Pamela Davis, founder, CEO and president of the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group has been named as one of the "2008 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley" by the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal. An advisory panel of business and community leaders selected women making a difference in business, politics or nonprofits.
Davis was recognized for her vision in founding the Nonprofits Insurance Alliance Group, which has grown in 18 years to a group of three nonprofit insurance companies and a nonprofit management company with combined assets of more than $225 million insuring 8,000 nonprofits in 23 states and Washington, D.C.
Kathy Bisbee, the director of marketing and development at Community Television in Santa Cruz, is leaving to become executive director of the Community Media Access Partnership in Gilroy. She will succeed Suzanne St. John-Crane, who left to launch a public access station in San Jose.
CMAP, at Gavilan College, is a smaller operation than Community Television. The 5-year-old station manages four public access television channels, including an educational channel, broadcasting to Gilroy, San Juan Bautista and Hollister.
Bisbee previously was director of marketing at Cruzio, and volunteered on the Workforce Investment Board, the Santa Cruz Film Festival and the Santa Cruz Downtown Commission.
Originally from rural Maine, she grew up on a working farm and earned a degree in political science and social sciences from the University of Maine at Farmington. She is working on a master's degree in integrated marketing communications and public relations at Golden Gate University in San Francisco.
Last summer she filmed two documentaries in Guatemala and Nicaragua about sustainable farming and youth hip-hop music in underdeveloped nations. Her films will be showed this year at the Santa Cruz Film Festival and EarthVision Environmental Film Festival. She and her husband, Alec VanderWoude, live in Santa Cruz County.
Tom Frankl, owner of Play It Again Sports in Soquel, was named a top performer at the Play It Again Sports national conference and trade show in San Antonio. Top performer awards go to stores with a strong sales and superior customer service and community partnerships. Play It Again Sports has 400 franchised stores selling new fitness and sports gear and buys, sells and trades used gear.
Erica Pittman-Gaynor, Tootsie Torres and David Helvey have joined the Keller Williams Realty Market Center in Santa Cruz.
Pittman-Gaynor was formerly with Bailey Properties. Torres comes from Monterey Bay Properties and Helvey was with Help-U-Sell. |
