The theme of the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce State of the City was adaptation to a changing landscape. Several city officials from Santa Barbara, Goleta and Carpinteria spoke, and one overarching idea in each presentation was that the landscape – in housing, in financial security, in workforce development – had changed drastically as a result of the pandemic, and that those changes were continuing to unfold. Kristen Miller, the president and CEO of the Santa Barbara South Coast Chamber of Commerce, addressed many of these changes and the shifting regional dynamics in a speech ..read more

Sutter Health, a Sacramento-based nonprofit integrated health system, announced on Jan. 31 that its sixth community-based market will be the Greater Central Coast. Kurt Ransohoff, Warner Thomas, other key executives, physicians and community members gathered on Sept. 29 at Sansum’s 4151 Foothill Rd. campus, celebrating the fact that Sansum Clinic is now a member of Sutter Health. (courtesy photo) The market will be anchored by Sansum Clinic, a 103-year-old nonprofit outpatient healthcare organization based in Santa Barbara, which officially became part of Sutter Health in October. “Our communi ..read more

Janet Garufis, CEO and chairwoman of Montecito Bank & Trust, gathered dozens of representatives from local nonprofits and organizations to celebrate the season of giving with a bang at the 2023 Montecito Bank & Trust Community Dividends event Nov. 20. Molly Corbett, the CEO of Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse’s Association, accepted an award at the event. During the event, the bank announced it was donating $1.1 million to nonprofits based in and around Santa Barbara, including organizations like MOXI, The Wolf Museum of Exploration + Innovation, Channel Islands YMCA, CommUnify, Dire ..read more

The 2023 chapter of the Pacific Coast Business Times’ Fastest Growing Companies special report is here! The cover this year features Robert Nyman, CFO at Jordano’s. This year, the company that’s shown the most revenue growth from 2020 to 2022 is Pashion Footwear, a company the Pacific Coast Business Times knows well. We’ve been following the story of CEO Haley Pavone since 2017, when she was accepted into the Cal Poly HotHouse Summer Accelerator program. Since then, she’s caught our eye in other ways, including multiple mentions and honors through the Central Coast Innovation Awards. Since 202 ..read more

Ransohoff, Thomas, other key executives, physicians and community members gathered on Sept. 29 at Sansum’s 4151 Foothill Rd. campus, celebrating the fact that Sansum Clinic is now a member of Sutter Health. (courtesy photo) A deal more than a decade in the making came to fruition on Sept. 29, when CEOs for both Sansum Clinic and Sutter Health announced the finalization of a partnership between the two nonprofit health care entities. Based in Santa Barbara, Sansum is now part of Sutter Health, a Sacramento-based organization that operates a network of hospitals and clinics in Northern Californi ..read more

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The Department of Justice announced June 29 that three major health care providers and a Medi-Cal health plan on the Central Coast will pay $68 million to settle claims they submitted false information related to Medi-Cal and Medicaid reimbursements from 2014 to 2016. CenCal Health provides health care coverage for more than 200,000 people in Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo counties. (Brooke Holland photo) The Santa Barbara San Luis Obispo Regional Health Authority, better known as CenCal Health, Cottage Health System, Sansum Clinic and Community Health Centers of the Central Coast were all ..read more

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David Spainhour, who played a lead role in the rise of Santa Barbara Bank & Trust to become the region’s dominant banking institution in the 1990s and early 2000s, died in Santa Barbara on May 28. He was 91. David Spainhour, an influential part of Santa Barbara’s banking history, died on May 28. Spainhour, a native of Los Angeles, took the biggest risk of his career in the 1960s when he left Security Pacific Bank to join Santa Barbara National Bank, a small community bank with an affluent clientele.He rose from controller to vice president and when teamed with Don Anderson, a midwestern ba ..read more

Goleta-based AppFolio is the latest technology company based in the Central Coast to cut its workforce, as the software company for the real estate industry announced it will be laying off 62 people, according to a WARN act filing with the state on May 1. Known as the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification, the state’s WARN Act requires employers to file a notice when laying off more than 50 employees in California or when shutting down an entire facility. AppFolio filed the WARN act with the state on May 1 and it was recognized on May 17. According to the filing, the company will be le ..read more