Down, Svet Join SDSU Business Board

Two San Diego business leaders and SDSU alumni have been named to the College of Business Board of Directors.

Robert Svet, '69, attended the College of Business and is chairman and founder of The Eastridge Group of Staffing Companies, which he founded in 1971 and has built it into a leading full-time and temporary staffing service.

Headquartered in San Diego, this growing firm currently employs over 200 full-time staff members in 36 branches located primarily in California and Nevada, and over 4,300 temporary workers daily. With annual revenues exceeding $115 million, Eastridge ranks among the top one percent of privately owned staffing services in the nation.

Also joining the board is David W. Down, managing partner of KPMG LLP in San Diego, a 1976 School of Accountancy alumnus. He joined KPMG that same year and was admitted to the partnership in 1987. In 1994 he was named Managing Partner of the San Diego office and in 1998 became the Pacific Southwest Area Partner.

In addition to managing the San Diego office and Pacific Southwest Area for KPMG, Down serves as the audit partner for many of San Diego's most prominent public and private companies.