Students in the College of Arts, Media, and Communication and in the College of Business and Economics heard the insights of music executive Dan Carlin, civic and national leader David Fleming, and health care administrator Dale Surowitz.

Dan Carlin, appointed in 2004 as executive director of the Henry Mancini Institute, is co-founder of Segue Music, Hollywood’s largest music post-production business. The current chair emeritus of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Emmy-winner helped design, fund and develop the composer program for the Sundance Institute.

At the Mancini Institute, Carlin helps oversee instructional activities that benefit more than 15,000 elementary, middle and high school students. HMI also provides full scholarships to 85 musicians from around the world for a Summer Program for Emerging Professional Musicians at UCLA.

David Fleming, a familiar figure in local and national affairs, has served government at all levels. Named by Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa as a director of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority in 2005, Fleming is the first vice chair of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce.

In 1997, he joined with then Mayor Richard Riordan as co-chair of a voters’ initiative to reform Los Angeles city government, resulting in a new city charter.

President George W. Bush in 2003 appointed Fleming as a trustee of the James Madison Foundation, to bestow scholarships on high school teachers nationwide.

Dale Surowitz, CEO of the Encino-Tarzana Regional Medical Center, has established quality enhancement programs that have won national recognition for the center’s cardiac surgery, pediatrics, cardiology and other programs.

The recipient of multiple Tenet Healthcare Circle of Excellence Awards, Surowitz has spearheaded the formation of numerous successful programs: the Women’s Cancer Center, liver and kidney surgery programs and an integrative medicine program among them.

The San Fernando Valley Business Journal honored him with its Healthcare Excellence Award in 2005, and he received the Circle of Life Award from the Jewish Home for the Aging that same year.