Arizona Daily Star from Tucson, Arizona • Page D001

Arietta Bailn Star BUSNESS SUNDAY, JUNE 3, 2012 SECTION Editor: Norma Coile 520-573-4663 businessazstarnet.com UA Health Network launches CEO search Ready to hire permanently after 3 interim leaders in a row PHOTOS BY MAMTA POPAT ARIZONA DAILY STAR Christopher Thomas assembles an 02 Hurricane canless air system unit at Omega Tool Mold, at 841 E. 47th St. The product, which was invented in Tucson, sells for $79.99 and takes the place of compressed-gas cleaners. Tucson inventor makes uncanny cleaning tool By Stephanie Innes ARIZONA DAILY STAR Southern Arizona's largest health-care entity is once again looking for a permanent CEO. The University of Arizona Health Network's new Board of Directors has transferred control of the $1.2 billion nonprofit entity from temporary PresidentCEO Jodi J.

Mansfield to a two-member team, according to a network memo issued to employees on Friday. That team consists of UA College of Medicine Dean Dr. Steve Goldschmid and Karen Mlawsky, who is chief executive officer of the University of Arizona Medical Center. Goldschmid and Mlawsky will jointly manage the health network one of the region's largest employers until a permanent CEO is hired, confirmed Steve Lynn, who is interim chair of the new board. Mansfield was the net- DID YOU work's third interim CEO in a KNOW? row.

The search for a perma- The University nent CEO was suspended of Arizona last spring while the gover- Health Network nor's Arizona Medical Edu- is Southern Ari-cation Oversight Task Force zona's 10th-worked with the previous largest employ-board to reorganize the board er overall, with governance structure. nearly 6,000 Lynn said in an interview full-time-equiva-Friday that there's no time- lent employees, line on a hire for the CEO po- source: 2012 star2oo sition, but that a board sub- SLy committee will conduct a national search with the help of the executive search firm WittKieffer. Mansfield's contract ends Aug. 4, and she will continue with the organization as a consultant until then, said Lynn, a local businessman. Mansfield, a Florida executive, was hired as a temporary CEO last August.

She replaced Hank Wells, who resigned as interim CEO last July due to health concerns. Wells had replaced previous interim CEO Kevin Burns, who resigned in April 2011 during a political dispute regarding oversight of the health-care network. The network was created July 1, 2010 when University Medical Center Corp. merged with University Physicians Healthcare. At the time of the merger, Burns was CEO of University Medical Center which operates what's now called the UA Medical Center University Campus.

"We want to thank Jodi for her service to the organization," Lynn said in a prepared statement. "Over the past nine months, Jodi has helped position UAHN (UA Health Network) for future successes. She has played an integral role in advancing key initiatives and helping with the formation See UA HEALTH, D6 David Lyons Jr. thought of canless air 20 years ago. By David Wichner ARIZONA DAILY STAR So-called "canned air" makes cleaning computers and other electronics a blast.

But like other aerosols, such compressed-gas cleaners can pose hazards to users and the environment and lead to inhalant abuse not to mention the long-term cost of emptying cans at about a pop. A product invented and made in Tucson offers an alternative to disposable, eco-unfriendly canned air and a veteran infomercial star is marketing it. In March, Canless Air Inc. began selling its 02 Hurricane system, a high-speed, handheld blower in the shape of a can. The $80 product is the brainchild of Tucsonan David Lyons a longtime businessman who worked for more than a decade to develop the patent-pending device.

And the man behind Canless Air, a Scottsdale-based company set up to market the product, is a familiar face to many Americans as the "Video Professor." John Scherer sold 18 million computer -tutoring programs from the mid-1980s to 2010 as the founder and chief of Video Professor Inc. hawking the program on TV shopping channels and ubiquitous commercials try my Now, Scherer is pushing the 02 Hurricane as a See CANLESS, D6 eh John Scherer is promoting the 02 Hurricane. FOR MORE INFORMATION Canless Air, www.canlessair.com The 02 Hurricane canless airsystem is a rechargeable blower device that can replace canned air for cleaning electronics and other items. THE SCOOP Tucson game developers seek kick-start from investors PhilVillarreal TRUNZ0 ON MEDICAL LEAVE Gina Trunzo, who co- anchors the morning show on KMSB Channel 11, has taken medical leave and been off the air for at least the past two weeks. She's an employee of KOLD Channel 13, which is contracted to handle KMSB's news operations.

KOLD Vice President and General Manager Debbie Bush said she expected Trunzo back last week, but circumstances changed and now there is no set date for Trunzo to return KOLD will not be hiring a temporary employee to fill in for Trunzo. Presumably, KOLD morning anchor Kayna Whit-worth will continue to pull dou have been living off our life savings for the last year to develop 'Void Unlike most other kickstarter campaigns, 'Void Rim' is nearly complete and what we are looking for is help to launch the game," Griffith said via email. "We're excited to make the definitive strategy game for our fellow Tucson nerds hiding in their air conditioning this summer." Other studios that have emerged from the SOE Tucson operation include Kihon Games, makers of the iPhone app "Baby Monkey (Going Backwards on a Pig)" game; and Enemy Hideout, which made the iPhone game "Monster Words." ble duty until Trunzo returns "I had a medical issue come up a few months back," Trunzo said via email, "and in recent weeks it became something that left me no other option but to take time off of work to get through it and right now, I'm just working on getting better." A'LANDMARK WEEK" IN JON JUSTICE'S RECOVERY KQTH 104.1-FM's Jon Justice is so dedicated to his job that he returned to the air two weeks after undergoing open -heart surgery in April, his second such procedure See SCOOP, D6 When Sony Online Entertainment shuttered its Tucson studio in April 2011, it seemed the local game development scene was swirling around the drain. Instead, the office's closure has made Tucson more relevant in the development scene, sparking at least three new operations. The latest developer to emerge is Desert Owl Games, a startup run by Arthur Griffith, one of the founders of Octopi, which Sony bought and turned into SOE Tucson.

Desert Owl is embarking on an ambitious multiplayer, turn-based strategy game called "Void Rim." The studio is attempting to raise $40,000 via Kickstarter to finish the project. The company has to hit its goal by June 30 or return the money it's raised. To check out the game's Kickstarter page, visit tinyurl. com7p3 9pop "All of us at Desert Owl Games Beautiful design, first-class ergonomics, elegant engineering and respect for the environment. Everything you'd expect from a Herman Miller chair.

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