HemaCare Announces Changes at the Top
HemaCare, based in Sherman Oaks, has announced a series of executive changes.
Hal Lieberman, the company’s president and chief executive, has resigned from the company’s board of directors, although he will stay on in a senior management post at the company. Sharon C. Kaiser, the company’s chief financial officer, has also resigned from the board. She also will stay on in a senior management job.
Glenn W. Barlett has resigned as chairman of the company because of health reasons. Alan C. Darlington, who has been a member of the board of directors since January, has been named interim chairman.
Meanwhile, two new employees have been named to HemaCare’s board of directors: Charles R. Schwab Jr. becomes a board member; he is president of Kensington Capital Management Inc., a major HemaCare shareholder. Jay L. Steffenhagen also joins HemaCare’s board. Steffenhagen is a vice president responsible for strategic planning at Beckman Coulter, a health-care concern.
Darlington said HemaCare “has embarked on a search for a new chief executive officer” in order to revitalize the company.
HemaCare is a provider of blood products and related services to hospitals.
* Terry Sapp has joined Your People Professionals in Ventura as a personnel specialist and sales consultant. Sapp was a client of the company for eight years before joining the staff.
Your People Professionals offers employee management services, including employee leasing, and workers’ compensation, payroll, insurance, benefits and personnel administration.
* James W. Dierberger has been appointed senior managing architect for Lauterbach & Associates Architects/Planners’ operations in Ventura, Los Angeles and Contra Costa counties. With the company for more than a decade, Dierberger will coordinate all expansion operations for the company’s Oxnard and Contra Costa County offices, as well as for its schools division.
Dierberger is a director of the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce.
* Santa Barbara Bank & Trust has selected Steven Roche as assistant vice president and branch manager for its new Santa Rosa office in Camarillo. Carri Jacobs was appointed customer service manager for the same branch.
Roche has been a banker for 19 years, most recently as branch manager at Wells Fargo Bank’s Simi Valley office. Jacobs, who has 12 years’ experience in financial services, previously worked in the bank’s operations, escrow and lending department.
* ASL Consulting Engineers in Camarillo has honored assistant chief operating officer William E. Bennett for 20 years of service to the company. During that time he has directed many of ASL’s projects involving major highways and bridges, flood control and water resources throughout Southern California.
Aside from being assistant chief operating officer, Bennett is director of ASL’s transportation market area, one of three major disciplines within the firm.
* Attorney Monty S. Gill has joined the law firm of Norman, Dowler, Sawyer, Israel & Hancock in Ventura. His legal experience includes construction defect litigation, personal injury and criminal law.
He is a 1996 graduate of the California Western School of Law in San Diego.
* Sam McIntyre of Somis has been reelected vice chairman of the board of directors of the California Avocado Commission. Richard Pidduck of Santa Paula was reelected to a two-year term representing cooperative handlers.
McIntyre, who represents independent growers in the district that covers most of Ventura County, previously served as board secretary. He has been on the board for three years.
