Waste Management announces new hire
Waste Management recently appointed Jeff Case as its major account representative for hospitality and large venues in San Diego and Orange Counties.
Case will be responsible for engaging and informing customers about the economic and social benefits of waste diversion and consult with new business prospects about ways to help them reach their diversion and sustainability goals.
"With his extensive experience in customer service and sales, Jeff is a great asset to the Waste Management team," said Jason Rose, general manager and vice president of Waste Management San Diego and Orange County. "He is a goal-focused team leader with solid qualifications in customer relationship-building and we are happy to have him on board."
In his previous position as a sales consultant for UniFirst Corporation, Case worked with companies of varying size across a range of industries to improve the value of service provided for both uniforms and facility service products. He utilized a top-down consultative approach, working with all levels of hierarchy in each business to ensure that all team members had a voice in every transition.
Prior to UniFirst Corporation, Case worked at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, where he served as an account executive in the fleet division.
"I am looking forward to a long career with Waste Management and am extremely excited about the opportunity to work with a company that takes great care to protect and preserve the environment," said Case.
Case earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego with a double major in political science and psychology.
Security Business Bank hires chief banking officer
Security Business Bank has hired Jim Horton as chief banking officer based in Carlsbad. Horton, who has 40 years of banking experience, will help to usher in the bank's next generation of growth. Horton will oversee the bank's sales, marketing and customer relationships.
"With an advisory approach and outstanding customer service, Security Business Bank occupies a sweet spot as the premier community banking partner for San Diego's small and midsized businesses," said Paul Rodeno, president and CEO of Security Business Bank. "As our target customers seek to purchase equipment, invest in infrastructure and leverage the economy's upswing, Jim will help us to bring in new business and grow our existing customer relationships."
Most recently, Horton was president and general chairman of the Farmers Insurance Open and The Century Club of San Diego. For the past several years, Horton served as director of strategic planning for Torrey Pines Bank. Previously, at California Bank & Trust, he was an executive vice president and division manager. Horton spent the first 16 years of his career at Bank of America where he enjoyed a successful career in operations, internal audit and business banking.
Since its founding in 2002, Security Business Bank (www.securitybusinessbank.com) has built a reputation for providing its small and mid-sized business customers with financial innovation, access to management and superior client service. The bank has redefined the business banking experience through its "Executive at Every Level" program, which fosters local decision-making, employee empowerment and community specialization.
Security Business Bank is an operating subsidiary of Security Business Bancorp, a bank holding company established in 2008 to support the bank's continued growth.
Security Business Bank operates three San Diego locations including Downtown, Carmel Valley and
Carlsbad offices.
Steve Forbes helps GIA celebrate 80th anniversary
The Gemological Institute of American (GIA) celebrated its 80th anniversary recently with its fifth annual International Gemological Symposium at its world headquarters in Carlsbad, an event that featured a keynote session on global finance and commerce by Steve Forbes.
The two-day symposium, titled "Advancing the Science and Business of Gems," was held May 29-30 and drew more than 700 attendees from 35-plus countries.
The GIA Symposium 2011 featured two parallel tracks, research and business, focusing on topics such as diamond and gemstone origin, pearl identification, treatments and synthetics, new technology and instrumentation, jewelry design, digital marketing, the luxury market, estate jewelry, sustainability and fair trade.
Forbes's opening address focused on global economic trends, specifically how the volatility of the U.S. dollar disrupts the world economy. "Today's markets are distorted because of monetary policy, thus no one knows the price of anything," he said. "The international supply chain is very complex and we need a stable currency to make it function properly. The instability of the dollar makes international commerce more difficult. Linking the dollar to gold could help stabilize the dollar."
In a business session, Scott Galloway, clinical associate professor at NYU Stern School of Business and founder of online gift products retailer Red Envelope, urged the trade to attack today's new upscale generation with innovative thinking and to embrace the Internet and social media as key marketing platforms. "GenY is spending and they love luxury. If they see you don't have a social media presence, they'll disregard you," said Galloway.
Attendees also heard from Ken Royal, senior client service manager of Gallup, who said that jewelers need to earn the trust of a younger generation; Stuart Robertson, research director of Gemworld International Inc., shared the coming trends in gemstone demand; and Gary Schuler, senior vice president and director of Sotheby's, discussed the extraordinary prices being garnered by top gems at auction.
In the research sessions, presentations described diamond color origin and assessing natural versus treated stones. Other speakers profiled important colored stone localities and mining techniques. Geographic origin determination, pearl identification, quality grading of opal, and new applications of luminescence and other analytical techniques in the laboratory were among the many additional enlightening presentations.
Xnergy acquires HVAC company
Carlsbad-based Xnergy announced last month that it completed the acquisition of HVAC Controls & Specialties, Inc., an Idaho-based service company that provides HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) controls and services to hospitals and other critical facilities.
Xnergy is expanding its reach nationwide by targeting acquisitions of companies with strong performance, a local presence and a scalable model.
HVAC Controls & Specialties reported $849,000 in revenue in 2010 and has a projected revenue amount of $1.2 million for 2011, the local company said in a news release. Blue Earth Inc. recently signed a binding Letter of Agreement to acquire Xnergy for up to approximately $18. 5 million.
Duo teams up to spread kindness
Sam Goodwin, president of the Carlsbad-based HOCOA Home Repair Network, has teamed up with another local designer to launch Make Kindness Your Business, a program that seeks to reach out to others in the community and create change by engaging in acts of empathy. For its first deed, the program helped transform the home of a Vista woman living with cancer into a serene sanctuary.
Goodwin and Deborah Norton, a residential and commercial color consultant who owns and Encinitas-based company, created the program using "an inspiring model that encourages businesses and individuals to engage in purposeful acts of kindness."
Goodwin and Norton helped Magi Pledger of Vista in April, who had recently lost her job to cancer. They transformed her 168-square-foot bedroom into a healing sanctuary with no cost to Pledger.
Since then, Nathan Padilla, a photographer from Encinitas offered to document the makeover and Lee Hubbard, who owns an Encinitas-based salon, offered Pledger a free facial.
"We want to inspire others to incorporate kindness into their everyday personal and business dealings," the pair said in a statement. "The gesture can be as simple as sharing a smile with a stranger or as large-scale as offering your professional services on a complimentary basis to someone whose life you can improve at little financial cost to yourself."
The pair said their goal is to spread the Make Kindness Your Bussiness program to as many businesses and individuals as they can.
Goodwin and Norton are inviting people to submit their experiences of kindness to [email protected]. For more about the program, visit www.facebook.com/makekindness.
Waste Management recently appointed Jeff Case as its major account representative for hospitality and large venues in San Diego and Orange Counties.
Case will be responsible for engaging and informing customers about the economic and social benefits of waste diversion and consult with new business prospects about ways to help them reach their diversion and sustainability goals.
"With his extensive experience in customer service and sales, Jeff is a great asset to the Waste Management team," said Jason Rose, general manager and vice president of Waste Management San Diego and Orange County. "He is a goal-focused team leader with solid qualifications in customer relationship-building and we are happy to have him on board."
In his previous position as a sales consultant for UniFirst Corporation, Case worked with companies of varying size across a range of industries to improve the value of service provided for both uniforms and facility service products. He utilized a top-down consultative approach, working with all levels of hierarchy in each business to ensure that all team members had a voice in every transition.
Prior to UniFirst Corporation, Case worked at Enterprise Rent-A-Car, where he served as an account executive in the fleet division.
"I am looking forward to a long career with Waste Management and am extremely excited about the opportunity to work with a company that takes great care to protect and preserve the environment," said Case.
Case earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego with a double major in political science and psychology.
Security Business Bank hires chief banking officer
Security Business Bank has hired Jim Horton as chief banking officer based in Carlsbad. Horton, who has 40 years of banking experience, will help to usher in the bank's next generation of growth. Horton will oversee the bank's sales, marketing and customer relationships.
"With an advisory approach and outstanding customer service, Security Business Bank occupies a sweet spot as the premier community banking partner for San Diego's small and midsized businesses," said Paul Rodeno, president and CEO of Security Business Bank. "As our target customers seek to purchase equipment, invest in infrastructure and leverage the economy's upswing, Jim will help us to bring in new business and grow our existing customer relationships."
Most recently, Horton was president and general chairman of the Farmers Insurance Open and The Century Club of San Diego. For the past several years, Horton served as director of strategic planning for Torrey Pines Bank. Previously, at California Bank & Trust, he was an executive vice president and division manager. Horton spent the first 16 years of his career at Bank of America where he enjoyed a successful career in operations, internal audit and business banking.
Since its founding in 2002, Security Business Bank (www.securitybusinessbank.com) has built a reputation for providing its small and mid-sized business customers with financial innovation, access to management and superior client service. The bank has redefined the business banking experience through its "Executive at Every Level" program, which fosters local decision-making, employee empowerment and community specialization.
Security Business Bank is an operating subsidiary of Security Business Bancorp, a bank holding company established in 2008 to support the bank's continued growth.
Security Business Bank operates three San Diego locations including Downtown, Carmel Valley and
Carlsbad offices.
Steve Forbes helps GIA celebrate 80th anniversary
The Gemological Institute of American (GIA) celebrated its 80th anniversary recently with its fifth annual International Gemological Symposium at its world headquarters in Carlsbad, an event that featured a keynote session on global finance and commerce by Steve Forbes.
The two-day symposium, titled "Advancing the Science and Business of Gems," was held May 29-30 and drew more than 700 attendees from 35-plus countries.
The GIA Symposium 2011 featured two parallel tracks, research and business, focusing on topics such as diamond and gemstone origin, pearl identification, treatments and synthetics, new technology and instrumentation, jewelry design, digital marketing, the luxury market, estate jewelry, sustainability and fair trade.
Forbes's opening address focused on global economic trends, specifically how the volatility of the U.S. dollar disrupts the world economy. "Today's markets are distorted because of monetary policy, thus no one knows the price of anything," he said. "The international supply chain is very complex and we need a stable currency to make it function properly. The instability of the dollar makes international commerce more difficult. Linking the dollar to gold could help stabilize the dollar."
In a business session, Scott Galloway, clinical associate professor at NYU Stern School of Business and founder of online gift products retailer Red Envelope, urged the trade to attack today's new upscale generation with innovative thinking and to embrace the Internet and social media as key marketing platforms. "GenY is spending and they love luxury. If they see you don't have a social media presence, they'll disregard you," said Galloway.
Attendees also heard from Ken Royal, senior client service manager of Gallup, who said that jewelers need to earn the trust of a younger generation; Stuart Robertson, research director of Gemworld International Inc., shared the coming trends in gemstone demand; and Gary Schuler, senior vice president and director of Sotheby's, discussed the extraordinary prices being garnered by top gems at auction.
In the research sessions, presentations described diamond color origin and assessing natural versus treated stones. Other speakers profiled important colored stone localities and mining techniques. Geographic origin determination, pearl identification, quality grading of opal, and new applications of luminescence and other analytical techniques in the laboratory were among the many additional enlightening presentations.
Xnergy acquires HVAC company
Carlsbad-based Xnergy announced last month that it completed the acquisition of HVAC Controls & Specialties, Inc., an Idaho-based service company that provides HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning) controls and services to hospitals and other critical facilities.
Xnergy is expanding its reach nationwide by targeting acquisitions of companies with strong performance, a local presence and a scalable model.
HVAC Controls & Specialties reported $849,000 in revenue in 2010 and has a projected revenue amount of $1.2 million for 2011, the local company said in a news release. Blue Earth Inc. recently signed a binding Letter of Agreement to acquire Xnergy for up to approximately $18. 5 million.
Duo teams up to spread kindness
Sam Goodwin, president of the Carlsbad-based HOCOA Home Repair Network, has teamed up with another local designer to launch Make Kindness Your Business, a program that seeks to reach out to others in the community and create change by engaging in acts of empathy. For its first deed, the program helped transform the home of a Vista woman living with cancer into a serene sanctuary.
Goodwin and Deborah Norton, a residential and commercial color consultant who owns and Encinitas-based company, created the program using "an inspiring model that encourages businesses and individuals to engage in purposeful acts of kindness."
Goodwin and Norton helped Magi Pledger of Vista in April, who had recently lost her job to cancer. They transformed her 168-square-foot bedroom into a healing sanctuary with no cost to Pledger.
Since then, Nathan Padilla, a photographer from Encinitas offered to document the makeover and Lee Hubbard, who owns an Encinitas-based salon, offered Pledger a free facial.
"We want to inspire others to incorporate kindness into their everyday personal and business dealings," the pair said in a statement. "The gesture can be as simple as sharing a smile with a stranger or as large-scale as offering your professional services on a complimentary basis to someone whose life you can improve at little financial cost to yourself."
The pair said their goal is to spread the Make Kindness Your Bussiness program to as many businesses and individuals as they can.
Goodwin and Norton are inviting people to submit their experiences of kindness to [email protected]. For more about the program, visit www.facebook.com/makekindness.