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Leadership Seminar Features Army Corps of Engineers Veteran
Col. Tom Magness, who retired from the Army Corps of Engineers in 2010, is the headliner at the Society for
Marketing Professional Services’ leadership seminar Oct. 17 at noon in the Balboa Park Club. Magness is a nationally
recognized expert on leadership and motivational training. His latest book, “Leader Business,” incorporates the
lessons he learned over a 30-year career of building projects in military assignments from Los Angeles to Bagdad,
Iraq, and Kabul, Afghanistan, where he was the commander of a $5 billion construction program and the manager
of a private firm with $300 million in annual sales. Magness teaches at West Point, the U.S. Army Military Academy
and is a coach/consultant at their National Training Center. To register for the seminar, visit smpssd.org.
Hyatt Regency Mission Bay
Names Catering Director
Jessica St. Charles is the new director of catering
and convention services at the Hyatt Regency Mission
Bay Spa & Marina
A six-year Hyatt employee, St. Charles started her
career at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los
Angeles as a senior catering manager. Before joining
Hyatt, she spent 11 years in marketing for the
tourism management industry.
Jessica St. Charles
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