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Sharon Keyser
Senior Vice President - Real Estate, Government & Community Relations Paramount Pictures

As Paramount Pictures' Senior Vice President of Real Estate, Government & Community Relations, Sharon Keyser advises Paramount's domestic and international real estate transactions and directs the Studio's legislative activities at the local, state and national levels. She oversees Paramount's engagement with residential neighbors, as well as the many business

organizations, schools and nation-wide non-profit organizations Paramount supports. In addition, she administers Paramount's corporate responsibility program which includes Paramount's Viacommunity Day, a yearly event in which Paramount's domestic and international employees spend a workday volunteering at schools and non-profit organizations worldwide.

Prior to joining Paramount Pictures in 2007, Sharon served as Senior Land Use Specialist with Latham & Watkins, advising entertainment clients such as NBC Universal and Anschutz Entertainment Group's LA Live!, on various land use and environmental issues. She also worked with a wide range of commercial and residential development firms.

Before joining Latham & Watkins, Sharon served as Legislative and Planning Deputy to then-President of the Los Angeles City Council, Councilman John Ferraro.

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LA's 'Job Czar' boasts a broad portfolio at City Hall
By Phil Willon, latimes.com
The Wall Street millionaire tapped by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to be the city's "job czar" has, in just three months, turned into a kind of behind-the-scenes fixer for an administration singed by an escalating budget crisis and political upheaval over a hike in utility bills. Read entire article

Business in Dark On DWP Hikes
By Howard Fine and Alfred Lee, Los Angeles Business Journal
L.A. businesses are worried that the highly publicized fight over power rate hikes between the mayor and the City Council is prolonging uncertainty surrounding the cost of power, making it harder for them to budget. Read entire article

Business Leaders Hope to Zap DWP Rate Hikes
by Howard Fine, Los Angeles Business Journal
Businesses in the city of Los Angeles are alarmed at the prospect of being slammed with increases of up to 26 percent on their power bills with little warning under Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s recent proposal for a carbon surcharge. Read entire article

The Ovrom Factor: How the New Building and Safety Chief Plans to Run One of the City’s Most Important Departments
by Ryan Vaillancourt, Los Angeles Downtown News
Bud Ovrom, the still newly minted head of the city Department of Building and Safety, is the first to admit he has no background in engineering and construction safety. So shortly after taking the post, he bought two books to add to the mini-library in his 10th floor corner office at 201 N. Figueroa St.: Why Buildings Stand Up, and its companion, Why Buildings Fall Down, by structural engineers Matthys Levy and Mario Salvadori. Read entire article

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