Champommier Joins Staff of Strategic HR Services
Chris Champommier has been named director of business development at Strategic HR Services in Newport Beach. He was formerly a business consultant with Administaff.
* Kerry Larsen has been named a principal and a member of the board of directors at Inktracks Printing Group Inc. in Laguna Hills. She joined the company as production manager after holding production management positions at Pacific Press and Graphic Resource.
* Warren Roddy has been appointed senior vice president, North American sales for PairGain Technologies Inc. in Tustin. He had been vice president of sales at Diamond Lane Communications. Before that, Roddy held senior sales management positions with Cisco Systems and N.E.T. Stephen Pallavicini has been named vice president of marketing services and communications for PairGain. Pallavicini joined the company in May. He previously spent 10 years with Newbridge Networks, most recently as vice president, administration, contracts and operations.
* David W. Ortolf has joined Wood Gutmann Insurance Brokers in Tustin as a senior broker. Ortolf previously owned his own insurance agency in Huntington Beach and was an operations manager and agent with the Allstate group of companies for 11 years.
* Christopher G. Hay has joined Capital Commercial in Newport Beach as a vice president. He had been a tenant broker with Grubb & Ellis’ Orange County office for three years.
* Craig R. Smith has been named product manager for Irvine-based Premier Laser Systems Inc.’s dental product line. Smith joined Premier Laser from Healthcare Systems in Glen Allen, Va., where he was regional sales and marketing manager for the Southern California area. Allan Schultz has been appointed product manager for the ophthalmic product group. Schultz most recently handled major customer sales of pharmacy automation systems at Diebold Inc. in Canton, Ohio.
* Gary L. Kermott and John W. Long have been named executive vice presidents of First American Financial Corp. in Santa Ana. Kermott will continue to serve as president of First American Title Insurance Co., and Long continues as president of First American Real Estate Information Services Inc.
* Jim Stausbaugh has been appointed executive chef at Trilogy Restaurant in Irvine. Stausbaugh was chef of the Club Grill & Bar at the Ritz-Carlton in Dana Point for seven years. He also has been chef of La Chaumiere at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles and executive chef at Bellagio Place in Bel Air.
* Lynne S. Muller has been appointed business development director for HR Solutions’ Orange County office. She was formerly director of national accounts for Cendant Mobility and was a marketing director for KPMG Peat Marwick.
