San Francisco Chronicle (SF) - WEDNESDAY November 6, 1991
Lloyd Watson

The coalition, which represents business, labor and the volunteer sector, is honoring Haas for his "unique and unwavering leadership" in dealing with the problems of AIDS in the workplace.

Named for the former head of the U.S. Public Health Service, the award will be presented to Haas, 49, today at ceremonies in Washington, D.C. Along with the award, he'll receive $10,000 in cash to contribute to an AIDS project of his choice.

Haas was one of the nation's first business leaders to join with his employees -- back in 1981 and 1982 -- in educating co-workers about the epidemic.

At Levi Strauss, HIV/AIDS is treated like any other life-threatening illness in respect to medical coverage, disability leave and life insurance. The company encourages HIV/AIDS support groups and its health plan pays for hospice care and FDA-approved drugs.

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OTHER AWARDS

Pacific Telesis Chairman Emeritus Don Guinn, 59, will receive the Harvard Business School Assn. of Northern California's 23rd annual Business Statesman of the Year award at the annual awards ceremony Tuesday at the Ritz-Carlton. Willard Clark, 61, president of World-Wide Sires Inc., a 20-year- old Hanford (Kings County) exporter of cattle sperm, will receive the Japanese government's 1991 Medal of Honor December 5 at the Japanese consul general's S.F. residence.

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BOARD MOVES

Haas Business School Dean Bill Hasler, 49, who became a director of Gap Inc. in September, is going on the board of Aphton Corp., a Sacramento biopharmaceutical company and, according to a UC spokesman, "talking with a couple of other corporate boards."

DuPont Merck Pharmaceutical President/CEO Joseph Mollica, 51, is a new director at Silicon Graphics in Mtn. View. The DuPont Merck partnership, formed in January, is expected to generate revenues of $700 million this year.

Raychem Corp., of Menlo Park, has added Corning Inc. Vice Chairman Richard Dulude, 58, to its board. DuWayne Peterson, 59, a former Merrill Lynch executive v.p. who now has his own Pasadena telecommunications-consulting firm, has joined the board of directors of Redwood City's Network Equipment Technologies.

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THE LEGAL FRONT

600-attorney Weil, Gotshal & Manges claims to be the first major N.Y. law firm to establish a Silicon Valley presence. The firm's Menlo Park office is headed by three alumni of L.A.'s 200-attorney Irell & Manella law firm: Miles Gilburne, Ron Laurie and Dan Siegel. Since 1986, Gilburne, 40, has been founding partner of an L.A. venture-capital firm. Laurie, 49, and Siegel, 33, were with Irell & Manella's recently closed Menlo office.

Another Pillsbury: Pillsbury, Levinson & Mills, a new S.F. niche firm, has been formed by insurance lawyers Phil Pillsbury, 42, Arnold Levinson, 41, and Cheryl Dunphy Mills, 38. It specializes in complex insurance cases.

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MOVING ON

Sutro & Co. has hired ex-Merrill Lynch exec Stephen Koffler as executive v.p. and director of investment banking. A managing director in Merrill Lynch's L.A. office, Koffler, 49, headed Merrill's high-tech and merchant-banking operations throughout the Western states. At Sutro he'll be a member of the daily operating and management committees and the board of directors.

Leo Contois, 63, former senior v.p. of human resources for Sara Lee Corp., has taken on the same title at Palo Alto's Syntex Corp. . . . Another employee-relations specialist, Patricia Roboostoff, 38, a 13-year Intel staffer, has joined Maxtor Corp. as v.p. of human resources.

Former St. Francis Sales Manager Steve Kinsley, 31, is g.m. of the city's newest hotel, the Triton, a $6.5 million Kimco Hotels' remake of the old Beverly Plaza at Grant and Bush. Jim Reynolds, 29, former sales mgr. at the Diva Hotel, is the Triton's director of sales.

Golden Gate University has picked a high-tech business exec as dean of its schools of Management and Technology Management. He is James Rudolph, 58, former president of Gnostic Concepts, Oscco Ventures partner and Booz, Allen v.p.

ON THEIR OWN

S.F. management consultant John Sauer, 51, a Kaufman Peterson/Ward Associates alumnus, is providing "personalized psychological consulting" to CEOs and the like through his new Mill Valley firm, Executive Development . . . Rubin/Hunter Communications is a new Santa Rosa marketing/PR firm formed by Mike Rubin, 47, Seagram Classics Wine Co.'s former director of communications, and Michele Hunter, 38, who has worked for Korbel, Firestone, Belvedere and other vintners.

CAPTION: PHOTO Levi's Chairman Robert Haas is being honored in Washington

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