35, Newport Heights ... Executive director...

35, Newport Heights ... Executive director of the Newport Beach

Film Festival ... Investment banker ... Lives to build and grow

companies ... Proud of film festival’s growth, with 19,500 people

attending this year ... Expects 22,000 next year ... Names Katharine

Hepburn as his favorite actress, favorite actor is Jimmy Stewart ...

On the board of directors of both the British American Business

Council and the Protocol Foundation ... Newport Harbor High School

graduate ... Studied political economy of industrial societies at UC

Berkeley ... Recently toured England and Scotland ... Adjunct

professor at Cal State Fullerton and Chapman University ... Spends

weekends kayaking with Newport Aquatic Center ... Likes wine tasting

at Overstreet’s ... Last year’s ranking: 36