UTi Reshuffles Senior Management
UTi, a Rancho Dominquez-based air and ocean freight forwarder and customs brokerage, has made several key changes in senior corporate and regional management ranks and has centralized its global staff support functions in the U.S.
Roger MacFarlane, previously head of the Americas, has become UTi chief executive. Peter Thorrington, previously head of Europe and the Middle East, was tapped as company president and chief operating officer. Tiger Wessels remains UTi chairman.
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Dick Clark Productions Inc. has promoted executive vice president Jeff Salmon to president of Dick Clark Communications, the Burbank-based entertainment producer’s business communications unit. As president, Salmon will continue to lead the communications group’s creative and client service teams and manage its financial and administrative affairs.
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Southern California Edison has named Harry Hutchinson vice president of mass customers in the Rosemead-based utility’s customer service unit. The former GTE Corp. executive will oversee meter reading, field operations, billing services and customer call centers.
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William Ferguson has been named a partner in the Los Angeles office of SCA Consulting, a business consultancy.
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Cherokee Inc., a Van Nuys-based apparel brand licensor, named Nina Leong executive vice president of brand development, a new position. Most recently, Leong was executive vice president at Ocean Pacific Apparel Corp., where she ran brand development and licensing. Larry Sass, a former Guess Inc. executive, was also named vice president of business development.
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Torrance-based software publisher Havas Interactive has named Terrell W. Anderson senior vice president of strategy. He previously was an executive at Internet Pictures Corp.
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Katie Schmitz de Fernandez has been named vice president, strategic planning and alliances, at DCH Technology Inc., a Valencia-based maker of hydrogen-specific leak detection equipment. She is a former vice president at EnCom, a joint venture of Enron and Orix. DCH Technology is expected to begin trading on the American Stock Exchange today under the symbol DCH.
