NEWSMAKERS
ACCOUNTING
Accounting firm Ernst & Young LLP has promoted Kelvin Keith to director, Stephen A. Lee to executive director, Alexandra Leung to partner and Ali R. Vahdat to principal in its Century City office. Previously, Keith was associate director, and Lee, Leung and Vahdat were senior managers at the firm.
ARCHITECTURE
Perkowitz + Ruth Architects, a Long Beach-based architecture firm, has promoted Michael Bohn, Winston Chang and Don Grainger to principals, and Joseph Serruya, Terry Todd and Brad Williams to associate principals. Previously, Bohn, Chang and Grainger were associate principals; Serruya, Todd and Williams were senior associates at the firm.
BANKING & FINANCE
Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc., a securities brokerage and investment banking firm based in downtown Los Angeles, has named Thomas Murphy managing director and head of a new division for convertibles, options and distressed securities. Previously, Murphy was senior vice president of convertible securities at Jefferies & Co. Inc., a New York-based investment firm.
Downtown L.A.-based City National Bank has named Logan Allin a senior vice president in the wealth management division and Michael Muttart a senior vice president for trust and investment management. Previously, Allin was a director in the downtown L.A. office of accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC. Muttart was a fiduciary adviser for Bank of America in Palm Desert.
CONSULTING
Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC, an El Segundo consulting firm serving companies in Chapter 11, has named Owen Ellsworth corporate restructuring services consultant. Previously, Ellsworth was a senior vice president of corporate planning and development at Administar Services Group LLC, a Jacksonville, Fla., consultancy.
Martha Spano has joined the downtown L.A. office of Aon Investment Consulting as senior vice president. Previously, Spano was west division practice leader at Watson Wyatt, an Arlington, Va.-based business consultancy.
EDUCATION
The Los Angeles Community College District has named Tyree Wieder interim chancellor. Previously, Wieder was president of Los Angeles Valley College in Van Nuys.
Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management has named Gary L. Mangiofico director of the master’s of science in organization development program. Mangiofico is chief executive of Los Angeles Universal Preschool, a downtown L.A.-based organization advocating high-quality preschool education for 4-year-olds.
West Coast University in Silver Lake has named Barry T. Ryan chief executive. Previously, Ryan was president of Argosy University, Southern California.
LANDSCAPING
ValleyCrest Landscape Cos., a landscaping business in Calabasas, has named Bruce Williams director of business development, west, in the ValleyCrest Golf Course Maintenance division. Previously, Williams was director of golf courses and grounds at Los Angeles County Club in Westwood.
LAW
Quateman LLP, a Century City law firm, has named Scott A. Schwartz an associate. Previously, Schwartz was an associate at Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, a San Francisco-based law firm.
The Century City office of law firm Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has named Kenneth Yood a partner in the health care team and in the corporate practice group. Previously, Yood was a partner in the downtown L.A. office of Fulbright & Jaworski LLP.
The Los Angeles County Bar Foundation, the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s charitable arm that provides pro bono legal services, has named Brian Condon president. Condon is a partner in the downtown L.A. office of Arnold & Porter LLP.
MANUFACTURING
King’s Hawaiian, a Torrance-based maker of Hawaiian sweet bread and dinner rolls, has named Eric Ahlin director of logistics. Previously, Ahlin was senior operations manager at Dannon Co., a White Plains, N.Y.-based yogurt maker.
MEDIA
KoldCast TV, a Web network, has named Marti Resteghini vice president of network programming and acquisitions in its West L.A. office. Previously, Resteghini was vice president at HDFilms, a Warner Bros. production company.
NON-PROFIT
Villa Esperanza Services, a Pasadena non-profit organization that assists people with developmental disabilities, has named Wendy Petry chairwoman. Petry is an administrator at the Pasadena Police Department.
Wellness Community-West Los Angeles, a non-profit organization providing free cancer support programs, has named Judy Caruthers and Sven Hackmann to its board. Caruthers is national director of project and development services at Jones Lang LaSalle, a Chicago-based real estate investment service firm. Hackmann is regional vice president at Siemens Healthcare, a maker of medical diagnostics products based in Erlangen, Germany.
The Valley Industry & Commerce Association, a Sherman Oaks non-profit that advocates for San Fernando Valley business interests, has named Maya Zutler legislative affairs manager. Previously, Zutler was assistant planning deputy for City Councilman Jack Weiss.
The American Red Cross of Greater Los Angeles, headquartered in West Los Angeles, has named Jeffrey B. Sakaguchi chairman. Previously, Sakaguchi was president of Evolution Robotics Retail Inc.
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce has named Thomas J. Daly to its board. Daly is a senior partner at Christie Parker & Hale LLP, an intellectual property law firm in Pasadena.
The Alzheimer’s Association California Southland Chapter, a non-profit organization on Miracle Mile, has named Bettina Kurowski chief executive. Previously, Kurowski was chief executive of West L.A. business consultancy Kurowski and Co. Inc.
REAL ESTATE
Adam Deierling has joined the Torrance office of real estate brokerage Colliers International. Previously, Deierling was a senior associate at CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., a West L.A.-based commercial real estate services firm.
CB Richard Ellis Group Inc., a West L.A.-headquartered commercial real estate services firm, has named Michael Lafitte president of its America’s business. Previously, Lafitte was president of institutional and global corporate services at the firm.
