Mark Mueller

1 week ago | ocbj.com | Mark Mueller

A few months ago, the Los Angeles Times, CNN and other national media outlets reported on how a collection of SoCal surfers united to track down a “group of well-organized, high-tech thieves” who allegedly “stole over a million dollars from more than a hundred surfers” in the area. The thieves’ scheme, as reported in a March 27 article by The Inertia: “One thief would watch surfers stash their keys before they paddled out.

2 weeks ago | ocbj.com | Mark Mueller

One of the perks of being a Business Journal award winner this year is an exquisite dinner hosted by Ocean 48, which Jeff and Mike Mastro, co-founders of the Mastro’s restaurant chain, opened last year in Newport Beach. A couple of months ago, the Fashion Island restaurant celebrated the Business Journal Excellence in Entrepreneurship Award winners.

3 weeks ago | ocbj.com | Mark Mueller

Real estate exec Mark Hilbert is best known locally for his prolific collection of Golden State art, large selections of which can be seen at Chapman University’s newly expanded Hilbert Museum of California Art, and which have graced our annual OC500 publication for years. Hilbert’s also an art model. Bradford Salamon’s “Monday at the Crab Cooker,” part of the museum’s collection, features Hilbert, curator Gordon McClelland and the artist eating at the iconic Newport Beach restaurant.

1 month ago | ocbj.com | Mark Mueller

A local exec’s yacht collection took center stage at the recently-concluded Newport Beach International Boat Show at Lido Marina Village, Business Journal’s Emily Santiago-Molina reports. James Glidewell, founder and owner of Newport Beach dental implant and products maker Glidewell had a pair of vessels on sale at this month’s multi-day event, asking close to $31 million on a combined basis. The larger of the two boats, the 191-foot Unbridled, was seeking just under $23 million.

1 month ago | ocbj.com | Mark Mueller

Houston Rockets owner Tilman Fertitta made his biggest local splash in 2022 when he paid $650 million for the Montage Laguna Beach, but the Texas billionaire’s deal-making has involved others in the area, as a recent meal at Fashion Island’s Ocean 48 highlighted. The upscale steakhouse and seafood restaurant was started by Jeff and Mike Mastro, co-founders of the Mastro’s restaurant chain, which they sold in 2007 to a private equity firm.