FOUNDERS

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FOUNDERS

DEBRA DONNELLY
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A native Angelian, Debra Donnelly honed her design and creative skills during a fourteen year career at ABC where she staged and coordinated annual global events such as the Oscar’s, Emmy’s, A Night at Ford’s Theater, A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor, and other memorable and successful location driven productions in North America and Europe.

After a great career at ABC, she took a package and left ABC amicably and departed Los Angeles for Canada where she settled in Calgary. Donnelly's entrepreneurial curiosty immediately got to her as she took note of the exploding real estate market in this emerging commununty. Donnelly recognized the need for providing staging and design services to home sellers and marketers in this emerging upscale real estate market attracting international customers by the day.

Donnelly's company, Upstaging, quickly became one of the leading Home Stager in Calgary, Canada. She also owns and manages several properties in Canada.

Eight years later she is back home in Southern California (where her heart and family are) and has co-founded The Westside Company.

ERIC FABER
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A native Angelian as well, Eric Faber grew up with the influence and inspiration of such local architects and designers as Frank Gehry, Tom Black and Bill Odoud, Craig Ellwood, Robert Graham, Richard Meier, George Wyman, Pierre Koenig, Frank Lloyd Wright, Richard Neutra, James Tyler and more.

His personal passion for design and entertaining extended into all his careers in foodservice, entertainment and packaging.

First, Faber is a leading food and retail packaging design consultant and visual merchandiser for leading retailers and their vendors globally. His ability to visualize space and exploit design have been acknowledged through a number of industry honors his company, Packaging Resources, have earned.

Concurrently, Faber brought his business marketing and design savvy to the hospitality industry where during his career he influenced some of today's finest restaurant and foodprocessor operations and event and banquet facilities. His restaurant, bar and club design and consulting business, IWANTOSTARTARESTAURANT, has worked with leading clients internationally and is considered one of the leading consortium's of industry professionals.

Today, Faber and his venture capital group are stakeholders, partners and board members in several national foodservice operators, event properties, and industry vendors.