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Valley 200 – 2024: Wendy Simpson

Chair, Chief Executive, LTC Properties Inc.

Simpson is the chair and chief executive of LTC Properties Inc., a position she’s held since May 2020. LTC Properties is a real estate investment trust company specializing in senior housing properties. The company is based in Westlake Village, and its portfolio is comprised of approximately 50% senior housing and 50% skilled nursing properties. Simpson was chief executive and president of LTC Properties since March 2007, and was appointed chair of the board in August 2013. She began her career in public accounting and has over 25 years in health care-related business.

Valley 200 – 2024: Michael Tingus

President, Lee & Associates – LA North and Ventura

Tingus has served as president of the Lee & Associates – Los Angeles North/Ventura company since January 2004, a brokerage firm specializing in the sale of mom-and-pop industrial assets based in Westlake Village. Over the past two decades, Tingus has grown the company from a single office in Sherman Oaks to three locations, adding offices in Westlake Village and Oxnard. Today, it has sales and leasing revenues in excess of $650 million annually. Tingus has transacted more than 1,500 acres of development land sales and has sold or leased properties valued at more than $5 billion to date.

Valley 200 – 2024: Marianne Haver Hill

Executive Director, Community Foundations of the Valley

As executive director of Community Foundation of the Valleys, Haver Hill leads the implementation of the nonprofit’s 2022-2027 strategic plan. Prior to her current position, she was the executive director of Propel L.A., the county’s strategic plan for economic development that was put forth by the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. From 1987-2016, she was president and chief executive of MEND-Meet Each Need with Dignity. She has also been an adjunct instructor in nonprofit management at the USC Sol Price School of Public Policy. Haver Hill is currently on the board of the Valley Economic Alliance, where she is a vice chair and co-chairs the Livable and Sustainable Communities Committee.

Valley 200 – 2024: Ned Davis

Mayor, City of Westlake Village

Davis was elected to his fourth term as a member of the Westlake Village City Council in 2020. He has lived in the city since 1993. He was selected to be mayor for the fourth time in December. Prior to his election to the city council, he served several years on the city’s Cultural Recreation Committee. Davis holds a California real estate broker license. Davis is also a business consultant working under his company banner Azure Blues Inc. with a focus on operations management, including workflow processes, human resource management and applied internet technologies. Davis began his career in television facilities management in post-production sound at Glen Glenn in Hollywood. Later he worked at KABC-TV.

Valley 200 – 2024: Michael Peel

Board Chair, DeVry University

Peel has been the chair of the board of DeVry University since 2018. He is managing partner of Peel Global Advisory LLC, a consulting firm providing capital and board consulting support to public and private companies, colleges and universities and arts organizations. Peel is known for having built widely recognized human resources organizations at institutions like Yale University, General Mills and PepsiCo. Peel retired from Yale University in 2017 after working directly for two successive presidents for nine years, serving as the vice president of human resources and administration. Prior to joining Yale, Peel was the chief human resources officer of General Mills for more than 17 years. He also held various senior human resources roles at PepsiCo.

Valley 200 – 2024: Michael Panesis

Executive Director, Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, California Lutheran University

Panesis is the Steven Dorfman Professor of Practice and Executive Director of the Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at California Lutheran University. He teaches innovation and entrepreneurship in Cal Lutheran’s undergraduate, MBA and Executive MBA in Europe programs. He also organizes Cal Lutheran’s New Venture Competition. Panesis is also a startup community leader in the Conejo Valley and Ventura County. He leads the operations of Hub101, Cal Lutheran’s community coworking space. He also is an advisor to startups on funding, operations, and business model strategies. He is chair emeritus of the board of governors of Tech Coast Angels and was a founding member of the Santa Barbara Angel Alliance.

Valley 200 – 2024: Matthew Fienup

Executive Director, CERF, Cal Lutheran

Fienup is the executive director of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting at California Lutheran University. He is also an Associate Professor of Economics in the school’s Master of Quantitative Economics program. Fienup is an applied economist who specializes in econometrics, economic policy analysis, land use and environmental markets. Fienup returned to school to pursue his doctorate after running a small business in Ventura County for more than a decade. He graduated from the Brooks Institute of Photography and has spent more than 15 years working as a professional climbing guide. Fienup completed his Ph.D. in environmental economics at UC Santa Barbara in 2017.

Valley 200 – 2024: Kathryn Barger

Supervisor, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors

Supervisor Barger serves the residents of the 5th District, which includes 20 cities and 83 unincorporated communities in the Antelope, San Gabriel, San Fernando, Crescenta and Santa Clarita Valleys. Barger began her career in public service as an intern in the office of former Supervisor Michael Antonovich and rose to become his chief deputy in 2001, where she served until her election to the Board of Supervisors in 2016. She was reelected for her second term in 2020. Barger advocates for services and programs to improve the quality of life for foster children, seniors, veterans, those with disabilities and those with mental illness. Barger serves on the boards of Metrolink and the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Valley 200 – 2024: Karen Bass

Mayor, City of Los Angeles

Bass took office in December 2022 as the city’s 43rd mayor – and first woman in that post – defeating billionaire shopping mall magnate Rick Caruso. Her first official act was to declare a state of emergency on homelessness. In her first year in office, Bass said that the city and county have placed nearly 22,000 homeless people into interim housing. Bass, a Los Angeles native, won election to the state Assembly in 2004 and served two years as Assembly Speaker. She won election to Congress in 2010, serving South Los Angeles and Culver City. Bass also helped found the nonprofit Community Coalition in 1990.

Valley 200 – 2024: Gerhard Apfelthaler

Dean, School of Management, California Lutheran University

Apfelthaler is the dean of the School of Management at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks where he oversees graduate and undergraduate programs as well as the Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Cal Lutheran’s community startup space Hub101 and the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting. Prior to joining Cal Lutheran in 2009, he held several positions in higher education in his native Austria. He previously served as Austria’s Deputy Trade Commissioner / Commercial Attaché in Singapore and in Los Angeles. He is also a co-founder of startup companies in the life science sector, co-founded the European Journal of International Management and has published several books.