A very nice piece recently by Bob Shallit in the Sacramento Bee:

Bob Shallit: A couple of networking executives are moving to Texas

Gillian Parrillo and Pierre Cutler have worked tirelessly to create local job opportunities for tech execs. Now they're leaving the area. The reason: Cutler, a former IBM manager, wasn't able to line up a position for himself here. So he's taken a top job at Rockwell Collins in Dallas.

"It's the same old story. No good jobs in Sacramento," says Parrillo, who used to be a top Sterling Software executive and now is an active investor and mentor.
"I'm sorry to leave Sacramento, but it's a frustrating place," she says, adding she runs into "10 Pierres a week" - talented managers who have moved here from the Bay Area and other business centers but can't get challenging work.

Why aren't more top-level jobs available? "I wish I knew," she says.

The power couple's departure is a huge loss. Parrillo and Cutler are the force behind Sacramento Executive, a popular executive networking group. They're active members in the Sacramento Angels, a group that invests in promising start-ups. Parrillo's on the board of the Sacramento Area Regional Technology Alliance and serves as president of the Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy.

Cutler already has started at the Dallas aviation electronics firm. After she joins him in Texas, Parrillo says she'll continue helping entrepreneurs - "my great joy," she calls it - and possibly write a book about her experiences crashing through glass ceilings. The working title: "Playing with the Big Boys."

But my business partne at Maxson Group, geof lambert, is having none of it.

He writes to Bob Shallit:

I was going to say, "I don't know where people get this mistaken idea that Gillian has died and fallen off the face of the planet and will never be seen in Sacramento again!!?" but I know where they get the idea, they read YOUR COLUMN!! :) Yes, Pierre has a job down there, and and they are going to be spending a lot of time in Dallas, and have bought a home there, and downsizing homes here etc. but still she will be here from time to time...geess. I have a home in New York, which I very rarely visit, but nobody throws me going away parties, and writes about that!

Maxson Group, LLC is still in tact and with the new focus we have placed on new Internet information, things are booming on many fronts...did you see the upcoming cover story for FORTUNE, about the second coming of the Internet boom, which I have been forecasting for a couple years now.

And cc: Gillian, would you please tell Bob, Dallas truly is a godforesaken place to live 24/7, and even with all its faults, Sacramento, and Northern California, in general is a better place to be, and you aren't going to fall off the face of the planet to never be seen in Sacramento again.