VENTURA COUNTY PEOPLE

* Edward J. Hogan, founder of several travel industry enterprises, including Pleasant Hawaiian Holidays in Westlake Village, has been inducted into the Travel Industry Hall of Leaders. He was selected by a committee of senior travel industry executives appointed by the Travel Industry Assn. of America.

Hogan previously was inducted into the World Travel Hall of Fame by the American Society of Travel Agents.

* Robert McInerney has joined IPC Systems Engineering in Ventura as a systems integration specialist, and Gordon Greathouse has joined the company as a systems integration associate.

IPC Systems provides engineering services for the manufacturing and process industries.

* Barbara Thorpe and Victor Martinez have been named co-chairmen of the Ventura County School-to-Career executive committee. Their responsibilities will include working with staff to prepare meetings and providing support to special events.

The School-to-Career Network is designed to make all levels of education relevant to the working world through a partnership among parents, students, educators and business.

* Dan Lyon, president and CEO of Lyon Staffing & Training Services in Ventura, has been appointed Zone 6 chairman of Lions Club International. He is overseeing “Kases for Kids,” a Lions Club program in which suitcases and tote bags full of toiletries are collected to be given to at-risk children by child protective services.

* Robert L. Olson of the Ventura firm Pyne, Waltrip, Lippert & Olson has been awarded the designation “Certified Fraud Examiner.” To receive the designation, he completed the requirements of the Assn. of Certified Fraud Examiners.

Olson’s company provides litigation-related services.