MEMBER NEWS


Newmeyer & Dillion Welcomes New Partner Business and


real estate law firm Newmeyer & Dillion LLP recently announced that Michael Tenerelli joined the firm as a partner based in the firm’s Newport Beach office. Tenerelli has over three decades of


Michael Tenerelli


experience in litigation, arbitration and mediation, helping owners, devel- opers, contractors, lenders and various other businesses overcome complex real estate, construction and business disputes related to development, leasing, contracts, business torts and construction. Tenerelli began his career at Allen


Matkins and was a founding partner at Dubia, Erickson & Tenerelli where he


Gelman LLP Announces


Executive Staff Changes Gelman LLP, a leading California certified


public accounting and business advisory firm, recently announced Mark Tackmann as its Managing Partner. He has 23 years of experience in public accounting, and rejoined Gelman in August 2017 after spending the last 12 years as Partner with two Orange County based CPA firms. Lisa Green was promoted


Lisa Green


to Senior Partner in charge of assurance services for Gelman LLP. She has been with Gelman since 1995 and has extensive experience serving and growing, closely-held companies with an emphasis in the construction industry and employee owned companies. Jay Donavan joined Gelman


LLP as a Senior Tax Partner responsible for tax department administration. He has more than 30 years of public accounting experience.


spent more than 18 years. Immediately prior to joining Newmeyer & Dillion,


Jay Donovan


he spent time as head of Dorsey & Whitney’s Southern California office.


AGC Members Gather for Delta-Sierra Golf Tournament By Kim Leicht, AGC Regional Manager


Over 65 AGC members gathered May 7th for AGC of California’s Delta-Sierra


district’s annual golf event at the Winchester Country Club Golf club, where they enjoyed a fun day of golf and networking and raised money for the charitable organi- zation Sierra Forever Families’ “Copper for Kids” campaign. Copper for Kids campaign started five years ago with the goal to get the


construction industry involved in getting children out of foster care and into permanent, loving families, according to Kitty Hoffman, development associate with Sierra Forever Families. She noted that by collecting scrap materials from work sites or other industry donations from nearly 75 partners, they have raised over $225,000 that supported the placement of more than 45 children. “Our Copper for Kids staff recently had the great opportunity to host the Casino


Hole at AGC’s Annual Golf Tournament where we got to see some of these current partners and introduce the cause to many more attendees,” Hoffman commented. “We were blown away by the generosity and kindness of every single person we met.” Numerous AGC member firms helped sponsor the annual tournament, including


Mark Tackmann


The first-place winning team for the overall tournament was a trio of Greg Sutton, Doyle Radford, Nick Zwetsloot from Construction and General Laborers Local Union #18.


Syblon Reid, Crusader Fence Company, Enterprise Fleet Management, Royal Electric, Construction Testing Services, Inc., EPIC Insurance Brokers, Granite Construction, Clifton Larson Allen LLP, and Principal Financial. Attendees competed in four event contests - Hole-in-One, Putting Contest, Longest Drive (men’s and women’s) and


Casino Hole. www.AGC-CA.org Associated General Contractors of California 21


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