Norms Appoints 30-Year Veteran President, CEO
* Norms Family Restaurants, the 50-year-old Southern California coffee shop chain, has named Philip Singerman president and chief executive. Singerman, a 30-year Norms veteran, is being promoted from vice president and chief financial officer. He succeeds Sterling X. Bogart, Norms’ president since company founder Norm Roybark died in 1969. Bogart will remain a board member and Norms consultant. Privately held Norms operates 16 24-hour restaurants.
* Arnold Taylor has been named president and chief executive of Editing Technologies Corp., a Burbank-based maker of editing equipment for television networks and independent TV stations. Taylor previously served as president and CEO of the U.S. division of Cintel Ltd. of Great Britain.
* Eric Wittenberg has been appointed president of the Greater Los Angeles division of Kaufman & Broad Home Corp., the Los Angeles-based home builder that operates in seven states and France. Wittenberg comes from Presley Homes, where as president of the company’s Southern California region he was in charge of day-to-day operations and management for the Orange County and Los Angeles area. He is also co-founder and partner of Wittenberg Livingston Homes.
* Torrance-based Total Renal Care Holdings Inc., one of the largest operators of kidney dialysis centers, appointed Richard B. Fontaine and C. Raymond Larkin to its board. The company recently underwent a management shake-up to rebuild its sagging stock. Fontaine, an independent health-care consultant, is filling a vacancy on Total Renal’s expanded board. Larkin, a former president and CEO of medical products company Nellcor Inc., replaces Regina Herzlinger, who had previously announced her retirement from the board.
* Arden Group Inc., the Los Angeles-based parent of Gelson’s Markets and Mayfair supermarkets, has named David M. Oliver chief financial officer. Oliver, a 10-year finance and accounting executive, has held senior executive positions at a number of Southern California supermarket chains.
* George Santana, a former senior equity analyst and first vice president at Merrill Lynch & Co., is joining Wedbush Morgan Securities, an investment banking and brokerage firm based in Los Angeles.
