In the News

• Through Onward Small Biz, its new online portal for small businesses, AT&T offers personalized, relevant content, including regional news, Web-based seminars and training, and a host of business communication tools. www.att.com/OnwardSmallBiz

• At the city of Rialto’s wastewater treatment facility, Chevron Energy Solutions has begun engineering and construction on a system to transform wastewater sludge and kitchen grease from local restaurants into clean, renewable power. www.chevronenergy.com

• Lennar Corp. topped Professional Builder magazine’s latest Giant 400 list, which ranks the nation’s 400 largest homebuilders by total housing revenue. www.lennar.com

• 24 Hour Fitness has partnered with Houston Rockets center Yao Ming to open fitness centers in his native China. 24 Hour Fitness already has a number of fitness centers across Asia. www.24hourfit.com

• Comcast unveiled plans to roll out a super cable modem with speeds up to 150 megabits per second, roughly 25 times faster than current cable modems. www.comcast.com

• AT&T plans to invest $1 billion to offer California households its innovative U-verse portfolio, which includes digital video and high-speed Internet, over its expanded fiber network. www.att.com/uverse

• Fortune ranked Centex Corporation the No. 1 homebuilder on its annual list of America’s Most Admired Companies. www.centex.com

• California Newspapers Partnership, the largest newspaper publisher in Northern California, has opened its new headquarters in Bishop Ranch 7. www.bayareanewsgroup.com

• Maury Blackman has been named CEO of Accela Inc., the leader in enterprise Web-based government automation. www.accela.com

• The world’s fourth largest insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, A. J. Gallagher, recently relocated its East Bay offices to Bishop Ranch 3. www.ajg.com

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New Product

• Global Touchpoints Inc. At a time when the Internet is growing exponentially, finding the information you need isn’t always easy. Enter Bishop Ranch tenant Global Touchpoints, which has just rolled out a super-smart new product for tracking information on the Web. The powerful, next-generation intelligence—called infoPOINT—allows users to quickly filter and track everything from business competitors and grant proposal opportunities to specific types of news items. www.touchpointsinc.com

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Industry Award

• blueSky Marketing Group The team at blueSky Marketing Group Inc., a leader in automotive marketing, must be doing something right. For the second year in a row, it snapped up a Dealers Choice Award, as voted by 16,000 auto dealers. The company received the honor in recognition of its Real Leads Internet lead product and its True Mail prescreened direct mail program for franchise auto dealers. www.blueskymarketing.com

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Expanding Markets

• SAFE Security There’s expansion going on at SAFE Security®, where CEO Paul Sargenti has spearheaded a revamp of the company’s business model. Now, in addition to offering financial services to security alarm dealers across the country, the company is building a sales group to sell and install residential and light-commercial safety systems. What’s more, SAFE Security is offering these products at a significant savings to Bishop Ranch tenants. www.safesecurity.com

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Batting 1,000

• Clare Computer Solutions Companies that don’t want to worry about how well their network is performing leave that job to experts, such as Clare Computer Systems, which offers NetCentral, a comprehensive network-management service. Word must be spreading about the peace of mind Clare Computer provides. In March, less than 18 months after NetCentral launched, the service reached a major milestone: NetCentral now manages more than 1,000 devices. www.clarecomputer.com

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Best B2B Platform

• Sunset Development Company/Bishop Ranch When you think of an office property manager, you probably envision someone who collects rent and coordinates office repairs. But what if your property manager also secured new sales leads for you?

Enter the new business-to-business (B2B) initiative, an executive-level networking program for tenant companies at Bishop Ranch. The program includes

• forums where tenants present products and services.
• the ability to provide special offers to other tenants, through the Bishop Ranch Web site and newsletter.
• opportunities to present seminars and host events for other companies at Bishop Ranch.

Sunset Development, the owner and operator of Bishop Ranch, also plans to unveil a special page on its Web site where tenants can post a company profile and contact information, making it easier to learn about and connect with one another, and a new welcome packet to allow tenants to present their marketing collateral to new customers when they relocate to Bishop Ranch.

This program surpasses anything offered by landlords in the market. If you are not at Bishop Ranch, think about the business opportunities you have lost and the downtime you have experienced without this type of program from your landlord! www.bishopranch.com

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Executive Profile: Steven Cardinale

Signature, M.D., aims to be the Ritz Carlton of healthcare services, says managing director Steven Cardinale. He pinpoints three trends that indicate a strong market for Signature’s personalized approach.

• Aging population with increasing healthcare needs (by 2030, one in five Americans will be over age 65).
• Baby boomers’ growing affluence (by 2010, the combined spending power of those age 55 to 64
will be $750 billion annually).
• Dissatisfaction (studies show that 55 percent of consumers are displeased with quality of healthcare).

Résumé
Name: Steven Cardinale
Title: Managing Director
Company: Signature, M.D.
Location: Bishop Ranch 15
Number of employees: Four
Year company was founded: 2007
Years at Bishop Ranch: The parent company, CID, has been here for three years.

Company Profile
Headquarters: San Ramon
Business: Personalized healthcare services.
Business approach: “We offer 24-hour access to specialists, a higher level of care and a single point of contact.”
Biggest risk ever taken: “Trying to fix a small piece of a very broken healthcare system.”
Biggest challenge: “Educating people so they know about our services and that luxury products fit their pocketbook.”
Favorite task: “Coming up with innovative ideas and having them get ripped apart by my team. It’s hard, but it makes you stronger.”
Least favorite task: “Working with investors. They’re tough.”
Source of inspiration: “Maverick entrepreneurs like Ted Turner.”

Personal Philosophy
Best way to motivate staff: “We have an acronym for our work culture. WIT — do whatever it takes.”
Advice for up-and-coming execs: “Don’t take no for an answer.”
A goal you still want to achieve: “Take the company public.”

Off Hours
Favorite stress-buster: “Glass blowing. When you’re dealing with glass, you have to be Zenlike. You can’t worry about business.”
Favorite vacation spot: “Italy. In California, you have to do, do, do. In Italy, you have to relax and enjoy.”
Favorite music: “Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan.”

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