How did Paula Golden land the executive director gig at the new $50 million Broadcom Foundation? Online, of course. She responded to a posting at the Council on Foundations website, got a call from Broadcom senior corporate recruiter Rich Mulvania and was hired two weeks later: “Broadcom believes the system (Internet) really works.” Being from nearby Pasadena and having done fundraising for Broadcom feeder school UCLA didn’t hurt, but Golden says the clincher was that she likes engineers—she helped launch the Engineering Center and the Engineering Center Education Trust in Boston …
Prince Charles, Dame Helen Mirren and Heather Mills donned 3-D glasses and joined Laguna Beach filmmaker Greg MacGillivray for the London opening of his Imax flick, “Arabia.” The crowd included entertainers, dignitaries, Saudi royals, Arabian stallions and falcons. The Telegraph gushed over the movie and the party: “One of London’s most glamorous film premieres ever” …
Frederick’s of Hollywood Prez Linda LoRe, keynoting OCBJ’s annual Women in Business awards luncheon, weighed in on the issue of balancing family and career: “You can have it all. You just can’t have it all at once.” LoRe and others stressed the importance of “passion,” prompting winner Lisa Locklear, Ingram Micro’s North American CFO, to quip, “I’ve been passionate, as much as you can be about finance.” (See stories starting on page 1.) Close to 800 attended the event at the Hyatt Regency Irvine, including former Disneyland boss Cynthia Hariss, whose new job is running trendy L.A.-based retailer Metropark …
Book beat: OC Weekly’s Nick Schou has authored “Orange Sunshine,” about the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, Laguna Beach surfers who helped to inspire the hippie movement. Former OC Register reporter Chris Farnsworth, now a screenwriter in L.A., is out with “Blood Oath,” a vampire thriller. “The Politically Correct University,” co-edited by Chapman U Associate Law Dean Richard Redding, has “substance,” “nuance,” and an “absence of hysteria,” says a New York Times review. (One survey tidbit: Twice as many faculty members described themselves as “Marxist” than “conservative/right.”) Forbes calls “American Entrepreneur,” co-authored by Chapman econ prof (and First Lady) Lynne Pierson Doti, “a crash course in the history of U.S. business” …
In town: Florida U.S. Senate candidate Marco Rubio, headlining the OC Republican Party’s Flag Day dinner June 14 at the Hyatt Regency Irvine. Wall Street Journal senior economics writer Steve Moore, for lunch with the Lincoln Club June 15. Majestic Realty VP John Semcken, Ed Roski’s point man for bringing an NFL team to City of Industry, at an OC Forum luncheon June 16. Assembly Speaker John Perez, for a Democratic Party fundraiser at the Newport Coast home of developer Michael Chegini June 17 …
“We haven’t slept well since ’05, really,” Steve Ruffner, KB Home Southern California prez, told the OC Forum. “We’re sleeping a little easier lately.” FivePoint Communities’ Emile Haddad, head of private development at the Great Park, said the housing industry will rebound in 2011 and 2012: “It will come back faster than people are imagining.”
