Author: Mark Mueller

Expect to see less of Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol, arguably the country’s best-known remote worker, in the coming months. As part of a corporate turnaround plan, dubbed Back to Starbucks, the CEO of the Seattle-based coffee chain (Nasdaq: SBUX) last week unveiled a new workplace policy that requires corporate employees Read More

Irvine officials say they have grand plans for turning the Great Park into something beyond a large regional sports park, with new museums, lake system, amphitheater, food and dining options, and more on the docket over the coming years. “This is the most ambitious park development project in the United Read More

There’s been changes to the leadership structure of the Irvine Company, OC’s largest real estate firm and arguably the county’s most influential business. The Newport Beach-based firm recently promoted Frank Abeling and Jonathan Brinsden to the roles of co-president, positions just below chairman and owner Don Bren in Irvine Co.’s Read More

A few months ago, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and other national media outlets reported on how a collection of SoCal surfers united to track down a “group of well-organized, high-tech thieves” who allegedly “stole over a million dollars from more than a hundred surfers” in the area. The thieves’ Read More

One of the perks of being a Business Journal award winner this year is an exquisite dinner hosted by Ocean 48, which Jeff and Mike Mastro, co-founders of the Mastro’s restaurant chain, opened last year in Newport Beach. A couple of months ago, the Fashion Island restaurant celebrated the Business Read More

Real estate exec Mark Hilbert is best known locally for his prolific collection of Golden State art, large selections of which can be seen at Chapman University’s newly expanded Hilbert Museum of California Art, and which have graced our annual OC500 publication for years. Hilbert’s also an art model. Bradford Read More

A local exec’s yacht collection took center stage at the recently-concluded Newport Beach International Boat Show at Lido Marina Village, Business Journal’s Emily Santiago-Molina reports. James Glidewell, founder and owner of Newport Beach dental implant and products maker Glidewell had a pair of vessels on sale at this month’s multi-day Read More

Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta made his biggest local splash in 2022 when he paid $650 million for the Montage Laguna Beach, but the Texas billionaire’s deal-making has involved others in the area, as a recent meal at Fashion Island’s Ocean 48 highlighted. The upscale steakhouse and seafood restaurant was Read More

“Index Funds: The 12-step Recovery Program for Active Investors,” a documentary released several years ago by Mark Hebner, owner of Irvine-based Index Fund Advisors Inc., counts about 600,000 views on YouTube. One of those viewers was famed filmmaker Errol Morris, the Oscar-winning director of “The Fog of War” and other Read More