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GENERATION NEXT Anca Bec, 36 | Business Development Officer Alliance Bank of Arizona • alliancebankofarizona.com
Bec is a Certified Ambassador at GPEC and a committee member for the Arizona Bioindustry Association
Greatest accomplishment: “I began my business lending career in 2008 at the
beginning of the economic downturn and was able to rank in the Top 3 for the bank’s Greater Phoenix market in my first year.”
Surprising fact: “Spoke my first words of English at age 14 when I moved to Queens,
N.Y., from Romania.”
Alison R. Christian, 32 | Shareholder Christian Dichter & Sluga, P.C.
Christian is an AV-rated insurance bad-faith and coverage attorney. She serves on the Arizona Association of Defense Counsel board of directors and is a Southwest Super Lawyers Rising Star.
Greatest accomplishment: “Developing, launching, and sustaining the nationallyrecognized ‘Ladder Down’ business development program for Arizona women lawyers. Surprising fact: “I’m a cowgirl who loves outlaw country music, dusty leather and riding horses across the desert.”
Jaime R. Daddona, 38 | Senior Associate Squire Patton Boggs • squiresanders.com
Daddona is a business lawyer whose practice focuses on corporate matters, with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions, commercial transactions, securities offerings and compliance, and corporate governance. Greatest accomplishment : “I love it when companies and other law firms on the
opposite side of a transaction end up becoming future clients or referral sources.”
Surprising fact: “I was an Arizona Cardinals cheerleader in college.”
Nancy Kim, 36 | Owner
Spectrum Dermatology • spectrumdermatology.com
A graduate of Harvard and the University of Arizona College of Medicine, Kim founded Spectrum in 2011 and has amassed nearly 10,000 patients.
Greatest accomplishment: “Surrounding myself with talented and caring people has made our practice grow rapidly and has made my life easier.”
Surprising fact: “I used to be very tan when I was young — I ran cross-country and track all year. Now, I cover up with sunscreen.”
Jami Reagan, 35 | Owner
Shine Factory Public Relations • facebook.com/ShineFactoryPR
Reagan is the principal of Shine Factory, a boutique firm specializing in hospitality and healthcare.
Greatest accomplishment: “The No. 1 request throughout my public relations career has always been, ‘get me on Oprah.’ I’m happy to say I can check that off my career bucket list.” Surprising fact: “I once held a lit birthday cake for celebrity blogger Perez Hilton
while the Jonas Brothers serenaded him with a Happy Birthday song.”
52 AB | July-August 2014