George Powell is chairman of the boards
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Goleta’s DuPont Displays closes, lays off 41 employees
DuPont Displays laid off 41 employees when the Goleta-based company permanently closed Feb. 29 after almost 26 years in business. DuPont Displays was a lighting subsidiary of DuPont USA and developed LED, LCD and organic light emitting diode technology. The company started as UC Santa Barbara startup Uniax in 1990 using technology developed by professor Read More →
Resonant names president, chief commercial officer
Resonant, a late-stage development company based in Goleta that creates innovative filter designs for radio frequency front-ends for the mobile device industry, announced Feb. 29 that it has named George B. Holmes to the newly created post of president and chief commercial officer and appointed him to its board of directors, effective immediately. Holmes brings Read More →
AppFolio revenue up in 2015 but so were losses
AppFolio had another strong year but losses nearly doubled as the company expanded in 2015. Goleta-based AppFolio, which makes property management software for small- to medium-sized businesses, released fourth quarter earnings and 2015 earnings results after markets closed Feb. 22. Yearly revenue increased 57 percent in 2015 to about $75 million. Fourth quarter revenues also Read More →
Founder Hani Zeini resigns from Sientra board of directors
Sientra Chairman and CEO Jeffrey Nugent sent a letter to plastic surgeons on Feb. 19 announcing that the Goleta breast implant maker’s founder and former CEO Hani Zeini has resigned from Sientra’s board of directors. “We will be forever grateful to Hani for his vision and unwavering dedication to Sientra since its founding. Hani has been incredibly Read More →
Study claims short-term rentals in SB County generated $471.6 million in 2014
A new study backed by vacation rental owners and a popular vacation rental platform claims that short-term rentals accounted for more than $471.6 million in economic activity throughout Santa Barbara County in 2014. The study was commissioned by Home Away, an Austin, Texas-based vacation rental marketplace with more than one million vacation rental listings in Read More →
Sientra implants back on market
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