CAMA Welcomes Three

Financial executive Christine Emmons, bank president Andy Chou, and former corporate leader Carl Perry have been elected to the board of directors for the Community Arts Music Association – CAMA – of Santa Barbara.

Christine, wife of business entrepreneur Robert Emmons, was a financial consultant at Paine Webber, and went on to host the TV program Insider’s Alert and the radio show Wall Street Week in Review.

She is also a former pilot and co-developer and owner of a luxury charter boat business on the East Coast. Christine was also the founding chair of the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art and previously served as chair for the Santa Barbara Chamber Orchestra.

Perry was executive vice president of Hughes Helicopters and directed worldwide operations, including production of the U.S. Army’s Apache attack chopper. He later became executive vice president of Canadair, Canada’s largest aerospace company.

Chou, who was born in Taiwan, serves as president of the Santa Barbara region for Northern Trust. He worked at JP Morgan Chase, specializing in mergers and acquisitions and structured finance.

He has served as a board member for the Music Academy of the West, the Lobero Theatre Foundation, and the Foundation for Lotusland.

Katy at the Perry-mids

Santa Barbara warbler Katy Perry celebrated her 35th birthday in spectacular fashion by flying 64 of her closest friends to Egypt for a lavish desert getaway.

The former Dos Pueblos High student marked the occasion with a fun-filled ten-day cruise down the River Nile, riding camels through the desert, and enjoying the stunning sunset over the pyramids outside Cairo, all of which she captured in a slew of social media snaps.

Katy’s fiancé, English actor Orlando Bloom, 42, also shared several snaps on Instagram, and said his future bride and mother Sonia were sharing their birthdays together.

Hot Tip

Montecito TV talk show host Ellen DeGeneres is getting advice for talent on her Burbank-based show from none other than Meghan Markle.

The Duchess of Sussex, 38, texted Ellen, 61, about a dancing duo from Brussels, Belgium, Jeny Bonsenge and her student Anae, 9, she’d seen on Instagram and they recently appeared on the program.

Ellen visited Meghan, Prince Harry, and baby, Archie, in London in August.

Spa Treatment

It was a case of pores for thought when debonair French entrepreneur Charles Edouard Barthes launched his EviDens de Beaute collection at the Rosewood Miramar’s luxurious Sense spa.

The towering Paris-based magnate described the collection, which boasts triple collagen farmed from salmon in the frigid waters of Hokkaido and a specially created fragrance from Grasse, France’s perfume capital, as “a marriage between two cultures” given his wife, Eriko Nakamura, is a TV broadcaster in Tokyo.

“We came up with the idea for anti-aging products that were sensitive for the skin and worked with a professor in Japan, who was given carte blanche to create the line,” the impeccably dressed Barthes told me.

The products are available exclusively in many Rosewood spas, as well Harrods, the top London department store, and 25 countries internationally.

Sightings: Actor Ed Norton at the Riviera Theatre… News-Press co-publishers Wendy McCaw and Arthur von Wiesenberger perusing the shelves at Costco… Oscar winner Kevin Costner at the Nugget in Summerland

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