Camarillo, Calif., April 3, 2007 – The California State University Channel Islands Business & Technology Partnership (B&TP) will present awards to local leaders at its 2007 Leadership Dinner. The event will begin at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, April 24 at the Embassy Suites Hotel/Mandalay Beach Resort in Oxnard.
The B&TP will honor Timothy J. Gallagher, publisher of the Ventura County Star, with the Business and Community Leader of the Year award; Dr. David Banks, director of the Center for Asymmetric Warfare at Naval Base Ventura County, with the Technologist of the Year award; and Dr. William P. Cordeiro, director of the Martin V. Smith School of Business & Economics at CSUCI Channel Islands and professor of management, with the Faculty Leader of the Year award.
Five CSUCI transfer and junior-status students will be awarded $2,500 scholarships at the event. Those students are: Ashley Canon, chemistry major; Jadona Collier, nursing major; Veronica Lazaro, nursing major; Emily Mazzucchi, biochemistry major; and Jaimee Morrison, mathematics major.
The Business & Technology Partnership’s 2007 Leadership Dinner is sponsored by Santa Barbara Bank & Trust, California State University Channel Islands, Capistrano’s, Dennis and Joan Gaiser, Ron Polanski and Betsy Bourne/Morgan Stanley, Logix Development Corporation, Pacific Coast Business Times, and Chair of the University’s Foundation Board Wayne Davey and his wife Barbara.
Proceeds from the dinner fund student scholarships.
For more information or to purchase tickets, call (805) 437-8420 or visit www.csuci.edu/about/btp.
