Andersen Clients in OC Out Shopping; Desai Lauds Liebl
OC INSIDER by Rick Reiff
The fallout from the Enron debacle has reached OC: The Insider is told that at least five of 14 OC public companies that are audited by Andersen have proposals out to new accountants
Economic indicators: Lack of IPO interest meant about 40 fewer companies and about 100 fewer attendees at Roth Capital Partners’ annual Growth Stock Conference at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel. Still, 1,500 showed for the three-day event, where the buzzword was “pipes”,private placements in public equities. The Forum for Corporate Directors dinner at the Four Seasons Newport Beach drew 380, off a little from last year’s 400 sellout
“We don’t need new government legislation, we don’t need new accounting practices, what we need are 10 more Gary Liebls”: Forum for Corporate Directors honoree H.K. Desai, paying tribute to his QLogic mentor and FCD’s founding chairman, who is fighting prostate cancer
Transportation Corridor Agencies pr consultant Meg Waters, on EE RR’s editorial suggestion that motorists on the 73 toll road be permitted to drive at more than 100 mph: “I thought they already were” … Sports agent Jack Tiernan reminds the Insider that more than three months ago he predicted Michael Jordan would again become the NBA’s best player. A nice call, but the Insider reminds Tiernan there’s a guy named Kobe Bryant
Happy 30th to Costa Mesa-based Lindora Inc., founded by Dr. Marshall B. Stamper and now run by daughter Cynthia Stamper Graff
With the Feb. 28 deadline approaching for Europe’s conversion to the euro, Tom Moebus suggests that anyone with a few francs, marks, pounds, lire or punts laying around mail them to one of his favorite charities, Human Options, at P.O. Box 9376, Newport Beach, 92658
The Feb. 4 Forbes lists eight biotech-memory firms in a “Whos’ Who in the Race for Recall.” Three are based in New York, three are in New Jersey, one’s in the UK and one’s in Irvine,Cortex Pharmaceuticals
Seen exchanging pleasantries at Zov’s Bistro in Tustin: Doy Henley and Loretta Sanchez, political opposites but fellow Chapman U trustees … Sign on the door of Bruegger’s Bagels at MacArthur and Campus, Irvine: “Our salmon is smoked. We’d appreciate it if you didn’t compete.”