Melinda Milberg-Finance Exec David Milberg’s wife

October 24, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

Meet the wife of failed Lehman Brother’s former VP Melinda Milberg, she is also known as Melinda Milberg, Melinda B Milberg, Melinda B Thaler or Melinda D Milberg.

Thursday at Manhattan Supreme Court it was the turn for 50-year-old Melinda to take the stand in the assault trial she and her husband are battling. According to the New York Daily News, the couple who has been married for the past 16-years are going through a bitter divorce and where once was love and “museums, movies music concerts… ballet, opera,” is now left with animalistic grunts and bites?

According to the 50-year-old Melinda, her former Lehman Brothers vice president hubby threatened to kill her during a violent April 1 attack that took place at their upper West Side home. She testified earlier today:

“He let out an almost animalistic grunt and sunk his teeth into my flesh,” “He started to grind his teeth into my flesh and then he released his bite.”

She is seen below leaving, the court where she was at the verge of tears but kept her composure the entire time.

Melinda Beth Thaler, the daughter of Sheldon Thaler of Princeton, N.J., and the late Beverly Casper Thaler was born on December 12, 1962. She graduated from Cornell University and received a law degree from George Washington University. Her father, who is retired, was a vice president of Geomed Inc., a medical products company in Middlesex, N.J., and an inventor holding 25 patents. Her mother was a social worker at Trenton Central High School.

She and her still husband David, met on a trip to Israel in 1994 and were soon in love, married in 1997 by Rabbi Robert I. Summers in the Pegasus Suite at the Rainbow Room in New York; they soon began a family and have a 14-year-old daughter together. She was 34-years-old when she said “I Do” to David Jonathan Milberg, and worked as a senior lawyer at the AT&T Corporation in New York. Her experience in commercial law includes working as an Associate at Crowell & Moring, from 1989 – 1992 and before that she was a Law clerk at Hon. Philip Nichols, Jr., U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit.

In 1994 she was co-author to “Mandatory Prediscovery Disclosure: A First Look,” and in 1996 she published “Operational Results of Federal Mandatory Prediscovery Disclosure Reform”

Melinda was also a teacher at Fordham University School of Law up until last year; she taught Drafting for Regulated Industries, Legal Writing for LL.M.’s and Principles of Legal Drafting.

So do you think she is a victim here or like her husband’s lawyer says, “a vindictive liar” ??

You can find her on Facebook here and on LinkedIn here.

Nicole Nicki Dugan – Yahoo’s New Tech Columnist David Pogue’s

October 22, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

To talk about technology columnist for The New York Times, David Pogue’s new wife Nicole Dugan; who is his present and future if you will, we need to make a brief time travel to his past. Back in 2011 he and his former wife Jennifer were issued misdemeanor summonses after being charged with disorderly conduct. The couple were in the middle of a divorce and things got a little out of hand.

Jennifer and Pogue had three children together: son Kelly, daughter Tia, and son Jeffrey. The altercation took place at former couple’s home and it became a he said, she said battle. According to her she was struck on the head by David and he said she bit his harm after both were struggling to get an iPhone! Jennifer and former hubby had one of those messy situations and we all know how divorces can get emotional.

During a conference where David was a speaker at the time, ironically about domestic abuse, he was confronted with questions about the altercation but he dismiss them saying it wasn’t appropriate for the forum.

Now nearly two years later the tech guru, has found love again with his beautiful new wife Nicole Dugan. The couple tied the knot earlier this year. According to her Facebook, Nicki’s hometown is Kinnelon, New Jersey. She is currently the vice president at The OutCast agency in San Francisco, California.

After high school she attended Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, graduating in 1989 with a BA in English. She also did a Summer study abroad program with University of New Hampshire in 1988. For three years she worked as a senior editor for Travel Holiday Magazine where she assigned and edited feature articles for national travel magazine; participated in planning of future issues. Collaborated on design and layouts with photo and art staff. She was also an editorial director at Sheila Donnelly & Associates then moved of to the director position at Niehaus Ryan Wong but her longest job position was at Yahoo! where she was Senior Director, Corporate Communications for nine years.

Oversaw Yahoo!’s social media strategies, including editorial direction and establishing guidelines and best practices for employees and content managers. Managed corporate-level social media engagement in channels that include the company’s corporate blog, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr. Founding editor of the company’s corporate blog, which earned a 2007 Platinum PR Award honorable mention in its first year. Among other awards she has snatched we can mention:

PR Week Award Honorable Mention for Campaign of the Year – Bloom Energy (2010)
PR News Platinum PR Award Finalist – Bloom Energy (2011)
PR Week Award Finalist for Technology Campaign of the Year – Lytro (2011)

At OutCast where she has been for the past three years, she in charge of overseeing public relations strategies for high-tech companies, including past/present clients such as Airware, Andreessen Horowitz, Bloom Energy, Hara, Khosla Ventures, Instagram, Lytro, the Nike Foundation, Pinterest, Samsung Open Innovation Center, Solazyme, and Udacity.

You can find more about her specialties and professional skills here.

On twitter she says

Hack photographer. Former Yahoo! blogger. OutCast. Mom. Bicoastal traveler. Other half of @Pogue.

So we can tell she is also a romantic huh! She and her TV science presenter hubby would seemed as if they had exchanged jobs, the 50-year-old has announced he is the new addition at Yahoo.

You can find Nicki on Facebook here and follow on twitter here. You don’t want to miss the video below!

Photo Credit: Arrowood Photography.

Gregg Couch- Former Burberry/ New Apple Retail VP Angela Ahrendts’ Husband

October 16, 2013 by L.A Girl 1 Comment

Ahrendts and Gregg, met in elementary school and had a 17-year long-distance relationship. Angela lived alone during those years in a fourth-floor midtown Manhattan walk-up, working 80 hours a week, while Gregg stayed in Indianapolis. After they married, in their 30s, Gregg moved to Manhattan and built a contracting business, which he gave up when they moved to London in 2006.

53 year old Gregg Jennings Couch was born in New Palestine, Indiana, he graduated from New Palestine High School and then attended at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Gregg is a quiet man who loves to wear jeans around the house. He also likes to cook, sharing dinner duty with their oldest daughter Sommer, when she’s at home. He and Angela are also the parents of Jennings, 18, and Angelina 12.

While they were in London, they founded the AHRENDTS–COUCH FAMILY FOUNDATION UK, with the following charitable objectives:

TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TO PROMOTE AND PROTECT GOOD HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY PROVIDING SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WHO ARE HOMELESS OR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED BY SUPPORTING CHRISTIAN FAITH BASED ORGANISATION WHO HAVE FACILITIES TO HOUSE, FEED, TEACH, INSPIRE AND HELP THEM TO DEVELOP THEIR CAPABILITIES SO THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULL MATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. Gregg is the legal representative for the foundation.

Now that they will be moving back to the USA, Gregg will be looking for some new projects to work on. Angela will most certainly be busy with her new job!

Jill Dilosa- Benjamin Moore’s Former CEO Bob Merritt’s Wife

October 14, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

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Jill Dilosa has always been an independent woman. She was born in 1977. At the age of fifteen, she left her parents house. She attended Tulane University. She took public transportation and shopped at discount stores while she amassed her fortune as a hedge fund analyst. “Even if you earn $1 million a year, you’ll be worth zero if you spend it all,” says DiLosa, who retired a millionaire at age 27.

In 2006, Jill was on the television show Wall Street Warriors, where she was known as the Analyst. She was on for only one season.

At some point, she married Robert S. Merritt who is presently 61. Tracy Britt, an exec at Benjamin Moore, was forced to fire her friend Jill’s husband as CEO of Benjamin Moore because it was alleged that he sexually harrassed female employees. Robert was formerly working for Outback Restaurants, where he served for a number of years in different capacities.

We don’t know where her friendship with Tracy is going to go from here, or for that matter, where her marriage is headed. But she seems to be a smart gal and it’s for sure she’ll figure it out.

Top Ten Facts About this 2013 Nobel Prize Winner- Thomas C. Südhof

October 7, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

Well, here’s the third of our proud winners of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine. Let me introduce him to you by giving you some interesting facts about his life.

#1. He’s not an American!

Thomas Sudhof was born in Gottingen, Germany on December 22, 1955.

#2. But he now lives in California

Thomas Sudhof moved to Texas in 1983, where he began postdoctorial training at the Universuty of Texas Health Science Center, in Dallas. He is currently working at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Ca.

#3. He is very well known (in the science world)

Thomas C. Südhof is a biochemist well known for his study of synaptic transmission. Since 1986, his research has elucidated many major proteins mediating presynaptic functions.

#4. He has won quite a few other awards

Fourteen to be exact. Among them the Lasker Award, Met Life Award, Bernhard Katz Award and Kavli Prize to name a few.

#5. He wasn’t home when the call came!

His wife, Lu answered the phone when the call came from Sweden. Thomas was in Baeza, Spain. Please listen to his reaction in the video below.

#6. Thomas has a very smart wife!

Lu Chen, an associate professor of neurosurgery at Stanford, is his wife.

#7. He is also working on a great project.

Thomas also serves on the Research Consortium of Cure Alzheimer’s.

#8. We know where he lives!

We’re not going to give you an address, but we can say he and his wife live in Menlo Park.

#9. He’s doing good for humanity!

He has also advanced medical knowledge of mechanisms behind poorly understood diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Schizophrenia, and Autism. His research began at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and advanced when he moved to Stanford.

#10. He is very humble.

When he heard that he had won he said “I’m absolutely surprised, every scientist dreams of this. I didn’t realize there was chance I would be awarded the prize. I am stunned and really happy to share the prize with James Rothman and Randy Schekman.”

Top Ten Facts About this 2013 Nobel Prize Winner- James E. Rothman

October 7, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

James E. Rothman is one of three co-winners of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. He’s in all the news right now and maybe you’ve heard him mentioned. Here are 10 things you might not know about him:

#1. James has his 63 birthday coming up soon!

He was born on November 3, 1950 in Haverhill, Massachusetts.

#2. He’s already won a prize with Dr. Schekman

He won the Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research in 2002, with Randy Schekman.

#3. Rothman is a Harvard man!

Rothman received his PhD at Harvard, in biological chemistry.

#4. He was a professor at Stanford

From 1978 to1988 he was a professor of bio-chemistry at Stanford.

#5. He’s won a really lot of honors!

Since 1970, he has won over 26 honors.

#6. He knows all about teeny tiny things.

He is the Director of Nanobiology Institute at Yale.

#7. He did his training with a real genius!

He did his postdoctorial training with Harvey Lodish at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

#8. His day job isn’t bad at all.

He is currently Professor and Chairman in the Department of Cell Biology at Yale University.

#9. When he found out he was one of the winners he said:

“I’m overwhelmed, it’s still a little hard to believe this is all happening I have to admit.”

#10. His wife is brilliant too!

He is married to Joy Hirsch, professor of Psychiatry and Neurobiology at Yale School of Medicine.

Joan Templeman- Branson is Sir Richard Branson’s Wife

October 7, 2013 by L.A Girl 9 Comments

Let’s talk about Lady Branson or Joan Templeman. She became Mrs. Branson when she married her long time partner, Branson on December 20, 1989 at Necker Island, the 74-acre island in the British Virgin Islands that Branson owns. The couple’s first child, a girl named Clare Sarah died when she was just four days old in 1979. Then Joan gave birth to daughter Holly in 1982 and son Sam Branson in 1985.

Joan Templeman who was born in Glasgow was in a previous relationship before her magnate husband came along. She was the childhood sweetheart of musician Ronnie Leahy. The topless model and Ronnie Leahy developed a relationship in their native hometown. They met in 1966 and Joan watched proudly as Ronnie’s first band, Stone The Crows, started to hit the big time. They married and moved to London where for the next 12 years Ronnie believed they had the perfect marriage.

They were married 12 or 13 years and having lots of fun until Sir Richard came along, according to Ronnie. Branson allegedly fell head over heals when he first stumbled into Joan in the kitchen of his Oxford shire recording complex in Shipton-on-Cherwell. Branson who pursued her immediately would show up while she worked at a shop near London’s trendy Portobello Road which sold Victorian posters and antiques. He even earned the nickname Tag, for his habit of asking if he could tag along with friends who were meeting Joan.

Joan is the daughter of a ship’s carpenter and grew up sharing a bed with six siblings but that didn’t stop her on becoming confident and chatty. Joan was unimpressed by his public school education and the millions he already had in the bank. And she certainly wasn’t interested in his pranks and business ventures but his relentless pursuit and flattery won Joan over he would swamp her with invitations while her husband while Ronnie would work next door in the studio. It was late in 1978 when she left Ronnie for Branson.

The couple returned to England and settled down to life on his houseboat in London’s Little Venice. Branson calls her

“fantastically adorable,” adding, “With Joan, I was searching for someone down-to-earth.”

They married after twelve years and two children together after allegedly his daughter Holly asked him to. Joan probably has mixed emotions on the reopening of the massive Necker Island mansion which burned down two years ago. After all is where the 68-year-old and mother of two tied the knot!

Top 10 Facts about this 2013 Nobel Prize Winner Randy Schekman

October 7, 2013 by L.A Girl 3 Comments

Heard of Randy Schekman? You probably have, after all he is one of three researchers sharing the 2013 award of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.

Here are some interesting facts you might not know about him:

#1 Randy Schekman is 64, from Minnesota

Randy W. Schekman was born on December 30, 1948 in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

#2 Graduated from UCLA and Stanford!

Schekman received a BA in Molecular Sciences from UCLA and a PhD in 1975 from Stanford University for research on DNA replication.

#3 Randy Schekman’s role in Transport System is out of this world!

He began pioneering work in the 1970s on yeast cells which revealed the genes that played a crucial role in this transport system, with mutant cells leading to visible vesicle congestion within the cell.

#4 Randy is not the only Nobel Laureate from UC Berkeley!

Schekman is the 22^nd Nobel Laureate from UC Berkeley, and the first to receive the prize in the area of physiology or medicine.

#5 He has been awarded before

He has been awarded an honorary Doctorate from the University of Geneva and the University of Regensburg.

#6 Is the President of the American Society for cell biology.

In 1999, he was elected president of the American Society for cell biology.

#7 Father of Model Cell Biology

He has been called one of the founding fathers of modern cell biology

#8 Science kicked him at an early age.

Schekman said once that it was in 7^th grade, when he walked into a science fair, he knew which path his life was going to take.

#9 His good friend Bill Wicker, introduced him to his soulmate

When at Stanford, Bill Wickner became his friend, and introduced him to the woman who would become his wife: Nancy Walls.

#10 He is a loving husband and caring father.

He and his wife Nancy have two adult sons.

Livia Stone- Twitter’s co-founder Biz Stone’s Wife

October 4, 2013 by L.A Girl 2 Comments

Livia Stone, wife of co-founder of twitter Biz Stone, is also a writer and an artist. Her maiden name is Livia McRee. Her dad is from Nashville and her mother is from Istanbul. She and Biz met when Biz was designing book covers at Little, Brown publishing on Beacon Hill in Boston. She was working downstairs in production and helping with the children’s department. When she walked into the art department to drop something off, he noticed her, and fell in love.

He and Livy got married in the summer of 2007. At first they were going to elope, but friends and family insisted on a beautiful wedding by the sea at the Stanford Inn in Mendocino.

After marriage, Livia wasn’t really happy with doing just writing and painting, so she began volunteering at different environmental and animal welfare organizations in the Bay Area. She finally ended up at Wild Care which is dedicated to the rehabilitation of wildlife. She took classes on the science, and was soon asked to become the manager of animal care. Biz was asked to be an honorary member of the board of directors. They are both committed to this cause.

Biz and Livia live in Marin County, California with their son Jacob, who is almost two. He and his wife founded and operate the Biz and Livia Stone Foundation, which supports education and conservation in California. They are both vegan, and have adopted many animals both in California and New York. This lucky couple seems to be enjoying their jobs, their charities, and above all their life as a family.

Violinist Eugenia Choi- Wall Street honcho Todd S. Thomson’s Mistress/ Baby mama

October 4, 2013 by L.A Girl

According to the New York Post, Julliard educated violinist Eugenia Choi may had an affair with Wall Street honcho Todd S. Thomson a few years ago, Thomson’s wife Melissa Thomson believes that not just Choi’s daughter might be her husband’s love child, but also has deposed the daughter-in-law of Saul Steinberg CNBC anchor Maria Bartiromo who is married to his son Jonathan Steinberg, in her divorce.

You probably remember back in 2007 Todd Thomson was fired from Citigroup Inc.’s Global Wealth Management for lapses in judgment,” including “the inappropriate use of company aircraft, that was when he flew Maria Bartiromo to Asia on the Citigroup jet, then bumping Citigroup execs from the return flight so he might fly back alone with her; bankrolling Citigroup functions that feature Maria Bartiromo; using $5 million of his marketing budget to sponsor a TV show on the Sundance Channel hosted by CNBC journalist Maria Bartiromo, and naming Maria Bartiromo to a board he created inside the Wharton Business School.

And now back to Choi and Melissa Thomson who demands that Eugenia produce all correspondence between your counsel and the counsel for Todd S. Thomson and all court filings pertaining to the paternity, support or other legal issues with respect to your daughter.

As for her cheating husband, she filed a divorce suit in Stamford, Conn and she served her hubby in best and most embarrassing way.

“Todd was served with papers as he waited at the train station in Connecticut, with all his Wall Street peers, to make the commute into the city. He was furious.”<

Wendy Berry Flom- Music Mogul Jason Flom’s Wife

September 30, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

Wendy Berry and Jason Flom were married for twenty years. In 2010 they decided to get divorced. At first, the divorce was going to be amicable, but things seem to have heated up, and two years later, there’s been a change of heart. Flom is the CEO of Lava Records, he also headed other labels such as Atlantic, Capitol and Virgin. Wendy says that she was very influential in helping Jason’s career and thinks she is entitled to half of his fortune. Jason says that she had nothing to do with his success. After twenty years of marriage, it seems that Wendy might have had some kind of influence, but who are we to say.

Jason Flom was born in 1960, his father is Joe Flom. He grew up in Manhattan, and played in two rock bands as a teenager. He chose the music business instead of college and joined Atlantic Records as a protégé of Ahmet Ertegun. His career took off from there. He has worked with Twisted Sister, Skid Row, Jewel, Hootie and the Blowfish, Kid Rock and Katy Perry among others.

According to Wendy, since they’ve split, Jason has been dating and partying nonstop. She also claims that she helped him establish Lava records in 2009. Another source says that she’s just making a lot of wild claims to get what she wants. Flom states that there has been no wild behavior on his part.

Neither Flom’s lawyer, John Kornfeld of Aronson, Mayefsky & Sloan, nor Berry’s lawyer, power attorney William Beslow, have returned requests for comments.

This week, they will be going to court. It remains to be seen what arguments and proofs each party will bring to prove their points.

Joy Covey- Amazon’s First CFO

September 20, 2013 by L.A Girl 2 Comments

Joy Covey was an extraordinary woman. Who would think that a girl who dropped out of high school at the age of fifteen would become one of the most powerful tech executives in the country?

Joy was born Joy Dianne Covey DeVries in Boston on April 23, 1963. She was the second daughter of Maurice Covey, a physician and Joan DeVries, his wife. Soon afterwards, the family moved to the warmer climate of the San Francisco Bay Area, settling in San Mateo.

When she was a freshman at San Mateo High School, she decided to drop out. She always had the support of her parents. She moved away from home and for a time worked as a grocery clerk in Fresno, Ca. She returned to school for one year and then passed California’s high school equivalency exam. She then enrolled at California State University in Fresno, took the CPA exam in which (with an IQ of 173) she scored second highest in the country, graduating in 1982.From there she worked for a time for the accounting firm of Arthur Young LLP before going to Harvard Law School where she earned a joint J. D.- MBA.

Soon after, she became chief financial officer for Digidesign. She later moved to Boston to work for Avid, but soon returned to Silicon Valley. In 1996 she joined Amazon in the early days of internet retailing. As CFO, one of her duties was to persuade investors to be patient during the money-losing years. She really believed in Amazon, taking a lower salary and stock options. Amazon went public on May 14, 1997, with an initial public offering price of $18. Shares closed Wednesday at a record $312.06. When she retired in 2000, she was worth $200 million.

In 2002, she was interview by the Harvard Law Bulletin and in an article “A Conversation with Joy Covey she said, “I didn’t finish high school–left home when I was 15. I moved away to Fresno and worked as a grocery clerk. I went to college part-time at Cal. State Fresno, and then ended up finishing in two and a half years because I wanted to get on with things. But having fallen off the track, in a way I think I acquired a sense of independence in how I make decisions. It’s really helped me not worry so much whether other people approve of my choices.”

More recently she was involved in the New York based Natural Resources Defense Concil, serving as a trustee. She loved travel and outdoors activities, including kite surfing, skiing and cycling.

She died Wednesday in a bicycle accident in California when she was reportedly struck while cycling on Skyline Boulevard in the mountains of San Mateo County. She leaves behind an eight-year-old son, Tyler. Hopefully her young son will know what a great person she was.

Jenn Allen- TechCrunch Michael Arrington’s Ex- Girlfriend

September 16, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

The name of Jenn Allen is a familiar to many of you, she is the founder and CEO of Rtist.com and the estranged ex girlfriend of Michael Arrington the founder and o-editor of TechCrunch. These two are no strangers to controversy, Jenn made accusations Arrington of had abused and threatened to murder her last year, he denied Allen’s allegations and demanded that she retract her statements, plus he sued her..

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In case you miss that story you can always read about it here.

Now here at WagCenter we will tell you Jenn Allen’s Biography.-

32-year-old Jennifer “Jenn” Allen was born on May 19, 1981, graduated in 1999 with a degree in Visual Art, Visual Arts Major, Specialization in Painting and Sculpture from the San Francisco School of Arts, in 2004 got her B.A in economics from Mills College.

In 2004 worked in the account Management department at Goodby, Silverstein, and Partners, then in 2005 was a business developer at Eurekster, and in 2007 she created RTist.com the Business Development site, created for artist and art connoisseurs to promote their art pieces.

Follow Jenn Allen on Twitter here, and Google+ here

Kate Greer- Twitter Founder Jack Dorsey’s Girlfriend

September 13, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

Kate Greer, originally from Marshaltown, Iowa and a former intern of relationship columnist Julia Allison, is dating Twitter founder Jack Dorsey again.

Back in 2010 they were seen together at many New York City red carpet events, but Dorsey had since then entered a relationship with British supermodel Lily Cole. In January of this year they were seen aboard Jack’s yacht in St Barts in the Caribbean, but reportedly broke up in February.

In June, Dorsey went on holiday to Japan with Kate. It seems the two have sparked their relationship back to life. Kate who is 28, posted pictures and a video of herself cuddling up to Jack in the Tokyo districy of Golden Gai.

Dorsey, who founded Twitter in 2006 and online mobile payment service Square, Inc. was seen this July with the pretty New Yorker at the annual Allen and Company Sun Valley Conference in Idaho. Jack and Kate were casually dressed as they mingled with executives from media, finance and politics.

When Kate was a student at The University of Missouri , she was one of the best runners of her senior year in 2006. She was very involved in Community service while there. Now she is involved with Campinteractive, a not for profit organization that empowers inner-city youth through the inspiration of the outdoors and the creative powers of technology.

Today, Jack Dorsey and his co founders of twitter, Evan William and Biz Stone, are set to go public and look to vastly increase their wealth. Will this affect the relationship between Jack and Kate? Kate seems like a great person, so we hope not.

Dagmar Dolby- Sound Pioner Ray Dolby’s wife

September 13, 2013 by L.A Girl 1 Comment

Our deepest condolences to 72-year-old Dagmar Dolby. The wife of the sound pioneer Ray Dolby has lost her husband of 47 years. Dolby died of leukemia on September 12, 2013, at his home in San Francisco at the age of 80.

The couple were married back in 1966 and had two sons, Tom and David. Dagmar was born on June 28, 1941 being the wife of the man who took the hiss out of sound recordings she had a notable social life, attending charity and other public events along with her husband. She lived in Homewood, CA from 2000 – 2010; also in San Francisco, CA from 2008 – 2010 and in Tahoe City, CA since last year.

Dagmar’s husband founded Dolby Laboratories back in 1965, reinventing sound and becoming the sound legend that he did. The couple became a household name when his company grew into an industry leader in audio technology. His work in noise reduction and surround sound led to the creation of a number of technologies that are still used in music, movies and entertainment today. The innovations also turned Dolby and his wife into a rich power couple with an estimated fortune of $2.3 billion, according to Forbes magazine.

Dagmar and Ray are also parents of Tom Dolby who is a well known successful novelist born in London but raised in San Francisco, he is the author of the best-selling novel “The Trouble Boy” his work also includes the Secret Society books, we can see him pictured above with his parents.

Dagmar is known for her fundraiser work; the Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund is one of the largest nonprofits. The 2011 reported income for Ray and Dagmar Dolby Family Fund was $31.7 million, which ranks it amongst the highest income nonprofits. With his death, Dagmar, Dolby’s wife of 47 years, assumes his fortune and place on the Forbes 400 list. Her husband of over four decades was born in Portland, Ore. He first became fascinated with sound when studying the vibrations of his clarinet reeds as a child.

She talks proudly about Ray, saying

“Ray really managed to have a dream job,” “Because he could do exactly what he wanted to do, whichever way he wanted to do it, and in the process, did a lot of good for many music and film lovers. And in the end, built a very successful company.”

R.I.P Ray Dolby.

Anne Lewin – 9/11 First Victim Danny Lewin’s wife

September 12, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

That is a beautiful picture from Anne Lewin, her husband Daniel Lewin and their two boys. Anne was married to Daniel whom was very likely the first person to die on September 11th attacks. We remember today all the victims to honor their memories.

According to CNN reports from that tragic day 12 years ago

Lewin was sitting in seat 9B. With his Israeli military training and understanding of Arabic, he may have figured out what was going on, perhaps even tried to stop it. According to flight attendants’ calls relayed to authorities on the ground, the first passenger to be killed was seated in 9B. He was stabbed to death.

Daniel who was born in Denver, Colorado but was raised in Israel served as an officer for the Israel Defense Forces. After his four year service he became a brilliant student graduating summa cum laude in 1995. The son of Charles and Peggy, both doctors, he had two younger brothers, Michael and Yonatan.

He later moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts to continue his PHD studies where along with Professor F. Thomson Leighton, co-founded Akamai Technologies, Inc. which is one of the world’s largest distributed-computing platforms.

The former captain turned entrepreneur met his wife Anne in Israel after she immigrated from Belgium. The couple was based in Massachusetts and have two sons Eitan and Itamar Lewin who were aged five and eight during the September 2001 attacks where their father who was 31-years-old lost his life.

Anne’s husband could have been killed by Satam al-Suqam according to A 2002 FAA memo. The highly successful technology executive received many awards and after his death many have honored his memory and legacy; he is the subject of the 2013 biography No Better Time: The Brief, Remarkable Life of Danny Lewin, the Genius Who Transformed the Internet by Molly Knight Raskin as well as the “Danny Lewin Square” that used to be the intersection of Main and Vassar Streets in Cambridge, Massachusetts but was named after him.

His wife Anne and two boys now age 17 and 20 still live in Massachusettes.

A true genius that will never be forgotten.

Zack Bogue- Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s Husband

September 12, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

Marissa’s Mayer’s handsome hubby whо hаѕ a net worth оf $300 million. Bogue’s net worth соmеѕ successful investments in thе technology world аnd frоm frоm hiѕ marriage tо Marissa Mayer whо wаѕ thе 20th employee оf Google аnd iѕ сurrеntlу thе CEO оf Yahoo and one of Fortune’s Magazine 50 most powerful women.

37-year-old Zack Bogue born Zachary S. Bogue on December 05, 1975 to Susan and Jeffrey Bogue iѕ nо slouch himѕеlf whеn it соmеѕ tо success in thе corporate world, with years оf experience in Silicon Valley аѕ аn entrepreneur, lawyer, angel investor аnd advisor fоr big data startups. Zack аlѕо iѕ a cofounder аnd managing partner оf Founders Den, a shared workspace fоr experienced technology entrepreneurs. Aѕ аn angel investor, hе hаѕ invested in startups ѕuсh аѕ Square аnd Metamarkets. Previously, Zack cofounded Montara Capital Partners, a rеаl estate private equity fund, hе wаѕ thе managing partner. He has one sister Katie Bogue now Katie Miller, 33.

Hе wаѕ previously аn аѕѕосiаtе аt Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati аnd a law partner аt Virtual Law Partners, whеrе hе worked with numerous start-ups аnd thеir founders, аnd developed expertise in technology law аnd Silicon Valley business practices. Zack serves оn thе boards оf thе Eаѕt Palo Alto Charter School, thе Tipping Point Community, thе UCSF Foundation аnd thе Fine Arts Museums оf San Francisco.

Zack graduated with honors frоm Harvard University in Environmental Science аnd earned hiѕ JD with honors frоm Georgetown Law School, whеrе hе wаѕ executive editor fоr Thе Tax Lawyer. Bogue iѕ сurrеntlу оnе оf thе Managing Partners аt thе venture capital firm Founders Den аnd аnd thе co-founder оf investment consortium Data Collective.

Previously Bogue wаѕ thе Managing Partner аnd founder оf thе rеаl estate investment firm Montara Capital Partners. Aѕ аn investor Zack Bogue hаѕ bееn involved with mаnу technology companies including Square, Metamarkets, UberCab аnd Kaggle. Bеfоrе entering thе tech field Bogue wаѕ a partner Virtual Law Partners LLC аnd a corporate attorney аt Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati.

On July 16th 2012, Zack’s wife Marissa Mayer shocked thе world whеn ѕhе announced thаt ѕhе wоuld bе leaving Google tо bесоmе thе CEO оf rival search engine Yahoo. Mayer wаѕ thе 20th employee hired bу Google аnd wаѕ crucial in thе company’s development оf products likе Gmail, News, Maps аnd Earth.

Thе couple gоt married оn December 12, 2009, hiѕ famous wife announced ѕhе wаѕ expecting thеir firѕt child оn thе ѕаmе day ѕhе announced ѕhе would be joining Yahoo, Bogue аnd Mayer’s ѕоn Macallister wаѕ born оn September 30, 2012 hiѕ nаmе wаѕ chosen frоm a list оf names Marissa gathered аftеr аѕking people fоr suggestions viа social media.

You can follow Marissa Mayer’s hubby Zack Bogue on Twitter here and Facebook here

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Nathalie de Clercq- Sergey Brin’s GF Look A-like

September 7, 2013 by L.A Girl Leave a Comment

People published their story about Amanda Rosenberg the project manager of Google’s project glass who is dated Hugo Barra and now is dating her married boss Sergey Brin, hover in People’s article they used a photo of a woman wearing Google glasses is not that of Amanda Rosenberg but Nathalie de Clercq, who we know describe as Rosenberg’s look-a-like.

Soon Nathalie de Clercq photos under the name of Amanda where in several papers all over the world..

Yes that’s me … this photo has been all around the world under the wrong name,” de Clercq wrote.

“It’s awful. Ever since the gossip came out…. It was snapped back in JUNE! So many made-up stories.” said Nathalie about the confusion and the mess it has caused her.

People’s managing editor Larry Hackett explained the cause of their screw up article and apologized for their mistake.

“While we accept full responsibility for the mistake, we were supplied with a photo that mistakenly identified the women pictured as Rosenberg. We regret the error, and apologize for any discomfort it has caused.”

Nathalie de Clercq who lives in Staten Island, NY graduated in 2002 from Watchung Hills Regional High School, in 2006 she graduated from the Australian National University with a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations, World Politics, Philosophy and Psychology.

In 2006 de Clercq worked for six months as a Parliamentary Member Assistant at the Parliament House of Austria, in 2007 she was a consultant trainee for seven months at CRH-CA; that same year in July she was named CAI Manager, last January she was appointed Global Sourcing Customer service Manager.

Nathalie who in our is way hotter that Amanda speaks English, Chinese, French and Italian fluently

Amanda Rosenberg- Google Co-Founder Sergey Brin’s Mistress/ New Girlfriend [PHOTOS]

September 7, 2013 by L.A Girl 1 Comment

Aссоrding tо mеdiа Google’s co-founder Sergey Brin аnd hiѕ pretty wife Anne Wojcicki аrе nо longer together, ассоrding tо rumors Brin left Anne whо hе wedded in 2007 fоr a muсh younger woman identified аѕ Amanda Rosenberg whо iѕ thе Product Marketing Manager fоr Project Glass.

Gawker’s ValleyWag states thаt Brin hаѕ bееn ѕееn еvеrуwhеrе wearing Google glasses, taking pictures оf himѕеlf аnd posting online nоt juѕt bесаuѕе hе loves thе freaking glasses but bесаuѕе hе iѕ bedding hiѕ product manager Amanda Rosenberg, whо mау hаvе bееn romantically involved with Hugo Barra Google’s fоrmеr vice President fоr Android whо announced hiѕ departure frоm Google a fеw days ago. Barra iѕ taking a senior role аt Chinese smartphone maker, Xioami, but bеtwееn уоu аnd mе hiѕ departure wаѕ bесаuѕе hiѕ ex-girlfriend Amanda Rosenberg iѕ nоw dating married Sergey Brin.

26-year-old Amanda Rosenberg moved tо San Francisco, CA frоm London in June, 2008. Rosenberg bесаmе Google’s account manager, thеn in May, 2010 ѕhе wаѕ named mobile business Development Manager (EMEA), , in January, 2012 bесаmе Marketing manager fоr Google+ аnd lаѕt July wаѕ named Google glasses Product Marketing Manager. Amanda Rosenberg сurrеntlу resides in Mountain View in Cali.

You can find Amanda Rosenberg on Twitter here, She is certainly on Google+ here.

Chrisann Brennan- Steve Jobs’ High School Girlfriend

September 5, 2013 by L.A Girl 1 Comment

Steve Jobs’ legacy lies in the amazing products he created, in the lives of the people he met, in his lovely wife, and his children, Lisa Brannan Jobs his eldest daughter is the child he fathered with his high school girlfriend Chrisann Brennan a Frisco based artist who might or might not write a book about her life with Jobs.

Chrisann P. Brennan or Chris-Ann Brennan was born on September 29th, 1954, to James Brennan, 91 from Palo Alto, CA. She studied at the San Francisco Art Studio where she got her BFA in Fine Art, in 1991 and for the next 14 years she continued to work in her art pieces in her own studio called Chrysanthemum Studio. She currently resides in San Francisco. Before she settled in Frisco, Brennan lived in Mountain View and Sausalito, CA.

I studies art at three schools in California and then worked with three spiritual teachers and received instruction for sacred art.

I am a multi-dimensional painter. I make paintings that connect individuals and groups to the Creation Light frequencies already encoded deep within their DNA and higher consciousness. Their rich symbolism creates cellular transfiguration, a high level of transformation that occurs when symbolic and encoded energy patterns change the essence within matter. My work contributes to the poetic return to Oneness that is the essence of our time.

Mrs. Brennan was a junior at Cupertino’s Homestead High School in 1972 when she fell for Steve Jobs who was a senior, the next summer she moved in with him at a cabin in Cupertino. Chrisann could handle his ups and downs and proved how supportive she could be when he began the exhaustive search of his birth mother, Chrisann pulled all of strings until she was able to track her down. Her relationship with Jobs took a twist when she found out soon they would be three.

Chrisann found out she was pregnant with Jobs’ child at the end of 1977, gave birth to her beautiful daughter Lisa Nicole on May 7th, 1978, a happy yet sad time from Brennan while she was overjoyed by Lisa’s birth, Steve refused to acknowledged her as his daughter

Chrisann and little Lisa endured difficult years without the support of Jobs, She had no other choice but to opt to welfare in order to support her daughter. Lisa now a writer like her aunt Mona Simpson recalled that time:

In California, my mother had raised me mostly alone. We didn’t have many things, but she is warm and we were happy. We moved a lot. We rented. My father was rich and renowned and later, as I got to know him, went on vacations with him, and then lived with him for a few years, I saw another, more glamorous world. The two sides didn’t mix, and I missed one when I had the other.

It would be until years later that Steve accepted the paternity of Lisa and only then she spend time with him, during her teenage years she went to live with him at his Palo Alto home with his wife Laurene.

Rolling Stone Magazine approached Chrisann after Mr. Jobs’ death this is just a few of her words..

“He would tell me we were part of an affiliation of poets and visionaries he called ‘the wheat field group’ and say we were looking out a window together, with the others, watching the whole world,” she writes. “I did not know what he was talking about, but with all my heart I wanted to see such views.”

”We had very little money and no foreseeable prospects. One evening after we had splurged on dinner and a movie, we walked back to our car to discover a $25 parking ticket. I just turned inside out with despair, but Steve did not seem to care. He had a deep well of patience when it came to discouragements. We drove to the ocean near Crissy Field in San Francisco and walked out onto the beach to see the sunset, where I began talking about money worries. He gave me a long, exasperated look, reached into his pockets and took the few last coins and dollars we had and threw them into the ocean. All of them.

Chrisann or Chris- Ann Brennan’s character will appeared in the 2013 Jobs film about Steve Jobs where Ashton Kutcher wears an uncanny resemblance to the late Apple CEO and where actress Ahna O’Reilly has the role of Chrisann.

Last October the New York Times published an article about Chrisann writing a memoir to be publish this year. Chrisann’s 256 pages book (paperback) and 350 in hardcover “A Bite in the Apple: A Memoir of my Life with Steve Jobs” will be for sale October 1st of 2013 and she will tell readers about her relationship with Jobs, the founding of Apple and “Jobs’s enormous appeal, energy and drive as well as his developing ambition and ruthlessness in business and personal dealings.”

You can find Chrisann on Facebook here.

Question? Is this Chris-Ann Brennan the same Chrisann Brennan in our story? Answer: No, some media said she is one of Steve Jobs’ ex-girlfriend which is right, but she is not Chrisann but Joan Baez, who also dated him years after Brennan did.