CSUCI president steps down, joins DataPhilanthropy
CSU Channel Island is undergoing a leadership change as President Richard Yao steps down this summer to join the Trade Desk founder Jeff Green’s family foundation. Yao will leave his post effective Aug. 1, an unusually rapid departure for a CSU president, and he will transition quickly to the presidency of DataPhilanthropy as the foundation’s Read More →
VC leaders stand in solidarity with undocumented farmworkers
Ventura County officials, community leaders and clergy members gathered June 27 to decry federal immigration raids and to offer support to undocumented farmworkers facing possible arrest. “We’re coming together to stand in support of the human rights of immigrants,” Martita Martinez-Bravo, the executive director of Friends of Fieldworkers, told the Business Times at the Stand Read More →
Camarillo company locks down deal with Derco
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BofA appoints new market executive for Ventura/Santa Barbara region
Jacky Holler, a woman with more than 30 years of financial industry experience, has been named as the new market executive for Ventura and Santa Barbara counties by Bank of America. Announced June 13, Holler will work closely with the bank’s local market leaders across its eight lines of business and market president Midge Campbell-Thomas Read More →
Port of Hueneme holds annual World Trade Week event
Two months after the Trump Administration announced 25% tariffs on passenger vehicles, the taxes’ impact on the Port of Hueneme remains to be seen, speakers said at the port’s May 16 World Trade Week event. “Today we’re looking at world trade and resiliency given all the developments in trade policy with tariffs and the like,” Read More →
Summit addresses need for affordable farmworkers housing
The lack of affordable housing for Ventura County’s farmworkers was the focus of panel discussions at a May 8 program in Santa Paula. “We’re trying to bring awareness to local developers to keep their minds open to serving farmworkers in their projects,” Ken Trigueiro, who sits on the board of House Farm Workers, which put Read More →
FDA lifts clinical hold on Atara’s lead treatment
Thousand Oaks-based Atara Biotherapeutics received a bit of good news on May 5, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that it has lifted its hold on Atara’s active Investigational New Drug application for the Ebvallo program. Ebvallo, which is already approved in Europe and is used for transplant-related blood cancer, was placed on Read More →
