North Bay Business Journal

Profiles of 2013 winners of the Business Journal’s Forty Under 40 Awards, listed alphabetically.

The “Top Deals and the People Who Made Them Happen” represent the top leases and sales in Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties. They are based on submissions by brokerages and Business Journal research.

Leaders of major health care organizations in Sonoma and Marin, Napa and Solano counties, listed alphabetically by their names.

Spotlight on law firm managing partners, listed alphabetically by law firm name: Patrick Emery of Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery, Wendy Whitson of Anderson, Zeigler, Disharoon, Gallagher & Gray, Michael Garcia of Beyers Costin, Arthur Curley of Bradley, Curley, Asiano, Barrabee & Gale, Alan Brayton of Brayton Purcell, John Mackie of Carle, Mackie, Power & Ross, Clay Clement of Clement, Fitzpatrick & Kenworthy, Cynthia Smith of Coombs & Dunlap, Scott Gerien of Dickenson, Peatman & Fogarty, Katherine Ohlandt of Farella Braun + Martel, Peter Kleinbrodt of Freitas, McCarthy, McMahon & Keating, John Friedemann of Friedemann Goldberg, Dave Gaw of Gaw Van Male, Michael Carlson of Geary, Shea, O’Donnell, Grattan & Mitchell, Andrew Giacomini of Hanson Bridgett, Jessica Karner of Keegin Harrison Schoppert Smith & Karner, Bill Arnone of Merrill, Arnone & Jones, Anne Hernandez of Mullen & Filippi, James Parrinello of Nielsen, Merksamer, Parrinello, Mueller & Naylor, Michael Watters of O’Brien Watters & Davis, James Sell of Parton Sell Rhoades, Leslie Perry of Perry, Johnson, Anderson, Miller & Moskowitz, David Feingold of Ragghianti Freitas, Glenn Smith of Smith Dollar, Gregory Spaulding of Spaulding McCullough & Tansil, and Michael Vasquez of Vasquez, Estrada & Conway.

Featured in this spotlight on commercial lenders are executives at American River Bank, AltaPacific, Bank of America, Bank of Marin, Bank of Napa, Bank of the West, Comerica Bank, Exchange Bank, First Community Bank, First Northern Bank, Luther Burbank Savings, JP Morgan Chase, Mechanics Bank, Presidio Bank, Rabobank, Silicon Valley Bank, Sonoma Bank, State Assistance Fund for Enterprise Business and Industrial Development Corporation (SAFE-BIDCO), Summit State Bank, Travis Credit Union, U.S. Bank, Umpqua Bank, Union Bank, Warren Capital, Wells Fargo and Westamerica Bank.

The accounting leaders featured here were selected from the Oct. 22 Business Journal list of the largest North Bay accounting firms. They are listed alphabetically by last name.

Address: 16 Digital Dr., Ste. 130, Novato 94949; 415-382-9083; okizu.org Age: 74 Residence: Novato Professional background: Supervisor and then Vice President of Matson Lines and Pacific Far East Line Steamship Travel. Founder and Chairman of Golden Bear Travel, retired. Education: Bachelor of Arts, San Francisco State (Liberal Arts) Staff size: 10 salaried, 670 volunteers  Describe your organization. [...]

Address: 3569 Round Barn Cir., Santa Rosa 5403; 707-303-3600; srheallthcenters.org Age: 55 Residence: Sebastopol Professional background: 15 years as a managed care executive in Santa Rosa, 5 years as a national health care consultant, 12 years at SRCHC. Prior to that, ran a preschool, planted trees after the Cazadero fire and made goat cheese and tofu. [...]

Address: 2425 Jefferson St., Napa 94558; 707-253-3563; nvef.org Age: 54 Residence: Napa Professional background: Business, Non-profit management Education: Sonoma State University Staff size: four staff members, nine board directors Describe your organization. For nearly three decades, the Napa Valley Education Foundation (NVEF) has been supporting public schools in Napa Valley by mobilizing public support and providing leadership [...]

Address: 7351 Bodega Ave., Sebastopol 95472; 707-829-5833; ceresproject.org Age: 56 Residence: Sebastopol Professional background:  Varied background in both the for profit and nonprofit sectors, including 8 years marketing, marketing research and strategic planning experience, 4 years as Director of Communications for The Hunger Project US, and ten years founding and running an organic home meal delivery service. [...]

David Goodman is executive director of Redwood Empire Food Bank. It provides food to more than 78,000 people every month through its three hunger initiatives and a network of 166 charitable and faith-based organizations throughout Sonoma County. The REFB also helps smaller food banks and organizations in Lake, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties.

Address: 1300 N. Dutton Ave., Santa Rosa 95401; 707-544-6911; capsonoma.org Age: 39 Residence: Windsor Professional background: Since graduating from College, my work has focused on increasing access to education and opportunities for low income and minority students.  For the past decade through the Community Action network, I have worked to alleviate the conditions of poverty by shifting [...]

Address: 300 Sunny Hills Dr., San Anselmo 94960; 415-457-3200; sunnyhillsservices.org Age: 59 Residence: Larkspur Professional background: 20+ years in international banking and finance, first with Bank of America and then as a consultant. After serving on the board of a very small nonprofit in San Francisco, when I saw the tremendous impact the organization had on [...]

Developers are listed by county and in alphabetical order by the firm.

Top North Bay contractors, listed in the ranking order on Business Journal lists of North Bay Commercial General Contractors published on March 19, Commercial Landscape Contractors on Sept. 10, Electrical Contractors on Feb. 13, HVAC Contractors on Sept. 10, Solar Companies with contracting licenses on June 18 and the most recent list of Plumbing Contractors.

Welcome to the Business Journal’s seventh Best Places to Work in the North Bay. This was a year of firsts. …

Companies selected as Best Places to Work in the North Bay were analyzed by the editorial staff of the Business Journal on the basis of several criteria, including the employer application, the survey ratings by employees, the number of responses, size of the company, the breakdown of responses from management and non-management as well as written comments by employees.

Read profiles about winners of the Business Journal’s Best Places to Work 2012 with 20 to 50 employees: Abbey, Weitzenberg, Warren & Emery; Bank of Napa; BKF Engineers; Burr Pilger Mayer; Cardno ERI; Codding Enterprises; Dal Poggetto & Company LLP; Frank Howard Allen; Friedemann Goldberg LLP; Ghilotti Brothers, Inc.; Ghirardo CPA; Heffernan Insurance Brokers; Inn Marin & Rickey’s; Innovative Business Solutions; M.A. Silva USA, Inc.; Marizco Landscape Management, Inc.; Métier, Ltd.; Mr. Rooter Plumbing of Sonoma County; O’Brien Watters & Davis, LLP; Petaluma People Services Center; Play-Well TEKnologies; Private Ocean Wealth Management; Quattrocchi Kwok Architects; QuieTrack Insurance Services; Schurter, Inc.; Scott Technology Group Inc.; Smith Dollar PC; Summit Engineering; TLCD Architecture; Valley Tire & Brake; Vantreo Insurance Brokerage; Vasyli, LLC; Woodruff-Sawyer & Co.; and Wright Contracting, Inc.

Read profiles about winners of the Business Journal’s Best Places to Work 2012 with 51 to 100 employees: Circle Bank; Coast Landscape Management; Costeaux French Bakery, Inc.; Filtration Group; First Community Bank; George Petersen Insurance Agency; Glassdoor; Golden LivingCenter of Petaluma; KCC, LLC; LEMO USA, Inc.; Moss Adams, LLP; Nova Group; Sonoma Technology Inc.; St. Francis Winery & Vineyards; Summit State Bank; Town of Windsor; Wells Fargo Insurance Services USA, Inc.; and WRA Environmental Consultants.

Read profiles about winners of the Business Journal’s Best Places to Work 2012 with 101 to 250 employees: Bank of Marin; Coldwell Banker Brokers of the Valley; Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County; Embassy Suites Hotel – San Rafael; First American Home Buyers Protection Corporation; IDEX Health & Science; La Tortilla Factory; Petaluma Health Center; REACH Air Medical Services; Sequoia Senior Solutions; Sonic.net; and W. Bradley Electric, Inc.

Read profiles about winners of the Business Journal’s Best Places to Work 2012 with 251 to 500 employees: Bradley Real Estate, Exchange Bank, Mary’s Pizza Shack and Redwood Credit Union.