MICHAEL OLENICK President, Chief Executive Child Care Resource Center (Photo by Rich Schmitt) “You have to kind of run it like a business,” he says. Although he grew up in the child care space – his ...

Pegi Matsuda with a salad at the Braemar Country Club in Tarzana. Matsuda, a former Business Journal publisher, has her own consulting business. (Photo by David Sprague) Pegi Matsuda’s resume is as ...

One of the topics on many of our readers’ minds is education. They want to explore the benefits of an advanced degree for themselves or their employees. They want to know about the latest trends in ...

In California, there is a looming threat jeopardizing the safety of our communities, and it poses a significant risk to our business community: retail theft and organized crime. This urgent issue ...

COC held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the Advanced Technology Center (ATC), a state-of-art advanced manufacturing and Computer Numerical Control (CNC) production lab that will prepare students for ...

This past summer, the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) and ADP released the results of a survey of women business owners. Nearly 92% of women-owned businesses are microbusinesses, ...

Laura McHolm, North Star Moving Co.’s co-founder and marketing director, never set out to get into the moving business. After skipping several years of high school and enrolling in University of ...

Hutchins is a tax partner in the Thousand Oaks office of HCVT, the largest Los Angeles-based public accounting firm and 31st-largest firm nationally. He has more than three decades of experience ...

Shaffery is a founding partner of the Poole Shaffery law firm in Santa Clarita. He has nearly 30 years of trial experience and is a member of the American Board of Trial Advocates, a national ...

Villalobos is chief of the Valencia-based Lief Labs, a contract and development manufacturing organization in the dietary supplement industry. He is on the board of the Natural Products Association, ...

Olenick, a Ph.D., has led the Child Care Resource Center for 20 years, overseeing all programs, projects, and services provided to more than 60,000 children and families. He recently termed out as ...

Rajan became president of Santa Clarita-based CalArts in 2017 and is in the early stages of creating a lab for arts and media using the latest technologies, including encryption and distributed ...