Robert Braithwaite’s been busy of late: check our front-page story on the new wellness push at Hoag Health Center Foothill Ranch, as well as this page’s story on the first Be Well OC location in Orange, where Hoag and other area hospitals are involved.
Last Saturday, the CEO of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian had another job: chair of the 2019 Heart and Stroke Ball, held at Paséa Hotel & Spa. The Oct. 19 benefit for the American Heart Association drew a crowd of about 300—notable members of the ball’s leadership team included Greenberg Traurig’s Bruce Fischer, Bellwether Financial’s Ralph Grippo and Snyder Langston’s Jo-E Lopez—and brought in a record haul: more than $1.5 million raised, and a 50% boost over the prior year’s event.
Credit Braithwaite, though at a meeting at Hoag’s Newport Beach office last week, he was first to note he wasn’t the hardest-working exec at the Surf City event. That title falls to Kingston Technology co-founder John Tu, whose JT & Friends Band—30+ members, and about a dozen guest acts—provided the entertainment over a nearly 2-hour set that left the billionaire tech exec/drummer drenched in sweat.
One reason for the record fundraising: Tu announced at the show he’d match up to $250,000 in gifts raised that evening. Company officials tell the Business Journal that JT & Friends are already confirmed for next year’s event.
Check out Jessie Yount’s startup column on page 14 to learn more about an area medical technology company, Fluxergy, which Tu also supports.
The biggest area tech company relocation since Broadcom’s move to the Great Park Neighborhoods won’t put a crimp on Alteryx’s laid-back style, says CEO Dean Stoecker.
“Yes, the iconic Alteryx VW bus (see photo, page 21) will be making the move with us” across town, Stoecker said, after news of the rapidly expanding big data firm’s move to Spectrum Terrace was announced.
The CEO last week also told students at Chapman University (as a guest speaker at a class taught by our Peter J. Brennan) that the new headquarters would feature an area to enjoy adult beverages, among other amenities—news that caught the ears of some job-seeking students. The $5.8 billion-valued company is hiring about 50 people a month.
For more on Alteryx’s move and news on the area’s other fast-growing public companies, see our front-page story, and Special Report.
To the question of who will win the World Series, “the answer is clear—Scott Boras,” quipped a recent NY Post column from Joel Sherman, who pointed out the Newport Beach super-agent’s numerous clients among both the Nationals and Astros.
Boras also reps Washington’s Anthony Rendon and Stephen Strasburg and Houston’s Gerrit Cole—“or the likely three biggest free agents in the upcoming market,” the NYP column points out.
There’s one less Boras free agent on the market: his daughter Natalie, a model, this month wed Luke Morris, son of Vantera Partners’ Jeff Morris, at a lavish event at the Parker Palm Springs.
