Compiled by Talene Yotnotsian
ADVERTISING
Irvine-based RiechesBaird added John Capano as vice president, brand strategy. Capano recently served as Convergence.net’s vice president of marketing and business development.
ARCHITECTURE
Roberta Jorgensen was named principal at Rosetti/Jorgensen after her Newport Beach-based firm Jorgensen Architects combined with architectural firm Rosetti.
ASSOCIATIONS
Michael T. Hornak, managing partner of Costa Mesa-based Rutan & Tucker LLP, joined the board of the Orange County Bus-iness Council.
CONSTRUCTION
Hacker Industries Inc. in Newport Beach, a supplier of gypsum concrete floor and sound mats, added James Longo as technical service manager to its team of underlayment specialists.
CONSULTING
Francis D. Tuggle joined Insight Consulting Partners in Irvine as a senior consultant. Tuggle is a professor at the George L. Argyros School of Business and Economics at Chap-man University and previously served as dean. He is set to focus on innovation consulting at Insight.
EDUCATION
Irvine-based Concordia University named Grand Master Chang Jin Kang director of its newly created Taekwondo academic program. Kang is a ninth degree Kukkiwon black belt and has more than 48 years of Taekwondo training and second degree Kumdo (Korean sword martial art) training.
INSURANCE
Trindl Reeves, a Huntington Beach native who focused on Orange County technology companies as an insurance broker here in the 1990s, has joined San Diego’s Barney & Barney LLC as a principal. Reeves is set to work with clients in Orange County and San Diego, where she now lives. She previously was managing director of Marsh Inc.’s San Diego office and headed up Marsh’s OC office before that. Reeves worked with tech companies here in the 1990s at Marsh and Johnson & Higgins, which Marsh acquired. In 1998, she was promoted to managing director of the Marsh Orange County office and moved to San Diego in 2001.
MEDIA AND MARKETING
Costa Mesa-based marketing agency Rauxa Direct appointed David Broscow to the newly created position of vice president, database marketing. Broscow recently was vice president, database marketing, at Aames Financial Corp.
Newport Beach-based New West Productions added Julie White as director of new business development. New West Productions provides video production services as well as conference, meeting and event production services.
NONPROFIT
San Juan Capistrano’s J.F. Shea Therapeutic Riding Center added Izi Martinez-Green to assist with its horse-related therapy programs. Martinez-Green now serves as one of two development managers, overseeing community support through grant development, proposals and the center’s horse sponsorship program.
REAL ESTATE
Irvine-based Johnson Capital, a commercial real estate capital advisory company, hired Nick Abbot as senior vice president of the Newport Beach office and Kristen Korbac-her as manager of corporate marketing and communications at its Irvine office.
Mary Lee Widener was elected to the board of Santa Ana-based First American Corp.
Grubb & Ellis Co. hired Greg May as senior vice president with the office group in the Newport Beach office.
TECHNOLOGY
Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc., the Americas’ chip and display screen arm of Tokyo-based Toshiba Corp., appointed Tokuhiro Matsuda as vice president, business development, of its discrete electronics unit. Matsuda has more than 20 years of experience with parent Toshiba.
Connecticut-based Tallan Inc., a company that provides information technology services, added Mark E. Robertson as vice president, Western region, at its Santa Ana office.
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