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Three chief executives, a venture capitalist and a healthcare executive turned director were honored last month at the 2010 Director of the Year awards dinner

held at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel, in Dana Point. The event, put on by the Newport Beach-based Forum for Corporate Directors, recognizes directors for their work guiding companies. About 400 people attended. Jim Mazzo, a 2005 honoree and president of Abbott Laboratories’ Abbott Medical Optics Inc. in Santa Ana, was the event’s host.

The honorees:

• Scott Garrett, chairman and chief executive of Brea-based Beckman Coulter Inc. Garrett received the Enhancement of Economic Value award. He also serves on the boards of medical device trade group AdvaMed and health researcher the Institute for Health Technology Studies, both in Washington, D.C.

• Thomas McKernan, chief executive and director of Costa Mesa-based Automobile Club of Southern California. McKernan received the Corporate Citizenship award. He also is a director of Los Angeles-based investment manager Payden & Rygel and Glendale-based Forest Lawn Memorial-Parks & Mortuaries. Additionally, McKernan serves on the boards of the California Business Roundtable, California State Chamber of Commerce, the New Majority and the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

• Scott Mercer, chairman and chief executive of Newport Beach chipmaker Conexant Systems Inc. Mercer won the Corporate Leadership and Service award. Mercer also is a director of Sunnyvale-based Palm Inc. and Polycom Inc. of Pleasanton.

• Randall Lunn, founder and managing director of venture capital firm Catalina Ventures. Lunn won the Early Stage Companies award. He also serves on the boards of Autogenomics Inc. in Carlsbad and Continuous Computing Corp. in San Diego.

• Joseph Sullivan, a onetime healthcare executive and director for several companies. Sullivan won the Corporate Growth and Development award. He’s a director of AutoGenomics, San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals Inc., Irvine-based Cymetrix Inc., Long Beach’s HCP Inc., Los Angeles-based Maguire Properties Inc. and Santa Monica-based Rand Corp.’s Rand Health.

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