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February 2015

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San Joaquin Partnership welcomes six new board members
 

   The San Joaquin Partnership's Board of Directors has several new faces in 2015.

  Pacific Gas & Electric Company (PG&E) has joined the Board of Directors.

  PG&E is represented by Nicolaus J. (Nick Glero,  Stockton Division Senior Manager. 
  Glero began his career at PG&E in 1999 as a Customer Service Representative and has held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility within the Customer Care organization. 

  Glero has been a member of several employee associations and actively participates in and supports numerous community initiatives, including the March of Dimes - March for Babies, Junior Achievement, Little League Baseball and St. Mary's Interfaith Shelter.  

   Glero was also recently recognized for his support of U.S. Military Reservists with the Patriotic Employer Award by the National Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve.    

  

   Stephen DeBrum, City of Manteca Mayor, was initially elected to the Manteca City Council in a special election in March of 2003.  He served four terms and in 2014 was elected Mayor. DeBrum serves on the San Joaquin County Council of Governments, City/County Criminal
Justice Task Force, San Joaquin Habitat Committee, the Partnership and the Manteca Unified School District 2 x 2 Committee.
   He is active in a number of professional clubs and associations.

DeBrum grew up in Hanford, CA and earned his Bachelor of Science degree from California State Polytechnic College, San Luis Obispo in 1970. He now serves as Dairy Farmers of America's Northern California manager which covers the Northern California and Northern Nevada area.    

 

    

   Michael Maciel was elected as  Mayor of  the  City of Tracy last November and officially took office in January. He had been serving as a council-member since 2008.

   Maciel has been a resident of the Tracy area for over 50 years. After his military service, Michael worked in local agriculture on his family's farming operation. In 1981, he became a volunteer Reserve Police Officer with the Tracy Police Department, and began a full-time law enforcement career in 1983.

   Over the following 23 years, Michael held every rank in the Tracy Police Department except that of Chief of Police. He retired in 2006 with the rank of Captain.   

  

   Katherine Miller was elected to the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors in June 2014, sworn in on January 5, 2015 and elected Chair of the Board on January 27, 2015. As Chair, she represents San Joaquin County in many capacities, including the San Joaquin Council of Governments, Regional Rail Commission and the   Partnership.  

  Miller continues her leadership on regional water issues with the Delta Counties Coalition, San Joaquin Delta Coalition, San Joaquin Area Flood Control Agency and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy. A new focus for Kathy will be the San Joaquin General Hospital.

   Prior to her election to the San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors, Supervisor Miller served on the Stockton City Council, 2009 - 2014. She moved to Stockton in 1997, owned an interior design studio and served as Executive Director of the Downtown Stockton Alliance.

    

   Cynthia Mitchell works for Kaiser Permanente as the Area Director of Account Management and Marketing. She has held leadership positions in multiple healthcare fields including Territory Director for multiple long term care and skilled nursing organizations, Clinical Operations Manager for Dignity Health (formerly Catholic Healthcare West)/Mercy Medical Group and Director of Account Management and Operations for UnitedHealthcare.      
    Mitchell has completed extensive Health Care Reform certification and training and has been a participant in multiple Health Care Reform panels and seminars delivering informative and educational materials to an array of audience types. Prior to her introduction to the healthcare industry, Cynthia served as a proud member of the US Coast Guard.

   Mary-Elizabeth Eberhardt-Sandstrom is Vice President of the Bank of Stockton.  She is a 1976 graduate of University of the Pacific, the California Institute Banking School in 1979 and in 1996, Pacific Coast Banking School.
   Eberhardt-Sandstrom was Bank of Stockton Assistant Vice President, Commercial Loans from 1984 until 1997 when she became Vice President, Commercial Loans. 
  In 1999 she was appointed to 1867 Western Financial Corporation and Bank of Stockton's Board of Directors.
   She is Founder and member of the Stockton Children's Museum Board of Directors, a member of the Duel Vocational Citizens Advisory Committee and the Bank of Stockton Representative to University of the Pacific's "Beyond the Gates" program. 
 

  

Greetings from Greater Silicon Valley
San Joaquin's rebranding efforts have the county going tech
Taken from Comstock's - December 23, 2014
by Kevin McKenna
  
   Northern San Joaquin Valley brings a number of images to mind - municipal bankruptcy, meandering Delta sloughs, vineyards, dairies, stubbornly high unemployment alongside rapid housing growth. Maybe asparagus.

   And what images does Silicon Valley conjure? Google, Apple, Facebook, Oracle, HP, Cisco and on and on? Mainstays of the world's hub of technology and innovation?

   Did a glimpse of Stockton appear in that mix? Well, if the San Joaquin Partnership's campaign to rebrand the Stockton-Tracy-Lathrop metro area as Greater Silicon Valley works out, it soon will.

   It's not as far-fetched as it may seem. Each weekday morning, 65,000 Stockton-area residents join the commute to workplaces in the South Bay. In cars and busses on interstates 580 and 205, they make their way over Altamont Pass, through the Livermore Valley and across Fremont and Milpitas to San Jose, Santa Clara and Palo Alto. Thousands of others ride Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) trains, which now make four daily round trips between Stockton and San Jose.

   Each evening those weary commuters return home from their odyssey, have a meal, kiss the kids goodnight and prepare to rise early the next morning to repeat the cycle.

   Mike Ammann, president and CEO of the San Joaquin Partnership, saw this daily migration across Altamont Pass and thought: Stockton and environs may be a bit at the edge, but the region is a key link in the Silicon Valley economic chain. So he came up with the Greater Silicon Valley brand and gathered research that nailed down the connection. Ammann began preaching a new future for San Joaquin county as a megaregion of 24 million people - a massive, interlinked, economic engine.

   As the red-hot economy in the inner Bay Area overflows its traditional boundaries and creeps through the Tri-Valley area of San Ramon, Pleasanton and Livermore, it is beginning to lap over the rim of the Altamont Pass toward Tracy, Lathrop and Stockton. Ammann's rebranding seems to be inching closer to a reflection of reality.

Read the full story  Mike Ammann talks about Lodi, River Islands, Tracy Hills and more! 

    



In This Issue

February Investor Anniversaries
The San Joaquin Partnership would like to recognize and thank our investors who are celebrating their anniversaries with us in February!
  
  

16 YEARS - 1999
Colliers International  

15 YEARS - 2000
Austin Road Business Park

13 YEARS 2002
6 YEARS 2007
Bob & Janet Kavanaugh

5 YEARS - 2010
  

3 YEARS - 2012

 
2015
Project Wins
 
        3         
 Sq. Ft.     606,461

      Jobs      484 New
      (including seasonal) 
                 
 
   
 
 
CALENDER
   

February 
 
10-12 
Westpack/MD&M
Anaheim, CA

16 
President's Day
Offices of the Partnership will be closed

23 
Meet the CEO!
Joseph Sheley
President, CSU-Stanislaus
4:00- 6:30 PM
Stockton Campus

26 
Board of Directors Meeting
8:00 AM
Partnership Conference Room


March 
 
3-6 
 TEAM CA
Meet the Consultants Forum
Sonoma, CA

11 
REXPO IX
Hilton Hotel Stockton
8AM - 2 PM

16-18 
CCVEDC Legislative Mission
Sacramento

18 
Entrepreneur Challenge  Round 1
5:00 - 8:30 PM
Stockton Golf & Country Club

26 
 Board of Directors Meeting
8:00 AM
Partnership Conference Room

27 
H20 Hackathon
Robert J. Cabral
Agricultural Center
Stockton

28 
H20 Hackathon
Hilton Hotel Stockton



San Joaquin 
Entrepreneur Challenge
  
   The San Joaquin Entrepreneur Challenge is an "American Idol" style multi-round entrepreneurial competition presented by the San Joaquin Angels in partnership with regional economic development and academic organizations. 
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   The Challenge is open to residents and businesses located in Alpine, Amador, Calaveras, Mariposa, Merced, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne counties in Northern California. 
   Round 1 is March 18, 5:00 - 8:30PM at Stockton Golf & Country Club
For more information click here 
 

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