Neighbors
Three employees have been promoted to the position of managing
director at Newport Beach-based Pacific Investment Management Co., one of
the world’s leading fixed-income managers. Portfolio manager James M.
Keller, serves as the head of the company’s government/derivatives desk
and manages long-duration funds. He joined the company in 1996, after
working as a derivatives trader at Merrill Lynch Inc. Keller, 37, has
served on the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee since 2000. He
has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois and a master’s
from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Raymond G.
Kennedy is a portfolio manager and senior member of the company’s
investment strategy group. He also manages high-yield funds and oversees
bank loan trading and consolidated debt obligations. Kennedy, 40, also
joined the firm in 1996, after serving as an asset manager for the
Prudential Insurance Co. of America, where he was responsible for
investing and managing a portfolio of high-yield, privately placed
fixed-income securities. Kennedy received his bachelor’s degree from
Stanford University and a master’s from the Anderson Graduate School of
Management at UCLA. Richard MacCoy Weil, 38, who became chief operating
officer in August 2000, was named general counsel in 1999. He was
appointed as the firm’s advisors’ managing director in 2000. He has been
associated with the law firm of Simpson, Thatcher & Bartlett. Weil
received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Duke University and his
juris doctorate from the University of Chicago. . . . Six new
philanthropists from Newport Beach and Costa Mesa have joined the board
of directors of Human Options, a nonprofit agency serving Orange County
victims of domestic violence. The six new members are Karen Clark, a
resident of Corona del Mar, who is a Newport Beach Library trustee and a
Woman in Leadership board member; Victoria Collins, a Newport Beach
resident who is a principal with the Keller Group Investment Management
Inc. in Irvine; Silla Decker, a Newport Beach resident and community
volunteer; Linda Martin, a Santa Ana resident who is the senior vice
president and general manager of NCG Porter Novelli in Newport Beach and
a Public Relations Society of America member; Daniel Sonenshine, a Costa
Mesa resident, past president and current board member of Bravo! Young
Professionals for the Orange County Performing Arts Center, committee
member for the Anti-Defamation League and co-chair of Temple Bat Yahm’s
2001 annual gala; and Keri Ueberroth Thomas, a Newport Beach resident,
Junior League of Orange County member and Ueberroth Family Foundation
member. Human Options has program sites in Costa Mesa, Irvine and Santa
Ana, and provides a comprehensive range of services, including a 24-hour
hotline, transitional housing, emergency shelter and community education
programs targeting students in kindergarten through college.
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