LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Los Angeles Coalition for the Economy & Jobs today announced that former Boeing Company executive Michael Kelly has been named to serve as its executive director.
The coalition is a newly formed alliance of Los Angeles' top leaders from business, labor, academic and non-profit sectors. Its members advocate measures that help ensure economic growth and the creation and retention of quality jobs in the Los Angeles region. The coalition is chaired by Russell Goldsmith, chairman and CEO of City National Bank.
Until recently, Kelly was manager of California Government Relations for the Boeing Company in Seal Beach, Calif. Starting today, he will take responsibility for the Los Angeles Coalition's day-to-day activities, advancing its charter, expanding its membership and building upon its strategy to attract and retain local job-creating investment.
"Michael is an experienced advocate who understands California's economy and knows how to build constructive partnerships between leaders from the business, government, labor, education and non-profit communities," Goldsmith said.
Kelly joined Boeing in 2006. For five years before that, he was deputy director of the California Film Commission.
From 1999 to 2001, he served in the office of former California Governor Gray Davis, first as a special assistant and then as deputy cabinet secretary.
Kelly graduated from the University of Massachusetts in 1993 and went on to earn a master's degree in public administration from USC in 2004.
The Los Angeles Coalition was created following the release of a 2008 report by the Los Angeles Economy & Jobs Committee, which also was chaired by Goldsmith on behalf of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The report -- Building a World-Class City for the 21st Century -- set forth 100 recommendations aimed at encouraging economic development and quality job creation in America's second largest city. The L.A. Coalition is dedicated, in part, to the implementation of those recommendations.
Members of the Los Angeles Coalition include:
| Bill Allen | John Emerson |
| President & CEO | President |
| LAEDC | Personal Investment Management |
| The Capital Group Companies, Inc. | |
| Gene Bloch | |
| Chancellor | David Fisher |
| UCLA | Chairman |
| The Capital Group Companies, Inc. | |
| Elise Buik | |
| President & CEO | Samuel Hoi |
| United Way | President |
| Otis College of Art and Design | |
| Maren Christensen | |
| EVP & General Counsel | Mickey Kantor |
| Universal Studios | Partner |
| Mayer Brown | |
| Andrew Clare | |
| Partner | George Kieffer |
| Loeb & Loeb | Partner |
| Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP | |
| Frank Clark | |
| Executive Director | Janet Lamkin |
| LAXTEC Corporation | California State President |
| Bank of America | |
| Theodore F. Craver, Jr. | |
| Chairman, President & CEO | Timothy J. Leiweke |
| Edison International | President & CEO |
| AEG | |
| John C. Cushman III | |
| Chairman | Mel Levine |
| Cushman & Wakefield | Partner |
| Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP | |
| Maria Elena Durazo | |
| Executive Secretary-Treasurer | Bryan Lourd |
| LA County Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO | Managing Director |
| Creative Artists Agency | |
| Jamie McCourt | James A. Thomas |
| CEO | Chairman, President & CEO |
| Jamie Enterprises | Thomas Properties Group |
| Barry Meyer | Gary Toebben |
| Chairman & CEO | President & CEO |
| Warner Bros. | LA Area Chamber of Commerce |
| Ron Meyer | Matthew Toledo |
| President & COO | Publisher & CEO |
| Universal Studios | Los Angeles Business Journal |
| C. L. Max Nikias | Charlie Woo |
| Provost | Co-founder & CEO |
| USC | Mega Toys |
| Ronald L. Olson | Laura Zucker |
| Partner | Executive Director |
| Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP | Los Angeles County Arts Commission |
| Jay Rasulo | |
| Senior Executive Vice President & CFO | |
| The Walt Disney Company | |
| Stewart Resnick | |
| Chairman & President | |
| Roll International Corporation | |
| Ed Roski | |
| Chairman & CEO | |
| Majestic Realty | |
| Jay Roth | |
| National Executive Director | |
| Directors Guild of America | |
| Chris Silbermann | |
| President | |
| International Creative Management | |
| Marc Stern | |
| President & CEO | |
| Trust Company of the West |