ACCOUNTING
Accounting firm Ernst & Young has named Sam Hughes a principal at the firm’s downtown L.A. office. Previously, Hughes was a senior vice president at Paramount Pictures International in London.
ADVERTISING/MARKETING
Sometrics Inc., a downtown L.A. advertising services firm, has named Steve Schepke vice president of business development. Previously, Schepke was a general manager at Tsavo Media Inc., a Santa Monica digital content firm.
Interactive marketing firm United Future has named Shane Coppess technology senior associate, Thomas Heo manager of user experience and Erik Kellener chief technology officer and senior director in the Culver City office. Previously, Coppess was a system administrator at Fox Interactive Media Inc. in Beverly Hills, Heo was a manager at Long Beach-based marketing firm Designory and Kellener was a vice president at West Hollywood-based online invitation business Evite.com.
Marketing and branding communications firm Brandloft has named Julie Spira executive vice president and director of social media in its Marina del Rey office. Previously, Spira was executive vice president of sales and marketing for InterPacket Network, an Internet via satellite business.
ARCHITECTURE
Architecture firm HOK has promoted Veda N. Solomon to senior associate and director of business development at the firm’s Culver City office. Previously, Solomon was an associate at the firm.
BANKING & FINANCE
California United Bank has named Bill Nethercott senior vice president and regional manager at its Encino office. Previously, Nethercott served as an independent banking consultant.
EDUCATION
Pomona College has named D. Scott Olivet to its board. Olivet is executive chairman of Red Digital Cinema, a video camera products company, and chairman of Oakley Inc., a sports apparel and accessories company.
ENGINEERING
Parsons Corp., a Pasadena-based construction and engineering firm, has named James A. Caston project controls vice president in the infrastructure and technology group. Previously, Caston was director of project controls at CH2M Hill, an Englewood, Colo.-based engineering services firm.
Ducommun Inc., an engineering service firm based in Carson, has named Dean M. Flatt to its board. Flatt was previously space project president at Honeywell International, an engineering services company based in Morristown, N.J.
FUNERARY SERVICES
Pierce Bros. Valley Oaks-Griffin Memorial Park, Mortuary and Crematory in Westlake Village has named Tamara Eacker general manager. Previously, Eacker was a quality assurance manager in the North Hollywood office of Service Corp. International, a funeral services firm.
HEALTH CARE
Molina Healthcare Inc., a Long Beach-based managed health care business, has promoted Richard Bock to chief medical officer of a subsidiary, Molina Healthcare of California. Previously, Bock was medical director at the company.
The American Society of Plastic Surgeons, an Arlington Heights, Ill.-based industry trade group, has named Michael McGuire president. McGuire is clinical associate professor of surgery at UCLA.
Herbalife Ltd., a downtown L.A.-based nutritional supplement maker, has named Jeffrey T. Dunn to its board. Dunn is chief executive of Wm. Bolthouse Farms Inc., a Bakersfield all-natural foods business.
MARKETING
Santa Monica-based market research firm IbisWorld has named Quinn Callaway vice president of business development. Previously, Quinn was a business development manager at eMarketer, a New York-based market research firm.
NON-PROFIT
Los Angeles County Museum of Art has named Carole Bayer Sager, Ghada Irani and Richard Merkin to its board. Sager is a songwriter, Irani is a philanthropist and Merkin is chief executive of Heritage Provider Network Inc., a Marina del Rey health care system.
REAL ESTATE
BentleyForbes, a Century City-based real estate services firm, has named James M. Kasim president and chief operating officer. Previously, Kasim was chief financial officer at Pacific Office Properties Trust Inc., a Santa Monica-based real estate investment trust.
Lee & Associates-Investment Services Group has named Paul Brehme senior vice president in its downtown L.A. office. Previously, Brehme was a senior associate at Marcus & Millichap, a Palo Alto-based real estate services firm.
RETAIL
Physicians Formula Holdings Inc., an Azusa cosmetics company, has named Charles Hinkaty to the board. Hinkaty is the retired chief executive of Del Laboratories Inc., a Uniondale, N.Y.-based cosmetics maker.
TECHNOLOGY
BeyondTrust, an Agoura Hills maker of security software, has named Brian Anderson chief marketing officer. Previously, Anderson was chief marketing officer at Siderean Software, an El Segundo software company.
TRADE
Port of Long Beach has named Neil D. Morrison director of engineering design. Previously, Morrison was director of engineering at Stonefield Development, a home construction firm based in Trabuco Canyon.
