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The entrepreneurial dream is alive in the San Fernando Valley region, judging from the performance by businesses on this year's Fastest Growing Private Companies list. The Business Journal's annual roster [...]

Where can Valley-region accounting firms look for new clients? In expanding sectors of the economy, of course, especially where bookkeeping rules are still in flux. This Special Report looks at [...]

Accounting is numbers, and numbers aren't supposed to change. But the accounting profession--despite its image as a bastion of prudent calculation --has entered a period of disruption. An article in [...]

What makes an accountant a 'rising star' in the profession? That's the question the Business Journal posed to some of the largest firms in the Valley region. On the following [...]

Liana Tonoyan, chief information officer at Phonexa, a marketing automation firm in Glendale, has won the Patriotic Employer Award for her support of Ani Abrahamyan, a technical writer who also [...]

LegalZoom.com Inc. has launched a humorous ad campaign targeting would-be entrepreneurs with the tagline 'Now You're in Business.' The campaign, created by agency 72andSunny New York, features comedian Sam Richardson. [...]

A report last month from the American Hospital Association found that the pandemic 'has taken a significant toll on hospitals and health systems and placed enormous strain on the nation's [...]

Princess Cruises in Santa Clarita has named Hotel General Manager Terri Cybuliak, who leads a crew of 1,200 onboard the Sky Princess ship, as madrina ('god mother' in Spanish) for [...]

Avery Dennison Corp. in Glendale has appointed Deon Stander as its new chief operating officer. Previously, Stander was the vice president and general manager of retail branding and information solutions [...]

On Feb. 15, the city of Santa Clarita held a ceremony to name the new Cheri Fleming Auto Center Drive near Magic Mountain Parkway. The street commemorates the late Cheri [...]

Beth Seidenberg, founding managing director of Westlake Village BioPartners, was selected as the 2022 Woman of the Year by the Healthcare Businesswomen's Association. Seidenberg along with other honorees 'exemplify the [...]

Greg Willett is the new vice president of research at Institutional Property Advisors, a subsidiary of commercial real estate brokerage Marcus & Millichap Inc. in Calabasas. Previously, he worked 22 [...]

Teledyne Technologies Inc. has promoted JihFen Lei to the position of executive vice president of Teledyne FLIR Defense, the newly acquired imaging company. Teledyne FLIR Defense will take the place [...]

MailCon, the email subsidiary of Phonexa in Glendale, held its first-ever standalone conference in Las Vegas earlier this month featuring a performance by rapper Ja Rule. Phonexa sells a system [...]

Lori Berson, principal at marketing agency BersonDeanStevens Inc. in Westlake Village, has released a book titled 'Ready-Made Marketing--Tactics and Templates for Business Owners, Business Professionals and Independent Contractors.' In Berson's [...]

Large construction projects in the Valley region weathered the pandemic in 2021 with hopes for better times ahead, a strategy followed by the industry nationally. According to a mid-year forecast [...]

Chief Executive Nancy Hoffman Vanyek is looking to expand her staff at the Greater San Fernando Valley Chamber of Commerce, but she has run into an unexpected challenge. 'I've interviewed [...]

Mary Akpovi had an eventful year in 2021. She retired in April from Martini Akpovi Partners in Encino, the accounting firm she co-founded 30 years earlier; started another accounting firm; [...]

2021 was a good year for deal-making, but one type of big transaction stood out--initial public offerings. Nationally, this is the hottest year in history for companies going public. Wall [...]

Paula Bahamon has joined Valley Community Healthcare as its development director. Previously she served as vice president and community development officer at Mission Valley Bank in Sun Valley. Bahamon replaces [...]

Boys & Girls Club of the West Valley has renamed its main clubhouse in honor of late donor and executive Gary Thomas. A senior vice president at political ad agency [...]

How's the work-from-home routine? 'It's really living at work instead of working at home,' said Victor Berrellez. 'I feel like I sleep in my office every night.' The banker, whose [...]

Longtime Valley leader Marty Cooper had not one thing to celebrate. Or even two. He brought together 65 friends, associates and relatives to acknowledge three milestones: he and his wife [...]

Hispanics are entrepreneurial--as shown in the profiles on the following pages. But starting a business and growing one are different problems, and Hispanics face specific challenges with the latter. Stanford [...]

... Victoria Bourdas Martinez took over as chief executive of the Sherman Oaks Chamber of Commerce on Oct. 4. Her appointment was announced a couple of weeks earlier at a [...]

... Andy Pollock, chief executive of Anchor Loans in Thousand Oaks, can celebrate a cumulative lending total of $10 billion. The finance company, which makes short-term loans to house flippers, [...]

Entertainment startup Hello Group has opened Hello Studios in Burbank with a slate of new executives. At the top is Chief Executive Taylor Jones, a former performer at Walt Disney [...]

Judi Rose, well known to Valley leaders as the longtime chief development officer for Valley Community Healthcare, has decided to retire at the end of the year. What's she looking [...]

Loop Media Inc. launched a month-long programming initiative to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month staring Sept. 15. The Glendale short form video distributor is offering Unidxs en Esperanza (United in Hope) [...]

Glass House Brands has purchased the former Houweling's Tomatoes property near Camarillo for $93 million in cash and stock considerations. The Long Beach cannabis company bought the 160-acre property in [...]

Santa Paula-based avocado company Calavo Growers has announced the appointment of Mariela Matute as its chief financial officer, effective Oct. 11. Matute was the director and chief financial officer for [...]

Applebee's Neighborhood Bar and Grill, a restaurant chain owned by Glendale-based Dine Brands Global Inc., announced a new partnership with PepsiCo to serve an exclusive Mountain Dew flavor to customers [...]

KKR, a New York investment firm, announced plans to put another $40 million in Jet Edge International, an aircraft charter and management business at Van Nuys Airport. The investment follows [...]

Resonate Blends Inc., a cannabis holding company in Calabasas, has signed a letter of intent to acquire Lemon and Grass, a Florida-based cannabis wellness brand. Lemon and Grass sells products [...]

Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority has added the northwest San Fernando Valley to its ride-hailing service Metro Micro. The authority, known as Metro, said in a release that the [...]

Hispanic culture lends itself to starting businesses. According to '2020 State of Latino Entrepreneurship,' an annual report from Stanford University, the number of Hispanic-owned business with at least one employee [...]

The office building that hosts the headquarters of Valley Economic Alliance in Van Nuys has sold for $7 million, according to brokerage CBRE Group. The building at 5121 Van Nuys [...]

As the new chief people and diversity officer at Farmers Insurance, Mark David Welch will lead the HR team and the insurer's strategies related to people, culture and corporate structure, [...]

... Cavitation Technologies has added Gerald Bailey to its board. He is the former president of Exxon and currently is chairman of consulting firm Bailey Petroleum. Cavitation in Chatsworth makes [...]

American Business Bank has promoted Jeff Munson to executive vice president in the San Fernando Valley regional office. He had led he bank's Woodland Hills location since 2018. 'The San [...]