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AIA NAMES NEW CALIFORNIA COUNCIL PRESIDENT

SACRAMENTO - David Brotman was recently elected President of The American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC), the nation's largest state architectural organization representing more than 10,000 members.
 
Brotman is founder and principal of Sunset Consultants, a firm that provides strategic, integrated services to developers, architects and other professional real estate-related firms.
Prior to founding Sunset Consultants, he served as Vice Chairman and Executive Vice President of RTKL Associates Inc., an 800-person architectural and engineering firm with 14 offices around the world.
 
Having practiced nationally and internationally for 30 years, Brotman has earned a worldwide reputation as an authority on mixed-use and commercial architecture. His experience includes the design of large scale, complex projects, together with extensive management expertise, including firm growth, organizational changes, and expansion into new markets; marketing and negotiating skills with private developers, government entities and commercial owners; and mergers and acquisitions.

A Fellow of The American Institute of Architects, one of the highest AIA honors bestowed upon a member, Brotman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Architecture from the University of Cincinnati.

His diverse portfolio of award-winning projects includes Shanghai Science and Technology Museum, Shanghai, China, and St. Andrews Old Course Hotel Expansion, St. Andrews, Scotland.

YELLEN TAPPED TO HEAD SF FEDERAL RESERVE 

SAN FRANCISCO - Dr. Janet Yellen has been appointed President & Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, according to an announcement by George M. Scalise, Chairman of the San Francisco Fed's Board of Directors.

Yellen is the Eugene E. and Catherine M. Trefethen Professor of Business at the Haas School of Business and Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley.

She will assume her new position on June 14, succeeding current President & CEO Robert Parry, who last September announced his intention to retire at mid-year after serving 18 years.
Yellen holds her undergraduate degree in economics from Brown University, and a PhD in economics from Yale University.

She was awarded honorary doctorates in humane letters, and laws, by Bard College and Brown University, respectively, and has been affiliated with the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley since 1980.

In addition, she served as Chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers from 1997 to 1999, and was a member of the Federal Reserve System's Board of Governors from 1994 to 1997. She has taught at Harvard and at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yellen serves as President of the Western Economics Association and Vice President of the American Economic Association and is a Fellow of the Yale Corporation. She is also the recipient of numerous honors and awards, and her research has been widely published.
 
She has collaborated professionally with her husband, George Akerlof, a UC Berkeley Nobel prize-winning economist, on topics ranging from labor market, income, wage and employment issues to variety of socio-economic issues.

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