM Radio 90.7. Newly named to the board is Mauricio Monroy, and additions to the executive advisory committee are Maestro Roberto Límon and David Rodríguez de la Peña.

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Richard Murdock

Richard Murdock, a senior v.p. at GVA IPC, was appointed 2005 president of the San Diego Certified Commercial Investment Members chapter. He has been in his GVA position since 1991.

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John O’Neill, an attorney with Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP, was elected president of the San Diego County Taxpayers Association, following a two-year term as v.p. He is chair of the San Diego Downtown YMCA and is pro bono general counsel to the San Diego Humane Society and S.P.C.A.

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The West Coast agency of Torre Lazur McCann, formerly known as the BioGenesis Group, appointed Michael Ouimette as president. Ouimette, has 30 years of pharmaceutical marketing experience, 10 of them with Pacific Communications in Irvine.

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Leon W. Parma, Ernest S. Rady and Sister Mary Jo Anderson joined the ScrippsHealth board, and attorney Abby Sliverman was re-elected to a second term as chair. Parma is founder and chair of La Jolla Bank & Trust Co. and owns property management and storage businesses. He lives in La Jolla. Rady, also of La Jolla, is founder of American Assets. Sister Mary Jo Anderson is former senior v.p. for hospital operations for ScrippsHealth and former v.p. for Mercy Healthcare in San Diego. Silverman, of La Jolla, will continue as chairman of the ScrippsHealth board for a second one-year term. She joined the board in 2000.

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Jonathan Langley was appointed by Manpower to head Manpower Search, the company’s new direct hire division. Previously he was an account manager with a global recruitment firm.

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Eddie Wang Rodriguez

Eddie Wang Rodriguez, a principal with Fish & Richardson, assumed the role of practice group leader of the firm’s nationwide corporate and securities group. Rodriguez’s practice focuses on startups and technology companies.

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Mary Cunningham, CEO of USA Credit Union, was appointed to the board of Credit Union National Association. She has been active with credit unions for 30 years.

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Nanogen Inc. appointed Robert Saltmarsh as CFO. He joined Nanogen in September and has more than 25 years of experience in the high tech industry.

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Jack R. Leer and Amanda L. Kramer moved from associates to shareholders at Seltzer Caplan McMahon Vitek. Leer’s specialty is general civil and commercial litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Leer was with the Navy’s Judge Advocate General. Kramer’s practice focuses on family law. Formerly she practiced law in the San Francisco area.

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The California Center for the Arts in Escondido appointed Mary-Catherine Ferguson as museum director. Ferguson has been with the Norton Simon Museum, Fototeka and USC’s Fisher Gallery and Moving Images Archives.

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George R. Marks was named president and g.m. of RR Industries’ Bioconnect Division. He joined the company last year as a consultant. He had retired in 2000 from Q-Tech Corp. v Morrison & Foerster named Sean T. Prosser and Kimberly S. Greer to the firm’s litigation department. Prosser and Ms. Greer are securities litigators and come to Morrison & Foerster from the San Diego office of Fish & Richardson. Prosser joins as a partner, Greer as of counsel. Prosser is a former SEC enforcement attorney, and Greer practiced securities litigation at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison for seven years.

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Centre City Development Corp. hired two new staff members to keep up with increasing construction activity in the redevelopment area. Sachin Kalbag will serve as senior planner/urban designer, and Nicole Haines will join as an associate project manager. Kalbag was a staff architect/urban designer with the San Jose Redevelopment Agency. Haines worked as a planning and development coordinator in Kalamazoo, Mich.

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Real estate company Lipman Stevens & Thene Inc. changed its name to Lipman Stevens & Carpenter Inc. at the same time it promoted Kent J. Carpenter as principal. He joined the company in 2002 and has 16 years of appraisal experience gained mainly working for local banks.

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Jet Source named Deborah Shepard to the new position of executive charter sales, expanding aircraft charter services in Southern California. Shepard has worked in the business aviation community for five years, most recently as charter sales and marketing manager for Jimsair of San Diego.

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Ferris & Britton hired Besse Koopman and Lee Biddle as associates. Koopman, who was executive editor of the Cal Western Law Review, is a member of the firm’s taxation and business departments. Biddle joins the regulatory and telecommunications department after three years as in-house counsel at the Utility Consumers’ Action Network.

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Leslie Kilpatrick

The Willis Allen Co. named Leslie Kilpatrick as manager of its Coronado office. She has worked in residential and commercial leasing and in construction as project manager for construction sites. Newly hired by the company is real estate agent Carol J. Gray, a longtime Del Mar resident.

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Coldwell Banker Commercial named Richard Delpozo broker associate for its Towne Centre location. He was a sales associate for Coldwell Banker Commercial-Mid City Properties before moving to Coldwell Banker NRT in San Diego, where he gained experience as a broker associate. Hired in the same office as a sales associate was Matthew Carlson, who made a career change after training for the 2000 Olympics and coaching the freshmen men’s rowing team at Rutgers University.

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Heying & Associates promoted Jade Berggren to account executive from account coordinator. Before joining the firm, she worked at a cancer research center. Zen Tuan, a UCSD senior, joined Heying’s winter internship program.

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National franchise Concerto Networks appointed attorney William Eigner, a partner at Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch Law firm, to its board. Eigner has more than 17 years of corporate and technology legal experience.

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Stefan Prvanov became a partner in the firm of Blankinship & Foster, family wealth advisers, which he joined in 2002. Before returning to his former San Diego home, he worked for a financial firm in Maryland.

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KMA Architecture & Engineering hired Imin Lu as project architect and a member of the design team for Nexus Homes, an eight-story, mixed-use residential complex in the East Village owned by Centex Homes. Lu previously worked at RNL Design in Denver.

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Attorneys Jeffrey A. Feasby, Lisa K. Widdecke, W. Mark Conover, Pamela D. Capelo, Claire Duda, Megan A. Weninger, Sharon S. Benedek, Jaime K. Galati, Dawnmarie I. Saunders and Regis C. Worley have joined Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP as associates in the firm’s San Diego office. Feasby was with Keesal, Young & Logan in Long Beach. Widdecke was with Littler Mendelson. A first year associate, Conover joined the firm following graduation from USC Law School; Capelo graduated magna cum laude in 2004 from Brigham Young University’s law school. First-year associate Duda earning her law degree from UC Davis. Weninger is a University of Michigan Law School graduate. Benedek, who joins the real estate practice group, was with the San Diego firm Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory. Galati also is in Luce Forward’s real estate litigation practice group, previously clerked in U.S. District Court in San Diego for Judge James F. Stiven. Saunders was with the law offices of Michael A. Saunders in San Diego, where she worked as counsel since 2002. The newest addition to the business/corporate practice group, Worley is a 2004 graduate of Thomas Jefferson School of Law.

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Alan Soderblom was appointed president and CEO of Paradise Valley Hospital, replacing Terry Hansen, who retired in November. Soderblom, v.p. of finance and CFO since January 2001, previously was v.p. of Loma Linda University Behavioral Medicine Center.

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Up Inc., the urban residential development division of La Jolla Pacific Development Group hired Bill Pangelinan as construction manager. He has more than 14 years of experience in construction real estate planning, and formerly was v.p. of construction for Genesis Health Ventures in Pennsylvania.

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ERA Alliance Realty added Steven Burbidge to its sales real estate team for North County Coastal and North County Inland areas. Burbidge joined the ERA Team after a career as a management and technology consultant.

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Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch added associates Aaron Beard, John Lee and Barry Raspotnik to the firm. Beard joined the real estate and environmental team. Most recently he was attorney Kaye Scholer in Century City. Lee, who joined the business and technology team, was in the corporate practice group at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Also in the business and technology group is Raspotnik, who was with Ferris & Britton, APC and Cooley Godward.

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Southern California Soil & Testing Inc. promoted Tom Wilson to project coordinator. He joined the firm as a soils technician in 1999 as roofing and waterproofing inspector in 2001.

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Construction industry attorney firm Marks, Golia & Finch admitted Jason R. Thornton as a partner and hired as associates three attorneys : Rachel F. Tait, Bernard F. King III and Nowell A. Lanz. Thornton joined the firm in 1997; the three attorneys are former law clerks in the office.

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Geary Interactive, an advertising agency, appointed Laurie B. Arakawa as director of account services. She previously worked in New York with Fortune 500 companies.

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Jonathan Grissom, an attorney at Dostart Clapp & Coveney, was elected to a two-year term as chair of the Nonprofit Management Solutions board. Other officers are Phyllis Quan, Quan Consulting, vice chair; Jim West, CPA at West Rhode & Roberts, treasurer; and Julie West-Harrison, chief legal counsel, San Diego Workforce Partnership, corporate secretary. Out-going chair, Bernie Kulchin, was appointed special adviser to the board.

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Jean Young was presented the Ethel M. Siegelman Memorial Award for meritorious service by the San Diego chapter of the American Society of Interior Designers. Young has been a professional interior designer for more than 30 years, and she started Young + Co. Inc. in 1981. The award is named for ASID San Diego’s first president. The Deborah L. Thomas Memorial Award for Outstanding Student leader was presented to Suzie Anderson at SDSU, and the Don Marrell Industry Partner of the Year Award for Outstanding Service was presented to Michael Napier of Outrageous Rugs.

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Barnhart Inc. promoted Glen Farlow to general superintendent of its general contracting division after 18 years at the company. He will oversee work on Barnhart projects in the Temecula area.

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TEC International, the world’s largest membership of chief executives, promoted Kristy Cornell from manager of new group starts to director. She started with TEC in May of 2004 after serving as director of operations for Mosaic Sales Solutions.

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Courtney L. Bunt and Gabriela Salazar joined Cozen O’Connor’s San Diego office as an associate in the firm’s subrogation and recovery department. Bunt formerly worked as a law clerk for the San Diego District Attorney’s Office. Salazar was a law clerk for the Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Consumer Law Unit. Salazar is admitted to practice in California.

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Scott Curry was promoted to v.p. of Cassle Communications. He was previously director of client services. Curry, who joined Cassle Communications in 2002, relocated to San Diego from Boston.

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Chuck Adams, appointed v.p.– California State Manager for LandAmerica Developer Services, is based in San Diego. Adams has 25 years of industry experience. He joined LandAmerica’s Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company subsidiary in 1999.

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CETERISSM Inc. hired Enrique Rayon as executive v.p. to lead the San Diego office, serving California and the Southwest states. He has more than nine years of experience in economic consulting and was a senior manager at Deloitte Tax LLP.

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John Burnham Insurance Services promoted Dena Williams to director of sales and marketing. She has been with the firm since 1990 and also will serve as the liaison between it and its parent company, Union Bank of California.

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Security Business Bank hired Brian Smith as v.p., commercial loan officer. He has more than 10 years of local commercial loan experience throughout San Diego.

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Financial Profiles Inc. hired Susan Papanek as v.p. of engineering. She has more than 25 years of experience in software development, most recently at Superscape, a producer of 3D graphics software technology.

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Bailey Gardiner Inc. hired Susannah Bandish as graphic designer and Elizabeth Yarnall as assistant account executive and promoted Carrie Shields to p.r. account supervisor. Bandish, a 20-year graphic artist, is owner of Bandish Design. Yarnall worked three years at Affluent Target. Shields joined Bailey Gardiner in May 2004 and formerly was with Benson Marketing Group in Napa Valley.

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Oceanside’s Parks and Recreation Director Ana M. Alvarez took a position as Community Services Director overseeing several departments for the City of Santa Fe Springs in Los Angeles County. She started in Oceanside in 2001 and was promoted to director in 2002.

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The business litigation firm of Wilson Petty Kosmo & Turner added associates Dennis Raglin and Tracy Warren. Raglin, experienced in product liability law, was previously with a San Francisco firm. Warren, experienced in labor and employment, was previously with Luce Forward in San Diego.