Another Big Four leadership change in OC: Sally Anderson steps down as managing partner of Ernst & Young’s Irvine office on July 1 and will retire from the accounting practice next year. New boss is Mike Bertolino, from the San Diego office. Anderson ran E & Y;’s Riverside office before taking over in OC seven years ago. She was the second woman named to office managing partner at the firm and currently is one of four. Anderson will keep busy regulating her profession: Gov. Arnold recently appointed her to the California Board of Accountancy …
Henry Samueli expects to have an NBA team playing at Honda Center one of these years, but he told an OC Biz Council breakfast “there is nothing close” to happening at the moment. Samueli, a former Bruins engineering prof, had a playful zinger for the Trojans in the audience: “One thing UCLA and USC students have in common,they all were admitted to USC.” Samueli said neither he nor fellow engineer Nick Nicholas had ever taken a business course when they started chipmaker Broadcom, and “that naivet & #233; may have helped.” He said it kept them from taking on investors or forcing growth: Broadcom, now worth $18 billion, “was built without a single dollar of venture capital.” The company didn’t go public for seven years, a timeline he said no VC firm would have tolerated. Samueli called for patent reform to encourage innovation,more product protection, fewer patent-hoarding shops. But he didn’t comment on Broadcom’s patent battles with Qualcomm or its (and his) legal entanglements over options dating. He gave the Biz Council crowd what it most wanted,the inside skinny on the Ducks. Samueli said his wife and team co-owner, Susan, is a gender pioneer,at their first NHL board of governors’ meeting, “She was the only female in a room of 120 men.” His prediction for the Red Wings series: Ducks in six …
CEO Michael Gould’s reasons for opening a second Bloomingdale’s in OC: The county’s “disposable income” and “Henry,” as in persistent Henry Segerstrom, whose South Coast Plaza now has an answer for the Bloomies at Donald Bren’s Fashion Island. About 1,000 guests attended the opening festivities …
New look: Three of the five county supes have served for less than six months …
Martin Benson and David Emmes have staged a lot of plays, but they wanted the “perfect team” in place before attempting “Hamlet.” Forty-three years after starting South Coast Rep, they’re ready. The team includes Tony-winning director Daniel Sullivan (who goes back with Benson and Emmes to their days as classmates at San Francisco State) and a couple of current sitcom stars,Hamish Linklater of CBS’ “The New Adventures of Old Christine” as Hamlet and Michael Urie of ABC’s “Ugly Betty” as Horatio. Script by Shakespeare. The play runs May 25 through July 1.
