Presented in a lively and accessible format, the Business Journal is required reading for Orange County executives, managers and professionals. Color photos, informative graphics, plus listings of stories by topic and company name, make it easy for readers to find items of special interest. It's also enjoyable reading - written in an up-tempo, breezy style that reveals the drama, excitement and fun in enterprise. Simply stated, we're the definitive source of business news throughout Orange County.
		Richard Reisman is publisher and chief executive officer of the Orange County Business Journal. Reisman joined the Business Journal in September 1990. Since that time, the publication's acceptance by the business community has been dramatic. Paid circulation has grown five-fold. Prior to arriving at the Business Journal, Reisman was director of marketing for the Orange County edition of The Los Angeles Times. Earlier in his career, Reisman practiced law in San Francisco and Washington, D.C. While in private practice in Washington, Reisman served as Special Counsel to the House Ethics Committee. Reisman holds an M.B.A. from UCLA, where he was awarded the R.C. Baker Foundation Fellowship, and a law degree from George Washington University, where he graduated with honors. He currently serves as membership chair of the California Coast chapter of YPO and is listed in �Who�s Who in America.� E-Mail
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		Michael Lyster is editor of the Orange County Business Journal. He recently served as a technology editor for Investor's Business Daily, a national business publication based in Los Angeles. In the 1990s, he covered technology, global trade and other issues for the Orange County Business Journal. Lyster is a native of Orange County and directs the Business Journal's coverage. His aim is to chronicle the transformation of Orange County into a technology powerhouse, a design center for the automotive and fashion industries and a hub for global trade--as well as how these changes are impacting real estate, professional services and other core segments of the local economy. Lyster is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton with a degree in journalism and a minor in political science. E-Mail
		Rick Reiff has been executive editor of the Orange County Business Journal since May 2000. Prior to that, he had been the paper's editor since 1990. He previously was a staff writer in the Chicago bureau of Forbes magazine. He was the lead reporter on a team at the Akron (Ohio) Beacon Journal that won a 1987 Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the takeover battle between Goodyear Tire and raider Jimmy Goldsmith. He also was with American City Business Journals, as managing editor of Business First in Columbus, Ohio, and editor of the Westchester (N.Y.) Business Journal. Reiff was born and raised in Chicago and graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. As executive editor, Reiff offers guidance on the direction of the paper's coverage, contributes a regular column, represents the paper at speaking engagements and events, among other duties.   E-Mail
		Managing Editor Mike Mason has primary responsibility for the editorial production of each week's paper, and assists editor Mike Lyster with editing, story planning and special projects. Mike is back for a second stint at the Orange County Business Journal; he was the technology reporter in 1998 and 1999 before heading north to San Francisco to work for financial wire service BridgeNews as a broadband and wireless reporter. Mason comes most recently from the news division of San Francisco-based Scudder Weisel Capital, a co-venture of Scudder Venture Investments and Thomas Weisel Partners, where he was an editor. While at Scudder Weisel, Mason earned Series 7 brokerage and Series 24 principal licenses. Prior to his initial term at the Business Journal, Mason was a reporter at the Palisadian-Post in Los Angeles and worked for four years at the Pilgrim Group, an L.A.-based mutual fund company where he was a research analyst on a mortgage bond mutual fund and a senior loan fund. Mason has a bachelor�s degree in economics and philosophy from Queen�s University in Kingston, Ontario.      E-Mail
		Jennifer Bellantonio is the marketing, media and advertising reporter, and also covers Internet retailers and the online efforts of traditional companies. Bellantonio came to the Business Journal in 2000 after two years as associate editor at Outdoor Retailer magazine, a Laguna Beach-based trade publication for manufacturers and retailers in the outdoor industry. Prior to her stint at Outdoor Retailer, Bellantonio honed her journalism skills as a city beat reporter for the Orange County Register's community newspaper, Saddleback Valley News. She also has contributed to various magazines and Web sites, including Orange County Home, Discover Orange County and myOC.com. Bellantonio, originally from New York, has lived in Orange County for 14 years. She received a degree in print journalism from Pennsylvania State University. E-Mail
		Sandi Cain is copy editor and a staff reporter covering hospitality, tourism, travel and sports. Cain holds bachelor�s and master�s degrees in education from Kent State University in Ohio, where she majored in social studies. A former high school teacher, she has written for niche-market sports publications in the U.S., England and Australia and formerly worked in both the printing and high-tech industries. A Cleveland, Ohio native, Cain has been a resident of Laguna Beach since the late �70s. She enjoys travel, gardening, reading and spoiling her three cats.E-Mail
		Chris Cziborr, an alumnus of the University of Alberta, covers education and international trade for the Orange County Business Journal. Cziborr started with the Business Journal in August 2000, after more than five years working as a reporter for various business publications in Canada and Southeast Asia. His experience includes a one-year stint with the Economist Intelligence Unit in Bangkok, Thailand. Cziborr enjoys listening to electronic music, particularly the drum �n� bass, Detroit techno and West Coast breaks genres. E-Mail
		David Orloff joined the Business Journal in November 1998 as an intern and became a staff reporter a year later covering the banking, finance, manufacturing and automotive companies in our fine county. He is still pursuing his Bachelor�s degree at California State University, Fullerton where he majors in English. He lives in Brea with his wife and his bromeliads. David enjoys camping, fishing, writing, cooking and capitalism. E-Mail
		Vita Reed, an alumna of the University of Southern California, covers healthcare for the Orange County Business Journal. Reed started with the Business Journal in June, after 4 � years with the Las Vegas Business Press. Her experience also includes reporting jobs with the Knoxville (Tenn.) News-Sentinel and the Charlotte Observer. Reed likes to listen to and collect jazz CDs and LPs, particularly from the 1950s cool, West Coast, hard bop and Third Stream genres. E-Mail
		Susan Schaben is a staff reporter who covers retail, entertainment, marketing and media. Before joining the Business Journal in 1998, she worked for the Los Angeles Times Orange County edition as a correspondent covering education and city government in its South County bureau. Susan also has worked for the Daily Pilot and the Orange County Register community newspapers. Susan graduated from the University of Southern California in 1995 with a bachelor�s degree, majoring in both journalism and political science. E-Mail
		Andrew Simons covers technology for the Orange County Business Journal. He reports on a variety of issues including technology venture capital, shifts in technology personnel, large public companies, technology business personalities and major OC tech trends. Before joining the Business Journal, Andrew worked in the editorial and research department of Scudder Weisel Capital, a San Francisco-based venture of boutique investment bank Thomas Weisel Partners, where he helped build a team of journalists to cover technology. Prior to that, Andrew spent two years in the Bay Area covering computer hardware and the technology boom of the late 1990s for Bridge News (formerly Knight Ridder Financial News). Before Bridge, Andrew covered police and general assignment stories at The Denver Post. A Texas native, Andrew received a bachelor's degree in journalism with a minor in philosophy from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Andrew also has a Series 7 brokerage license from the National Association of Securities Dealers. Andrew enjoys reading, writing, guitar and long-distance cycling. E-Mail
		Rajiv Vyas is the finance reporter covering macro-economics and other issues in Orange County. Vyas joined the Business Journal from the Atlanta Business Chronicle, where he covered Georgia�s economy, including trends in Georgia stocks, the area�s manufacturing industry and problems with the trucking sector. Prior to his work at the Business Chronicle, Vyas worked as a reporter for Bridge News and The Economic Times in their Bombay bureau. At the Economic Times, he wrote a daily column on the stock market. He also worked for Bloomberg as a part-time reporter for five months before coming to the United States. Vyas completed his undergraduate studies in accounting and economics at Bombay University. Before moving into journalism in 1995, Vyas worked for seven years with two brokerage firms and one hedge fund as a research analyst. E-Mail
		Daniel Williams, the real estate reporter, came to the Business Journal after two years as entertainment editor for Birmingham Weekly in Birmingham, Ala. Prior to his work at Birmingham Weekly, Williams edited Aura Literary Arts Journal for two years and, for one year, Phoenix, a publication focusing on student life at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. Originally from Oxford, Miss., Williams attended Samford University in Birmingham where he earned a bachelor's in marketing. For the next nine years, he worked at BellSouth Corp. as a market analyst and attended school at night, receiving a master's in business administration and a master�s in environmental management. During this time, Williams started his writing career, winning first prize in the Southern Festival Fiction Competition. E-Mail
		Research Director Ludmilla Salvacion is responsible for compiling the weekly industry lists. Ludmilla graduated with a degree in economics from the University of California, Irvine. Prior to joining the Business Journal, she was an underwriter and loan processor for a local small-business lender. She had also been an intern for the research department of FMV Opinions Inc., a business-valuation firm. She enjoys snowboarding in the winter and musical theatre. E-Mail
Contributors: Fifi Chao is a chef, lecturer, author, educator, radio personality and publisher of Chao�s Dinesty, a private subscription restaurant, wine and travel newsletter. She has been reviewing local restaurants for the Business Journal since 1990. Nidal M. Ibrahim is a former Business Journal senior reporter who has followed and written extensively on the Orange County real estate scene. Paul Hughes is a full-time writer, reporter, editor and father of two. He has covered local and national business for several publications for more than 10 years. He can be reached at [email protected] or (714) 628-0212.