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Nancy Landa, a former student body president at Cal State Northridge who was deported to Mexico in 2009, spoke to the board via a video recording. -- MyNewsLA

Rao Machiraju is an Indian American Scientist and holds 10 patents in information retrieval. He has an interdisciplinary educational background: Masters in Public Health (M.P.H. from California State University, Northridge), General Systems and Information Networks (Certificate from United Nations Institute for Training and Research, University of Stockholm and UCLA), and Ed.D in Instructional Technology (Doctorate from University of Southern California).Rao worked on a number of research and development efforts in information retrieval, organizational memory, wrote a number of articles and also lectured extensively. In 1996, the term “location sense” was coined by Rao Machiraju to refer to a capability of a device that can ascertain its location. Rao was also on the editorial boards of Journal of Expert Systems and Journal of Telematics and Informatics as a Founding member. He was also on the Board of Councilors of National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center on Multi-Media Computing in (Integrated Media Systems Center) at the University of Southern California, and serves on the Advisory Board of Dimagi.com, an MIT Medialab spin off. -- Telematics Wire

Sepulveda holds a B.S. in civil engineering from California State University, Northridge. He currently serves on the American Railroad Engineering and Maintenance of Way Association (AREMA) committees on commuter/intercity and high-speed rail systems. He also is a Fellow in the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) and has been active in the organization at the local and national levels. -- The Canadian Business Journal

Purcell joined iPayment in 2012, and currently serves as the company’s Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Accounting Officer. He has held numerous executive leadership positions throughout his career, most recently with Intuit, Inc., where he served as Vice President Finance, Intuit Financial Services. Purcell also served as Executive Director, Finance-Global Operations at Amgen, Inc. and was Audit Senior, Business Assurance and Advisory Services at Deloitte & Touche. He holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration from California State University, Northridge, and is a licensed CPA. Purcell will assume the position of CFO upon the departure of Mr. Mark Monaco, the company’s current CFO, in November 2016. -- Fresh News