In the News

• AT&T subsidiary AT&T Government Solutions was awarded a $30-million managed-telecommunications contract from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. www.att.com
• Bank of America has provided $65 million in long-term financing to the Redwood Forest Foundation, which will use the funds to purchase more than 50,000 acres in the Usal Redwood Forest and allow the area to be managed as working, sustainable timberland. www.bofa.com
• Wells Fargo & Co. completed its merger with Placer Sierra Bancshares, Sacramento’s largest locally based bank. www.wellsfargo.com
• Bank of America has agreed to buy CU Electronic Transaction Services, Canada’s largest credit card issuer for credit unions. www.bofa.com
• Chevron and Texas A&M BioEnergy Alliance have announced a strategic research agreement to accelerate the production and conversion of crops for manufacturing ethanol and other biofuels from cellulose. www.chevron.com
• 24 Hour Fitness announced a new partnership with Triple Threat Academy, a San Leandro–based basketball school that has trained scores of well known basketball players, including Leon Powe, former University of California, Berkeley, star now playing for the Boston Celtics. www.24hourfitness.com
• Comcast signed a new deal with Monster Worldwide Inc. to make Monster’s job-search information available via Comcast’s high-speed Internet service. www.comcast.com
• Orient Overseas Container Line (OOCL), one of the world’s leading container transport and logistics service providers, christened the m.v. OOCL Southampton at Geoje shipyard in Korea. www.oocl.com

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Industry Awards

• Heartwood Studios won the East Bay Business Times’ Best East Bay Entrepreneur Award. www.hwd3d.com
• Umesh Vaidyamath, founder and C.E.O. of INSZoom.com Inc., was selected as a leading Asian American business professional as part of the annual Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award. www.inszoom.com
• Paychex has been named among the World’s Most Ethical Companies by Ethisphere Magazine, a national publication dedicated to illuminating the correlation between ethics and profit. www.paychex.com

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People on the Move

• Achievo Corp. has named Bernard (Bud) F. Mathaisel senior vice president and chief Information officer. Achievo is a San Ramon–based information technology outsourcing company. www.achievo.com
• Real estate agents Pamela Mathews, Teresa Chenyek, Jasmin Rhodes, Linda Patterson and Adafo El-Mueed have joined Windermere Services of Northern California. www.windermere.com
• The California Newspaper Partnership named Michael Gelbman as its new general manager of Daily News Group. Gelbman will oversee the business and editorial operations of the San Mateo County Times, the Silicon Valley Community Newspapers and the Pacific Tribune. www.bayareanewsgroup.com

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New Products and Services

• Paychex has introduced its new Tax Credit Services, a product that provides small and medium-sized businesses with an easy and cost-effective tool to assist applications for wage-based tax credits. www.paychex.com
• Chevron subsidiary Chevron Energy Solutions has begun engineering and construction of an innovative system at the City of Rialto’s wastewater treatment facility that transforms local restaurants’ kitchen grease and sludge into clean, renewable power. www.chevron.com
• AT&T announced it will be the first carrier in North America to offer Research in Motion’s latest handset, the Blackberry Curve. www.att.com

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Growing Business
in Bishop Ranch

Intelli-Services www.intelli-services.com

Intelli-Services, a privately held corporation, offers affordable and highly intuitive electronic content management (ECM), automated forms recognition processing  and complementary business automation solutions and services to companies with a high volume of hard-copy and electronic business information. Since 2003, Intelli-Services’ corporate mission has been to deliver a reliable, intuitive and affordable paperless processing solution focused on automating standard business practices and lowering administrative costs. Intelli-Services offers both an enterprise solution and a small-business solution. These include:

• streamlined, automated methods for paperless archiving and document retrieval.
• rules-based forms processing, integration with internal corporate applications and business workflow management.
• a systems integration tool designed to link core business applications.
• high-performing, professional implementation and support services.
• government services.
• back-file conversion and imaging services.

Intelli-Services attended the B2B roundtable in February where Sunset Development launched its initiative to engage business growth for all Bishop Ranch tenants. As a result, Intelli-Services decided to take full advantage of this initiative and has incorporated an aggressive component into its overall sales strategy to target Bishop Ranch tenants. Intelli-Services is in the process of finalizing arrangements with their first Bishop Ranch customer, a financial services company. Because Intelli-Services offers a product geared to small to medium-sized businesses, marketing to the Bishop Ranch community is an ideal strategy.

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Executive Profile:
Kristin Parsons

Licensed civil engineer Kristin Parsons had been with Wilsey Ham just a year and a half when she became one of the 65-year-old engineering firm’s three owners in 2004. What distinguishes Wilsey Ham from its competitors, she says, is “our personal attention to every project. We don’t put anyone on the back burner, no matter the size of the projects.”

Résumé
Name: Kristin Parsons
Title: Principal, Vice President of Engineering, Director of Marketing
Company: Wilsey Ham
Location: Bishop Ranch 8
Number of employees: 25
Year company was founded: 1942
Number of years at Bishop Ranch: Close to 20

Company Profile
Headquarters: Foster City
Business: “Providing civil engineering, planning, design and land surveying services to public- and private-sector clients.”
Business approach: “To be attentive and responsive, and to provide the best-quality professional services.”
Biggest challenge: “Finding qualified employees.”
Biggest risk taken: “When we pursue large public agency contracts. The risk is higher because of the level of competition.”
Favorite task: “I love the excitement of sitting with clients or staff and brainstorming ways to solve a problem.”
Least favorite task: “Disciplining staff.”
Source of inspiration: “My two partners. I’m also inspired by my staff, and I think I learn something new from them every day.”

Personal Philosophy
Best way to motivate co-workers and staff: “I try to work hard and show them I’m a team player, not just the boss, and make myself available to them.”
Suggestions for up-and-coming executives: “Be open-minded to change and at the same time respect things that have worked.”
Goal you still want to succeed: “Grow the San Ramon and Chico offices.”

Off Hours
Favorite pastime: “I love cooking for my husband.”
Favorite stress-buster: “Swimming and playing with my 18-month-old daughter, Kassi.”
Favorite vacation spot: “Anywhere tropical.”
Favorite music: “Country western.”
Favorite cause: “As a member of the San Ramon Rotary Club, I’m able to support many different causes — local, national and international.”

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