RICHARD F. AFABLE
Chief Executive, President
St. Joseph Hoag Health, Irvine
Born in Chicago
Age: 61
Lives in Corona del Mar
WHY: Leader of integrated healthcare network created in 2012 by St. Joseph Health System and Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian. Network designed to solve what Afable characterizes as “pressing problems” of healthcare access, cost and quality.
HOW: Had been Hoag’s chief executive since 2005, when he succeeded longtime leader Michael Stephens. Hoag added the Sue and Bill Gross Women’s Pavilion and converted the former Irvine Regional Hospital into Hoag Hospital Irvine under Afable’s leadership. Vice president and chief medical officer at Catholic Healthcare East prior to Hoag. Also had a private geriatrics and internal medicine practice for 10 years; left it for academia, teaching at Wake Forest University and Northwestern University.
RECENT: St. Joseph Hoag Health replaced short-lived Covenant moniker as name of network last May. Afable said change came after network executives “heard from people that the identity of Hoag and St. Joseph Health was so important to them that they suggested we should maintain that.” Introduced new accountable care organization working with Children’s Hospital of Orange County, which is led by fellow OC 50er Kimberly Chavalas Cripe.
PERSONAL: Undergraduate degree from Loyola University Chicago. Master’s of public health, University of Illinois School of Public Health. Medical degree from Loyola University Chicago’s Stritch School of Medicine. Wife, Sally. Three grown children, one grandchild. Likes running, golfing and playing guitar.
—Vita Reed
BARRY ARBUCKLE
President, Chief Executive
MemorialCare Health System,
Fountain Valley
Born in Kansas City, Mo.
Age: 53
Lives in Laguna Hills (Nellie Gail Ranch)
WHY: Head of Fountain Valley-based health system with six hospitals in Orange County and Long Beach that has a track record of aggressively approaching the shifting business landscape thanks to federal healthcare reform.
HOW: Joined MemorialCare in 1989 and served as an executive in each of its properties, including chief executive of Saddleback Memorial Medical Center and Orange Coast Memorial Medical Center. Became system’s chief executive in 2002. MemorialCare has some 15,000 employees.
RECENT: In battle with some San Clemente doctors and residents over MemorialCare’s plan to convert Saddleback’s San Clemente campus, which is lightly used, into an ambulatory campus. Announced in March that system would continue a feasibility study on replacing the hospital to see whether it is possible to maintain an emergency department—a key flash point in the dispute—as part of the transformation. Strong system debt ratings recently reaffirmed by Fitch Ratings, which praised MemorialCare’s business initiatives.
PERSONAL: Bachelor’s degree, Southwest Missouri State University. Master’s degree, Arizona State University. Ph.D., University of North Carolina. Serves on many boards, including March of Dimes-California, Integrated Healthcare Association. Wife, Gina; four children. Serves on the faculty of California State University-Long Beach Graduate School of Nursing; has served as adjunct faculty member at CSU LB’s departments of psychology and sociology.
—Vita Reed
GEORGE L. ARGYROS
Chairman, Chief Executive
Arnel & Affiliates, Costa Mesa
Founding Partner
Westar Capital LLC, Costa Mesa
Born in Detroit
Age: 78
Lives in Newport Beach (Harbor Island)
WHY: OC real estate magnate, investor, patron of the arts, force in local, national politics.
HOW: Started selling land to oil companies for service stations in 1962. Bid on state land as freeways were built in OC. Went on to buy land for restaurants, stores. Founded Arnel & Affiliates in 1968. Costa Mesa-based company owns, manages 5,200 apartments in OC, more than 2 million square feet of commercial space. Formed venture firm Westar Capital in 1987. Has estimated worth of nearly $2 billion.
RECENT: Has taken step back in day-to-day management of family holdings. Wife, Julia, assuming more responsibilities, including the running of Arnel. Last year, sold about $650 million in stock of DST Systems Inc., Kansas City-based financial software company where he was largest shareholder, cutting stake in company to less than 4%. Family continues to be active in philanthropy; recent gifts include $1 million to Laura’s House, Ladera Ranch-based nonprofit that helps victims of domestic violence. Other major beneficiaries include Chapman University, CHOC, Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Sage Hill School, Alzheimer’s Association.
PERSONAL: Former owner of Seattle Mariners, onetime co-owner of AirCal with fellow OC 50er William Lyon, sold business in 1981 to American Airlines. Second-generation Greek-American. First job was mowing lawns. 1993 winner of Horatio Alger Award; association’s treasurer, chairman emeritus. On numerous local, national boards. Active in politics, said to be backing presidential bid of Jeb Bush. Served as U.S. ambassador to Spain under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2004. Three children, seven grandchildren, married more than 50 years.
—Mark Mueller
COLIN BADEN
Chief Executive
Oakley Inc., Foothill Ranch
Born in Concord, Mass.
Age: 53
Lives in Irvine
WHY: Oversees eyewear and apparel maker with more than $1 billion in annual sales and local workforce of more than 2,300. Oakley brand major contributor to Italy-based parent Luxottica Group SPA’s portfolio, which also includes Ray-Ban, various licenses with fashion labels, and the Sunglass Hut and LensCrafters chains. The parent company expects 8% to 10% pace of growth from the Foothill Ranch-based brand this year.
HOW: Former architect got start working on design of Oakley founder and fellow OC 50er Jim Jannard’s home in Washington state. Brought on as an Oakley consultant in 1993. Hired as Oakley design director three years later, named president in 1999 and chief executive in 2009.
RECENT: Oakley continues to push on wearable technology, has announced it is working with Intel on eyewear product that’s designed to enhance athletic performance and expected to be available later this year. Company tapped Eleven in San Francisco as its lead creative agency last year.
PERSONAL: Undergrad degree from University of Washington. Graduate degree from University of Arizona. Founder, board president of Infinite Hero Foundation. Wife, Laura; two sons.
—Mediha DiMartino
KEVIN BAILEY
President
VF Corp. Action Sports Coalition
and Vans Inc.
Age: 54
Born: New Jersey
Lives in Laguna Beach
WHY: Runs Cypress-based skate shoe and apparel company, a music- and art-infused brand in VF Corp.’s portfolio of outdoor apparel labels that includes North Face, Timberland, Kipling, Jansport, Reef, and Eastpak, among others. Vans surpassed the $2 billion mark in sales last year for the first time, now second biggest brand for Greensboro, N.C.-based VF in terms of revenue, trailing only North Face.
HOW: Bailey “grew up in retail.” Director of retail operations at Nike Inc. and Golfsmith before going to Vans as vice president of retail from 2002 to 2007. Left for EVP slot at Lucky Brand in Los Angeles, a division of Liz Claiborne at the time, overseeing global sales and operations. Rejoined Vans in 2009 as president of the company, leading it through 22 consecutive quarters of double-digit growth.
RECENT: Has taken on additional duties as “coalition” president of action sports for Americas region, overseeing Reef and Eagle Creek brands. Bailey and VF forecast Vans’ sales will rise to $2.9 billion by 2017, driven by global push and expansion beyond its skate shoe roots into a broader youth culture brand.
PERSONAL: Says he connected with brand through music and art instead of skateboarding as youth on East Coast. Attended art school briefly at the University of Vermont. Three adult children, Chesapeake Bay Retriever.
—Mediha DiMartino
SCOTT D. BORAS
Owner, President
Boras Corp., Newport Beach
Born in Sacramento
Age: 62
Lives in Newport Coast
WHY: Baseball’s most powerful agent, represents some 160 clients, many of them game’s biggest stars, highest-paid players: Angels ace Jered Weaver, Washington Nationals’ youngsters Bryce Harper and Stephen Strasburg, Hyun Jin Ryu of the Dodgers, and Milwaukee Brewers’ Carlos Gomez.
HOW: Knee surgeries spelled end to professional baseball career after stint in minor leagues. Got law degree, practiced medical litigation in Chicago until former teammate, Bill Caudill, asked him for representation on contract talks in 1984. Landed $7.5 million deal, now has 40 people in local office following player stats. Said to track every pitch in baseball. Has 25 scouts in global operation, covering the U.S. and seven other countries.
RECENT: Represented five first-round selections in 2014 draft, including Chicago White Sox pitcher Carlos Rodon and Seattle Mariners outfielder Alex Jackson. Negotiated $210 million contract with the Washington Nationals for Max Scherzer, largest free-agent pitcher deal in MLB history. Notched 20th salary arbitration victory with corner infielder Pedro Alvarez of the Pittsburgh Pirates. Hot clients include baseball’s top prospect Kris Bryant of Chicago Cubs; Washington Nationals’ Anthony Rendon; and Matt Harvey of New York Mets.
PERSONAL: Boras Foundation held third annual Boras Baseball Classic of California, attracting 32 top teams from throughout the state for a tourney format. Charity provides scholarships to baseball camps for 13- to 15-year-olds. Family charitable trust works to attract top-level people to teaching. Wife active in charitable causes for Catholic church, JSerra Catholic High School in San Juan Capistrano, Sage Hill High School in Newport Coast. Grew up on 800-acre farm in Elk Grove near Sacramento. Baseball scholarship to University of Pacific in Stockton. Played in minors for Cardinals, Cubs. Ph.D. in pharmacology and law degree from University of Pacific. Grown daughter, two sons.
—Chris Casacchia
DONALD BREN
Owner, Chairman
Irvine Company, Newport Beach
Born in Los Angeles
Age: 83
Lives in Newport Beach
WHY: County’s dominant landowner, landlord, with portfolio estimated at 105 million total square feet, including almost 500 office buildings, more than 40 retail centers, 130 apartment communities with nearly 50,000 units, three golf clubs, five marinas, and three resorts. Irvine Ranch among country’s most successful and most copied masterplanned communities. Sole shareholder of company. Wealthiest U.S. real estate developer. Business Journal estimated fortune at $15 billion in 2014, estimate likely up again this year.
HOW: Founded homebuilder California Pacific Homes in 1958. In 1963, started Mission Viejo Co. with O’Neill-Moiso family and others; later sold stake to partners. Part of 1977 group that bought Irvine Company. Bought out most partners for $518 million in 1983. In 1991, paid $256 million court award to heiresses Joan Irvine Smith and her mother, Athalie Clarke, for their shares. Became 100% shareholder in 1996.
RECENT: Expansion of office portfolio out of state over past year. Added third skyscraper in Chicago last year with $850 million buy of 300 N. LaSalle St. tower, most expensive office sale ever in city. Also this year, confirmed ownership of 200 Park Ave., a 58-story tower in Manhattan that’s one of the city’s most valuable properties, appraised at nearly $3 billion. Development push continues in various California markets, with new office projects under way in Irvine, Silicon Valley and La Jolla. 200 Spectrum tower in Irvine will be city’s tallest building; plans for another tower down the street in planning process. Continues apartment development push in core California markets. Home sales on Irvine Ranch remain most active market in the state.
PERSONAL: Bloomberg BusinessWeek puts lifetime giving at $1.3 billion, with UCI, UC Santa Barbara, Caltech, Chapman University, local school districts, and Santa Ana-based nonprofit after school program specialist Think Together on recipient list. Awarded President’s medal from University of California, another from UCI. Has endowed more UC distinguished faculty chairs than any other individual. Former Marine officer has academic chairs at Marine Corps University in Quantico, Va. Contributed more than 50,000 acres—more than half of 93,000-acre Irvine Ranch—as parks and open space. Involvement with boards of UCI Foundation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, OC Museum of Art, Caltech, among others. Accomplished skier, has ranch in Sun Valley, Idaho. Married to entertainment lawyer Brigitte Bren. Splits time between Newport Beach and Los Angeles.
—Mark Mueller
ED CARPENTER
Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive
Carpenter & Co., Irvine
Managing Member
Carpenter Community BancFund, Irvine
Born in Salix, Iowa
Age: 67
Lives in Newport Beach
WHY: Longtime bank adviser and builder. Heads private equity fund that’s also a bank holding company. Fund has controlling stakes in five community banks in California, including two in OC.
HOW: Got bachelor’s degree in business administration from Loyola Marymount. Earned MBA at Cal State Long Beach. Started banking career at Security Pacific National Bank, with specialty in strategic planning. Started Carpenter & Co. in 1974. Has since led firm as consultant in 1,200-plus bank projects. Managed assets for Resolution Trust Corp. during savings-and-loan crisis in 1990s. Started Carpenter Community BancFund in 2008 with aim to help strengthen community banks.
RECENT: Combined assets of portfolio banks reached $5.8 billion by end of March. Costa Mesa-based Pacific Mercantile Bancorp, where Carpenter is chairman, is “doing better and better” as it continues to “de-emphasize real estate and move more to business banking,” says CEO Steven Buster. Fed in November lifted enforcement action on Pac Merc following bank’s steps to boost capital ratios, among other improvements. Carpenter’s Plaza Bank in Irvine acquired Bank of Manhattan, another Carpenter bank. Buy will double Plaza’s size to more than $1 billion. Carpenter’s Bridge Capital Holdings agreed to be acquired by Western Alliance Bancorp for about $425 million.
PERSONAL: Director of first-responder relief agency International Medical Corps. Member of World Presidents’ Organization. Trustee of Loyola Marymount and part of LMU Alumni Entrepreneurship Wall of Honor. Has served as chair of California Financial Task Force to Review and Revise Bank Regulation. Also was member of review committees for Office of the Comptroller of the Currency in Washington, D.C. Grew up on corn farm, moved to California as teenager.
—Jane Yu
MICHAEL COLGLAZIER
President
Disneyland Resort
Born in Indiana
Age: 48
Lives in Newport Beach
WHY: Orange County’s primary tourism destination and driver, largest employer, with 28,000 spread over Disneyland Park, Disney California Adventure, four hotels and Downtown Disney shopping, dining and entertainment district.
HOW: Began nearly three-decade Disney career as corporate analyst before earning executive slots, including vice president of operations strategy and technology for Walt Disney World Resort in Florida and vice president of Animal Kingdom Park in Florida.
RECENT: Prepping for 60th anniversary this summer, with planned new elements throughout the properties, including a new nighttime parade and fireworks show. Resort has also recently begun to recast its iconic band, recruit new puppeteers, renovate Matterhorn Bobsleds and Peter Pan’s Flight, both set to reopen in May; permits filed by a contractor indicate spruced-up attraction at Disney California Adventure, Luigi’s Flying Tires, to be renamed Luigi’s Festival of the Dance.
PERSONAL: Undergrad in industrial engineering from Stanford University, master’s from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. Part of ACT Anaheim program with Angels Baseball and Anaheim Ducks; organization helps at-risk youth in the city; board member for CHOC; executive committee and commissioner, California Travel and Tourism Commission; member, CEO Roundtable at UCI. Big on golf, college basketball and mountain biking. Wife, DeAnna; two sons.
—Paul Hughes
MARK COSTA
Executive Director, Orange County
service area
Kaiser Permanente, Anaheim
Born in Patterson
Age: 58
Lives in Rancho Palos Verdes
WHY: New local leader of Oakland-based, nonprofit health enterprise, including hospitals in Anaheim and Irvine, medical offices around the county, and more than 500,000 health plan members countywide.
HOW: Succeeded longtime Kaiser head Julie Miller-Phipps, who moved to Atlanta for job as president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of Georgia. With Kaiser for nine years, most recently as executive director of Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center. Started out as executive director of capital projects oversight. Previously with Providence Health System, Little Company of Mary, Torrance Memorial and California Hospital Medical Center.
RECENT: Facing competitive environment in stride as health reform continues to unfold and competitors form accountable care organizations, other partnerships to provide care. Dealt with strike in January by the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents Kaiser’s psychologists, social workers and therapists. Launching ovarian cancer research project with Austin, Texas-based Vermillion Inc.
PERSONAL: Bachelor’s and master’s degrees, UCLA. Former board member of Hospital Association of Southern California and California Hospital Association. Past chairman and former commissioner, Los Angeles County Emergency Medical System Commission. Wife, Kathy, four children and two grandchildren. Enjoys hiking, road biking and gardening.
—Vita Reed
KIMBERLY CHAVALAS CRIPE
Chief Executive
Children’s Hospital of Orange County,
Orange
Born in Spokane, Wash.
Age: 60
Lives in San Juan Capistrano
WHY: Leads only dedicated pediatric hospital in the county. Tenure as chief executive has seen CHOC gain national recognition, expand facilities, staff, collaborative efforts with fellow healthcare providers.
HOW: With CHOC since 1991; assumed current position in 1997. Serves as head of hospital with 333 licensed beds, including 54-bed satellite facility in Mission Hospital and more than 3,000 workers overall. Led financial turnaround in early 2000s that allowed CHOC to regain control of hospital, which had been temporarily managed by St. Joseph Health, then next door in Orange, now in Irvine. Stint with Humana Inc.’s hospital unit, Columbia/HCA, earlier in career.
RECENT: CHOC paid $5 million for ownership stake in the La Palma-based Innovation Institute late last month, joining St. Joseph Health and Marriottsville, Md.-based Bon Secours Health System. Says that the Innovation Institute, which includes a business incubator, is “a place where our [doctors] and employees can go to vet their ideas and bring them to life.” Also started an accountable care organization with St. Joseph Hoag Health, headed by fellow OC 50er Dr. Richard Afable.
PERSONAL: Bachelor’s degree from University of South Florida. Master’s degree, Golden Gate University. Commissioner, Children and Families Commission of Orange County. Previously board chair for the California Children’s Hospital Association, helping to win passage of the Children’s Hospital Bond Act in 2004 and a similar measure in 2008. Trustee of national Children’s Hospital Association. Past honors from Child Abuse Prevention Center, the March of Dimes and Forum for Corporate Directors. Husband, three sons. Enjoys horseback riding, hiking, walking, gardening.
—Vita Reed
TANYA DOMIER
Chief Executive
Advantage Sales & Marketing LLC, Irvine
Age: 49
WHY: Advantage specializes in sales and marketing of consumer goods manufacturers and retailers, including major chains, such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Kroger Co. Domier retained top job after leading company through a $4.2 billion sale to private equity firms Leonard Green & Partners LP and CVC Capital Partners last year. Moody’s Investors Service estimated Advantage’s fiscal 2014 revenue at $1.85 billion at the time.
HOW: Domier began her career with Orrville, Ohio-based J.M. Smucker Co. as sales representative, moved up to role of district sales manager covering territory from San Diego to Santa Barbara. Advantage had 50 employees and $5 million in revenue when she joined as director of natural and specialty foods in 1990. She has since held a variety of executive-level positions in sales, marketing and operations, taking on the role of chief executive on Jan. 1, 2013, when company founder Sonny King became executive chairman.
RECENT: Has continued path to growth through acquisitions with deals over past year, putting Sunflower Group in Lenexa, Kan., and Seattle-based 206inc in fold on undisclosed terms. Strategy includes organic component, with recent push for new market share overseas alongside domestic emphasis on in-house Hispanic Retail Selling Team, a group of sales pros who serve as ambassadors for general-market manufacturers looking to secure shelf space at Latino grocery stores in Southern California, Arizona, Texas, New York, and as of earlier this year, Miami. Shelby Report, a major trade publication for the food and grocery industry, named her 2015 Woman Executive of the Year.
PERSONAL: Graduated California State University-Chico as political science major. Husband, Dan; three teenage sons. Member of the Network of Executive Women, avid reader.
—Mediha DiMartino
JAMES L. DOTI
President, Professor of Economics
Chapman University, Orange
Born in Chicago
Age: 68
Lives in Villa Park
WHY: President of OC’s largest private university for 24 years; beyond prolific on ties to heavy hitters in business community, fundraising.
HOW: Studied economics at University of Illinois-Chicago; earned master’s and doctorate degrees in economics from the University of Chicago. Joined Chapman faculty in 1974, founded A. Gary Anderson Center for Economic Research in 1978. Appointed dean of Argyros School of Business and Economics in 1985. Became president in 1991. Has held Chapman’s Donald Bren Distinguished Chair in business and economics since 1999. Continues econometrics- and education-oriented research while serving as president.
RECENT: Opened 7.5-acre Rinker Campus for health sciences in Spectrum area. Also opened digital media arts center for Dodge College of Film animation, special effects and game design work, in a renovated Old Towne Orange building. Received gift of $7 million worth of California Scene paintings from collectors Jan and Mark Hilbert and $3 million to open new museum this fall to house the works. Science majors quadrupled at Schmid College (science and technology), with an emphasis on quantum physics and computational science (big data); $130 million Schmid fundraising campaign ongoing. Musco Center, a $78 million, 1,100-seat concert and performance hall, on schedule for March 2016 debut, with Placido Domingo for opening night.
PERSONAL: Ran Boston Marathon for ninth time, this year’s with son, Adam. Experienced mountain climber plans to attempt Carstensz Pyramid, New Guinea, in September. Raises four female Rhode Island Reds, one named “Paula” in honor of Chapman supporter Paul Musco, who is from Rhode Island. Has made appearances as fictional CFO named “Chapman” on CBS soap produced by Chapman U. alum Casey Kasprzyk. Wife, Lynne, economics professor at Chapman; daughter, Cara. New hobby: wood-bowl turning; working on one made of tamarind wood—“I don’t know about my bowl-turning skills, but the wood is absolutely gorgeous.”
—Paul Hughes
