Jim Takamune has joined RNL Los Angeles as director of hospitality. Takamune comes to RNL with more than 25 years of experience in the design and development of hospitality, commercial, entertainment and multifamily projects. He previously was director of development with Millennium Hotels' asset management group and has served as an architectural design principal, development manager and hotel technical services representative.

Thomas Malloy has been hired by Swinerton Builders Silicon Valley as operations manager for its expanding interiors team. Before joining Swinerton, Malloy served as project executive for GCI General Contractors, supporting business development and project management efforts throughout Silicon Valley. Malloy brings more than 24 years of building experience in a range of positions, including engineer, project manager, general superintendent, project executive and business development director.

Lillian Hames has been named an assistant deputy program director on Parsons Brinckerhoff's program management team for the California High-Speed Rail Authority. In her new position, Hames will coordinate the program management planning responsibilities for the high-speed train system. Among the issues she will address are station-area planning, visual and aesthetic rail design criteria, transit connectivity and joint development. Hames is a senior rail transit executive with more than 25 years of experience as a leader and served as project director on large, complex transportation programs. She most recently worked at the Bay Area Rapid Transit District in the general manager's office as a special project coordinator.

Steve Koenigsberg and Jim Graydon have joined Brown and Caldwell as director of advanced remediation technologies and solutions and area leader for Northern California, respectively. Koenigsberg has written more than 175 technical articles on remediation and environmental biotechnology and serves as an adjunct professor at California State University, Fullerton. Working from the company's Irvine office, Koenigsberg will contribute to increasing the company's national key client program in the private-sector and federal markets. Graydon brings 25 years of experience in planning, permitting and design of water-related infrastructure and treatment systems and works from the company's Walnut Creek office. Before joining BC, Graydon worked at Kennedy/Jenks, where he held positions as area leader, national business development director and federal programs director.

Jaime Mora was hired by HGA Architects and Engineers as associate vice president and health care principal in the firm's Sacramento office. He will focus on client relations and business development for HGA's health care practice group. Mora has more than 17 years of architectural experience focusing on health care design, most recently as associate vice president and associate health care principal with HDR Architecture in Sunnyvale. Before coming to HDR, he was a senior project manager with HMC Architects in San Jose. HGA also has hired Douglas William Whiteaker as associate vice president and project manager in the firm's Sacramento office. Whiteaker will focus on new business development, project management and design leadership in the office's health care practice group. Before coming to HGA, Whiteaker had been a project architect with Boulder Associates in Sacramento since 2004 and managed design staff and led sustainable design initiatives for the company's health care work. Earlier in his career, Whiteaker was a project manager with Stafford King Wiese Architects in Sacramento. He also had worked at Derivi Construction & Architecture, which is based in Stockton.

Mike Retford has joined HOK in San Francisco as director of its justice group for the West Coast region. Retford, who previously worked at AECOM, has more than 30 years of experience as principal, project manager and project architect.

Art Hadnett, Stantec California transportation vice president, was recently elected to the board of directors for the California Transportation Foundation, the state's leading charitable transportation organization. Serving a two-year term, Hadnett will spearhead the finance and fundraising event committees. The latter panel is responsible for coordinating the organization's largest annual fundraiser. In these and other related board initiatives, Hadnett will work to support CTF's mission to create support programs and public awareness for professionals in the transportation industry.

Joshua Marrow has joined Partner Engineering and Science Inc. as senior project manager in the firm's San Francisco office. Marrow will seek to expand Partner's seismic risk practice as well as to enhance its capabilities in structural design, seismic retrofit, structural investigations and forensics for private- and public-sector clients. Marrow had been with Allied Container Systems, where he served as lead structural engineer and technical manager for a $400-million Dept. of Defense contract for the U.S. Marine Corps.