Ginsberg, Ad Firm’s Co-Founder, Leaves

Dan Ginsberg, a co-founder of dGWB Advertising, has left to become executive vice president of marketing at Hardee’s Food Systems in Rocky Mount, N.C., the Irvine-based agency said Tuesday.

Ginsberg “has been a great partner and friend and he’ll be missed,” said dGWB partner Mike Weisman. Mandi Dossin, a member of the firm since its founding in 1988, has joined Weisman and Jon Gothold as a partner in the firm that has clients in the retail, fast food and consumer electronics industries.

At Hardee’s, Ginsberg will join longtime El Pollo Loco Chief Executive Raymond J. Perry, who recently left the Irvine-based fast-food chain to become Hardee’s chief operating officer.

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Brian Turnbull has been named vice president of service for Toshiba America Medical Systems Inc. in Tustin. He joined the company from LDI Corp., a leasing and high-technology services company in Ohio, where he was vice president of technology services. Before that, Turnbull was president of Turnbull and Associates, an independent consulting firm in Connecticut; president and chief executive of Serviscope; senior vice president of operations for MEDIQ Equipment and Maintenance Service, and vice president of customer service for Technicare.

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Mike Pittenger and Tom Braun have been named vice president of engineering services for the Costa Mesa office of the Keith Cos., a civil engineering and planning firm. Pittenger had been director of engineering for eight years. Formerly an Irvine Co. employee, he now supervises engineering on Irvine Co. projects under contract to the Keith Cos. Braun was previously director of engineering services.

* Mindy Phillips has been appointed to the newly created position of director of U.S. sales for Interplay Productions, an Irvine entertainment and educational software company. Before joining Interplay, she was vice president of sales at MGM/UA Home Entertainment.

* Roger Sprague has joined Orange National Bank as vice president and business development officer for the bank’s SBA preferred lender loan department. He was previously a loan officer for CDC Small Business Financing. In addition, Dennis Phistry has joined the bank as vice president and commercial loan officer of the Saddleback Valley office. He was formerly vice president and branch manager at Commerce Bank and vice president and branch manager of Capital Bank’s head office.