Honoring Directors
The Newport Beach-based Forum for Corporate Directors, a group for company directors and corporate governance issues, honored five directors and the University of California, Irvine’s engineering dean on Feb. 27 at its 13th annual Director of the Year Awards at the Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel. The directors serve on local boards or are Orange County residents serving on the boards of companies such as McDonald’s Corp. and Centex Corp.
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– Former county supervisor Harriet Wieder; honoree Alexander; Director of the Year Co-chair Rick Rayson; honoree Jackson
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– Director of the Year honorees (top right): Bala Iyer, top left, director of Conexant Systems Inc., QLogic Corp., others, received Corporate Growth & Development award; Glenn Schafer, director, Beckman Coulter Inc., Skilled Healthcare Group Inc., others, Enhancement of Economic Value award; Luis Villalobos, director, Tech Coast Angels, others, Early Stage Companies award; Nicolaos Alexopoulos, UCI engineering dean, Chairman’s Award; Barbara Alexander, sitting left, director, Centex, Qualcomm Inc., others, Corporate Governance award; Jeanne Jackson, director, McDonald’s, Nike Inc., Nordstrom Inc., Corporate Leadership & Service award.
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– Honoree Iyer, wife Lalita Iyer; honoree Villalobos; Mary Hobbs; 1998 honoree Charlie Hobbs, Hobbs Associates; 2005 honoree Louis Knobbe, Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP
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– Forum Chairman John Rehfeld; Director of the Year Co-chair Terry Goldfarb-Lee; Broadcom Corp.’s Henry Samueli, who presented award to Alexopoulos, dean of UCI’s Henry Samueli School of Engineering
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