Banking Gilmore Bank hired Dan Givens as a loan officer at the new Westlake Village office. Givens has 27 years experience in commercial, Small Business Administration and real estate lending. He most recently served as vice president and branch manager with Frontier Bank. Education Sebastian Zacharia has been appointed as director of international studies at Woodbury University. Zacharia will focus on strengthening the school’s study abroad programs and enhancing the university’s efforts to bring an international dimension to research, curriculum, and instruction. He previously served as director of the regional program for Asia and the Pacific at the United Nations. Glendale Community College Board President Kathleen Burke-Kelly resigned from that position. She had been board president for 3 & #733; years. Burke-Kelly also serves as vice president of academic affairs at Los Angeles Mission College. Entertainment Wesley Coleman has been named as executive vice president and chief human resources officer for The Walt Disney Co. Coleman is responsible for managing Disney employee communications, organizational and cultural development, employee education and development, global staffing, diversity and compensation and benefits. He previously served as vice president, Global Human Resources at Nike. Health Care The Jewish Home for the Aging named Derek Brown, Jeffrey Glassman, and Rick Gleitman to its board of directors. Brown has three decades of financial and general management experience and recently retired from American Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc. Glassman is a lawyer with Bingham Legg Advisers, LLC. Gleitman is in the real estate development and investment business. Law Gary L. Barr, a principal at Alpert & Barr, Encino, has been appointed to the Commission on Judicial Procedures by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. The commission is responsible for recommending strategies to reduce caseloads, lessen delays and otherwise make the county judicial system run more efficiently. Barr has been a civil litigator in private practice since 1982. He succeeds his law firm partner, Lee Kanon Alpert, who served on the commission for 18 years. Media Harold F. Woldt, Jr. has been named as vice president, circulation for the Los Angeles Newspaper Group. Woldt was most recently vice president, circulation at the San Jose Mercury News. The Los Angeles Newspaper Group publishes eight daily newspapers, including the Daily News. Carol Lee has been named as vice president, home entertainment, North America for Granada International. She will work from the company’s Sherman Oaks office. Lee is responsible for delivering Granada International’s programming across all digital platforms, securing new distribution deals, overseeing product release strategy and expanding sales opportunities. Public Service James Fitzpatrick has been appointed as deputy director of the California Film Commission. Fitzpatrick previously served as director of government and production affairs in the State Government Affairs Department for the Motion Picture Association of America. Fitzpatrick is a member of the Directors Guild of America. George Andros, Steve Cochran, Matt Epstein, Gordon Murley, and Barbara Romero were appointed to the South Valley Area Planning Commission by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Andros is a full-time practitioner at the Los Angeles Vascular Specialists. Cochran is a partner in the law firm of Katten, Muchin, Rosenman, LLP. Epstein is founder of Team 2000, a real estate company. Murley has served as vice president of sales and marketing for the Infix Corp. Romero serves as director of urban projects for the Natural Resources and Planning Division of the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority. Lori Zafiropoulos and Rodney Skidmore have been appointed to the Simi Valley Police Foundation. Zafiropoulos is retired and volunteers at the Simi Valley Police Department and the Assistance League of Conejo Valley. Skidmore is vice president for the Institutional Trust Group at US Bank in Simi Valley. Ramon Muniz has been appointed to the Rent Adjustment Commission by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Muniz is coordinator for the Educational Opportunity Program at California State University, Northridge. Real Estate Andrew W. Hodac was named senior investment associate at Marcus & Millichap Real Estate Investment Brokerage Co. Hodac joined the brokerage in Encino in 2000 and specializes in multifamily investments. Lee Black has joined NAI Capital as executive vice president. Black was most recently managing principal of Newmark Knight Frank’s Southern California region. He is a 21-year real estate veteran. Technology Tiffany Ternan has been named as vice president of marketing at video game publisher THQ Inc. Ternan will be responsible for managing the Agoura Hills-based company’s portfolio of externally licensed content and building opportunities for THQ’s owned intellectual properties across other media. She previously served as senior vice president of North American sales for THQ. Philip Rosenthal has been named as computer forensic expert adviser for BeNetSafe, a Sherman Oaks company providing online chaperone services for social networking websites. Rosenthal is a member of the U.S. Secret Service Electronic Crimes Task Force and the High Tech Crime Consortium. QPC Lasers Inc. named Ed McIntyre as director of marketing. He previously served as director of marketing at PD-LD, Inc., where he developed applications for hg brightness lasers using external optical components.