Accounting Eugene M. Brown was named an honorary member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA). The honorary member certificate is given to CPAs who have been members of the AICPA for 40 years. Brown is a partner in Good Swartz Brown & Berns LLP. Government Jeff Rubin was named Calabasas community services director. Rubin has been with the city of Calabasas since 1995, serving as a recreation specialist. Previously, he worked for the Los Angeles City Recreation and Parks Department for 12 years. Entertainment Heidi Geier has been named senior vice president of sales for Universal Studios Hollywood. Geier will be responsible for developing international and domestic sales strategies and will lead all telemarketing and online sales strategies. Previously, she served in key travel industry posts including Las Vegas-based Mirage Resorts and Merv Griffin’s Resort Hotel & Givenchy Spa in Palm Springs. Studio City-based Media Distributors has promoted Michael Butler to vice president, sales. He will oversee all of the sales efforts in the areas of film, videotape, audiotape and data media. Before joining Media Distributors, Butler was western regional sales manager for the Los Angeles-based VTP Inc. He has also been sales manager for SteadiSystems, based in Hollywood. Health Care Adam Singer was appointed chairman of the board for IPC-The Hospitalist Company effective immediately. Singer also will continue to serve as the company’s CEO. In addition, chief operating officer Jeff Taylor has assumed the position of president/COO and has been appointed to the IPC board of directors. Previously, Taylor served as executive vice president of Atlanta-based Mariner Post-Acute Network. Teresa Jones, D.O. was named regional medical director of IPC-The Hospitalist Company. In her new role, Jones will work closely with 100 IPC physicians practicing in Phoenix, Tucson, Denver and Houston. She will mentor new physicians and develop and support strategies that enhance clinical performance. She is currently overseeing staff at five Arizona hospitals including Arrowhead Community Hospital and Medical Center, Chandler Regional Hospital, Desert Samaritan Medical Center, Mesa Lutheran Hospital and Valley Lutheran Hospital. Louanne Kennedy, vice president and provost at Cal State Northridge, and Keith Weaver, chief of staff at the California State Analysis Division, have accepted nomination to the Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center Board of Governors. Insurance Eric Saudi was promoted to vice president for 21st Century Insurance. A 23-year veteran of the company, Saudi will assume the role of customer process leader with responsibility for the customer service call center’s staff of 700. Since joining 21st Century, Saudi has held increasingly responsible positions in claims management, managing a staff of over 900 people. Technology Thousand Oaks-based Rockwell Scientific Company LLC has appointed five individuals to serve on its board of directors. They are Don H. Davis, chairman and CEO of Rockwell Automation; Clay M. Jones, president and CEO of Rockwell Collins; Derek T. Cheung, Rockwell Scientific’s president and CEO; Paul J. Hoeper, former assistant secretary of the Army in charge of acquisition, logistics and technology; and Milton Chang, managing director of Incubic LLC. Scott Esterson was named professional audio sales manager for DTS, an entertainment technology company. In his new role, he will oversee sales of DTS hardware encoders and decoders as well as licensing of DTS technology to manufacturers of audio equipment. Esterson joins DTS from Tascom Inc., where he worked on post-production sales. Previously, he held a number of sales positions with a variety of professional audio companies including New West Audio, Lexicon Inc., Marshank Sales and Westlake Audio.