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Business Briefs
El Segundo Economic Development
Corporation (ESEDC) Is Launched
Led by a coalition of the Southern
California’s most respected business icons,
the El Segundo Economic Development
Corporation (ESEDC) has been established to
direct key areas of interest paramount to the
City’s future busines growth, retention, and
attraction. Forefront on the group’s agenda
of critical areas to address includes solutions
on residential housing and an ever-growing
focus for more progressive DEI planning
by the city to support the recruitment of an
Members of the El Segundo Economic Development Corporation Board of Directors at a recent meeting to launch the new organization.
estimated 10,000 jobs to be made available
by local businesses in the coming three years.
The ESEDC, a privately run 501c3, will be
comprised of a Board of Governors, Board
of Directors and Leadership Team from a
wide cross section of industries including
the aerospace, defense, technology, bio-tech,
textile, commercial development, health and
wellness, digital media and e.commerce.
Among its many goals, the ESEDC plans
to prioritize how best to support existing
businesses following the pandemic’s impacts
on a number of sectors. These include driving
action to workforce housing solutions,
supporting dialogue and planning for the
city’s DEI programs, pursuing solutions to
address critical transportation, recreational
amenity and community beautification efforts,
providing leadership and dialogue with City
officials around its business-oriented agenda
and establishing foundational relationships
for businesses searching for their next
headquarters.
The El Segundo Economic Development
Corporation will be led by the Board of
Governors and Board of Directors and financed
by associated dues. It will be privately run
through its Leadership Team as a non-profit
organization with the sole objective of pursuing
a business-focused agenda that serves both
the employees and residents of the City.
El Segundo Economic Development
Corporation’s Board of Governors:
Ethan Brown, CEO, Beyond Meat; Troy
Dawson, Vice President and El Segundo
Site Leader, Boeing; Richard Dickson
President, Mattel; Adam Greenberg, CEO,
TechStyle; Michael Hackman, CEO, Hackman
Cap.; Steve Isakowitz, CEO, Aerospace
Corp.; Richard Lundquist, CEO, Continental
Development; Shawn Mural, CFO, Raytheon
Intelligence & Space; Patrick Soon Shiong,
Chairman, LA Times, CEO, Nantworks;
Frederik Walker, Vice President and General
Manager, Chevron and Scott Mitnick (in exofficio,
non-voting capacity),City Manager,
City of El Segundo.
El Segundo Economic Development
Corporation’s Board of Directors: Meera
Bhatia, President, Expert Services, TechStyle;
Lily Craig, External Affairs, Chevron;
Malissia Clinton, Senior Vice President,
General Counsel, Aerospace Corporation;
Brandon Ferrera, Southern California Market
Lead, Fifth Third Bank; Chuck Kenworthy,
President, Nant Capital; Jason Kim, President,
Millennium Space Systems (division of
Boeing); Trupti Patel, Director Mergers and
Acquisitions, Raytheon Intelligence & Space;
Michael Racine, Executive Vice President,
Hackman Capital Partners; Alex Rose, Senior
Vice President, Continental Development
Corporation; Sean Sanders, Senior Vice
President, Operations, Mattel and Jackie
Trask, Chief People Officer, Beyond Meat.
El Segundo Economic Development
Corporation’s Leadership Team: Eric
Chan, President – ESEDC, CFO, LA
Clippers; Al Keahi, Vice President /
Treasurer – ESEDC, Former Chairman,
El Segundo EDAC and Daniel Martin,
Vice President / Secretary – ESEDC
President, Paolucci Salling & Martin.
“El Segundo has taken its place in the greater
L.A. region as one of the most attractive places
to do business and is poised for growth,” said
Chan. “In order to accommodate this growth,
there are things in our city that need attention.
Our mission is to establish priorities and
initiatives that will move El Segundo forward in
an enlightened manner so that more companies
want to move here and more of the those who
work here want to call it home.” •
Your Neighborhood Therapist
Dear Neighborhood Therapist,
I am happily engaged, but as the wedding
date gets closer I find myself thinking about
a relationship from a few years ago. It was
a very good relationship for a long time
(we were together longer than my fiancee
and I have been), and we had discussed
getting married. I was close to buying a
ring. It was very different from my current
relationship. Now I find myself thinking
about all of the ways that my former relationship
was satisfying that my current one
is not, and while I am definitely happy to
be marrying my fiancee, I worry. How can
I stop my past relationship from affecting
my marriage?
– Worried About the Future, El Segundo
Dear Worried,
Your relationships with your parents,
relatives, friends, and the place you grew
up affect who you are, and who you are
affects your marriage. It doesn’t make
sense that past romantic relationships would
somehow play no role, either. This is the
good news! In many ways, your “baggage”
is baked in already: your past relationships
are already affecting the current one. (The
same goes for your fiancee and her life,
of course.)
But I suspect that you’d like to know
if it is possible not to feel the very thing
you happen to be feeling. I wish I could
fix that. The pang of regret, the path not
taken, the things you miss about another
person that you will never have again…
these are things that most reflective people
think about.
What you can do is try to figure out - as
best you can, nobody gets it perfect - how
your past relationships have affected you,
and thus how they affect your marriage. The
reason for doing this is so that you can account
for these effects and act accordingly.
Just as an example, you may discover that
it’s harder for you to give affection than
you want it to be. Now that you know that,
what do you do?
No, that’s not so easy to figure out. You
might need some help. But it’s a good start
if you take a look specifically at what you
are giving up by getting married, and then
think specifically about why you hope that
marriage will make giving up those things
worth it. What are the trade-offs?
Next, give yourself a break: we all think
about what might have been, and the lives we
might have led under different circumstances.
Of course you may wonder what your life
would have been like if you had married
someone else. You may even wish you had
sometimes, especially when things that you
used to enjoy may not be as accessible as
they once were.
You know you will have to make sacrifices,
and yet you have still decided to give marriage
a try. This suggests to me that you have
a sense that you can do this, and that you
think it’s worth it. And that’s the key. What
I am about to say doesn’t mean you should
never work to make your relationship better,
and it’s not very romantic, but I think it’s
helpful to consider on those days when we
think the grass is greener: a marriage doesn’t
have to be perfect, or even great. It just has
to be, for you, better than the alternative on
more days than not.
Please write to tom@tomandrecounseling.
com or text to 310.776.5299 with
questions about handling what is affecting
your life, your family, the community or the
world. Tom Andre is a Licensed Marriage
& Family Therapist (LMFT119254).
The information in this column is for
educational purposes only and nothing
herein should be construed as professional
advice or the formation of a therapeutic
relationship. •
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