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Compiled by Kelly Ryan


APPAREL

Irvine-based Analog Clothing added Arto Saari, Omar Salazar, Dylan Rieder and Stefan Janoski to its skate team. Arto was Thrasher’s Skater of the Year in 2001. Dylan recently was named Rookie of the Year by Skateboard Mag.


BANKING

IndyMac Bank, the Irvine mortgage lending arm of Pasadena’s IndyMac Bancorp Inc., added Noel Gonzalez as vice president of GrupoMac, a new Hispanic wholesale division. Gonzalez is a 10-year veteran of financial services and recently was national brand manager for Financial Freedom Senior Funding Corp.


CONSTRUCTION

Darryl Odom joined Rancho Santiago Community College District as director of district construction and support services. Odom has 34 years of experience in the construction industry and most recently was director of district construction and support serves in the Pomona Unified School District.


ENVIRONMENT

Ryan Henry joined Irvine-based Dudek as senior biologist. Henry has 10 years of experience as an ecologist. His field experience includes performing wetland delineations, functional assessments and biological surveys.


MEDIA

KOCE-TV in Huntington Beach promoted Ed Miskevich to station manager and chief operations officer. Miskevich recently served as executive producer of “Notes From Europe,” a documentary on Pacific Symphony’s 2006 European tour.


NONPROFIT

Saint Joseph Ballet in Santa Ana added Amy Larson as director of major gifts. Most recently, Larson was director of individual giving for the Laguna Playhouse where she led the trustee membership program. She is an active member of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Santa Ana-based Maternal Outreach Management System added Jeffrey Flocken to its board. Flocken is senior vice president of operations for Tenet Healthcare Corp.’s hospitals in California and Nebraska. He has 27 years of experience in the healthcare industry and serves on the board of the Hospital Association of Southern California.


PUBLISHING

Bruce Blair was named director of circulation sales at Irvine-based Freedom Communications Inc., parent company of the Orange County Register and other publications. Blair will be responsible for growing home delivery of the OC Register and sister daily newspaper OC Post. Blair has 13 years of experience in newspaper circulation sales and recently worked as manager of customer relations, circulation sales and subscriber services at the San Diego Union-Tribune.


REAL ESTATE

Jo Etta Bandy was promoted to senior vice president of corporate communications at Santa Ana-based First American Corp. Bandy joined First American in 1998 as director of communications and recently was vice president of corporate communications. In 2006, she was named chairperson for the First American Homeownership Foundation.

Costa Mesa’s Brookfield Homes Southland Inc. promoted Rocky Tracy to vice president of sales and Mercedes Meserve to marketing director. Tracy has more than 17 years of experience in real estate sales and spent the past five years as sales director at Brookfield. Meserve has spent three years working in the marketing department and previously worked for Aliso Viejo’s Quest Software Inc.

Voit Commercial Brokerage LP hired several brokers at its Irvine office. John Harty, Mike Hartel, Kevin Turner, Walter Frome III and Bill Livesay joined as senior vice presidents. New vice presidents are Joe Winkelmann, Mike Coppin and Jason Hanck. Travis Haining was named associate and Kent Turner became runner.

Kimberly Daskas joined Vestar Development Co. as director of marketing for its latest project, The District at Tustin Legacy. Daskas has 14 years of experience in the marketing industry and recently worked as advertising and public relations director for Las Vegas’ Fremont Street Experience.


TECHNOLOGY

Cypress-based Christie Digital Systems Inc. added Curt Blood as Western U.S. consultant relations manager for Christie’s business products sales team. Blood has more than 30 years of experience.


WASTE MANAGEMENT

Newport Beach-based Olympic Wire and Equipment Inc. hired Tom Fischbeck as regional sales manager for Orange County. Fischbeck is responsible for sales in Southern and Central California, Utah and Southern Nevada. He is a 20-year sales veteran and has held sales positions in the forklift and marine industries.

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