ACCOUNTING
Manuel Ramirez was elected president of the California Board of Accountancy. Ramirez previously served as vice president of the board and has been a member for three years. He is president and chief executive at Ramirez International, an accounting company in Irvine.
EDUCATION
Al Nederhood was promoted to president of Costa Mesa-based Amer-ican Career College Inc. He will be responsible for academics at the three Southern California campuses. Nederhood previously was executive vice president of operations.
TUI Learning LLC, the holding company of TUI University LLC, hired Caroline Rock as chief financial officer in Cypress. Rock previously worked at Los Angeles-based PeopleSupport Inc. as chief financial officer. She has more than 25 years of experience in financial services for private and public companies.
Rancho Santiago Community College District in Santa Ana elected Lawrence Labrado as president of its board. Labrado is a former educator and serves as director of the American GI Educational Foundation. He will serve a one-year term and be responsible for supporting the administrative team in areas of planning and finances.
LAW
Newport Beach-based Bremer Whyte Brown & O’Meara LLP promoted Arash Arabi and Lanetta Rinehart to partner. Arabi is a member of the American Bar Association and practices civil litigation and liability defense matters. Rinehart practices construction defect and environmental law.
MARKETING
Integrated MarketingWorks in Newport Beach hired Sandra Luciano as creative di-rector and Jason Gerdon as assistant ac-count executive. Luciano will oversee the creative department. Prior, she was vice president and executive creative director for J-U Advertising in Irvine. Gerdon will assist on the Sunkist Growers Inc., Orbis Education and Flower Fields accounts. He has worked for Murrieta-based Driven Media Communi-cations and San Jose-based Hoffman Agency.
NONPROFIT
Junior Achievement of Orange County in Costa Mesa added Mary McCarthy and Gerard Mooney to its board. McCarthy is Orange County regional community banking president for Wells Fargo & Co. in Irvine. Mooney is a lawyer with Costa Mesa-based Rutan & Tucker LLP.
Huntington Beach-based Alzheimer’s Family Services Center, an affiliate of Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian’s Hoag Neurosciences Institute, added Tiffany Scurry to its board. Scurry works as an associate at the Irvine office of McDermott Will & Emery LLP and practices patent infringement litigation.
Irvine-based Human Op-tions Inc. elected Brian Goodman and Jennifer Irrgang to its board. Goodman heads the le-gal and regulatory practice at Irvine-based Re-sources Connection Inc. Irrgang is a partner at Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP, which has an office in Costa Mesa.
Jeff Lutz was elected president and chairman of Costa Mesa’s 2-1-1 Orange County, which provides health and hu-man services to the needy. Lutz previously worked as vice president of global sales and marketing at Georgia-based NCR Corp. Other officers elected were Mahboob Akhter as vice president of government relations, Alan Ptak as vice president of strategic planning and secretary and Peggy Thurmond as chief financial officer and treasurer.
REAL ESTATE
John Hogan was elected director at large for the Building Industry Association Orange County chapter, and Linda Sandusky was elected director at large at the chapter’s homebuilders council. Hogan is chief executive of Tustin-based engineering firm Hall & Foreman Inc. Sandusky is a project manager for Hall & Foreman.
RESTAURANTS
Jason Forst was promoted to sales and marketing manager at the Anaheim location of Morton’s The Steakhouse, part of Chicago-based Morton’s Restaurant Group Inc. Forst has more than 12 years of experience in the restaurant industry and has been with Morton’s for the past eight years. He previously worked at the restaurant’s Beverly Hills location.
