People in Business
* Kinko’s Inc., the Ventura-based copy center chain, has promoted Jeffrey Moxie to chief financial officer from vice president of finance and corporate controller.
* As part of its restructuring program, Nissan North America Inc., based in Carson, has split the position of vice president, product planning and marketing, held by Jack Collins, into two. Collins has been named vice president, product planning, and Steven Wilhite, a former Volkswagen senior marketing executive, has been named vice president, marketing.
* Oltsman Construction Co., a Whittier-based contractor, has promoted to vice president Charles Roy, who directs the company’s special projects department, and James Woodside, who oversees all project management. * Stephen J. Murphy has joined Los Angeles-based Frederick John Fisher Insurance & Surplus Lines Broker as underwriting manager.
* Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin has promoted Jack Berka to head of the Los Angeles-based international investment bank’s financial advisory services group.
* Memphis-based marketing communications firm Health Communications Inc. has expanded its Irvine office, naming Abby Markward an account executive.
* Jim Davis has joined SunGard Trading Systems of Calabasas to president of its global markets unit. He is a former Hewlett-Packard software engineering systems executive.
* Business-to-business marketing company Creative Link Partners of Rolling Hills Estates has hired Paul Walrad as vice president of marketing.
* Sandy Bourne, president of the mixed-use business incubator Pasadena Enterprise Center, has been elected chair of the National Business Incubation Assn. board of directors.
* Freddie Georges, a trade show and event manager and exhibit designer, has opened her own firm, Freddie Georges Production Group, based in Garden Grove.
* Woodland Hills architectural firm Ware Malcomb has hired Richard Dachman as project architect and Susan Alweil as senior project manager.
* The Los Angeles office of executive temp firm RHI Management Resources has promoted Sally Papacharalambous division director.
* Mark Deetjen has been named director of development for Fountain Productions. He is a former Jacobson Co. executive.
* Megatrax Production Music, a North Hollywood-based supplier of production music for film and television, has promoted Jonathan Braun to senior licensing director of broadcast TV and Cassidy Richey to account executive. The company also has hired Chuck Hamshaw as an account executive.
* The L.A. Mart and its property manager Merchandise Mart Properties has named Jeff Sampson to a new marketing director position for home furnishings. The companies also named Gennifer Mallard as director of leasing for the L.A. Mart.
