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Making a Difference Awards Reception and Luncheon event
at the Platinum Ballroom in the J.W. Marriott Hotel at LA
Live in Los Angeles on May 14th.
Described by attendees as an uplifting and inspirational event,
the celebration honored Los Angeles based women who lead by
example, successfully blending effective business vision with a pas-
sionate commitment to positively making a difference, both in
the world of business and in the communities they serve.
More than 250 prestigious nominees were submitted to the
judges by Los Angeles Business Journal readers this year. So the
judges had the unenviable task of narrowing the field down to six
honorees for this years big event.
It wasnt easy to select just six honorees for this years awards, so
we have also taken the time to single out, for honorable mention,
an incredible selection of finalists all superb examples of women
who genuinely make a difference in their own right. Each is also
profiled in these pages.
Specifically categorized Awards of Recognition were presented to a
group of women who have truly blazed a path of leadership and
inspiration for all Angelenos.
The 2013 Women Making a Difference honorees included: Paige
Adams-Gellar, Paige (Owner or CEO of the Year Award); Gwynne
Shotwell, SpaceX (Executive of the Year Award); Kelly Merryman,
Netflix (Rising Star of the Year Award); Nancy Bernstein, DreamWorks
(Volunteer of the Year Award); Karen Barter Fielding (Philanthropist of
the Year Award); and Monica Dodi, The Womens Venture Capital
Fund (Corporate Advocate of the Year Award).
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WOMEN MAKING A DIFFERENCE 2013 HONOREES
PAIGE ADAMS-GELLER
Founder & Creative Director
Paige
Culver City
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AIGE Adams-Geller founded her LA-based premium denim company,
Paige, after learning first hand about the intricacies of design and
production as a model for number of top brands. Adams-Gellar
launched Paige in 2005 via high-end retailers with every detail care-
fully calculated, from a contoured waistband to forward sitting side seams
and each style designed with the customer in mind. The designs became an
instant obsession of consumers, celebrities, and prominent fashion editors.
Paige continued to grow, and by 2007, the company had introduced mens,
maternity and petite lines that built off specific customer needs and the
brands perfected fits.
Harnessing her industry expertise, Adams-Geller has grown Paige into a
category leader in a field dominated by male designers, colloquially known
as the denim mafia. She is the first woman to make a name for herself in
the premium denim category and is the face of the brand as well as the com-
panys Creative Director, leading product design decisions. The business grew
more than 40% last year and continues to outpace the market, demonstrat-
ing its leadership position in the premium denim category.
Adams-Geller is not only a leading LA entrepreneur and business owner,
she is also passionate about philanthropy. She is a womens advocate, sup-
porting several charities including RAINN, which supports victims of sexual
abuse through education, resources and services for those who need recovery
and prosecution. She is on the national leadership council and created the
RAINN Collection of Paige denim in March 2012, donating proceeds to sup-
port sexual abuse survivors. Given the propensity for eating disorders in the
fashion industry, Adams-Geller is also an advocate for individuals facing this
challenge. She champions overcoming body image issues in multiple ways,
including by supporting the National Eating Disorders of America (NEDA).
Her passion for breaking down walls and for championing womens issues
shows that her leadership and courage have no bounds.
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WOMEN MAKING A DIFFERENCE 2013 FINALISTS
Business Owner or CEO of the Year
TONI ERICKSON KNIGHT
Founder & CEO
WorldLink
Los Angeles
T
ONI Erickson Knight found-
ed WorldLink, one of the
worlds leading and fastest-
growing multiplatform advertis-
ing sales firms, in 1997.
Specializing in direct response
advertising, WorldLink is at the
forefront in demonstrating the
powerful messaging and attractive
return on investment direct
response spots create for advertis-
ers particularly in todays mar-
ket, where new technology fur-
ther empowers marketers to build
bridges with the consumer.
Knight launched WorldLink in
Los Angeles with a staff of four
representing a single client. Within
a year, the company was profitable
and enjoying surging growth.
Today, it has a global team of more
than 60 individuals with offices in
L.A. and New York all handling
200-plus companies throughout
the world. In 2012 WorldLink had
booked sales of $198 million. She
has built WorldLink into the
largest woman-owned business of
its kind.
Among WorldLinks diverse and
longstanding roster of major U.S.
media clients are FOX
Broadcasting and FOX Cable
Networks (including VOD ad sales
for FOX Network and FX),
Comcast, MGM Television, Post-
Newsweek, Tribune Company,
Young Broadcasting, DirecTV and
Carsey-Werner. Internationally, the
firm is unrivaled, representing
such prestigious companies as
Sony Entertainment, Universal
Channel, Canal Fox, MGM/Casa
Club and Gol TV, among others.
Knight was one of the first
industry executives to identify the
potential of direct response mar-
keting in the burgeoning U.S.
Hispanic and Latin American mar-
kets. She created WorldLink en
Espaol, a division that is now the
largest independent direct
response representative serving the
growing area with numerous
Spanish-language platforms.
Dr. CECILIA JEFFERSON
CEO, Founder
Fred Jefferson Memorial Homes
Gardena
D
R. Cecilia Jefferson, a for-
mer social worker with the
Department of Children
and Family Services, developed
what would become her career
focus after discovering a crucial
need for quality care. As a social
worker, Dr. Jefferson witnessed
firsthand how abused children
were emotionally wounded and
how too many children also expe-
rienced great difficulty developing
healthy relationships and creating
gratifying productive lives. Dr.
Jefferson sought to assist children
in foster care by creating an excep-
tional organization that is cultural-
ly familiar with the needs of the
community it serves.
In 1989, Dr. Jefferson founded
the Fred Jefferson Memorial
Homes for Boys. Her love of chil-
dren inspired her to develop a
quality home-like environment for
children in need of out of home
placement. She has operated up to
five group homes at one time. In
1995, she also opened the Fred
Jefferson Foster Family Agency
where families are certified and
trained to provide out of home
care for children removed from
their birth homes due to abuse
and/or neglect. In 1996 she
opened Freeman Enrichment
Center, a non-public school,
designed to provide a nurturing
educational program for children
with special needs coupled with
behavioral problems.
Although she has been recog-
nized with multiple awards from
Los Angeles officials and govern-
ment agencies, perhaps her proud-
est moment came when she was
installed on June 28, 2006 by King
Otun Yeye Mokun Zebu-Ife and the
government of Nigeria as Chief
Yeye Mokun-Oodua Ijebu-Ife in
recognition of her persistent work
within the Nigerian community
aiding in the progression of educa-
tion and empowering women in
owning their own businesses.
SUSAN KENDALL
President
Beverly Hills
I
N 1976, when Kendall Frozen
Fruits, Inc. was doing less than
one million dollars per year,
Susan Kendall purchased the com-
pany from her father, who found-
ed it in 1939. Not content to keep
the company at this level, she
fought resentment and gender bias
in a male dominated industry and
helped the company climb to its
current status today with some of
the nations largest food compa-
nies as her clients.
Kendall overcame the naysayers
by working harder and smarter,
bringing new ideas to clients and
helping them question the way
things were done. Under her stew-
ardship, the company has been
one of the top fifty women-owned
businesses since 1993 and has
been instrumental in overcoming
male exclusivity in the field.
Kendall was instrumental in
matching product to customer and
customer to product, and was even
directly involved in launching
both the raspberry and boysenber-
ry industries in Australia and New
Zealand introducing these previ-
ously unknown down under
berry plants to those nations.
Kendall and her company also
pioneered the development and
marketing of specialty dried
products such as cranberries,
cherries and blueberries, now
widely accepted and used in trail
mixes and nutritional bars.
Kendall Frozen Fruits also helped
to popularize value added fruit
concentrates.
Aside from leading a pioneer-
ing food company to continued
success, Kendall also makes time
to serve on the Board of
Governors for Cedars-Sinai
Hospital, is an active member of
Friends of Sheba, also active in
the Womens Democratic
Leadership Forum and is philan-
thropically involved with various
charitable organizations.
CANDACE NELSON
Founder & Pastry Chef
Sprinkles Cupcakes
Beverly Hills
C
ANDACE Nelson is the
founder and pastry chef of
Sprinkles Cupcakes, the
worlds first cupcake bakery.
Started in Beverly Hills in 2005,
Nelsons sophisticated take on the
classic American cupcake made
Sprinkles an overnight bakery sen-
sation. Her cupcakes, made from
the best ingredients and baked
fresh throughout the day, inspire
long lines of devoted fans as well
as accolades from the likes of
Oprah Winfrey, Blake Lively, Katie
Holmes, Ryan Seacrest and Barbra
Streisand.
As delicious as the cupcakes are,
though, equally impressive is
Nelsons unique story. A former
investment banker, Nelson left her
six-figure salary to pursue her pas-
sion. She attended Tante Maries
Professional Pastry Program in San
Francisco. Upon graduating, she
catered cakes from her home
kitchen while her husband deliv-
ered them around town. Still, she
wanted to create an artful and
handcrafted dessert, yet one that
people could eat on a daily basis,
which led her to reinvent and ele-
vate the lowly cupcake. With that,
the idea for Sprinkles was born.
Today, Sprinkles has twelve loca-
tions nationwide, a traveling
Sprinklesmobile - the worlds first
cupcake truck, and sells its cupcake
mixes at over 250 Williams-
Sonoma stores throughout the U.S.
and Canada.
Nelson always knew that if she
were lucky enough to launch a
successful business, a core compo-
nent of Sprinkles mission would
be to give back to the communi-
ties in which it operates. Sprinkles
has donated over $4.5 million in
cash and cupcakes since opening.
Sprinkles also donates daily left-
overs to food banks and con-
tributes 100% of the proceeds
from its charitable cupcake to wor-
thy causes.

GWYNNE SHOTWELL
President & Chief Operating Officer
SpaceX
Hawthorne
G
WYNNE Shotwell has transformed SpaceX into the worlds fastest
growing launch services provider, revolutionizing the space trans-
port industry and preserving Los Angeles as a center for high tech-
nology advancement. Building SpaceX from the ground up into
an industry leader with over $5 billion in revenue and bringing over 2,000
jobs to the Los Angeles area, Shotwell has become a respected and established
leader in both the Aerospace and local communities. Space access worldwide
has historically been limited by the astronomical cost of launch vehicles, and
by leading SpaceX to become the first private company in history to return a
spacecraft from Earth orbit and visit the International Space Station, Shotwell
is playing a pivotal role in lowering the cost of access to space.
As President and COO of SpaceX, Shotwell is responsible for day?to?day
operations including sales, marketing, manufacturing, launch operations,
legal, government relations, and finance, as well as for managing all cus-
tomer and strategic relations to support company growth. She was recruited
to SpaceX in 2002 as Vice President of Business Development, and has since
built the Falcon vehicle family manifest to more than 50 launches.
Shotwell is a strong proponent of STEM (Science, Technology,
Engineering and Mathematics) education and leads a number of STEM-relat-
ed programs. She serves as Technical Committee Chair and Scholarship
Chair for the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). As
Scholarship Chair, she instituted the Frank J. Redd student scholarship com-
petition, which has sparked national and international student participation
in building and flying small satellites known as Cubesats. Under her leader-
ship, the committee raised more than $350,000 in scholarships in six years.
Shotwell presents these scholarships in person each year, connecting with
and inspiring students and professionals alike. She also speaks regularly with
a variety of universities and student groups, encouraging young people to
pursue careers and interests in STEM education.
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Executive of the Year
SUSAN BLOOMFIELD
General Manager
Neutrogena Corporation,
Johnson & Johnson
Los Angeles
A
S General Manager
and President of
Neutrogena, Susan
Bloomfield oversees $1.5 bil-
lion in annual sales and 650
employees. Bloomfield started
at Johnson & Johnson 17
years ago in an entry-level
position working her way up
through the organization to
eventually land the Vice
President of Marketing posi-
tion with the company in
2005 located in Montreal
where she managed all
Johnson & Johnson brands.
Shortly after, she was trans-
ferred to New Jersey to man-
age the companys beauty sec-
tor for subsidiary Neutrogena.
Now she is responsible for the
entire Profit & Loss for US
Neutrogena Corporation,
leading the management
board, developing strategic
vision and operating plan,
creating marketing campaigns
and initiatives, conducting
product innovation and
advertising strategies and
plans, developing talent as
well as being responsible for
company culture.
Over theyearsasPresident,
Bloomfield hassignificantly
exceeded financial goals, includ-
ing new product salessuch as
product launchesfor
Neutrogena Naturals,
Neutrogena Rapid Wrinkle
Repair, and Neutrogena Wet
Skin sunscreens. Under her
management, Neutrogena has
delivered record market share
growth acrossall segments,
achieved thenumber oneposi-
tion in thefacial carecategory
among Hispanic market, out-
paced category growth more
than two times, expanded to
number onein household pene-
tration, and lead thecompany
through significant improve-
mentsin supply chain reliability.
Perhapsmost importantly, sheis
a champion and board sponsor
for women in theorganization,
including for their Womens
Leadership Initiative. Bloomfield
isalso a staunch advocatefor
womensrightsand women in
businessin general.
LISA McDOWELL
Senior VicePresident,
Global Development
TheCheesecakeFactory Inc.
Calabasas Hills
L
ISA McDowells career
with The Cheesecake
Factory Incorporated
spans more than 16 years.
During this time she has
played a significant role in the
companys successful growth
and strategic development.
A role model to colleagues
and staff members alike,
McDowell embodies The
Cheesecake Factorys core val-
ues of hard work, doing what-
ever it takes and never settling
for the status quo. She came to
The Cheesecake Factory when
the company had just 17
restaurant locations. Today,
with annual sales of more than
$1.8 Billion, the company oper-
ates 162 The Cheesecake
Factory restaurants, 11 Grand
Lux Cafes, and one RockSugar
Pan Asian Kitchen.
Additionally, three The
Cheesecake Factory restaurants
operate in the Middle East
under a licensing agreement.
Since joining the company
in 1992, McDowell has been
laser-focused on helping to
prepare the company for
growth without sacrificing its
deeply rooted company cul-
ture and standards for excel-
lence. She made her initial
mark by refining the compa-
nys many training & develop-
ment programs and systems,
while creating the infrastruc-
ture necessary for growth.
McDowell has opened
more than 160 of the compa-
nys restaurants locations
most notably opening its first
three international locations
in 2012, and launching the
Grand Lux Cafe concept in
2001 as well as RockSugar Pan
Asian Kitchen in 2008. At
RockSugar, she was instrumen-
tal in helping to define what
the concept would become
from menu development and
uniform selections to stan-
dards for hospitality and oper-
ational systems. Under her
leadership, RockSugar supports
and participates in numerous
charitable causes and events
each year including Chrysalis
and St. Vincent Meals on
Wheels among others.
JENNIFER PARKS
Senior VicePresident, Sales
Sexy Hair
Chatsworth
J
ENNIFER Parks, Senior
Vice President of Sales
at Sexy Hair, has spent
the past decade building the
company from both a busi-
ness and brand standpoint. In
the past five years she has
helped drive double-digit
sales growth as well as boost
brand awareness, cachet, and
market share. Today, Sexy
Hair is one of the leading pro-
fessional hair care companies
due to Parks efforts.
Parks spearheads key initia-
tives and special projects for
Sexy Hair. She has found
many innovative techniques
to help build the consumer
base as well as maximize the
brands star power with con-
sumers. Parks has leveraged
the internet for sampling,
public relations, and sales,
leading to a partnership with
the luxury beauty site Ipsy,
founded by YouTube beauty
sensation Michelle Phan.
Additionally, understanding
the unique influence that
celebrities have on consumers
regarding beauty products,
Parks has sponsored many
high profile events such as the
Gracie Awards to boost the
celebrity appeal and associa-
tion for Sexy Hair.
Parks is also a firm believer
that caring is sexy, both at
work and at home. She helped
secure the Sexy Hair partner-
ship with Look Good Feel
Better, an organization dedi-
cated to teaching beauty tech-
niques to cancer patients to
help them manage the appear-
ance-related side effects of
cancer treatment. She also
worked with the March of
Dimes for eight years and
helped grow its day event to
the largest one-day fundrais-
ing event in the United States.
Additionally she is on the
board of Second Chance Pets,
a group that tries to find for-
ever homes for pets in danger
of being put to sleep.
JANET MARIE SMITH
Senior VicePresident of
Planning& Development
Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles
W
HAT Janet Marie
Smith accomplished
after joining the
Dodgers and taking a 50-year-
old Dodger Stadium and
improving it in a span of just
five off-season months is truly
a remarkable feat.
Smith, a renowned archi-
tect and urban planner,
joined the Los Angeles
Dodgers organization as
Senior Vice President of
Planning Development on
August 6, 2012. She was
reunited with Dodger
President Stan Kasten, who
she worked for in a similar
position to create the Atlanta
Braves Turner Field and the
Atlanta Hawks Philips Arena.
Smith is probably best
known in the baseball world
for her work on the influen-
tial Oriole Park at Camden
Yards. She worked for the
Orioles from 1989-94 as vice
president of planning and
development during the
design and construction of
the park. Smith played an
instrumental role in the
design of the ballpark, creat-
ing a state-of-the-art unique
facility that blends with the
urban contest of downtown
Baltimore while taking inspi-
ration from baseball parks
built in the early 20th centu-
ry. It is this expertise that she
now brings to the Dodgers. In
the five short months she has
been with the Dodgers she
has made dramatic improve-
ments to the facility that
have earned raves from fans,
players and the media.
Smith is an associate mem-
ber of the Urban Land
Institute, American Institute of
Architects and the American
Planning Association. She also
serves on the board of direc-
tors for Berklee College of
Music in Boston and the advi-
sory board for the University
of Michigan Sports
Management Program.
BETTY URIBE
ExecutiveVicePresident
California Bank & Trust
Irvine
T
HROUGHOUT Betty
Uribes 25-year career in
the Financial Services
industry, she has exceeded her
professional responsibilities to
better serve minority and
women business owners. As
the Executive Vice President at
California Bank & Trust
(CB&T), she leads the Business
and Personal Banking
Division, which is comprised
of branches and multiple busi-
ness lending teams through-
out California. She also over-
sees a number of projects
including TEAM (Tools,
Education, Access and
Mentoring), a business financ-
ing program which helps
Latino-owned businesses get
the resources they need to
start, grow and find success.
Additionally, in affiliation
with Latina Style, Inc., Uribe
and her team at CB&T are
leading the way in facilitating
programs, services and
resources that help Latinas
establish successful businesses.
Uribe has committed her-
self to the development of the
Latin-American community.
As a Business columnist for
Latina Style Magazine, her
goal is to educate Latina-busi-
ness owners by offering advice
on how to build a better web-
site, write an effective business
plan and define target mar-
kets. She also teaches a leader-
ship program at University of
Southern California for Latino
youth and serves as an adviso-
ry board member for the Anna
Maria Arias Foundation.
Uribe is the President of
the Hispanic Outreach
Taskforce in South-East Los
Angeles; the International
Delegate for the Colombian-
American Chamber
(Washington, D.C.), a member
of the California Hispanic
Chamber and Greater Los
Angeles Latino Chamber as
well as an Advisory Board
Member for both Junior
Achievement of Orange
Country and Next Step Asia
Leadership Training.

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Producer, DreamWorks Animation SKG; founder, Call to Cure
Gloria Borges, Finalist, Philanthropist of the Year
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Congratulates...
The 2013 Women Making a Difference
nominees, including our own Susan Kendall,
a nalist for Business Owner or CEO of the Year.
Kendall Frozen Fruits, Inc. is an industrial food supplier
specializing in the sale and marketing of fruit and vegetable
products since 1939. We proudly represent the nest food
manufacturers in the industry. Our goal is to provide our
customers with the highest quality food products available,
and with the nest professional sales service in the industry.
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THE LOS ANGELES BUSINESS JOURNAL
CONGRATULATES
MARY MAZUR
ON HER NOMINATION FOR
EXECUTIVE
OF THE YEAR
2013 WOMEN MAKING
A DIFFERENCE AWARD
NANCY BERNSTEIN
Producer
DreamWorks Animation
Glendale
N
ANCY Bernstein most recently produced DreamWorks Animations
Rise of the Guardians in 2012. Prior to her producing role, Bernstein
served as Head of Production at DreamWorks Animations Glendale
campus, overseeing all aspects of physical production in Glendale.
In February of 2011 after experiencing a series of discomforts, Bernstein was
diagnosed with Stage 3b Colorectal Cancer. In February of 2012, one year to the
date of her original diagnosis, check-up scans revealed seven new tumors show-
ing that the cancer had metastasized to Bernsteins lungs. She was diagnosed
with Stage IV Metastatic Colorectal Cancer, the average life expectancy being two
years. Faced with this news, Bernsteins oncologist recommended that she seek
treatment at the USC Norris Cancer Hospital under the care of Dr. Heinz-Josef
Lenz. It was at this point that Bernstein decided that she needed to help raise
funds and awareness for Colorectal Cancer. After evaluating where money and
time for her cause would be utilized most effectively, she determined that she
would help raise money that directly funded the research at USC Norris, led by
Dr. Lenz for the benefit of Colon and Colorectal Cancer Patients.
With the help and support of DreamWorks Animation SKG, Bernstein has creat-
ed Call To Cure through the Nancy Bernstein Research Program, at USC Norris
Comprehensive Cancer Center. The program is currently raising specific targeted
amounts of money for research programs that need funding. The first program
that received funding is to further research the efficacy of the colon cancer drug
Avastin. Bernstein raised $200,000 to begin the research and her foundation is now
moving onto the next phase of fundraising.
The least funded of all Cancer Charities, Colorectal Cancer is known as the
silent killer, as colonoscopy screenings are not covered under insurance until the
age of 50, and routinely diagnosed too late. Bernstein has become an important
voice in the cause and her efforts have brought new attention and ammunition
to the fight against Colorectal Cancer.
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DEBRA FISCHER
AdministrativeOfficer; Co-Chair L & E Group
Bingham
Los Angeles
D
EBRA Fischer has practiced employ-
ment law in Los Angeles for more
than 20 years. During this time,
she has emerged as one of the highest-
ranking women partners at an AmLaw 50
firm, enabling her to effectively mentor
other women in the industry.
Additionally, throughout her career, she
has dedicated countless hours to commu-
nity outreach and pro bono work
designed to provide access to justice for
people who are not in a position to help
themselves.
In her billable practice, Fischer success-
fully tries cases in both California state
and federal courts, and regularly handles
matters in arbitration and in her appel-
late work including successfully briefing
and arguing cases in state and federal courts of appeal.
But Fischers hard work extends beyond her billable practice. She stands
out as a leader, role model and advocate for women lawyers in the Los Angeles
legal community and beyond. For seven years, she served as Deputy Chair of
the 400 attorney Global Litigation Area at Bingham McCutchen. Now as her
firms first female Administrative Partner, she serves as a member of the firms
Management Committee and a member of the firms Partner Leadership
Development Advisory Board. As Firm Administrative Partner, she is also Chair
of the firms Committee on Associates and advises on important policy issues.
Furthermore, she is strongly committed to pro bono work throughout the
Los Angeles and global communities, actively participating in community
events and serving on a number of prominent boards. She even oversees and
provides strategic direction to the firms national Pro Bono Program.
STACEY GORDON
ExecutiveRecruiter & Career Strategist
TheGordon Group
Los Angeles
S
TACEY Gordons remarkable volun-
teer activities began in 1996 when
she was one of the first volunteers
to assist Nancy Lublin in starting up Dress
for Success in New York City. She spent
countless hours creating marketing mate-
rials, establishing volunteer procedures,
setting standards, fundraising for events
and working with the women who need-
ed the organizations services. By the time
she ended her work with Dress for Success
in order to attend law school in 2001, the
organization had grown to more than 50
affiliates in three countries.
Later, Gordon started the first profes-
sional chapter of MBA Women
International in 2007. Women in Los
Angeles flocked to the organization where
Gordon and her Board of Directors created programs, support systems and net-
working events where professional women could meet, collaborate and sup-
port one another in their careers.
Continuing her desire to better her community, Gordon is also a founding
member of Pepperdine Universitys Black Alumni Council. For more than three
years she has collaborated with council members and the university to create
resources for alumni that previously did not exist. She is currently working to
raise $100,000 to endow a scholarship for minority students at Pepperdine.
As if that wasnt enough, Gordon is also a member of the Palos Verdes
chapter of the Links, Incorporated. The mission of the chapter is to empower
those in need in the South Bay and Los Angeles communities to take charge of
their health, education and welfare and bring about positive change that tran-
scends race and socio-economic disparities.
LINDSEY HORVATH
Outreach Coordinator
V-Day OneBillion Rising
West Hollywood
T
HOSE who know her or have worked
with her often refer to Lindsey
Horvath as one of the most inspira-
tional women in Los Angeles. Most recent-
ly, she served as Outreach Coordinator for
V-Day One Billion Rising, for which
Horvath helped organize one billion
women and those who love them to
WALK OUT, DANCE, RISE UP and
DEMAND an end to violence against
women. A graduate of the University of
Notre Dame, Horvath is a resident of West
Hollywood and has been a community
leader on a long list of issues, not the least
of which was serving on the West
Hollywood City Council in her 20s.
Horvaths incredible list of volunteer
credentials are impressive and continu-
ously inspire her peers to take on their own leadership roles in their communi-
ties. The list of her work is too long to be contained here, but includes her
being the current President Emeritus of the National Organization for Women,
Hollywood Chapter. She is also: Partner with the Truman National Security
Project; former President of the National Womens Political Caucus, NWPC-LA
Westside; former chair of the City of West Hollywoods Womens Advisory
Board; advocate for A Window Between Worlds; Board member of the
Womens Reproductive Rights Assistance Project; member of Planned
Parenthood; Board member for Women Against Gun Violence; member of
Human Rights Watch; member of Amnesty International; and a member of
the Human Rights Campaign.
Horvath also serves as an Advisory Board member of the philanthropic non-
profit organization Cops 4 Causes. And as if that wasnt enough, she even initiat-
ed West Hollywoods first-ever Domestic Violence Community Response Team.
CLAIRE PADAMA
President
Society of Saint Vincent dePaul, Los Angeles
Los Angeles
C
LAIRE Padama, a nurse, medical
administrator and retired owner of
numerous skilled nursing facilities
in Southern California, is now the leader
and President of the Board of Directors of
the Society of St. Vincent De Paul,
Council of Los Angeles, the local chapter
of an international Catholic volunteer
organization that serves the needy of any
religious background free of charge.
Padama oversees the councils 2,300
Vincentian volunteers who help the
needy become self-sufficient by providing
food, clothing, furniture, appliances,
housing and by connecting the disadvan-
taged to helpful resources in Los Angeles,
Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties. The
Society also operates homeless shelters,
soup kitchens, food pantries, thrift stores and a camp for disadvantaged chil-
dren in the mountains north of Santa Barbara.
In addition to her role as the Societys president of the board, Padama has
been a Vincentian volunteer with the Society for 20 years and a board member
of the Society for 16 years. She has been Society Our Lady of Angels district
president for six years as well as Chairperson of the Society eldercare commit-
tee for 10 years and organizer and conductor of Society eldercare workshops
for 10 years.
Padama has also served her community by being the organizer of monthly
Skid Row homeless center feedings for 10 years as well as organizing monthly
hot lunches for 200 to 250 needy attendees at her church. She distributes
weekly sandwiches for the homeless at her church and organizes Christmas
collections of canned goods for low-income families.

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Vice President of Content Acquisition
Netflix
Beverly Hills
K
ELLY Merryman is Vice President of Content Acquisition at Netflix.
Merryman has built a strong reputation for being a smart, effective
and well-regarded leading digital media expert and is currently
managing content acquisition for Netflixs international expansion.
She began her tenure at Netflix in 2007 licensing content for the US market.
In 2010, she started to dedicate her time to Netflixs international expansion,
which has included Canada, Latin America, and the UK and Ireland. In the UK,
the subscriber base grew to over one million in record time thanks largely to
her efforts. Merryman has repeatedly proven to be a successful leader, managing
teams effectively, partnering well with major studios, and understanding market
needs and trends. She is at the forefront of Netflixs growth strategies and a key
executive in the expansion initiatives.
She was also the keynote speaker at Digiworld last November in France,
where she inspired the crowd by emphasizing that the industry was just at the
beginning of seeing what TV can do for viewers. She outlined the challenges of
addressing the growing on-demand TV generation who wants content wherever
they want, however they want, using any business model. She also recently
spoke at the 2013 British Screen Advisory Council summit in London and has
been asked to speak at other leading industry conferences this year.
A Harvard Business School graduate, Merryman is also very passionate about
education in the US and serves on the boards of two non-profits in the Los
Angeles area: CoachArt and Bookends. She is also an active Charter Member of
Advancing Women Executives (AWE) and is regularly connecting, sponsoring
and promoting executive women with the group, whose mission is to increase
the number of women in senior management and on corporate boards by con-
necting executive women and encouraging and facilitating partnerships,
growth, sponsorship and collaboration, all of which Merryman takes a leader-
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FIONA FRANCOIS
HM Consul & Regional Director (West)
UK Trade& Investment
Los Angeles
I
N June 2009, Fiona Francois
became the youngest ever
appointee by the British govern-
ment to her current position as the
United Kingdom Trade & Investment
Regional Director for the western
United States. At the time of the
appointment, Francois territory cov-
ered nine western states. In October
of last year, that territory was
expanded to cover 31 states, repre-
senting 50% of the US gross domes-
tic product. Fiona is the leader of a
target-driven team of 60 Business
Development officers located in
states west of the Mississippi. This is
a critical role, given that the UK is
not only the single largest investor,
country-by-country, in California,
but also for the entire United States.
Bilateral trade between the two
countries is critical to the economies
of the UK and the US. In the last
year alone, Francois team has sup-
ports 1,600 British firms exploring
the US market. This has led to many
UK firms either establishing opera-
tions in the US, or expanding their
presence in the US market. In the
last year, Francois and her colleagues
has supported 140 US firms estab-
lishing and growing their operations
in the UK.
In addition, Francois has repre-
sented British interests in the US
with regular public speaking
engagements covering subjects such
as economics and innovation, as
well as marketing the UK message
through events and partnerships.
She has developed and managed
visits to California and other states
for UK government Ministers, sen-
ior officials and members of the
Royal Family, including the visit by
the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge in 2011.
ASHLEY JASON
Associate
Holland & Knight LLP
Los Angeles
A
SHLEY Jason joined Holland &
Knight as a summer associate
almost six years ago and
returned as an Associate the follow-
ing fall. She is recognized as an excel-
lent performer in all areas of com-
mercial real estate and is developing
an expertise in real property acquisi-
tions and real estate finance. Partners
give her significant responsibility
because of her knowledge, maturity
and work ethic. Clients frequently
praise her work. Having recently rep-
resented one of the largest providers
of video, high-speed data and phone
services in the United States in an
acquisition of several industrial prop-
erties over the course of two months,
Jason is considered a future leader
and expert in her field.
Her star continues to rise as she
was soon sought after to help a
national team of attorneys represent
a large public pension plan in its
purchase an impressive, 21-story
high-rise in the heart of downtown
Los Angeles.
Jasons commitment to make a
difference is evident in her profes-
sional and personal contributions to
support, promote and/or assist
members of the Los Angeles com-
munity. As a member of the Public
and Charitable Services Committee
for Holland & Knights Los Angeles
office, Jason consistently con-
tributes to the community through
volunteering her time in public
service. She helped lead the efforts
to raise almost $9,000 in 2012 for
an Auction for a Cause, where pro-
ceeds went to A Place Called
Home (APCH), which provides
after school art, enrichment and
educational programs each day to
more than 300 children in the Los
Angeles public schools.
JENNIE TA
Director of Administration;
Chief Financial Officer, California
Instituteof Advanced Management
El Monte
J
ENNIE Ta has an unusual back-
ground which was well fitted to
dare the impossible and
achieve the extraordinary required
for the demanding position she
assumed with the California Institute
of Advanced Management.
While still in college at UC
Riverside (UCR) she worked two full
time jobs in order to support her
parents immigrants who spoke
little English. In her day job from
8:30 am to 5:30 pm she was in
charge of financial aid at a fully
accredited non-profit university
granting bachelors, masters, and
doctorate degrees located in
Cypress. Her second job was as a
cocktail waitress at El Toritos,
where she worked from 6 pm to
midnight daily plus one full day
over the weekend. At age 22, she
was promoted to Restaurant
Manager at El Toritos and super-
vised 49 employees, first in Cerritos,
then in Pasadena. After two years
she was promoted further to lead an
accounting group at the headquar-
ters of Real Mex, which owns not
only the El Torito chain, but also
the Acapulco chain and others. On
track to receive a promotion to a
senior executive position before age
30, and in the midst of a nighttime
CPA program, she was persuaded to
leave Real Mex to assume a top job
at a non-profit graduate school that
didnt yet exist.
The California Institute of
Advanced Management (CIAM) is a
non-profit graduate school based on
the values and principles of Peter F.
Drucker, and offering the MBA
degree in executive management and
entrepreneurship. It was incorporated
in 2011 as a non-profit graduate
school with Tas assistance.
NATALIE TAYLOR
VicePresident, Marketing
Wedbush Securites
Los Angeles
N
ATALIE Taylor is Vice President
of Marketing for Wedbush
Securities, one of the nations
leading financial services providers
headquartered in Los Angeles.
Colleagues respect her as a hardwork-
ing, caring leader recognized for
growing a marketing department of
one into an efficient team of nine in
a just few short years. She continues
to rise, overseeing the firms market-
ing, advertising, corporate communi-
cation, public relations, social media
and corporate event activities.
Under Taylors guidance, Wedbush
was of thefirst financial firms to launch
a firm-widesocial media initiative
allowing employees to engagein social
media for business purposes. Leading
thecharge, shebrought thefirms IT,
Business Conduct (compliance) and
Marketing departments together to
tackletheissue. Her strategy was a suc-
cess, empowering thefirms financial
advisors, investment bankers, equity
sales and traders, and equity research
analysts to join thedigital conversation.
In addition to the successful
launch of the firms social media ini-
tiative Taylor co-chairs
WEDBUSHCares, the firms corporate
giving program that launched in late
fall of 2012. Taylor cultivated the
idea as part of her vision to unify the
firms formerly fragmented chartable
activity under one umbrella. Devoted
to enhancing the local community,
WEDBUSHCares launch event bene-
fited Los Angeles youth through the
donation of more than 800 Los
Angeles Dodgers tickets to five LA-
based organizations including the
Stuart M. Ketchum Downtown
YMCA, Big Brothers Big Sisters of
Greater Los Angeles, The Gabriella
Foundation, Heart of Los Angel
(HOLA) and the Fulfillment Fund.

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KARIN BARTER FIELDING
K
ARIN Fielding possesses an unwavering commitment to helping
others. She is dedicated to ensuring that those most in need
are given the opportunities and assistance they need to sur-
vive and thrive.
For the past several years, Fielding has volunteered her time as a Court
Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), helping abused and neglected foster
children to receive the best outcomes possible as they move through the
dependency court system. For the past decade, Fielding has also been
involved with The Everychild Foundation whose mission is to ease suffering
of children whether due to disease, disability, abuse, neglect or poverty. Over
200 women are members of the Foundation and combine their financial
resources to support the funding of one $1 million community project each
year. This giving circle model is a growing and highly successful approach
to philanthropy that is gaining momentum across the country. Over the
past 12 years, Everychild has allocated $9.5 million in grant funding with
over 500,000 children benefitting from these projects. In 2005, she became a
member of the Kayne Eras Center Angels, a group of philanthropic women
who are committed to supporting the continuum of special education and
therapeutic services provided by the Kayne Eras Center (KEC).
With her deep commitment to improving the quality of community life
and public health, in early 2012, Fielding and her husband Dr. Jonathan
Fielding donated assets valued at $50 million to the renamed UCLA
Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health the largest gift in the
schools 50-year history.
Her volunteer work with abused and neglected children in the child wel-
fare system; her leadership at the Everychild Foundation; the phenomenal
gift she and her husband, Dr. Jonathan Fielding, made to UCLA to support
public health; and her involvement with ECF ensuring that children with
special needs receive the education they deserve all demonstrate not only
her civic responsibility, but also her caring, generous and giving spirit.
Philanthropist of the Year
Pam Kehaly works tirelessly to nd innovative ways

to control rising medical costs and partner with the
medical community to ensure that Californians have
access to quality health care. As President of Anthem
Blue Cross of California, she is a respected leader and
role model. But her achievements arent nearly as
impressive as her mission: to help Californians get
and stay healthy.
Thats truly the denition of a woman
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MELANIE BARR-LEVEY
Owner
Barr InsuranceServices
Hawthorne
M
ELANIE Barr-Levey has dedicated
her career to supporting women
in business and their overall
positive impact on society. As a woman-
owned business owner, she is the CEO of
Barr Insurance Services, a corporation
focused on insurance compliance and
public safety. Leveraging her business acu-
men and political awareness, Barr-Levey
has been contracted by national leaders to
provide innovative solutions for the pub-
lic sector to increase insurance compli-
ance and heighten public safety. But this
is only one of her roles.
Barr-Levey has also served as Chair of
the Board of Directors for Step Up
Womens Network, a non-profit dedicated
to helping underserved teen girls graduate
high school and get accepted to college. She has been a constant inspiration as
Chair of the Step Up Board, encouraging and developing each fellow Board
member to achieve consistently higher fundraising goals and accomplishments.
Bar-Levey herself is responsible for having $14,700 donated to Step Up in 2011,
$45,206 in 2012 and $20,500 already (year to date) for 2013. She has helped
grow the Step Up Board in membership each year, including spending incredible
amounts of time recruiting new members and interviewing potential board
members, and has enabled tremendous growth even in the down economy.
Barr-Levey is also a member of the Board of Digs 4 Kids (D4K), a communi-
ty based after-school program and organization founded by Olympic Gold
Medalist, Eric Fonoimoana, to provide youth in low-income communities with
increased opportunities for academic and athletic achievement. With only
60% of the children in underserved schools graduating from high school, D4K
is teaching kids that they can be super heroes through education.
GLORIA BORGES
ExecutiveDirector
TheWunderGlo Foundation
Los Angeles
I
N September of 2010, OMelveny
attorney Gloria Borges was diagnosed
with Stage IV colon cancer, and given
long odds at survival. Her initial prognosis
gave her a year to live two years at most
and promised incredible pain, a steep
decline in health, and a certain and early
death. Undaunted by the challenges that
lay ahead, Borges attacked her disease
head-on and with confidence, and started
the WunderGlo blog, an informative,
description of her treatment experiences
which has now reached over 100,000
unique visitors in over 100 countries.
Sensing that she had the ability to help
people in a meaningful way, Borges in
September of 2011 launched The
WunderGlo Foundation, the only colon
cancer non-profit headquartered in California. Its goal is to support cutting-
edge research for the cure, to promote healthy lifestyle choices for patients and
non-patients alike, and to empower patients. In its first year, The WunderGlo
Foundation raised $100,000 and made its first research grant of $50,000 to the
USC GI Oncology Program in June of 2012.
In February of 2013, Borges took a leave of absence from OMelveny to
embark upon a revolutionary and game-changing initiative. With her oncolo-
gist and armed with a medical team of clinicians and researchers, Borges and
The WunderGlo Foundation launched The Wunder Project. The goal of The
Wunder Project is simple: to raise $250M for cutting-edge, large-scale research
aimed at finding the cure for colon cancer within 8-9 years. Borges is commit-
ted and focused on leading this movement for the cure and changing cancer
treatment and research forever.
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KELLY HANKER
Attorney
Jackson Lewis, LLP
Los Angeles
K
ELLY Hanker is a busy attorney at
Jackson Lewis, handling a full
caseload with dedication and a
strong work ethic. But it is what she
makes time for outside the office that has
landed her in these pages. Hanker serves
on the Board of Step Up Womens
Network, a national nonprofit organiza-
tion igniting women and girls to fulfill
their potential and empower teen girls
from under-resourced communities to be
confident, college-bound, and career-
ready, as well as propel professional
women through connections, collabora-
tions, and continuous development.
Beyond her role on the Board, Hanker
consistently serves as a mentor to the Step
Up teens and has assisted her mentees in
getting acceptance and even full ride scholarships to colleges and universities
such as the University of Santa Barbara and Loyola Marymount.
Hanker is also serving on the Board of Directors for the Women Lawyers
Association of Los Angeles (WLALA) for her fourth consecutive year. Currently,
she is Co-Chair of the Business Development Committee for which she recent-
ly conceived and planned an online webinar focusing on how female attor-
neys can build their own personal brand. Hanker has also mentored a number
of law students and young lawyers through WLALA to assist them in finding
legal jobs and connect them with other women inside and out of the organiza-
tion to help them succeed at their goals and ambitions. During her first year
on the WLALA Board she served as Co-Chair of the Financial Development
Committee and raised over $26,000 for the organization that year in what was
the highest documented amount fundraised by that Committee in the history
of WLALA.
ROBBIE MOTTER
Western & Mid Atlantic Regional Coordinator
National Association of FemaleExecutives
Menifee
R
OBBIE Motter is well known through-
out theUnited States and particular-
ly in her homestateof California,
whereshes received numerous awards for
her own public relations and marketing
company, Contacts Unlimited, and also for
her serviceto executiveand entrepreneurial
women and community organizations. Her
primary business services areconsulting,
event planning and management, speaker
placement, government contract procure-
ment, and publicity campaigns.
For morethan a decade, Motter has
served as theWest Coast and Mid-Atlantic
Director of theNational Association for
FemaleExecutives (NAFE), theworlds largest
network of executiveand entrepreneurial
women. Shes launched dozens of success-
ful local networks, prestigious events, and highly visiblepublicity campaigns for
NAFE and her many privateclients. Shealso serves or has served on numerous
civic and business boards and chaired countless profitableevents and campaigns.
Motter is a great strategic thinker and methodical implementer. Her knowl-
edge, concern and vision stretch from the national and international corporate
and government worlds she led for many years, to the organizations and indi-
viduals (especially women and small business owners) in her local community.
Those she has worked with call Motter a woman of high integrity, exuber-
ant energy and a joyous connector. She always thinks of how she can be of
service to other women and support the community in every way possible.
She demonstrates true leadership skills in the organizations she runs and the
nonprofits she helps and always wears a smile as well as sharing from her
heart. Motter possesses true passion and commitment in all aspects of her life.
Her motto is: Show up and ask for what you want.

MONICA DODI
Co-Founder & Managing Director
The Womens Venture Capital Fund
Los Angeles
M
ONICA Dodi has demonstrated strong leadership skills through-
out her extensive career. Having founded and built four suc-
cessful companies including MTV Europe and AOLs
Entertainment Asylum, she has enjoyed being an entrepreneur
on the cutting edge of the new media landscape.
Dodi is a passionate believer that there are opportunities today for
women to create new businesses with innovative products and services and
that those opportunities have been growing in appeal as career paths and a
chance for women to get excited about their jobs and build personal wealth
and satisfaction. To this end, Dodi most recently co-founded the Womens
Venture Capital Fund (WVCF) based in Los Angeles and Portland to invest
in high potential, yet largely overlooked female entrepreneurs.
The Womens Venture Capital Fund is built upon the simple idea that
women-led companies represent great investment opportunities for venture
investors. Initially surprised to see the sheer lack of venture capital going to
teams with at least one woman in a founding role, Dodi and her business
partner Edith Dorsen decided they would do something proactive to make a
change. Driven by the philosophy that diversity of any kind leads to better
decision making by incorporating different points of view, the Womens
Venture Capital Fund is focused on gender-diverse teams that have proven
market traction for their business. The WVCF is specifically interested in
early stage (post angel), capital efficient companies in the digital media and
sustainability (health, wellness, eco/green) sectors. Dodi and her team see
these sectors are poised for expansive growth, especially on the West Coast.
Women-led technology companiesarestill underrepresented in theranksof
venture-backed companiesgenerally (with 95% of venturecapital going to all male
teams), but thanksto pioneerssuch asDodi and organizationssuch asWVCF,
thosenumbersaresteadily changing for thebetter. TheWVCF hasalready invest-
ed in two women-led digital media companiesthusfar, IvyCorp and Proxio.
Corporate Advocate of the Year
Corporate Advocate of the Year
LISA ADAMS
CEO, Designer
LA Closet Design
Los Angeles
L
ISA Adams of LA Closet Design
is one of the Founding
Sponsors of the West Coast
Regional Office of Dress for Success
Worldwide. Dress for Success pro-
motes the economic independence of
disadvantaged women by providing
professional attire, a network of sup-
port and the career development
tools to help women thrive in work
and in life.
When the office was scheduled to
open in Winter 2009, she worked
tirelessly with vendors and sponsors
and donated design services to Dress
for Success to create the offices recep-
tion area and dressing boutique,
where clients of the organization
receive professional attire to support
their journey to gain and maintain
employment. LA Closet Designs
underlying mission statement is to
serve and empower other women, so
Adams designed a space that shifts
the Dress for Success experience for
underprivileged women from receiv-
ing charity to an empowering and
enjoyable boutique shopping
opportunity that provides a fashion-
able foundation for achieving their
goals and aspirations.
In addition to being one of the
founding sponsors of Dress for
Success Worldwide West, Adams
has also lent her creative design and
support to the annual Shop for
Success popup store fundraiser, the
organizations signature shopping
event where 100% of the proceeds
benefit the programs of Dress for
Success Worldwide- West. Her partic-
ipation on the Shop for Success
event committee has set the tone
both visually and aesthetically for
the event space, all while contacting
and sourcing her professional and
personal contacts for product and
other in-kind donations so that
expenses for the event can remain as
low as possible.
GAIL BECKER
Chair, Canada, Latin America
& U.S. Western Region
Edelman
Los Angeles
G
AIL Becker is a business-
woman who continues to
drive the public relations
industry forward, and is working to
leave this world a better place than
when she found it. In her role as a
high-ranking executive at Edelman,
she is responsible for the firms
operations in Latin America and
Canada and has strategic oversight
for the U.S. Western Region. In
addition to her day-to-day responsi-
bilities, she goes above and beyond
to ensure Edelman is a great place
to work for all employees and works
to support several Los Angeles-area
organizations.
In 2011, Edelman CEO, Richard
Edelman, asked Becker personally to
chair a new company initiative
known as GWEN, Edelmans Global
Womens Executive Network aimed
at achieving a 50/50 ratio of
women/men in terms of leadership
by 2016. Under Beckers stewardship,
the initiative has made progress in
five areas: Mentorship &
Sponsorship; Education; Policy;
Career Paths; and Recruitment.
Meanwhile, Becker is making
strides on a global level as well In
2011, she wrote, directed and pro-
duced a short documentary with
her 13 year-old son Joshua, which
followed her son (then nine) on a
journey with his grandfather, a
holocaust survivor. Together, the
family traveled to Auschwitz where
the grandfather was imprisoned at
age nine. Narrated by Joshua, the
film captures the essence of that day
in a way that impacts all who wit-
ness it. A Journey with Purpose
premiered at the Hollywood Film
Festival in 2011 and has been fea-
tured at several film festivals
throughout the U.S. ever since. In
April, the film was screened at the
New York Historical Society as part
of their Yom haShoah program.
PATRICIA HAUSKNOST
Manager of Correspondent Banking
City National Bank
Los Angeles
P
ATRICIA Hausknost of City
National Bank has made giv-
ing back a key element of
who she is throughout her career. She
currently serves as Cabinet Chair of
United Way of Greater Los Angeles
Women Leaders (she has been a
donor via workplace giving to United
Way since the mid-1970s).
Additionally she has been a mentor
in the Drucker for Future Leaders pro-
gram at Cathedral High School and
participates in various Career Days
in elementary and middle schools.
She is a tireless volunteer and fund
raiser for the Ronald McDonald
Charities, raising money for and pro-
viding sweat equity to the Camp
Ronald McDonald Tennis Marathon.
Additionally, she annually volunteers
her time and money for the
American Liver Foundation
walkathon, Junior Achievement
Bowl-a-thon and the American
Cancer Society Daffodil Days.
Despite her full-time commit-
ment at City National Bank manag-
ing the Global Financial Institutions
Group, Hausknost still seeks out
more opportunities to make a differ-
ence in the workplace as well as the
community at large. Last year, she
donated nearly 500 hours of volun-
teer time. Within City National
Bank, she served as the inaugural
co-chair of the Womens Caucus
from 2009 to 2012. She also spear-
headed the establishment and
chaired City National Banks mentor
program steering committee.
As if that wasnt enough, repre-
senting City National Bank on the
California Bankers Association State
Government Relations Committee,
Hausknost ensures that the banks
values and community commit-
ments are appropriately highlighted
and considered with all key deci-
sions affecting financial institutions
in the State.
TIFFANY SMITH-ANOAI
VicePresident,
Diversity & Communications
CBS
Studio City
W
IDELY respected throughout
the entertainment industry
for her assiduous work
ethic and winning personality,
Tiffany Smith-Anoai is deeply com-
mitted to identifying solutions that
address the state of diversity within
the entertainment industry. Smith-
Anoai joined CBS Entertainment as a
Senior Publicist for primetime series
in 2000. Since then she has been pro-
moted multiple times. Most recently,
she was promoted to Vice President,
Diversity & Communications. In this
position, she is directly responsible
for the development and execution
of communications strategies for
diversity initiatives and programs
across the entire company. She also
manages the internship and mentor-
ship program for CBS West Coast
Communications office.
Her position did not exist five
years ago until she pitched it to her
bosses. She is now the force behind
the networks highly lauded diversity
workshop, CBS DIVERSITY DISCUS-
SION that each year brings together
the industrys multi-cultural leader-
ship under one roof for frank dia-
logue on inclusion and diversity with
CBS Executive Producers/
Showrunners and CBSExecutives.
Smith-Anoai believes in the upmost
importance of diversity, stating that it
is not just the right thing to do but an
important and integral part the busi-
ness model that should be respected
as such. In providing words of wis-
dom, she emphasizes the need for
hard work stating that one should be
relentless in pursuing success, do the
research and be prepared each and
every day and be ready to network.
In her community, she is an active
member of AWE and is involved in
several charities, including Big
Brothers Big Sisters and the Make-A-
Wish Foundation.
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KIPP LA School
ExecutiveDirector
Los Angeles
Kathy Aaronson
Sales AthleteExecutiveSearch
CEO & Founder
Beverly Hills
Leslie Acoca, MA, MFT
National Girls Health & JusticeInstitute
President
Los Angeles
Janis Adams
Academic Achievers
Found & CEO
Santa Monica
Annette Ahlers
Moss Adams LLP
Partner
Los Angeles
Jessica Alba
TheHonest Company
Co-Founder
Santa Monica
Graef Allen
Dolby Laboratories
Manager of Content Services
Burbank
Sylvia Allen
Sylvideo Productions, LLC
Owner/CEO/ExecutiveProducer
Los Angeles
Darya Allen-Attar
Broads Circle
Founder
Pacific Palisades
Alexis Alonzo
Pircher, Nichols & Meeks
Associate
Los Angeles
Rebecca Amis
MuseSchool CA, Global Muse
Co-Founder
Calabasas
Suzy Amis Cameron
MuseSchool CA, Global Muse
Co-Founder
Calabasas
Brooke Anderson
Gala Films & Cordova Pictures
Co-owner/ Producer
Los Angeles
Sharon Armstrong
Todd Team Coaching
Executive
Pasadena
Amy Armstrong Roxas
ID Media
EVP, ManagingDirector
West Hollywood
Dr. Frances Arnold
California Instituteof Technology/GEVO
Professor of Chemical Engineering,
Bioengineering
Pasadena
Chatty Arrieta
Partners Trust
COO
Beverly Hills
Samira Asemanfar
Bellacures
CEO, Founder, President
Los Angeles
Susan Azad
Latham & Watkins LLP
Partner
Los Angeles
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Kumari Bakhru
Walt Disney Studio Motion Pictures
Director of Strategic Planning
Burbank
Ivette Barnett
CBRE
Director
Ontario
Natalie Berend
USI
Senior VicePresident, Commercial Lines
Los Angeles
Polina Bernstein
Bernstein & Friedland, P.C.
Partner
Encino
Jessica Biel
Iron Ocean Films
Owner, Actress, Producer, Environmentalist
Los Angeles
Estee Bienstock, RN
ALLPOINT HomeHealth
Founder/Director
Los Angeles
Marisa Blackshire
Alston & Bird
Senior Associate
Los Angeles
Susan Booth
Holland & Knight LLP
Partner & West Coast Real EstatePractice
Leader
Los Angeles
Melissa Broadwell
Matadors Community Credit Union
Senior VicePresident
& Chief OperatingOfficer
Chatsworth
Margaret Brown
TheANROMA Group-SocializeLA.com
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Pasadena
Brianna Brown
TheNewHollywood.org
Founder & President
Los Angeles
Sarah Bumstead
La Crescenta
Monique Burrola
Partner Engineeringand Science, Inc.
Director of Operations
Torrance
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Alexis Carra
Actor, Director, Producer
Los Angeles
Sheila Caruso
Avon & NAFE
Unit Leader Avon,
Director LA County Network
Tustin
Andrea Caruso Townsend
SquireSanders
Of Counsel
Los Angeles
Judy Caruthers
Jones LangLaSalle
Century City
Jacqueline Castillo
Legacy Ladies, Inc.
Founder, President & CEO
Los Angeles
Carla Christofferson
OMelveny & Meyers LLP
ManagingPartner
Los Angeles
Joy Chudacoff
Smart Women Smart Solutions
Founder & CEO
Los Angeles
Tish Ciravolo
Daisy Rock Girl Guitars
President & Founder
Los Angeles
Lisa Cleari Reale
Lisa Cleari RealeAssociates
Principal
Los Angeles
Lauren Clifton
Gala Films & Cordova Pictures
Web Designer
Los Angeles
Patricia Costopoulos
Tishman Speyer Properties
Senior Property Manager
Beverly Hills
Erin Cottrell
Erin Cottrell
Actor/Activist
Los Angeles
Karen Covell
Hollywood Prayer Network
Director
Tamara Craver
ThePosseFoundation
Director
Los Angeles
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Liz Davidson
Financial Finesse
Founder & CEO
El Segundo
Talitha Davies Wegner
Davies Wegner Law Corporation
Founder
Los Angeles
Sharen Davis
CostumeDesigner/ExecutiveProducer
Burbank
Kitty Davis-Walker
Union RescueMission
Director of Public Relations
Los Angeles
Reena De Asis
Dress for Success
Director- West Coast Operations
Los Angeles
Pina De Rosa
GratitudeInternational
CEO
Sherman Oaks
Michelle DeAngelis
MichelleInc
Founder, President & CEO
Santa Monica
Claire DeBriere
TheRatkovich Company
COO & EVP
Los Angeles
Jennifer DeLara Vallejo
HispanicAmerican PoliceCommand Officers
Director
Los Angeles
Christine Deschaine
Kennedy Wilson Properties, Ltd
Beverly Hills
Debra Domeyer
Oversee.net
CEO
Los Angeles
Suzie Doran
SingerLewak LLP
Partner
Los Angeles
Desiree Doubrox
An Empowered Woman/ Foundation/ Us
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Faculty Business Management
Brandman University
Irvine
Tammy Edmonds
Tammy Edmonds Design, Inc.
Owner
Los Angeles
Dr. Anat Edreich-Epstein
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles & USC
AssociateProfessor
of Pediatrics & Pathology
Los Angeles
Vivian Eisenstadt
Prevent thePain Therapy, Inc.
Chief Orthopedic Specialist
Los Angeles
Laura Emanuel
Laura Emanuel
Founder
Los Angeles
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Lora Encinas
Torrey Pines Bank
Los Angeles
Elena Epstein
Epstein Custom Media
VicePresident/ Owner
Woodland Hills
Cloud Ettinger
Red Cloud, LLC
President
Los Angeles
Mary Fanaro
OmniPeace
CEO & Founder
Sherman Oaks
Lindsay Fontaine
InterMedia Advertising
National Media Supervisor
Woodland Hills
Kimberly Fowler
YASFitness Center
Owner & CEO
Marina Del Rey
Joan Frei
Nadel Architects
& Director of Marketing
Los Angeles
Diana Friedland
Bernstein & Friedland, P.C.
Partner
Encino
Susan Fries
Ecola Services, Inc.
President & CEO
Mission Hills
G
Orit Gadish
Los Angeles REO Brokers
President & CEO
Beverly Hills
Adriana Gallardo
Adrianas InsuranceServices, Inc.
CEO
Rancho Cucamonga
Yesenia Gallegos
Fox Rothschild LLP
Partner
Los Angeles
Berenice Giannini
Dogswell
CFO & COO
Los Angeles
Sandi Gideon
Sheridan In-HomeCare
Senior Client CareManager
Culver City
Patricia Glaser
Glaser Weil
Chair of theLitigation Department
& Partner
Los Angeles
Tamerlin Godley
Munger, Tolles, & Olson LLP
Partner
Los Angeles
Karenjo Goodwin
Exact Staff
CEO & Founder
Woodland Hills
Thyonne Gordon
CoachArt
ExecutiveDirector
Los Angeles
Dr. Yolanda Gorman
Phillips GraduateInstitute
President
Chatsworth
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Tracy Green
Green & Associates
FoundingPartner
Los Angeles
Robin Greenberg
Prudential California Realty Brentwood
Realtor
Los Angeles
Lisa Gritzner
Cerrell Associates, Inc.
President
Los Angeles
Tamara Gurney
Mission Valley Bank
President & CEO
Sun Valley
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Terri Haack
Terranea Resort
and ManagingDirector
Rancho Palos Verdes
Mona Hanna
Michelman & Robinson, LLP
ManagingPartner- OrangeCounty Office
Irvine
Kathy Hao
TheLaw Officeof Kathy Hao
Attorney at Law
Pasadena
Varda Hardy
BigVoicetheMovie/ LiveTribe
Productions
Writer, Director, Producer
Rebecca Harrington
Alston & Bird
Senior Associate
Los Angeles
Maura Harrington, MBA, PhD
Center for Nonprofit Management
COO & VicePresident of Consulting
Los Angeles
Michele Havens
Northern Trust
Senior VicePresident, LA Region President
Los Angeles
Terry Hawkins
Peoplein Progress
CEO
Manhattan Beach
Dalia Hayon
Generation 2 Generation
Independent Financial Planner
West Hills
Tracy Hensley
KPMG LLP
Audit Partner
Los Angeles
Dawn Higginbotham
Cordova Pictures
Producer
Studio City
Susan Higginbotham
Higgis
Caterer
Taryn Hipwell
EcoDivas
Creator
Los Angeles
Courtney Hoffman
CostumeDesigner
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Steptoe& Johnson LLP
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Los Angeles
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Ronda Jackson
Dcor Interior Designs
Principal & CEO
Los Angeles
Toni Jaramilla
Toni Jaramilla,
a Professional Law Corporation
Principal Owner & Attorney
Los Angeles
Whitney Jones Roy
Sheppard Mullin
Los Angeles ManagingPartner
Los Angeles
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Ruth Kahn
Steptoe& Johnson LLP
Partner
Los Angeles
Brandi Kamenar
ImageDesign Studio
CEO
Beverly Hills
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Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro, Marshall & Harlan
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Encino
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her path towards a career as an equal rights attorney. She
has been practicing employment law since 1994. Jaramilla
is recognized as a erce and compassionate lawyer, successfully representing workers
in hundreds of claims involving discrimination on the basis of race, gender, pregnancy,
disability, religion, age, sexual orientation, political afliation, harassment, retaliation,
wrongful termination, and unpaid wages.
Since her college years, Jaramilla had always envisioned a career path that included
making a difference in peoples lives and creating positive social change through advocacy.
As a UCLA undergraduate, Jaramilla was a student activist and peer counselor, providing
encouragement and mentorship to low income and minority students so that they could
successfully graduate. In law school and immediately upon obtaining her law degree,
she took leadership positions in organizations that provide pro bono legal assistance to
low income and immigrant communities who have limited access to the justice system.
Jaramilla continues volunteering her time through outreach organizations to help educate
communities about their legal rights.
As the founder and sole proprietor of her law rm, Jaramilla successfully manages a
thriving law practice while vigorously representing her clients who are from all walks of
life ranging from minimum wage earners to top executives and professionals from many
industries. Despite having a demanding law practice and being a mother of two young
daughters, Jaramilla mentors many students and new lawyers who reach out to her for help.
Jaramilla is currently the Chair of the California Employment Lawyers Association, one
of Californias strongest employee rights group comprised of attorneys. While on the CELA
Board, she helped form the Diversity Outreach Committee with a mission to help increase
multi-cultural and gender diversity in the legal profession through scholarships and
fellowships. Jaramilla was the 2010 recipient of CELAs Joe Posner Award in recognition
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Anthem BlueCross
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HauteHousePR & Marketing
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Coachingfor Health, LLC
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SingerLewak LLP
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Amy Levy Public Relations, Inc.
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Aequitas Wealth Management
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Los Angeles
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Acacia Wealth Advisors
President
Beverly Hills
Dr. Cathie Lippman
Lippman Center for Optimal Health
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Judi Lirman
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Psychotherapist
Tarzana
Chantal Lugo
Union RescueMission
VicePresident of Human Resources
Los Angeles
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CBRE
Los Angeles
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Lynn Mack-Costello
Girl Scouts of Greater Los Angeles
ServiceUnit Manager (Volunteer)
Pacific Palisades
Michelle Maddalena
Dolby Laboratories
Senior Director, WorldwideContent
Services
Michal Mael
Our World Global Foundation
Founder & President
North Hollywood
Val Maki
KPWR-FM (Power 106)
ExecutiveVP, Emmis Radio and Market
Manager
Burbank
Anastasia K. Mann
TheCornicheGroup, Inc.
Chairman & CEO
West Hollywood
Mary Mazur
KCETLink
Chief OperatingOfficer
Burbank
Laura McHolm
NorthStar MovingCompany
Co-Founder & Director of Marketing
Chatsworth
Sue Meier
International Child Advocacy Network
FoundingExecutiveDirector
Los Angeles
Jackie Mendelson
ArabicaDabra
President
Van Nuys
Myka Miller
Harmony Project
ExecutiveDirector
Los Angeles
Kristina Mitchell
Actor/Activist
Los Angeles
Regina Moniz
Prodege
Director of Customer Service
Torrance
Julian Moses
Twentieth Century Fox/ Independent
ExecutiveAssistant/Actress/Writer
Cheryl Munoz
Zephyr Investment Management
President
WestlakeVillage
Caroline Nahas
Korn/Ferry International
ManagingDirector, Southern Ca
Los Angeles
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KPMG LLP
Tax ManagingDirector
Los Angeles
Vanessa Nellis
Lewitt, Hackman, Shapiro,
Marshall & Harlan
Family Law Attorney & Shareholder
Encino
Janet Neman
Charles Dunn Company, Inc.
Senior ManagingDirector
Los Angeles
Monique Ngo-Bonnici
Winston & Strawn
Associate
Los Angeles
Courtney Nichols Gould
SmartyPants Vitamins
CEO & Co-Founder
Venice
Linda Northrup
Northrup Schlueter
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WestlakeVillage
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ROC Pictures & Arbonne
Owner, Producer, Actress,
Director, Writer
Jeanette OConnor
TheSeenwork Company
Actor/ Workshop Teacher
North Hollywood
Debra Olk
VicePresident
Beverly Hills
Silvia Olmedo
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TheSearch Agency
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Los Angeles
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Veronica Perez & Associates
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Jennifer Raim
Dolby Laboratories & Independent
Producer, Editor, Writer, &
Senior ServiceOps
Tracy Randall
Cooking.com
Co-Founder & CEO
Marina Del Rey
Gina Renna
LifeSpan Medicine
CEO
Santa Monica
Alison Ressler
Sullivan & Cromwell, LLP
Partner
Los Angeles
Staci Jennifer Riordan
Fox Rothschild LLP
Partner, Chair of Fashion Law Practice
Los Angeles
Claire Risoli
Risoli Films & Arbonne
Owner, Producer, Actress
Kimberly Roberts Stepp
Charles Dunn Company, Inc.
Senior ManagingDirector
Los Angeles
Drew Robertson
Winston & Strawn
Associate
Los Angeles
Susanne Robins
Ascend TrainingSolutions
President
Culver City
Maria Rodriguez
DLA Piper
Partner
Los Angeles
Andrea Roschke
Roschke& Wall, Business Advisors
& CPAs, Inc.
Owner, CPA
Calabasas
Sharone Rosen
TempleBeth Torah/ Chiropractic to Go
Cantor/ Owner
Reseda
Kathleen Ruddy
St. Baldricks Foundation
Chief ExecutiveOfficer
Monrovia
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Annie Safoian
SADA Systems, Inc.
Chief Financial Officer
North Hollywood
Sandra Sanders
Re/Max EstateProperties
Broker/ Owner
Palos Verdes Estates
Carla Sanger
LAs BEST After School Enrichment
Program
President & CEO
Los Angeles
Claudia Sangster
Harris myCFO LLC
Director,
Philanthropy, Estate, & Trust Services
Los Angeles
Robin Sax
Law Offices of Robin Sax/ KTTV News
Owner
Beverly Hills
Carol Schary
Nathan Kimmel Company, LLC
President & Owner
Los Angeles
Beth Schore
Betro Designs & Rock Camp for Girls
(Volunteer)
Artist, Designer, CEO & Volunteer
Studio City
Nicole Schumann
Prodege.com
Director, Product Management
Torrance
Lauren Selman
Reel Green Media
Founder, President
Los Angeles
Jessica Shofler
TheLaw Firm for Non-Profits, P.C.
Associate
Studio City
Michelle Short-Nagel, Esq.
Law Offices of MichelleShort-Nagel
Attorney, SolePractioner
Woodland Hills
Victoria Silchenko, PhD
MetropoleCapital Group
Founder & CEO
Los Angeles
Danone Simpson
MontageInsuranceSolutions
President & CEO
Woodland Hills
Brenda Smith
Brenda B. Smith Acupuncture
Founder & CEO
Pasadena
Amy Solomon
Girardi & Keese
AssociateLawyer
Los Angeles
Kim Somers-Egelsee
Kim LifeCoach
Speaker, Author
Amanda Sommerfeld
Winston & Strawn
Partner
Los Angeles
Tonia & Sonia Sonju
Park VillageLLP
President/VP
Compton
Zeda Spiegel
TheJewelry Factory
Owner & Designer
North Hollywood
Gail Standish
Winston & Strawn
Partner
Los Angeles
Loren Stephens
WriteWisdom
President
Santa Monica
Sarmela Sunder, MD
Sunder Plastic Surgery
Owner
Beverly Hills
Cindy Sutherland
New Horizons Computer
LearningCenters of SoCal
VicePresident of Career Development
Culver City
Deborah Sweeney
MyCorporation.com
CEO
Calabasas
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Sona Tatiyants
Tatiyants Law, P.C.
President, Owner, & Attorney
Glendale
Diane Taub
Arbonne
Area Manager
Los Angeles
Keren Taylor
WriteGirl
ExecutiveDirector
Los Angeles
Kristen Tischhauser
talkTECH
Co-Founder & ManagingPartner
Los Angeles
Star Tomlinson
TheDrain Co.
Owner
Northridge
Alison Triessl
TheLaw Officeof Alison Triessl
Criminal DefenseAttorney
Sherman Oaks
Wendy Tucker
Sedgwick LLP
Partner
Los Angeles
Therese Tucker
BlackLineSystems
CEO & Founder
Woodland Hills
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Dr. Caty Van Houten-Williams
Doctor/Chiropractor/Physical
Therapist
Studio City
Antonette Vanasek
Vanasek InsuranceServices, Inc.
President
Pasadena
Marina Velez
Spanish Teacher
Santa Monica
Marina Viscun
Producer
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Kitty Wallace
Colliers International
Los Angeles
Panney Wei
PositiveChanges Consulting
Chief Empowerment Officer
Beverly Hills
Dorothy Wolons
MenifeeValley Chamber of Commerce
CEO
Menifee
Cindy Wu-Freedman
Keller Williams Realty-TheEstates
Director of Luxury Divison
Granada Hills
Y
Kalika Yap
Citrus Studios/ LuxeLink
CEO & Founder
Santa Monica
Binti Yost
KPMG LLP
Tax ManagingDirector
Los Angeles
Shelly Youree
Thompson & Knight LLP
Los Angeles OfficeLeader, Tax Partner
Los Angeles
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Julie Zamorska
iolo Technologies
VP of CorporateCommunications
Los Angeles
Dina Zaphiris
Dogsdetectcancer.org
Founder
West Hills
Amy Zimmerman
Amy Zimmerman & Associates
President
Torrance
The Los Angeles Business Journal is proud to
announce the 2013 CIO/CTO Awards Finalists:
Doug Albrecht
Port of Long Beach
Chris Amerine
Union Rescue Mission
Shawn Aminian
Childrens Institute, Inc.
Kathy Austin
Forest Lawn
Tom Baker
Community Bank
Chris Benson
City of Redondo Beach
Scott Carl
Parsons
Christian Case
Bunim Murray Productions
Jim Connolly
Zynx Health
Gabe Cortina
Prolacta Bioscience
Ginny Davis
Technicolor
Monique Edwards
City of Lancaster
James Fiorillo
Kelly Pipe Co., LLC
Creighton Gernoble
Ascendant Services, Inc
David Girdner
Antropy, Inc.
Vic Herrera
DTT Surveillance, Inc.
Nate Ho
RBZ
Matthew Jester
City of Glendora
Jesse Juarros
Los Angeles County,
Department of Public Works
Dr. William Krenz
The Aerospace Corporation
David Lam
Stephen S Wise Temple
Philip Lieberman
Lieberman Software
Vegard Lindas
Dignied Transition Solutions
Julie Mattern
Gradient X
Dan Matthews
Skirball Cultural Center
Dr. Shahzad Munawwar
En Pointe Technologies
Peter Quan
California State University,
Los Angeles
Raj Rajkotia
Toyota Financial Services
Richard Randle
MBSG
Hovig Safoian
SADA Systems, Inc.
David Schirmer
City of Beverly Hills
Hershel Shoumer
LA Networks
Stan Stahl
Citadel Information Group
John Stuart
Beverly Hills Wealth Management
Paul Sunok
Agile360, A Division of
Entisys Solutions, Inc.
Jennifer Terril
True Religion Brand Jeans
Ken Thunberg
Salem Communications
Kevin Tonoian
City of Santa Clarita
David Tsuen
City of Montebello
David Watts
NetfFusion, Inc.
To register or for more information please visit
www.labusinessjournal.com/bizevents
or contact Jessica Ramey at 323.549.5225 ext. 213
or jramey@socalbusinessjournals.com
Date: Wednesday, June 5, 2013 Time: 6:00 8:00pm Location: Hyatt Regency Century Plaza
The CIO/CTO Awards event will honor Chief Information
Ofcers, or more broadly, those in the top information
technology positions within their organizations (CTO, VP,
Director, etc.). These important individuals and teams play
vital roles in making Los Angeles businesses, institutions
and nonprot groups successful. Together with their
CEOs, their decisions impact all aspects of the business
including their companys growth, protability, functionality
and competitiveness in the marketplace.
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Honorees accept their awards: From left, Mary Platt of event sponsor Union Bank, Nancy Bernstein, Monica Dodi, Business Journal Publisher Matt Toledo, Kelly Merryman, Paige
Adams-Geller, Gwynne Shotwell and Hadley Mullin of event sponsor TSG Consumer Partners.
Over 800 attendees were on hand at the event, held at the Platinum Ballroom in the J.W. Marriott Hotel at LA Live in Los Angeles on May 14th.

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