Questions and Answers with Carrie Chiang, SPS staff accountant and recent USC graduate What do you miss most about living in Taiwan? I miss its convenience. Taiwan is a small but very densely populated island, especially in Taipei, the capital. Different kinds of public transportation are easily … [Read more...]
Sobul, Primes & Schenkel Annual Volunteer Day
The SPS workforce spends the day with BookEnds BookEnds is a Southern California-based nonprofit that, as they say on their website (BookEnds.org) “…recycles quality children’s books through student-run book drives and places them in schools and youth organizations.” Since 1998, BookEnds has … [Read more...]
The Sobul Primes & Schenkel Family Continues to Grow
SPS welcomes Dave Berman Dave Berman has accepted a position with SPS as staff accountant. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (Boston, Massachusetts) with an Accounting degree. Dave is living in Manhattan Beach and is acclimating himself to the Southern California lifestyle. Welcome … [Read more...]
Jr. Posse Youth Equestrian Program
Keeping kids on horses and off the streets Where’s the best place to go horseback riding? You may be surprised to learn there are some children who would answer, “Compton!” Twenty-year SPS veteran Valerie Chamberlain, Manager of our Business Management Department, has been volunteering with a … [Read more...]
Two degrees of excellence
Congratulations to two Sobul, Primes & Schenkel graduates ‘Tis the season to toss mortarboards in the air and applaud graduates from institutes of higher learning. We are proud to announce that two SPS employees are celebrating receipt of their graduate degrees. Cheers to Riza Marfori … [Read more...]
FUN Raiser!
The Water Buffalo Club and Howie Mandel are in it for the kids Though water buffaloes are an endangered species in Southeast Asia, they were in plentiful supply at the Skirball Cultural Center October 13, 2012, during a wildly successful evening of fund raising and fun hosted by Howie Mandel! The … [Read more...]
Life on Hollywood’s A-list! Twice!
SPS2 on The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Business Manager List The Hollywood Reporter’s October 12, 2012, special section, THR’s Power Business Managers, named two of SPS’s own, Steve Levitt and Rick Schenkel, on their list of 25 power business managers. In addition to highlighting Steve and … [Read more...]
Sobul, Primes & Schenkel is proud to announce…
Two freshly-minted titles and a promotion David Primes recently received his MSA (Master of Science in Accounting) from California State University, Northridge (where he also earned his Bachelor of Science in Accounting). Why would a business owner/partner go to school? “Building knowledge” is one … [Read more...]
Annual Volunteer Day at SPS
Wondering where we were on November 2? One day every year Sobul, Primes & Schenkel closes up shop completely and focuses on a non-profit project. This year SPS showed up en masse at the National Guard Armory in Van Nuys to spend the day working with Operation Gratitude. Operation Gratitude’s … [Read more...]
SPS Newsflash, Schenkel and Levitt in The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter’s Power Business Managers The moneymen and women on this third annual list handle the finances, and sometimes financial misfortunes, of Hollywood stars who need help with everything from taxes to stocks to investments to chrome-plated electric cars. Plus the ever-changing … [Read more...]