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Finance

Robert W. Bauchman

Northern Trust Company

Bob Chaulk

California Bank & Trust

Stephen Cusato

City National Bank

Greg Garrabrants

BofI Federal Bank

John Maguire

Torrey Pines Bank

Michael Perdue

Pacific Western Bank

Nathan Rogge

Bank of Southern California

Brent Wilsey

Wilsey Asset Management

Tom Wornham

Wells Fargo

Health, Education and Hospitality

Larry Anderson

Tri-City Medical Center

Randy Ataide

Point Loma Nazarene University, Fermanian Business Center

Victor Buzachero

Scripps Health

Edward Kaen

The Keating

Mary Lyons

University of San Diego

Edwin 'Thorpe' Romero

Barona Band of Mission Indians

Law and Business Services

Mike Barone

Intercare Insurance Solutions

David S. Casey

Casey Gerry Schenk Francavilla Blatt & Penfield

Carmen Chavez

Casa Cornelia Law Center

Shawn Hagerty

Best Best & Krieger LLP

John F. 'Mickey' McGuire

Thorsnes Bartolotta McGuire

Marshall Merrifield

Clark Security Products

Robert Valderrama

Unified Port of San Diego

Real Estate and Construction

Donald Ankeny

Westcore Properties

Andy Berg

National Electrical Contractors Association San Diego/Imperial County Chapter

Dave Carlin

Solpac Construction, Inc. dba Soltek Pacific Construction Co.

Pat Caughey

Wimmer Yamada and Caughey ONA

Channey Doud

Dynalectric San Diego

Dennis Hearst

CBRE Group Inc.

Diane Koester-Dion

I.E.-Pacific Inc.

Jay Leopold

DPR Construction

Frank Marquez

Bonita Pipeline Inc.

Tee Ness

Hawthorne Machinery Co.

Jim Roherty

Pacific Building Group

Christopher Rowe

Echo Pacific Construction Inc.

Eric Stenman

Balfour Beatty Construction

Tech, Biotech and Defense

Shirley Adams

General Dynamics Information Technology

Darin Andersen

ESET LLC

Sam Attisha

Cox Communications Inc.

Bob Barlow

Time Warner Cable San Diego

Jon Carder

MojoPages

Ian Gardner

Helix Wind

Hany Girgis

Salient Federal Solutions

Benito Hobson

IntegrITS Corp.

Don Jones

Qualcomm Inc.

Michael Jones

The Security Network

Joseph Kim

Inovio Biomedical Corp.

Mark Kohlheim

Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific (SPAWAR)

John Nersesian

San Diego Military Advisory Council

Gerald T. Proehl

Santarus Inc.

Jason Pyle

Sapphire Energy

Vijay Samant

Vical Inc.

FINALIST

Tee Ness

Chief Executive Officer, President

Hawthorne Machinery Co.

16945 Camino San Bernardo
San Diego, CA 92127

Tee Ness, president and chief executive officer of Hawthorne Machinery Co., says he got into the business the easy way.

"I married the boss' daughter and joined the company straight out of college," said Ness, who met Debbie Hawthorne in high school. The couple also went to college together at Graceland University in Iowa, where Ness got a business degree with an emphasis in accounting.