Low-key engineering exec Pat Fuscoe eked out a permit from the city of Dana Point, but good luck next year to Byron Roth. The Insider hears that Fuscoe and Paul Makarechian had to jump through hoops to get the green light for a Kenny Loggins concert, part of a sold-out gala June 9 at Makarechian’s St. Regis resort benefiting Fuscoe’s Miocean Institute. Seems the city has had its fill of neighbors’ complaints over loud music into the wee hours from Roth Capital Partners’ annual investment bash at the resort, which featured the Black Eyed Peas last year and Snoop Dogg this year. Loggins will play acoustic,not electric,guitar …
Hans Keirstead’s path-breaking genetic research at UC Irvine, coupled with his Hollywood looks, lit up the CBS and UCI phone lines after he was featured on “60 Minutes” in February. Now Keirstead is being profiled in the September issue of Men’s Vogue. Keirstead said he was going to reject the interview because it had nothing to do with his career, then decided that was just the reason to do it: “This is a fun life thing …
How many scientists get to be in Vogue?” Keirstead, who calls himself “a loose-shirt, jeans kind of guy,” was put into “some Italian designer suit with a very, very high price tag.” What a run for Hans: Besides the media attention, he recently married fellow UCI scientist Niki Berchtold and earlier this month landed funding to develop five embryonic stem cell lines …
There’s buzz that the first big Great Park project, involving a $50 million investment, is about to be unveiled …
The New Majority, the local high-rolling GOP support group, is gearing up for its statewide expansion. Newport Beach investor Tom Tucker (Penhill, Jenstar) will chair New Majority California, with chapters in OC and L.A., chapters being formed in the Inland Empire and San Diego, and longer-term goals of cracking Silicon Valley, the Bay area and the Central Valley. L.A. entrepreneur Dan Palmer will be vice chair …
Brian Womack reports that an arbitration panel has ordered giant Johnson Controls of Milwaukee to pay $3.5 million (three times alleged lost profits) to George Yardley Co., the Fountain Valley industrial products company founded by the late NBA great. Yardley was a distributor for Johnson but claimed Johnson’s local offices muscled it out of UC Irvine projects and other big jobs. Marc Schneider of Stradling, Yocca, Carlson & Rauth represented Yardley …
A recent week for lawyer Mark Adams (Samuels, Green, Steel & Adams): In China (to negotiate a “promising” credit card-processing deal), then Switzerland (for an international contract arbitration involving a client with an Irvine facility) and back to OC (for lunch with EE RR) …
What was men’s haberdasher Ron Viggiano (Austin Taylor) doing at the OCBJ’s Women in Business event? “Women are buyers.” Coverage of the women winners in next week’s issue.
