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| Past World Trade Week Chairs | |||||||||||
| Thank you to the commitment, dedication and support of our past Chairs: | |||||||||||
| Year | Chair | Company | |||||||||
| 2011 | Mario Cordero | Port of Long Beach | |||||||||
| 2010 | Kaylynn Kim | Port of Los Angeles | |||||||||
| 2009 | Bill Collier | Keesal, Young & Logan | |||||||||
| 2008 | Steve Arnold | FedEx Services, Inc. | |||||||||
| 2007 | Mark Mayers | City National Bank | |||||||||
| 2006 | Carlos Valderrama | Carlsmith Ball, LLP | |||||||||
| 2005 | Charlie Woo | Megatoys, Inc. | |||||||||
| 2004 | Nancy Hiromoto | Citizen Watch Company of America, Inc. | |||||||||
| 2003 | Bryan G. Stockton | Mattel, Inc. | |||||||||
| 2002 | Marian Duntley | Toyota Moter Sales, U.S.A. | |||||||||
| 2001 | R. Thomas Decker | L.A. Area Chamber of Commerce | |||||||||
| 2000 | Susan Corrales-Diaz | Systems Integrated | |||||||||
| 1999 | William M. Royer | Citibank | |||||||||
| 1998 | Jeffrey Coppersmith | Coppersmith Inc. | |||||||||
| 1997 | Denis R. Brown | Pinkerton's, Inc. | |||||||||
| 1996 | Russell Hanlin | Sunkist Growers Inc. | |||||||||
| 1995 | Paul V. Colony | AON Worldwide | |||||||||
| 1994 | Leslie Browne Cazas | Nissan North America | |||||||||
| 1993 | Fermin Cuza | Mattel, Inc. | |||||||||
| 1992 | Anthony J. Stapleton | Atchinson, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway Co. | |||||||||
| 1991 | Irene Fisher | California Export Finance Office | |||||||||
| 1990 | William B. Filbert | International Diversified Technologies | |||||||||
| 1989 | Jane A. Beseda | Toyota Moter Sales USA, Inc. | |||||||||
| 1988 | Steven Paul Resnick | Port of Los Angeles | |||||||||
| 1987 | Thomas N. Teofilo | Port of Long Beach | |||||||||
| 1986 | Al Mazzarella | L.E. Coppersmith, Inc | |||||||||
| 1985 | Charles Nevil | Meridian Enterprises | |||||||||
| 1984 | Gladys A. Moreau | Security Pacific National Bank | |||||||||
| 1983 | W. Guy Fox | Global Transportation Services, Inc. | |||||||||
| 1982 | Manfred H. K. Aschemey | Stevedoring Services | |||||||||
| 1981 | Emmett C. McGaughey | ||||||||||
| 1980 | J. Louis Munoz, Jr. | Security Pacific National Bank | |||||||||
| 1979 | Donald Butler | Merchants & Manufacturers Association | |||||||||
| 1978 | William Escherich | Southern California Auto Club | |||||||||
| 1977 | James Craig | Long Beach Harbor Commission | |||||||||
| 1976 | Richard Shostak | Stein Shostak Shostak & O'Hara | |||||||||
| 1975 | Robert D. Hudson | Port of Los Angeles | |||||||||
| 1974 | Douglas Friman | Transmarine Navigation Company | |||||||||
| 1973 | Richard C. King | King International | |||||||||
| 1972 | Marjorie Shostak | Stein & Shostak | |||||||||
| 1971 | Thomas J. Thorley | Port of Long Beach | |||||||||
| 1970 | Robert H. Autenreith | ||||||||||
| 1969 | Lew E. Coppersmith | L.E. Coppersmith, Inc. | |||||||||
| 1968 | W. Theodore Johnson | United California Bank | |||||||||
| 1967 | Robert F. Holbrook | Williams, Diamond & Co. | |||||||||
| 1966 | Harry Ridings, Jr. | Long Beach Harbor Commission | |||||||||
| 1965 | Milo Hefferlin | Bank of America | |||||||||
| 1964 | Melvin J. Erickson | ||||||||||
| 1963 | Charles Vickerrs | Port of Long Beach | |||||||||
| 1962 | Albert Perrish | Winter, Wolff & Co. | |||||||||
| 1961 | Robert D. Kleist | Pacific Far East Lines | |||||||||
| 1960 | John Parkinson | Los Angeles Harbor Department | |||||||||
| 1959 | William A. Harrington | Bethlehem Pacific Steel | |||||||||
| 1958 | George H. Mohr | ||||||||||
| 1957 | Wendell Shore | California Honey Co. | |||||||||
| 1956 | Max J. Liner, Jr. | Transmarine Navigation | |||||||||
| 1955 | John McHose | Lillick, Geary, & McHose | |||||||||
| 1954 | Mel Buether | Farmers Merchants National Bank | |||||||||
| 1953 | Alvin K. Maddy | Long Beach Harbor Department | |||||||||
| 1952 | Frank J. Connolly | ||||||||||
| 1951 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1950 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1949 | Bernard Caughlin | Port of Los Angeles | |||||||||
| 1948 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1947 | Norman Dunnavant | Los Angeles Commercial News | |||||||||
| 1946 | Alfred E. Hopkins | ||||||||||
| 1945 | Michael Harris | ||||||||||
| 1944 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1943 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1942 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1941 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1940 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1939 | Gustav Riedlin | Bank of America | |||||||||
| 1938 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1937 | Unknown | ||||||||||
| 1936 | Walter Measday | U.S. Bureau of Foreign & Domestic Commerce | |||||||||
| 1935 | David Livingston | ||||||||||
| 1933 | Unknown | ||||||||||