Edwin Vega has joined the engineering staff...

Edwin Vega has joined the engineering staff at Trompeter Electronics in Westlake Village. Vega has worked as a design engineer for the past seven years and will continue in that role at Trompeter.

He has a bachelor of science degree from Cal Poly Pomona.

* Susie Weiss has been named to the new position of sales promotions manager for Pleasant Holidays in Westlake Village. She will be responsible for developing promotions with travel suppliers and other retail businesses to extend the company’s marketing reach nationwide.

Pleasant Holidays is a travel agency that arranges trips to Hawaii, Mexico and Tahiti.

* Casa Pacifica, a home for abused and neglected children in Camarillo, has hired David Lichten as director of clinical services. A psychologist, Lichten will head the Certified Mental Health Day Treatment program and supervise the clinicians in the residential treatment program.

Before coming to Casa Pacifica, he was senior psychologist for the Ventura County Mental Health Juvenile Justice team.

* Bryan Gusdorf has joined Jones Intercable in Oxnard as public relations manager. Before this, he was public relations coordinator for a cable company in Albuquerque, N.M.

At Jones, Gusdorf will be responsible for community outreach projects and local sponsorship events, as well as public relations.

* Karen J. Cook of Cook/Collins and Associates has been named president of the board of directors for the Ventura County Advertising Federation. Others voted into office were Rick Hustead, first president; Debi Robertson of Kodiak Communications, secretary; Nick Charles of Charles & Associates, government relations; Jim Costello, membership; Barbara Zerbe of Weider Publications, treasurer; Angela Lawson of the Coalition to End Domestic & Sexual Violence, public relations director; and Neal Soper of Haagen Printing, newsletter editor.

The county organization is the regional branch of the American Advertising Federation.

* Deborah Riles has been appointed escrow officer for American Title Co. in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties. Riles, a certified escrow officer since 1995, succeeds Mary Patterson, who was promoted to vice president and manager of escrow operations for the two counties.

Riles works out of the American Title Co. office at 950 Hampshire Road in Westlake Village.

* Elizabeth Gregory has been named manager of Ventura Placement & Temps, a division of Santa Barbara Placement & Temps. She has worked in the employment industry for 13 years and has four years’ experience in human resources.

Ventura Placement & Temps handles temporary, temporary-to-hire and direct placements for office, technical, executive and industrial positions.

* Emily Link of Thousand Oaks has been named California president of the 1,100-member Women’s Council of Realtors. She is also vice chairwoman of the editorial advisory committee for California Real Estate magazine and is entering her 12th year as state director of the California Assn. of Realtors. Link works at the Re/Max Professional Realtors office at 280 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks.

* County auditor-controller Thomas O. Mahon has been awarded the Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting by the Government Finance Officers Assn. of the United States and Canada. The certificate is the organization’s highest form of recognition in the area of governmental accounting and financial reporting.

The county’s comprehensive annual financial report has been deemed by the group to demonstrate a “spirit of full disclosure,” to clearly communicate its financial story and to motivate potential users to read it.

* Robert Cashier of Thousand Oaks has been named a certified professional soil scientist by a federation of certifying boards in agriculture, biology, and earth and environmental sciences. To become certified, candidates must meet rigorous academic, ethical and professional experience standards.

Cashier is director of the environmental program at PHR Environmental Consultants in Westlake Village.

* Eugenia “Chick” Bernacchi of the law firm of Norman, Dowler, Sawyer, Israel & Hancock in Ventura, has been elected president of the board of directors of the Ventura County Museum of History and Art. She also is a member of the Women Lawyers of Ventura County and the Ventura County Bar Assn., in which she is active in the estate planning and probate section. The museum is at 100 E. Main St. in Ventura.