Li Yu founded Preferred Bank, a downtown Los Angeles-based bank, in 1991, which at the time was the largest initial capital raise for a new bank in California history. Now publicly traded, Preferred ...

As president of California State University, Northridge (CSUN) since 2021, Erika Beck leads a campus of more than 40,000 students, faculty and staff. Under her leadership, the university has developed ...

Henry Walker is the fourth generation of his family to lead Long Beach-based Farmers & Merchants Bank, founded by his great-grandfather C.J. Walker in 1907. The institution – which has never recorded ...

This program honors the executives, providers, innovators, and teams driving excellence, innovation, and impact across Los Angeles’ health care sector. From breakthroughs in patient care and clinical ...

Stephen Cheung is the president and chief executive of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corp. and World Trade ...

Bryan Lourd, chief executive and co-chairman of Creative Artists Agency (CAA), joined the agency in 1988. Seven years later, he became one of the three partners who took over in 1995 and was tapped to ...

Jarred Walker is the founder and principal of GCX, a Los Angeles-based general contractor specializing in commercial interiors and tenant improvement projects. Under his leadership, GCX has delivered ...

John Wise is the chairman and chief executive of Communify. A serial entrepreneur, Wise has founded numerous fintech companies over three decades, including EBS Globus (now Temenos, one of Europe’s ...

John Parker co-founded Parker Brown in 1994 with Scott Brown after serving as a construction manager in Los Angeles. The Canoga Park-based firm specializes in tenant improvements, ground-up ...

Katie Koch is president and chief executive of TCW, where she leads the strategic direction of the Los Angeles-based investment firm. Before joining TCW in 2023, she spent 20 years at Goldman Sachs, ...

Esther Cho is a board member at Stradley Ronon, the partner-in-charge of the firm’s Southern California office in Long Beach, and co-chair of its financial services litigation and enforcement practice ...

Jacquelyn Clites assumed her role as the chief executive of the American Red Cross Los Angeles Region in December 2025, marking 14 years with the organization. Clites succeeds Joanne Nowlin, who is ...