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Pimco’s Product Manager

Cupps Key on New Funds, Links to Women RecruitsWOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARDS: Wendy Cupps is global head of product management and the most senior female executive at Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co.

By Jane Yu June 16, 2013 midnight $$ Share

Second Bidder For Meade

A San Jose competitor has jumped into the bidding for Irvine-based Meade Instruments Corp.

7 OC Companies Added to Russell 3000

Seven Orange County companies have been added to the Russell 3000 Index in the annual adjustment by Russell Investments, a global asset management and research firm based in Seattle.

25 Going on 1.5

New Generation of Business Emerges as Little Saigon Marks a Quarter Century

Thank the first generation of Vietnamese-American immigrants for what is now Little Saigon.

New Ad Shop Will Bring Piece of Taco Bell Account to Downtown Santa Ana

MARKETING: Execs part with Draftfcb amid agency’s cutbacks here

Advertising agency Draftfcb has cut staff, reduced the status of its Irvine office, and seen two key executives leave to start their own shop

Long Beach Register? Cell-ing Newport Coast; SA’s Downtown Legs

OC INSIDER Column by Jerry Sullivan

Creative Edge Planned for Final Summit Phase

REAL ESTATE: Wants to add weekend, nighttime use at center

Parker Properties LLC is looking to go out with a bang for the final phase of development at its signature Summit Office Campus in Aliso Viejo.

Dissident Aims for Founders’ Seats on STEC Board

TECHNOLOGY: Balch Hill offers nominees for three spots

The largest independent investor in Santa Ana-based STEC Inc. is seeking to replace three of the company’s eight board members, setting the stage for a proxy battle

Street Likes Questcor Deal With Novartis

HEALTHCARE: Drug maker rises on word of $135M buy

Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. is beefing up its pipeline.

Such a Career!

30 Years, Many Hats at PPS Parking & Transportation

WOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARDS: There’s little that Karen Such hasn’t done at PPS Parking & Transportation Inc. over the past 30 years.

Jamboree Housing’s Driving Force

Nonprofit Grows to 70 Developments, 7,000 Units on Her Watch

WOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARDS: Laura Archuleta has plenty of experience building both apartment complexes and a real estate company from the ground up.

Relationship BuilderRager

Takeda Launched Boutique Recruiter in Down Times

WOMEN IN BUSINESS AWARDS: Recruiting firm Rager Resources Group LLC over five years built a client portfolio that includes big names such as Hyundai Capital America and NBCUniversal Inc.

PHILANTHROPY

June 17, 2013

PHILANTHROPY Column by Kim Haman

ADDENDUM - June 17, 2013

Other items of interest from Orange County Business Journal

Local Commercial Construction Firms Post Big Gain

Increase Led by Orange County Clark Construction Office

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT: A jump in work reported by the local office of Clark Construction Group LLC helped Orange County’s largest commercial construction companies post their strongest year for revenue since 2008.

Completed Projects Up But More Room for Growth

Developers Between Old and New Construction Jobs

COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT: Orange County saw an uptick in grand-opening ceremonies last year, but commercial developers are waiting for many of the area’s biggest projects. Includes the 2013 OC's LARGEST COMMERCIAL DEVELOPERS list for download (pdf)

Home of In-Flight Entertainment Operation Purchased

Irvine Spectrum Office Goes for $29.3 Million

An Irvine Spectrum office leased to an in-flight entertainment unit of aerospace and defense company Thales USA has traded hands for nearly $30 million, in the Real Estate column

Clean Energy’s Pickens Sees Brighter Days in Future

First Profit Since ’07 IPO Amid Infrastructure Push

Legendary oilman and corporate raider T. Boone Pickens, who cofounded Clean Energy Fuels Corp. some 25 years ago, said he believes the Seal Beach-based company may have finally turned the corner, in the Technology column.