Year: 2021-2022

Laurel Wright

Laurel Wright has lived in Manhattan Beach since 1992 with her husband, George, where they raised their three children, all of whom graduated from Mira Costa. After 10 years in corporate and private banking at JPMorgan, Laurel changed her focus…

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Laurie James

Laurie James has been a resident in Manhattan Beach for 27 years. After graduating college with a B.S. in Business, she worked in sales before transitioning to corporate recruiting. She stayed home to raise her four daughters for twenty years and…

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Rob Lucenti

Rob has 30 years of public accounting experience with Deloitte LLP and its subsidiaries, including leadership roles as a Senior Strategic Client Relationship partner in Los Angeles, and serving as the National Audit Markets Leader. During this time he was…

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Michael Mothner

• Michael Mothner is one of the pioneering thought leaders in the digital marketing community. • Graduated from Mira Costa High School. • In 2001, Michael founded Wpromote out of his dorm room at Dartmouth College. • The company is…

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Marissa Fulton

• Marissa Fulton joined Wpromote in 2008; as an ecommerce expert and paid media guru, she challenged Wpromote clients to succeed. • After spending several years on accelerated account development, Marissa stepped up to establish Wpromote’s Strategy team, where she…

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Stephanie Love Deur

As a private client advisor, Stephanie is responsible for maintaining and growing  financial relationships with high-net-worth families through the comprehensive investment, credit, banking and wealth transfer platform of the Private Bank. Her experience in securities markets and investments, together with her…

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Penny Bordokas

Penny Bordokas manages the finance and accounting activities at JMG Capital, LLC and Pacific Assets Management, LLC. Previously, she was a Performance Analyst for various money managers, Operations Manager at Dean Witter Reynolds, and worked as an Intermarket Trading Coordinator…

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Marci Beech

Marci Beech has lived in Manhattan Beach for close to 30 years with her husband, Howard, where they raised their three daughters. While working full time in the Corporate event industry Marci was an active community volunteer who held roles…

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Portia Cohen

Portia Cohen, Esq. is a former Mayor and Councilmember for the City of Manhattan Beach. She currently works for UCLA Health as a Strategic Liaison for Affiliations & Partnerships under the Chief of Strategy.  She previously was Corporate Counsel for…

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Bill Hory

Bill Hory has been a Manhattan Beach resident for 23 years, where he lives with his three middle school-aged children. Bill works in the B2B space with primary responsibility for business development in Africa, China, Europe, and South America. Bill…

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