Jimmy P Bowls Doti Over for Shea

Could there have been any doubt that something unique would happen when the Shea Center for Therapeutic Riding put Jim Doti and Jim Peterson on stage together? Doti interviewed the Microsemi CEO at the center’s recent ninth annual Leaders for Philanthropy Night, where everyone got a feel for the gut instincts that have helped “Jimmy P” guide chipmaker Microsemi from about $250 million in annual sales when he took over in 2000 to nearly $1.7 billion last year. Then they got a look at how Doti boosts sales in his own way. First he showed off the provenance he worked up to prove that a large and lovely piece being offered at auction to raise funds for the center was a genuine “Doti Bowl” that he had personally turned out of figured maple wood. Then Doti got the same happy surprise as the rest of the crowd when Peterson opened and closed the affair with a bid of $25,000 … It was a few days later, over lunch at the Citrus City Grill, that Doti acknowledged he’s rarely short of words but was caught speechless by Jimmy P. … Then he got back to being Doti: “I really should have just gone ahead and asked if anyone wanted to bid $25,001” … Quite a spread about Dr. Betty Uribe in the April edition of San Juan Capistrano-based Spanish-language lifestyle publication Para Todos. It tells of Uribe’s recent travels, which took the EVP of California Bank & Trust—and newly minted author of “#Values: The Secret to Top Level Performance in Business and Life”—to President Donald Trump’s inaugural and onto Rome and the Vatican earlier this year … There was good reason if you thought Stewart Hagestad’s name sounded familiar after he took home the Silver Cup as the top amateur at the recent Masters golf tournament. He’s the son of John Hagestad, partner of Jeff Stack and William Thormahlen at Sares-Regis … Anyone who travels up to L.A. to see the new Greenberg Gross office there will need to squint and use a pitching wedge to reach Wayne Gross at the head of the 60-foot marble-topped conference table that got tossed into the deal for the 30th floor at Sixth & Fig … Costa Mesa-based Idea Hall debuts on the Business Journal’s list of largest ad shops, thanks to a number of new accounts, as you’ll see in Mediha DiMartino’s story on page 13. It’s not the only debut this year for the firm’s co-founders, Rebecca and Randy Hall—and not all of their new duties are at the office. The couple also broke into the ranks of parenthood recently with the arrival of little Kathryn Rae … Kudos: to OC Weekly on its recent OC People 2017 issue, a fine read, even with a curious teaser in the form of front-page fine print asking “SAME TIME NEXT YEAR?” … Sullivan Says: The crowd was thinned out by the time the Angels completed a big rally to beat the Texas Rangers in the 10th inning of a night game last week, but the intensity of those who stuck it out brought a post-season feel, and the nature of the win—it came on a walk-off bunt—offered a reminder that hope really does spring eternal at the ball yard.