Toshiba Names Two Senior Directors
Robert Kreps has been named senior director, national sales, for Toshiba America Medical Systems in Tustin. Kreps, who joined Toshiba in 1997, had been senior director of the Healthcare Business Development group. Steve Sickels has been named senior director of the ultrasound business unit. Sickels was previously director of the MRI business unit and director, manager and product manager of nuclear medicine for the company.
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Rex K. Smith has been appointed vice chairman of Corporate Capital Group, a real estate investment and development company in Costa Mesa. Before joining the company, he was vice president of capital finance for Birtcher Real Estate Group in Laguna Niguel. Smith has also been director of the U.S. investment division for the Los Angeles office of Knight, Frank International.
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Stuart Rattray has been named to the newly created position of executive vice president for Australia-New Zealand Direct Line in Santa Ana. He had been senior vice president, North America.
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Hiroyuki Ochi has been appointed director of international sales for Veronex Technologies Inc. in Irvine. Ochi has more than 30 years' experience in software engineering and in international business.
* Lloyd H. Malchow has been named president and chief executive of SenoRx Inc., an Irvine private development-stage medical-device company. Previously, Malchow was president and chief executive of Penederm Inc., a specialty pharmaceutical company.
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Abbas Mohaddes has been appointed vice president of transportation systems for Odetics ITS in Anaheim, a subsidiary of Odetics Inc. Mohaddes joined the company last year after it acquired Meyer, Mohaddes Associates Inc., a traffic engineering and intelligent transportation systems consulting firm.
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David Buskirk has been appointed president of Associated Travel, a subsidiary of Navigant International Inc., a provider of corporate travel management services. Buskirk will be responsible for operations in California and Texas and will be based in Santa Ana. Buskirk succeeds Thomas Nulty, who was named president and chief operating officer of Navigant, based in Englewood, Colo. Buskirk joined Associated in 1987 as vice president of the San Diego region.
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Jedd Zaun has joined the Newport Beach office of Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services as a senior vice president. He was also elected to the board of directors. Zaun was formerly with the Newport Beach office of Grubb & Ellis Co.
