San Diego’s Top Influentials highlights the Who’s Who in San Diego business, profiling the top newsmakers of 2011. Visit www.sddt.com/influentials for the full report.
In spite of economic uncertainty, San Diegans supported the region’s nonprofits with generous giving in 2011, welcomed an old favorite back to the stage, and launched the world’s first Center for Surf Research while an optimistic hospitality industry looked to the future as it announced expansion plans, hotel projects and new restaurants set to open or get under way in 2012.
Welcome to the 2012 edition of San Diego's Top Influentials. This annual publication is filled with valuable insight into viable San Diego County market segments and its business leaders.
The Navarra family has been in the furniture business for more than 60 years, and as the third generation takes the reins of Jerome’s Furniture, no one is more proud than Jerry Navarra.
Craig Irving only had himself as an employee when he split off from what had been known as the Irving Hughes commercial brokerage firm in Feb. 2010. Today, The Irving Group has 15 employees, "and we are pretty close to our ideal size."
To be the CEO of two early-stage companies, at the same time, and working with two brilliant serial entrepreneurs is not an easy task, but Diane Goostree handles it with aplomb.
Judy Muller-Cohn was working as an entomologist at Mycogen, a Dow AgroSciences retail seed company that develops and markets corn hybrids, when a freezer broke down and they lost some samples.
Marc Brutten, the chairman of University Towne Centre-area based Westcore Properties who has garnered 12 million square feet of commercial/industrial property from here to Switzerland, hopes to nearly double that within the next year.
Even in a healthy economy, successfully running a restaurant is a difficult business. But when coupled with the economic complexities of rising commodity prices and lower consumer spending, it can be dramatically harder to stay afloat.
The Village Club Card Room in Chula Vista is the oldest operating card room in San Diego County, and its owner, Harvey Souza, has seen it through its 65-year legacy.
Feb. 6, 2012 -- Biomatrica co-founder and Transcript 2012 Top Influential Judy Muller-Cohn discusses her company's mission and how it works with customers that are looking for an alternative solution to preserving biological samples.
Feb. 6, 2012 -- Brian Maienschein, a San Diego County commissioner for the United Way and a Transcript 2012 Top Influential, discusses homelessness in San Diego and Project 25.
Feb. 6, 2012 -- Thomas Jefferson School of Law Dean and Transcript 2012 Top Influential Rudy Hasl, talks about the school's new downtown campus and the many benefits it has brought.
Dale Stein, Partner of Voice Smart Networks describes how his thirty year old company can manage and maintain your company's phone, computer and entire intrastructure with their technology specialists and support.
Mayor Douglas McAllister of the City of Murrieta talks about why his city is the future of Southern California and why it's the best place to run a business.
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