San Diego Rotary Club chooses Jerry Sanders as Mr. San Diego

San Diego's former “Mr. Mayor” Jerry Sanders has a new title: “Mr. San Diego.”

On Sept. 15, the San Diego Rotary Club bestowed the new moniker upon Sanders. Since 1952, the club has given the title to a Mr., Mrs. or Ms. in recognition of outstanding community service to the region.

This year, Sanders was honored for more than 50 years of service to the San Diego community. He began his service at the San Diego Police Department in 1973 where he worked his way up to chief before leaving the department in 1999. He then served for three years as president and CEO of United Way of San Diego County before taking on the role of chairman of board of the San Diego/Imperial County chapter of the American Red Cross.

In 2004, Sanders was elected mayor and served until 2012. He's been president and CEO of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce since leaving office, overseeing the West Coast's largest chamber representing more than 2,000 businesses and an estimated 300,000 jobs.

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The Department of the Navy has awarded San Diego-based Innovatus Technology Consulting an 8-year, $20 million+ contract to support the Information Technology Service Management (ITSM) Solutions project for the BMC Remedy ITSM system at Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific.

Over the course of the next eight years, Innovatus will support software and system engineering, design, development, configuration, integration, testing and life-cycle support services.

“With extensive ServiceNow experience and corporate expertise supporting PEO Digital (Program Executive Office Digital and Enterprise Services) at NIWC Pacific, we are committed to bringing our Remedy talent forward in support of best value NIWC Pacific Engineering Operations” said John T. Nguyen, president of Innovatus Technology Consulting, which was founded in 2012.

BMC Remedy ITSM Enterprise is a service management platform that uses intelligent automation-enabled dashboards and analytics to transform best-practice ITSM principles into modern agile service solutions and improved resource decisions.

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Lawyers Club of San Diego has named Dr. Ivy Kosmides as the organization's new Executive Director. Kosmides previously served as Lawyers Club's Senior Director of Programming and Development. Prior to joining Lawyers Club in 2018, Kosmides worked as an adjunct professor for the University of Redlands. She holds a Ph. D. and Master's in International Economics and is also a trained chef and a former yoga instructor.

“Lawyers Club has an unparalleled core of passionate volunteers dedicated to advancing our mission and advocating for the rights of women in the legal profession and beyond,” Kosmides said.

“Ivy is an experienced and dynamic leader,” said Shannon Finley, Lawyers Club president and a shareholder at Pettit Kohn Ingrassia Lutz & Dolan. “Her diverse background, education and passion for our mission make [her] an ideal fit for this position.”

Founded in 1972, Lawyers Club of San Diego is the largest specialty bar association in San Diego, and its mission is to advance the status of women in the law and society.