Newsmakers Advertising Rich Contino, formerly a manager of client services for Mercury Media, has assumed the role of director of client services for Inter/Media in Encino. Leili Nassiri, formerly an associate account director with Inter/Media, has been promoted to associate planning director. Agriculture Jim Padden has been named vice president and chief operating officer for Sunkist Growers Inc. of Sherman Oaks. Padden will concentrate on streamlining the day-to-day operations of the company, focusing on implementing efficiencies and customer-focused initiatives. Padden comes to Sunkist from FJ Foodservice Inc., a meat business he helped to found and where he served as president. Prior to his work with FJ Foodservice, he served as general manager of Young’s Market Company, which was sold to Con Agra. Engineering Hall & Foreman Inc. has named Jess Harris director of community planning at its Los Angeles office, located in Chatsworth. He will be responsible for the firm’s land planning division. Harris is currently involved in re-planning a 1,000-acre mixed-use community for Intex Properties in the Inland Empire and was responsible for land planning and entitlements for the 1,400-acre Village of Heritage in Fontana. Health Care Sheldon Baker is now chairman of the Glendale Memorial Health Foundation. Baker, a senior partner at Baker, Olson, LeCroy & Danielian in Glendale, was mayor of Glendale from 1996 to 1997. The Glendale Memorial Health Foundation raises funds for Glendale Memorial Hospital. George Lewis has been named general vice president of Glendale Adventist Medical Center. Lewis will be responsible for oversight of cardiac and diagnostic services, patient access services and residency programs. Previously, Lewis was chief operating officer of California Specialty Hospital in Northern California. Information Services J.D. Power and Associates of Agoura Hills has named David Sunker chief information officer. He will identify areas where technology can improve profitability, products and services. Previously, Sunker was vice president and CIO for Danone Waters of North America. Law Fathia Macauley has been named director of development for Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County where she will be responsible for fundraising and program development. Most recently, Macauley was a member of Mayor Richard Riordan’s Business Team, headed by former Deputy Mayor and current City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo. She previously served as senior lending officer for Century Housing Corporation and director of housing development for Beyond Shelter. NLS has been providing legal services for low-income people in the San Fernando, Santa Clarita and Antelope valleys since 1965, and expanded into the San Gabriel and Pomona valleys in 2001. Organizations The Woodland Hills Chamber of Commerce has given Michael Miller the Joseph Staller Memorial Award for Excellence in Service. Miller, an agent with State Farm Insurance, is president of the Fernando Awards, an advisory board member of the Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center and board member of the Warner Center Heart Run. Real Estate TitleTemps Inc. has appointed David A. Mosesson chief financial officer and promoted Roger Iris to senior vice president of operations. Prior to joining TitleTemps, Mosesson was a senior vice president at Countrywide Home Loans and had served as director of finance for Computer Sciences Corp. His experience also includes a five-year stint with KPMG Peat Marwick as director of finance and accounting for the Pacific Southwest region. Iris joined TitleTemps in 1999. Having overseen the opening of 10 new branch offices throughout the country, Iris is currently managing four regional managers in the field and is responsible for the overall performance of 23 field offices. Prior to joining TitleTemps, Iris served as a regional manager for several leading title companies, including Chicago Title, Fidelity National Title, Ticor Title, North American Title and United Title of California. Technology RiverOne Inc. has named Bahram Nour-Omid chairman of its board of directors. Nour-Omid is currently a senior principal of Shelter Capital Partners, a Los Angeles-based venture capital fund focusing on companies in the enterprise application, semiconductor and wireless/communications industries. An early and repeat investor in RiverOne, Nour-Omid has also been a key advisor to the company’s management team since 1999. Nour-Omid was founder and chief executive officer of StudioXchange Inc., a developer of procurement software for the film and production industries. He also served as executive vice president and a director of Essentus Inc.