Wednesday, April 6, 2022 Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts #InnovateBeverlyHills - FEATURING PROMINENT BUSINESS LEADERS ...
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FEATURING PROMINENT BUSINESS LEADERS, TRAILBLAZERS, DISRUPTORS,
THOUGHT-LEADERS, TASTEMAKERS, AS THEY ENGAGE AND INSPIRE.
PRESENTED BY
Wednesday, April 6, 2022
Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
#InnovateBeverlyHills
OPENING REMARKS
Honorable Lili Bosse
Mayor, City of Beverly Hills
PERFORMANCE
Los Angeles Children's Chorus
HOST
Tiffany Davis
PRESENTED BY President & Co-Founder, Quay Entertainment
FIRESIDE CHAT WITH
Erin Bronner
Senior Manager Communications & Brand Experience, Bentley Motors
FIRESIDE CHAT WITH
Soniya S. Gandhi, MD, MPH
Vice President Medical Affairs, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Cedars-Sinai
SHOW PRODUCTION, FIRESIDE CHAT WITH
Giacomino Drago
CREATIVE DIRECTION & Chef & Southern California Restaurateur, Leading Drago Restaurant Group
SCREEN CONTENT CREATION BY FIRESIDE CHAT WITH
Ned Colletti
Former Major League Baseball Executive | Three-time Emmy Award-winning baseball analyst
FINAL WORDS FROM OUR HOST
Rachel Fine
Event Co-Chair, Innovate Beverly Hills
Executive Director & CEO, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!
PRESENTING SPONSORS GOLD SPONSORS VENUE & PRODUCTION SUPPORT
SILVER SPONSORS RECEPTION SPONSORS
ADDITIONAL SUPPORT BY EXHIBITORS
East West Bank
Daniel Garcia
Network Experts, Inc.
#INNOVATEBEVERLYHILLS | #BHCC | #BEVERLYHILLS
HOST Tiffany Davis President & Co-Founder, Quay Entertainment Quay Entertainment is a premier event producer specializing in elevated events from intimate private experiences to major festivals worldwide. Tiffany has collaborated with some of the biggest musical superstars, A-list celebrities, top talent agencies and industry influencers to global luxury brands, Fortune 500 companies and national media. She is an expert in the development and management of celebrity driven, high-profile events that cultivate consumer loyalty, nurture sponsor and patron relationships, and elevate visibility and brand awareness. Tiffany is the current Chair of the Next Beverly Hills Committee, a committee of talented, next generation leaders focused on innovative initiatives which address the lifestyle, economic, and civic needs of those in their 20s, 30s, and 40s. Chartered by the Mayor and the City of Beverly Hills, it seeks to engage all who are interested to inspire them to make Beverly Hills a better place for all. She is an active member of the Beverly Hills Chamber of Commerce, serving on several committees including Innovate Beverly Hills, Government Affairs, Membership, and the recently formed Women’s Business Network. Quay Entertainment was honored to co-produce the Chamber’s three Virtual Collaboratives in 2020 and 2021. Tiffany serves on the Career and Technical Education Advisory Committee for Beverly Hills High School Music Industry Center, and has been recognized for her excellence as an advisor to students of Belmont University’s Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, placing many young professionals in their first job in the entertainment industry. Outside of business and community service, Tiffany enjoys Pilates, spending quality time with friends and fine wine.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER Erin Bronner Senior Manager Communications & Brand Experience, Bentley Motors Erin Bronner is the Senior Manager of Communications, & Brand Experience for Bentley Motors Inc, a position she has held since August 2018. Her career in the automotive sector spans over 14 years. She’s been with the company in various positions since 2007. Erin is responsible for managing all third-party validation of the brand, which includes experiential programming, social media integration and corporate social responsibility. In this role, she is one of the lead spokespeople for Bentley Motors throughout the Americas, which has been the brand’s largest market selling as much as one third of annual global volume and contributing more than $1 Billion in revenue annually. Erin prides herself on the ability to simultaneous manage resource-intensive projects, adapt to changes in scope, anticipate competitor plans, and to draw inspiration from outside the automotive industry. Erin earned an undergraduate degree from Arizona State University studying in the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism with an emphasis in Strategic PR and a minor in Communications. In her spare time, she enjoys traveling, attending Pilates classes and getting out on the water for some water-skiing.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER Soniya S. Gandhi, MD, MPH Vice President Medical Affairs, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Cedars-Sinai Health System Dr. Soniya Gandhi is the Vice-President of Medical Affairs and Associate Chief Medical Officer of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. In her role since July 2021, Dr. Gandhi oversees patient safety, hospital epidemiology, medical staff governance, and various quality initiatives. Prior to her current role, Dr. Gandhi held a variety of leadership roles at Cedars-Sinai Marina del Rey Hospital, including the Chief Medical Officer from 2018-2021 and Chair of Infection Control from 2016-2021. During this time, she led several quality initiatives, including rebuilding of the peer review process, alignment of processes with the Cedars Sinai Health System, and championed a multidisciplinary team to drive sepsis compliance which has remained consistently in the top 10% of hospitals nationally. Dr. Gandhi is dually certified in infectious disease and internal medicine. She previously led the outpatient ID clinic at UCLA and helped build their travel medicine program. She also practiced infectious diseases at Kaiser San Diego and at Montefiore Medical Center. Dr. Gandhi also previously served as the Medical Director of Housing Works, a non-profit organization in NYC providing HIV related care to over 20,000 patients. A native of New Jersey, Dr. Gandhi earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Molecular Biology from Princeton University and earned her medical degree from Thomas Jefferson Medical Center in Philadelphia. She completed her internal medicine residency from Brown University and her infectious disease fellowship and MPH from Columbia University. Prior to residency, Dr. Gandhi spent 2 years abroad, volunteering in rural medical clinics along the Thai-Burma border, India, Tanzania, and Peru.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER Giacomino Drago Chef & Southern California Restaurateur, Leading Drago Restaurant Group Giacomino Drago's early years cooking in the kitchen beside his family was the ideal recipe for a man who would later, with his brothers, build a popular anthology of restaurants in Los Angeles. His seven restaurants serve more than 6,000 "regulars" and celebrities each week yet Giacomino treats each patron as if he or she is a guest in his home. Giacomino moved to Los Angeles 33 years ago, at the age of 16, to work in the kitchen of his oldest brother's restaurant, Celestino. Today, the collection of Drago family restaurants reads like a top-ranked Who's Who list of the culinary scene in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills: Il Pastaio in Beverly Hills, Piccolo Paradiso in Beverly Hills, Panzanella in Sherman Oaks, Celestino in Pasadena, SHU Sushi House Unico and Il Segreto in Bel Air, and Via Alloro in Beverly Hills, CA. Far from a chain of restaurants, each Drago establishment is unique in personality, design and culinary offerings. From the trattoria-feel of Il Pastaio, which sits in the heart of Beverly Hills and serves up phenomenal fresh-made-daily pasta, risotto, and Branzino flown in from the Mediterranean, to SHU Sushi House Unico in Bel Air, which fuses the best in Japanese and Italian cuisine. And yet, one element is consistent throughout all of the seven eateries: each kitchen adheres to using fresh, very high-quality ingredients which are simply prepared. Step into one of Giacomino's restaurants and you're likely to be greeted by the man himself, who always wears a warm and welcoming smile.
DISTINGUISHED SPEAKER Ned Colletti Former Major League Baseball Executive | Three-time Emmy Award-winning baseball analyst | Pepperdine University Sports Management Professor Ned Colletti Jr. has spent the past 40 years working in professional sports and is one of the few American sports executives to work in two major league sports – Major League Baseball and the National Hockey League. Colletti has worked for the Los Angeles Dodgers, serving as the General Manager from 2006-2014. During his tenure with the Dodgers, Colletti had the highest winning percentage of any general manager in the National League. Under Colletti's leadership, the Dodgers were named Topps Organization of the Year, an honor presented annually to the Major League franchise that has shown most-outstanding performance, depth, and talent. He is currently serving as a baseball analyst for the SportsnetLA broadcast team during the past seven seasons where he was part of three Emmy-winning shows. Colletti also worked for the San Francisco Giants and his hometown Chicago Cubs. During the last few years, he has become a full-time Sports Management professor at Pepperdine University, has been a professional scout for the NHL San Jose Sharks, and has authored a best-selling book entitled "The Big Chair". With his successful, expansive career as a sports executive, he has been inducted into the Triton College Sports Hall of Fame, the National Italian American Sports Hall of Fame, and the Chicago Sports Hall of Fame. He also continues to find time to give back to the Los Angeles community through his active partnerships with LA charities and non-profit volunteer organizations.
PERFORMERS Los Angeles Children's Chorus Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, Artistic Director 2021 | 22 Season, 36th Season Los Angeles Children's Chorus (LACC), renowned for its agile bel canto sound and artistic excellence, has been lauded as “hauntingly beautiful” (Los Angeles Times), “astonishingly polished” (Performances Magazine) and “one of the world's foremost children's choirs” (Pasadena Star News). Founded in 1986 and led since 2018 by Artistic Director Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, LACC presents its own concerts and regularly performs with leading arts organizations, including LA Opera, LA Philharmonic, LA Master Chorale, and Pasadena Symphony and POPS, among others. The Chorus serves more than 300 children ages 6 to 18 through 7 choirs, a First Experiences in Singing program, and First Experiences in Choral Singing ensemble for 6-8-year-olds. Recipient of the coveted Best Choral Performance award at the 64th Annual GRAMMYs and Chorus America’s 2014 Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence, LACC frequently tours internationally, having performed in more than 20 countries on 6 continents. LACC is featured in alumna Billie Eilish’s new film Happier Than Ever: A Love Letter to Los Angeles, is the subject of four documentaries from Oscar-winning director Freida Lee Mock, and is featured on John Williams' recent album, John Williams & Steven Spielberg: The Ultimate Collection. LACC has also appeared on NBC's “The Tonight Show,” PBS’s “Great Performances,” BBC Radio, Public Radio International's “From the Top.” For more information, visit www.lachildrenschorus.org.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL All World Communications Glaser Weil, LLP OMEGA International Security Allan Alexander, Esq. GPI Companies Optimum Seismic, Inc. Beverly Hills Medical Plaza Harmony Solutions International, LLC Palisades Beverly Wilshire Investment Co. Hilton & Hyland Real Estate The Peninsula Beverly Hills Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel Hudson's Bay Company SLS, A Luxury Collection, Beverly Hills Brickstar Capital, LLC JLL - Houman Mahboubi Sonder CBRE - Ryan Gurman J.P. Morgan Chase & Co Southeast Corner, LLC/Robert Goldman Cedars-Sinai Health System Kennedy Wilson Stefano Ricci Charles & Co. KRB Construction Tatel Beverly Hills City of Beverly Hills L'Ermitage Beverly Hills The Beverly Hills Estates CMIT Solutions of West LA & Beverly Hills Lazer Properties, Inc. The Beverly Hills Hotel and Bungalows Commercial Asset Group LeFrak Commercial The Beverly Hilton East West Bank Lido Advisors, LLC The Maybourne Beverly Hills Egerman Law Group, LLP Louis Vuitton USA The Peninsula Beverly Hills EKA Luxuriator Collection by Franco Torrey Pines Bank Eldridge Industries LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc. U.S. Bank Ervin Cohen & Jessup, LLP Motev LLC Union Bank ETCO Homes, Inc. Mr. Chow Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills Fields Silver Smith Wealth Management O’Gara Coach Co., LLC Walter N. Marks, Inc. GEARYS Beverly Hills Oasis West Realty, LLC
CHAMBER BOARD OF DIRECTORS Giorgio Cyphaeus Sease, The Grill On The Alley (Chairman) David Haimovitz, East West Bank Elizabeth An, Crustacean Beverly Hills Deborah Kallick, Cedars-Sinai Health System John Bendheim, Bendheim Enterprises, Inc. Sean Kim, Ralph Lauren Scott Berger, L’Ermitage Beverly Hills Jennifer Kullmann, The Gersh Agency Charles L. Black III, Compass Houman Mahboubi, JLL - Houman MahboubI Chris Bonbright, Gratitude Beverly Hills Darin Z. Marinov, Marinov & Company Dr. Michael Bregy, Beverly Hills Unified School District Vicky Mense, Xi’an Restaurant Kathleen M. Chapman, Torrey Pines Bank Jade Mills, Jade Mills Worldwide Maria D’Auria, Il Fornaio David Mirharooni, Brickstar Capital, LLC Bobbe Joy Dawson, Bobbe Joy Makeup Studio Patrick Nally, Tishman Speyer Giacomino Drago, Il Pastaio Shahrzad Panahi, U.S. Bank Jonathan Pier Durante, First Republic Bank Nick Rimedio, La Peer Hotel Mark Egerman, Egerman Law Group, LLP Kelly O. Scott, Cohen & Jessup LLP Rachel Fine, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Shawn Saeedian, Beverly Hills Market & Deli Murray Fischer, Esq., Murray D. Fischer, Esq. Mark Tronstein, Rodeo Drive Associates, LLC Chris Gleeson, Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel Rey Viquez III, The Third Degree Nacole Gray, O’Gara Coach Co., LLC Hany Haddad
EVENT COMMITTEE CHAMBER STAFF Rachel Fine, Co-Chair, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Todd Johnson, President & Chief Executive Officer Nacole Gray, Co-Chair, O’Gara Coach Co., LLC Farimah Fayyad, Chief Financial Officer & Office Manager Lia Avaneesian, O’Gara Coach Co., LLC Blair L. Schlecter, VP of Economic Development & Government Affairs Patricia Cravo, O’Gara Coach Co., LLC Alexandria Anderson, Director of Marketing & Events Kim Ruggles, Kim Ruggles Events Nick Lara, Director of Sales Fransiska Weckesser, The Very Creative Firm Daniel Bermudez, Program Manager Martin van der Werff, The Very Creative Firm Emilyn Zazueta, Marketing & Event Coordinator Paul Turner, The Very Creative Firm Elisabeth Rojtman, Membership Executive Cat Ferrier, The Very Creative Firm Greg Sefain, Economic Development Manager Rey Viquez III, The Third Degree Aubrey Gilman, Marketing Intern SPECIAL THANKS TO THE FOLLOWING Honorable Lili Bosse, Mayor, City of Beverly Hills David Truly, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Michelle Wiesel, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Lauren Meserve Hey Mister DJ DVR Productions Audio Video L.A. Method Event Productions Chamber Ambassadors
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