State Compensation Insurance Fund Has New President

Kenneth C. Bollier, executive vice president of State Compensation Insurance Fund, will succeed John A. (Jack) Webb as president of the San Francisco-based insurer. Bollier, 56, has worked for more than 30 years at the firm, which is the state’s largest provider of workers’ compensation coverage. Webb, 59, will retire April 1 after having served as president for about nine years.

* Thomas C. Curry has been named president and chief operating officer of Los Angeles-based MacNeal-Schwendler Corp. Curry, 50, had been president of PDA Engineering, a subsidiary of MacNeal-Schwendler, a provider of products used in computer-assisted engineering. Before joining PDA in 1990, Curry was marketing vice president for McDonnell Douglas’ Manufacturing & Engineering Co. He also worked in marketing and engineering positions at Auto-Trol Technology.

* First Interstate Bank of California has named Kristy Pipes senior vice president and assistant to Bruce Willison, the bank’s chairman and chief executive. Pipes had been vice president and manager of financial planning. She joined the Los Angeles-based bank in 1985 as a senior financial analyst in the finance division.

* Thomas Hollberbach joined BBDO West advertising in Los Angeles as executive vice president and director of brand services, the No. 2 slot in that office. Hollberbach, 36, was previously group account director at San Francisco-based Goodby Silverstein & Partners. BBDO assigned Hollberbach management responsibility on all accounts.

* Unocal Chief Executive Roger Beach has been elected a director of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.