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Mark Sommer
Mark Sommer is the founder and CEO of Gamma Alloys, a Santa Clarita-based materials company that 'decorates' metal powders with ceramic nanoparticles to make aluminum strong enough to 3D print into aerospace and automotive parts. He simultaneously leads Del West Engineering, the Formula 1 world's go-to maker of titanium valves and lightweight valvetrain components. Backed by Boeing HorizonX, his bet is that of the roughly 5,500 industrial alloys in use, only a few dozen work with 3D printers today, and Gamma's nano-ceramic process can unlock the rest.
Kevin Klockenga
Kevin Klockenga is President and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital in Santa Clarita, California, a 357-bed not-for-profit community hospital and Level II trauma center. He took the corner office in March 2023, following a decade running Providence's Northern California region and a long arc through hospital administration that began in central Illinois and ran through Washington University in St. Louis. He sits on the board of the Hospital Association of Southern California and is known inside the building for an old-school work ethic, a vintage Corvette he tinkers with, and a stated mission to leave a culture behind that outlives him.