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Check out the people in our community who have moved up the ladder in their fields.
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Mary Babbitt was appointed director of student services for St. Gregory College Preparatory School. She has been an administrator at St. Gregory since 2008 and comes to this position with experience in independent schools as assistant to the head of school, director of financial aid, registrar and director of summer programs.
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Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen, PLC, announces that Tanis A. Duncan has merged her Tucson law office and employees into its firm.
Duncan has been an attorney for more than 30 years in the areas of community association and co-op law, real estate, development and contracting, and litigation and is certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a real estate specialist.
Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen has offices in Tempe, Prescott, Tucson and New Mexico.
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Jennifer Port was named school advancement associate for St. Gregory College Preparatory School. She is responsible for supporting the development office and assisting the director of student services.
Port most recently served as development associate at Tucson Hebrew Academy. She also served as executive assistant to the principal at Salpointe Catholic High School and previously was a member of the St. Gregory development team.
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Becky Rebenstorf was named director of development and school advancement for St. Gregory College Preparatory School. She brings more than 20 years’ experience in development, communications and community relations.
She most recently was director of development for the Amerind Museum and Research Center.
She serves on the board of Catholic Community Services Foundation, is an active member of Angel Charity for Children and is chair of the University of Arizona Medical Center Friends Board.
Rebenstorf will strategize funding priorities for the school and secure philanthropic support by focusing on donor acquisition, attentive stewardship and cultivating relationships with donors and alumni.
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The board of directors of the Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair, SciEnTeK-12, has named Elizabeth Baker the fair’s director.
Recently the STEM specialist with the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona, Baker graduated from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with a master’s degree in evolutionary and comparative psychology and received a bachelor’s degree in comparative psychology and ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona.
A three-time winner of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Baker represented the United States as a science delegate to China. Before being named as fair director, she participated in the science fair as a judge and as a SciEnTeK-12 board member.
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Margaret Koppen has been named general counsel of CyraCom International Inc., a Tucson-based company that provides language interpretation and document-translation services.
Koppen was formerly with the local office of Standard Microsystems Corp., a semiconductor company.
She received her law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Arizona State University, and teaches contract drafting part time at the University of Arizona School of Law as an adjunct professor.
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Attorney Patricia Victory Waterkotte has joined the Tucson law firm Rusing Lopez & Lizardi PLLC.
Waterkotte, a native Tucsonan, specializes in complex commercial litigation, product liability, real-estate litigation and financial services. She practiced business litigation at Klinedinst PC and McGuireWoods LLP in Los Angeles for eight years before joining Rusing Lopez & Lizardi.
Waterkotte, who served as a congressional intern and caseworker for Sen. John McCain and in the Pima County Attorney’s Office, received a bachelor’s degree in management information systems, magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona in 2002. She received her law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 2005.
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Psomas named Heidi Lasham as construction-management leader for the Tucson area. Lasham’s background includes a mix of transportation planning, roadway design and construction field experience. She is the past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Arizona Section, a member of Women’s Transportation Seminar and of Tucson Utility Contractors Association, and an engineering mentor to the Sonoran Science Academy for the Future Cities Competition. In 2012, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Southern Arizona branch recognized Lasham with the Young Engineer Award for members under age 35. She received her bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in civil engineering, with a focus on construction and structures.
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Television journalist Lorraine Rivera was named producer and host of PBS 6’s “Arizona Week,” Arizona Public Media’s weekly news and public affairs program. Rivera will start as producer and host of the news and public affairs program this Friday. Rivera has worked in the Yuma and Tucson television markets for the last decade. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona School of Journalism, with minors in English and Mexican-American studies.
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The Tucson Association of Realtors promoted Christine Sanchez to marketing and events coordinator. Sanchez will be responsible for planning and executing TAR events, including the housing market forecast, Expo trade shows and the Installation & Awards ceremony, among others. She began with TAR in 2007 as a part-time customer-service representative and ascended to housing-opportunities coordinator in 2008.
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The University of Arizona College of Science announced that Bob Logan has been promoted to assistant dean for external and corporate relations. He will be central to an impending capital campaign for the college.
Logan, who has been at the UA for 25 years, has been senior director of development in the College of Science for the last 13 years.
He received his MBA from the Eller College of Management and was in sales management for AT&T Computer Systems.
He began his UA career as a football coach under Larry Smith in the mid-1980s. He spent nine years as associate director of athletics under Cedric Dempsey and Jim Livengood.
Logan is a former board member of the Rotary Club of Tucson, a board member for the DM-50 and a member of the Centurions. He is a member of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals and has served on the Salpointe Catholic High School Board of Advisors.
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Philip Williams has joined Zanes Law, a personal injury firm with offices in Tucson and Phoenix, as operations manager, bringing two decades of executive operations experience.
He was previously the first CEO of hydroGEOPHYSICS Inc.; also was at ABM Industries; and held multiple manufacturing roles at irrigation device maker Rain Bird. He also served at sea in the U.S. Navy Nnuclear P power Pprogram.
Williams is a graduate of the University of Arizona, for his master’s of business administration and bachelor of science in mechanical engineering degrees.
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Jonathan Davis has been named director of tennis at The Lodge at Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club.
He is a second-generation tennis professional following his father, who was director of tennis at the Westward Look resort for more than 20 years.
Born and raised in Tucson, Davis attended Eastern Washington University in Spokane. Previously he taught tennis at the Jewish Community Center and Hilton El Conquistador Resort.
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John Basden is the new director of golf instruction at The Lodge at Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club. A graduate of Arizona State University with degrees in fundamental education in psychology and education psychology, he is interested in “the psychological process and biomechanical fundamentals that make some golfers better than others,” The Lodge said in a news release.
He has been at The Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club since 2010.
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Dianne Gallego-Lopez has joined Mutual of Omaha Bank as a senior mortgage loan officer.
Based out of the bank’s location at 2120 W. Ina Road, Gallego-Lopez will offer customers a comprehensive portfolio of residential financing solutions, including conventional loans, refinances, investment property loans, jumbo loans, bridge loans, FHA and VA loans and new-construction loans.
A native of Tucson, Gallego-Lopez has nearly 20 years of financial services experience, most recently serving as a mortgage banker for a mortgage firm in Tucson. She has held various roles in retail banking and wealth management.
Gallego-Lopez has been involved with the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, where she served on the Gala committee, and is a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
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The Farhang & Medcoff law firm announced the promotion of Roscoe Mutz. Mutz relocated to Tucson from Boston and is admitted to practice in both Massachusetts and Arizona.
He is a graduate of Boston College Law School, where he was the Mock Trial Champion in 2008 and a member of the Boston College Mock Trial National team.
At Farhang & Medcoff, he will continue his practice in commercial litigation, employment law, firearms regulation compliance and appeals, and personal injury/products liability.
In addition to his legal practice, Mutz is a producer for a Tucson nonprofit community storytelling event called Odyssey Storytelling and has been a featured monologist for Tucson Improv Movement.
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Timothy Anderson has been named director of sales at the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain.
He joins the resort from positions of director of sales and global sales for Omni Hotels & Resorts, based in Chicago. Prior to relocating to Chicago, he held several senior sales positions with the Omni Tucson National in Tucson.
Anderson has a strong background and track record in Arizona hospitality, the Ritz-Carlton said in a news release. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in business administration from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in Business from the University of Phoenix.
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Dr. Nancy K. Sweitzer will become director of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center and chief of the Division of Cardiology in the UA College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, effective March 1, 2014.
Currently, she is an associate professor of medicine and director of numerous programs at the University of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Medicine Division in Madison. Those programs include clinical research, quality, and the heart failure and cardiac transplant programs (as interim director). She also directs the cardiovascular medicine and heart failure and cardiac transplant fellowship programs there.
Sweitzer is a board-certified advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist and physiologist.
She has a clinical research program focused on the interaction of the dysfunctional heart muscle in heart failure with the vasculature and kidneys to better understand how to improve symptoms and organ function in heart failure patients. She has done extensive work on the physiology of heart failure with preserved systolic function, a disease that disproportionately affects elderly women, UA said in a news release.
Sweitzer has led and collaborated on studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health as well as studies supported by industry and academic sponsors. She also has served on numerous NIH committees and currently is on its Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Science Study Section and the American Heart Association’s Cardiac Biology and Regulation Committee.
She received both her medical degree and doctorate in physiology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1993. Prior to joining the faculty there in 2001, she completed her internship and residency in internal medicine, and fellowships in cardiology, heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she remained as an instructor in medicine from 1999-2001.
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Arizona Public Media has announced that Michael Chihak has been promoted to news director.
Chihak will be responsible for news operations and reporting on AZPM’s television, radio, online and social media platforms. Formerly host of AZPM’s weekly public affairs program “Arizona Week” and director of online news, Chihak will continue as interim host of “Arizona Week” until a full-time host has been selected.
Chihak is a former editor and publisher of the now-closed Tucson Citizen. After leaving the Citizen, he was an independent media relations consultant.
He previously held editorial positions at The Californian in Salinas, Calif.; USA Today and The Associated Press.
Chihak, a seventh-generation Tucsonan, holds a UA bachelor of arts degree in journalism.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Mark Channell as associate director of development.
Channell will assist in major and estate gift development. He comes to AZPM from the University of Arizona Foundation, where he worked as a senior accountant and as a gift-planning officer, working with donors and generating estate gifts.
Before that, he worked as an accountant for Carondelet Healthcare Network and University Physicians Healthcare.
He is a graduate of the UA’s Eller College of Management and licensed as a certified public accountant in Arizona.
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Arizona Public Media has announced that John Booth has been hired as executive producer.
Booth will lead and manage all aspects of planning, production and presentation of original programming for AZPM’s radio and television, as well as online and social network content.
Booth, a Tucson native, graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor of fine arts in radio and television and then spent five years at KUAT (now called Arizona Public Media).
In 1989 he moved to Portland, Ore., where over a 17-year span at Oregon Public Broadcasting he shot and edited for such national PBS programs as “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” “Frontline” and “Nova”; produced and wrote programs including “Sinking the Lusitania,” “Occupied Japan” and episodes of “The Great Lodges of the National Parks” and “Great American Railway Journeys.”
From 2005 to 2009, Booth was executive producer and director of production at Eight, Arizona PBS/Phoenix. His credits include the history series “Arizona Stories,” “Arizona Memories of the Seventies,” “Under Arizona” and “Arizona Lodges.” Most recently, he was deputy director of content at KCTS 9 in Seattle.
Booth has received awards including Tellys, CINEs, a Chicago International Film Silver Hugo Award and several regional Emmys.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Julie Ben-Yeoshua as program coordinator for development and underwriting.
Ben-Yeoshua’s career in the public sector includes experience with the UA College of Medicine, the city of Tucson, and educational institutions in Southern California. She graduated from Northern Arizona University with a BSIS in public management.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Amanda Le Claire as underwriting reporter.
Le Claire comes to AZPM after working in Detroit at WDET-FM, where she launched a daily talk show and worked as a producer, morning edition host and reporter.
She also worked at Team Detroit, a global ad agency, where she produced a series of short documentaries that showcased the city’s cultural life. She has produced and art-directed independent music videos featured by Vice and MTV, and blogged for the Huffington Post.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Andrew Brown as videographer.
Brown graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University in 2004. He spent six years covering Southern Arizona as a videographer at KOLD News 13. Brown has been nominated and won awards for his work, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards for videography.
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Chuck Williams has joined Stantec as a senior project manager in its Tucson water practice.
Williams brings more than 25 years of experience in managing public-works projects for local government agencies.
He operated an independent consulting firm responsible for water-planning services for projects across the Southwest. He remapped the flood plains for Southern Arizona’s Santa Cruz County and carried out a management study of the Lee Moore Wash Basin for the Pima County Regional Flood Control District, in partnership with Tucson and Sahuarita.
Williams is a past president of the Arizona Floodplain Management Association and the Arizona Association of County Engineers. He also held a 20-year tenure as a member of the Arizona Department of Water Resources State Standards Work Group for Floodplain Management.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Arizona.
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Melissa Ramos has returned to BrakeMax Car Care Centers and Max Auto Glass as business development coordinator.
Ramos is experienced in management and sales and previously started her own business, the company said in a news release.
She will coordinate community and business events and help to enact marketing and account management strategies.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Sandra Riggins as underwriting consultant.
Riggins was an advertising manager with the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen newspapers for 17 years. Her advertising sales and marketing experience also includes management positions with the Miami Herald, Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Marin Independent Journal.
She is a recipient of the Charles Horne Lifetime Achievement Award for advertising, the Vic Mergard Lifetime Achievement Award with the Hearth Foundation for Homeless Women With Children, and the Tucson Indian Center’s Service and Dedication Award.
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Donald Cox is now an insurance adviser in Tucson for the Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group.
He holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
Cox has worked in education for many years, Farmers said in a news release.
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David Hatfield has been named senior director of business development and marketing for the Tucson Airport Authority, which operates Tucson International Airport and Ryan Airfield.
Hatfield will oversee airline and nonairline business development efforts for TAA, including marketing and advertising to consumers and business partners of airport services and commercial and industrial properties on airport land. He will also be responsible for community and media relations.
Hatfield spent many years in Tucson media, most recently as editor of Inside Tucson Business since 2004. Previously, he held positions with KVOA-TV 4, KOLD-TV 13 and the Arizona Daily Star.
Outside of the media, Hatfield served two terms on the Catalina Foothills School District school board.
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Carondelet Health Network announces that a longtime St. Mary’s Hospital surgeon has joined Carondelet Specialist Group.
Dr. Gerlinde S. Tynan is a board-certified general surgeon specializing in surgical disease of the breast. She is medical director of The Breast Center at Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital and the Breast Health Program at Carondelet Health Network.
Tynan graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed her surgical residency at the University of Arizona. She is a fellow in the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.
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Carondelet Health Network announces that a longtime St. Mary’s Hospital surgeon has joined Carondelet Specialist Group.
Dr. Brian Levine is a board-certified general surgeon who focuses on general and advanced laparoscopic surgery.
Before he joined Carondelet Specialist Group, Levine was a credentialed physician with Carondelet Health Network, and he saw the majority of his patients at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Levine earned his medical degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and completed his residency in general surgery at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
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The Planning Center has hired a new planner: Steve Hagedorn.
Former planning and zoning director for the town of Oro Valley, Hagedorn brings more than 30 years of project management experience as an urban planner and registered landscape architect to the firm.
Hagedorn has served as project manager, planner, and senior landscape architect on numerous site design, landscape and irrigation design projects, as well as on parks, recreation and trails master-planning projects. He spent 11 years with Oro Valley.
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The Planning Center has hired a new planner: Brian Underwood.
Underwood brings expertise as a planner, researcher and geographic information systems specialist to The Planning Center.
He specializes in land-use plan preparation and entitlement processing. Underwood has participated in local planning projects including completion of a historic preservation plan for the Warehouse Arts District north of downtown Tucson, The Planning Center said in a news release.
He holds a master of science in planning from the University of Arizona and received the American Planning Association’s Outstanding Student Award in 2012.
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The Planning Center has hired a new planner: Hillary Turby.
Turby joins The Planning Center as a land-use planner, researcher and policy analyst.
She is a former senior planner for the town of Oro Valley, where she managed planning cases, led neighborhood meetings and made presentations.
Turby holds a bachelor of arts degree in government and environmental science from Connecticut College, and a master of science in planning from the University of Arizona.
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Stephanie Black has joined Home Instead Senior Care as director of sales and marketing.
Black brings an extensive background in sales to Home Instead, having worked in pharmaceutical sales as well as senior living and, most recently, home health.
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Evie Stamps has been promoted to director of client care for Home Instead Senior Care, from her previous position as client care manager. Stamps has been with Home Instead for more than four years, also working as a caregiver and staffing coordinator.
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Peter Greenawalt has joined Home Instead Senior Care as director of operations.
Greenawalt’s background consists of operations, management and accounting in senior living the past 12 years. Before that, he co-owned and operated a medical billing and consulting company and a medical equipment retailer, Home Instead said in a news release.
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Robin E. Barnes, registered landman and certified paralegal, has joined the Tucson office of Quarles & Brady LLC.
Barnes works in the areas of public land and mining law; natural resources, water rights and environmental law; and real estate, corporate, tax and general transactional law.
Barnes received a bachelor’s of science degree in range management from the University of Arizona, and an A.A.S. degree as a paralegal from Pima Community College. She also received a petroleum land management certificate from the University of Houston.
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Christopher M. Pastore has relocated to the Tucson office of Ogletree Deakins from its Las Vegas office.
Pastore focuses his law practice on labor and employment related issues, including unlawful discrimination, wrongful termination, Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and state and federal wage and hour laws and regulations.
Pastore earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona, Ogletree Deakins said in a news release.
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Tech Parks Arizona announces that Anita Bell has been named acting director of the Arizona Center for Innovation, a business incubator located at the University of Arizona Tech Park.
Her responsibilities include directing daily operations, managing client services and programs, and recruiting new clients. Bell has managed client services for AzCI since its inception in 2003.
Bell succeeds Joann MacMaster, who was recently appointed associate for venture development with Tech Launch Arizona.
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Dr. Christian J. Moher has joined Tucson-based Sinfonia as its chief medical officer.
Moher is a board certified family physician and a graduate of the University of Arizona Medical School. He has most recently been a medical director for CVS Minute Clinics and the team physician for the Tucson Padres, Sinfonia said in a news release. He is also an assistant professor at the UA College of Medicine.
In addition to his corporate duties, Moher will supervise the medical component of the new Assurance Hospice, under Assurance Healthcare, a Sinfonia division.
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Kevin Futch has been named chief operating officer of Good Ole Tom’s. He oversees the management of its six stores: three in Tucson, two in Connecticut and an affiliate in Florida.
Also, Good Ole Tom’s has moved its headquarters from Connecticut to Arizona.
After serving in the Navy on active duty during the Gulf War, Futch held leadership positions with Fortune 500 companies including ABB, Weyerhaeuser and Domtar, Good Ole Tom’s said in a news release.
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Lisa McDaniel has joined the Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group in Tucson.
McDaniel holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
She has worked in the realty industry for many years and has a strong background in marketing and sales, Farmers said in a news release.
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Claire Larmonier is a new faculty member at the University of Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center and Department of Pediatrics. She is an assistant professor in gastroenterology.
Larmonier received her doctorate in immunobiology from the University of Arizona.
She earned an engineer diploma in life science with honors (master’s equivalent), from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris, France.
As a scientist with the Steele center, Larmonier’s research focuses on new treatments for colitis and inflammatory bowel disease.
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Farhang & Medcoff announces the promotion of Kacie Dillon to partner.
Dillon represents Arizona individuals and businesses in tax controversy disputes with the IRS, Arizona Department of Revenue and other local taxing authorities.
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Farhang & Medcoff announces the promotion of Traci Smith to partner.
Smith focuses her practice in the areas of estate planning, probate and trust administration.
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Elizabeth Zelinka has joined Farhang & Medcoff in its Tucson office.
Following a career with the Washington, D.C., office of a Wall Street firm, Zelinka relocated to Tucson where she was the corporate counsel for a national talent management firm, Farhang & Medcoff said in a news release.
She is experienced in corporate transactional law, finance, restructurings and workouts, real estate, environmental risk management, licensing and other contractual arrangements.
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Julie Kennedy Oehlert, RN, has joined the University of Arizona Medical Center in the new position of vice president of patient experience, where she will “serve as the patients’ voice.”
She will oversee key hospital departments that impact the patient experience — Food Services, Environmental Services, Security, Transportation, Volunteer Services and Pastoral Care at both UAMC – University Campus and UAMC – South Campus.
Kennedy Oehlert, who comes to Tucson from Wisconsin, has extensive experience in emergency/trauma nursing, forensic nursing and as a nurse leader.
She is seeking a doctorate in nursing practice in health care innovation and leadership from the University of Minnesota. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Carroll Columbia College of Nursing in Milwaukee in 1987.
Before joining UAMC, she was a leadership coach and national speaker with the Studer Group, a health-care consulting organization that works to improve the patient experience. She has written and presented widely on such topics, UAMC said in a news release.
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DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy announces the addition of associate Shijie Feng to the firm’s Tucson office.
Feng, a native of Shanghai, China, earned her B.A. in ethics, politics and economics from Yale University.
In law school at the University of Arizona, she participated on the National Appellate Advocacy Moot Court team and served as the articles editor for the Arizona Law Review.
Feng is a Judge Thomas Tang Writing Competition winner and also received the Richard Roberts Memorial Scholarship while at UA. Her note, “Madness and Mayhem: Reforming the Mental Health Care System in Arizona,” was published in 2012.
She worked as a judicial clerk for Judge Patricia K. Norris at the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One before joining the DeConcini firm.
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The adjutant general of the Arizona National Guard announced a new leader for the 162nd Fighter Wing at Tucson International Airport.
Col. Howard “Philip” Purcell will serve as commander of the Arizona Air National Guard’s international F-16 Fighting Falcon training wing.
Purcell is currently the vice wing commander of the 192nd Fighter Wing, Virginia Air National Guard.
He is a veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom with 26 years of service and more than 3,000 flying hours in the F-16 and F-22 Raptor.
Purcell will be the wing’s 12th commanding officer since its inauguration in 1956 and will replace Brig. Gen. Michael “Mick” McGuire, who departed the wing Sept. 7 to assume duties as adjutant general.
Details of Purcell’s assumption of command will be announced when available, the Guard said.
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Noël Kurtz was named home-show director for the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association.
She will oversee the organization’s twice-yearly home shows, which attract hundreds of exhibitors showcasing the latest in home improvement, gardening and outdoor living, SAHBA said in a news release.
Kurtz was most recently with Meritage Homes as an administrative services manager. Before that she was with Pulte Homes, where she was a lifestyle director for Del Webb, HR generalist and new-home specialist.
Kurtz is a University of Arizona graduate and worked for the UA coordinating new-student orientations and recruitment events for six years, SAHBA’s news release said. Additionally, she co-chaired several major fundraising events for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Oshkosh, Wis., and Columbus, Ohio.
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Bruce Weigold is the new executive director of Community Extension Programs.
Weigold is a retired principal from Amphitheater Public Schools. He received his bachelor of science and master of education degrees from the University of Arizona.
Community Extension Programs has provided family resources since 1970, including before- and after-school programs for elementary children, preschool early-learning centers and summer programs.
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Jennifer L. Pappalardo, DPM, joined the University of Arizona department of surgery division of vascular and endovascular surgery as assistant professor.
She also is a member of the UA Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance team, where she recently completed a fellowship.
A diabetes foot-care specialist, Pappalardo focuses on education and conservative treatment options, with elective surgeries if needed.
She completed her medical studies at Rosalind Franklin University and a residency in podiatric surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center, both in Chicago.
Pappalardo has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests include bioengineered tissue alternatives in treatment of diabetes-related lower-extremity complications.
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Caridad Community Kitchen, a branch of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, named Kristen Culliney as life skills instructor/program manager.
Culliney will be responsible for the non-culinary student activity and classroom curriculum for a 10-week job training program.
As program manager, she will oversee the on-site meal and training programs.
Culliney has served as chief operating officer of the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona and assistant director of undergraduate programs at the University of Arizona, Eller College of Management, the food bank said in a news release.
She earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Arizona with a major in agriculture and resource economics.
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Tom Yunt was named president and chief executive officer of Sierra Vista-based Wick Communications Co.
The company publishes 28 newspapers and 18 specialty publications in 12 states.
Its Southern Arizona papers include The Daily Territorial, Inside Tucson Business, the Tucson Weekly, the Green Valley News & Sun, the Sahuarita Sun, the Sierra Vista Herald, the Arizona Range News, the Bisbee Review and the Nogales International.
Yunt was most recently president and CEO of Woodward Communications Inc., a multimedia company with media and marketing services businesses in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Yunt, who is scheduled to start work Monday, replaces John M. Mathew, Wick’s president and CEO since 2001. Company officials say Yunt and Mathew, who resigned in May, will work together through a transition period, The Associated Press reported.
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Meghan Darlinton joined Long Realty’s Golder Ranch office.
Darlinton, who has relocated to Tucson from Phoenix, obtained her Realtor’s license in 2009, and a short sales and foreclosure resource (SFR) designation in 2010.
She focuses on the active adult and resort communities in the northwest Tucson area.
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David Wolsky was named vice president of mortgage lending at Guaranteed Rate.
Wolsky, a licensed mortgage originator with more than 19 years of experience, is the company’s first representative in Tucson, he said in a news release.
He is also the president of Tucson Sunrise Rotary.
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Denis Smirnov, CFP, has joined Gordian Advisors LLC as a financial planner.
Smirnov has more than 11 years of experience in investments and financial planning.
He holds a BBA degree from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Smirnov worked for six years on Wall Street, most recently in the Equity Strategy group at institutional research firm Sanford Bernstein.
He then spent four years as a financial adviser with Raymond James in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he received a Certified Financial Planner designation. Smirnov also spent 18 months as a proprietary trader.
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Marco Mercaldo
Marco Mercaldo joined the Mercaldo Law Firm. Before relocating to Tucson, Mercaldo practiced in San Diego, where he was rated a top attorney in San Diego magazine, the law firm said in a news release.
He has been Martindale Hubbell AV rated since 2009 and is listed in SuperLawyers magazine, the news release said.
Mercaldo has a B.A. from the University of Arizona and a law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.
He was an associate/partner at Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Ryan and a partner at Ryan Mercaldo LLP.
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Tari Auletta
Tucson Realty & Trust Co. announced the affiliation of Tari Auletta to the firm.
Auletta brings more than 25 years of experience in the local commercial real estate industry.
Before joining Tucson Realty & Trust Co., she served as vice president at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Tucson office, focusing on office and medical properties. She was previously president of Synergy Commercial Real Estate Inc.
For several years, Auletta has been a CoStar Power Broker in the Tucson Office Market, as well as the winner of the 2010 CCIM Forecast Competition for the Tucson Office Market, Tucson Realty said in a news release.
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Susan Goodman
Susan Goodman joined Mesch, Clark & Rothschild, P.C. Goodman specializes in regulatory and business aspects of health-care law and litigation. Her legal expertise is augmented by over 25 years in hospital operations, medical device sales and bedside nursing, the law firm said in a news release.
Goodman received her juris doctorate from the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, where she graduated with distinction, including Summa Cum Laude and Order of the Coif. In addition, she holds a bachelor of science from the University of Phoenix in business administration and an RN diploma from Bronson Hospital School of Nursing.
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Eric M. Schroeder
Fidelity National Title, a Fortune 500 firm, promoted Eric M. Schroeder to escrow branch operations manager for Pima and Cochise County operations.
Schroeder is responsible for the management of the company’s escrow branch locations and its personnel.
He has 15 years of experience within the escrow and title insurance industry and has worked for Fidelity National Title since April 2010.
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John Rinella was named general manager of the DoubleTree Hotel Tucson at Reid Park, a position he also held from 1997 to 2001.
For the past 10 years he has held general manager positions at hotels in Idaho, Texas and Arizona.
Rinella will oversee a staff of more than 200 and annual revenue of more than $10 million.
Rinella started his career as director of rooms at the Sheraton Colorado Springs and later became director of operations at DoubleTree Guest Suites in Columbus, Ohio, and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and general manager of a DoubleTree complex in Orlando, Fla.
Between his Tucson stints, he was general manager of the DoubleTree Boise Riverside, the DoubleTree Hotel El Paso Downtown, and the Nautical Beachfront Resort in Lake Havasu City.
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Kim Challender was named membership services coordinator for the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association. She will oversee member relations and community outreach.
Challender most recently served as marketing director for Organic PR. Before that she was with Masco Cos., where she managed teams recognized for customer service and subcontractor excellence, SAHBA said in a news release.
She has been an active member of SAHBA and served on the Green Builders and Remodelers committee.
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Robin Morales, a music teacher and new hire at Green Field Country Day School, has more than 15 years of experience teaching music performance in Southern Arizona schools, directing both instrumental and choral programs. She earned a doctoral degree in vocal performance from the University of Arizona. She’s also a voice coach, vocalist, conductor and author of “A Performer’s Guide to the American Musical Theater Songs of Kurt Weill,” published in 2008.
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Mike Holmes was named acting director of Arizona Forward’s Southern Regional Council.
Arizona Forward is a business-based environmental public interest organization that advocates for sustainable growth.
Holmes was formerly the executive director for Imagine Greater Tucson, which is a founding member of Arizona Forward.
Holmes’ background includes 15 years of executive management experience in new business development and operations. He also has expertise in strategic planning and communication, marketing analysis and project management, Arizona Forward said in a news release.
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Laura J. Liewen, a new hire of R&A CPAs, is a CPA, tax manager. With 15 years of public accounting experience, she specializes in income tax return preparation, compliance and research for individuals and businesses. Liewen also has experience with compiled and reviewed financial statements.
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Meaghan M. Marshall, an academic coach and new hire at Green Fields Country Day School, previously taught at Laguna Elementary in the Flowing Wells School District and worked summers at the Tucson Children’s Museum. She has a master’s degree in special education from the University of Arizona and a bachelor’s degree from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. She’s a behavioral support specialist trained in the Bal-A-Vis-X program, a new program at Green Fields that uses rhythmic exercises to improve students’ concentration and academic performance, the school said in a news release.
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Bethany Goldberg, a new hire by R&A CPAs, is a CPA, client services manager. She holds CPA licenses in Arizona, Texas, and California and has expertise in financial statement audits and accounting services, with a focus on not-for-profit organizations and employee benefits plans.
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Anthony Joseph Hagmann, a history teacher and new hire at Green Fields Country Day School, is a graduate of Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in American history. He taught history for three years at the American School of Tangier in Morocco. He’s also taught at two public charter schools, Desert Marigold High School in Phoenix and Great Hearts Academies / Mesa Preparatory Academy in Mesa.
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Kaleigh Hotchkiss, a new hire by R&A CPAs, is a CPA, senior audit associate. She has public accounting experience in audit and assurance services. Hotchkiss will be responsible for planning and executing financial statement audits, federal and state compliance audits, and preparation of financial statements.
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Ron Zimmerman joined Cushman &Wakefield | Picor brokerage group.
Zimmerman is a 30-year Tucson commercial real estate veteran, most recently with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.
He has managed the disposition of hundreds of industrial, retail and office properties in Southern Arizona. He has worked with various districts of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to liquidate commercial real estate properties.
Zimmerman continues to represent financial institutions in the disposition of commercial properties, investors searching for income properties, and represents numerous landlords and sellers of Tucson commercial real estate.
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Alice Vivaldo, a new hire by R&A CPAs, is a CPA, tax associate. She has seven years of experience in the public accounting field, specializing in tax preparation of C-Corp, S-Corp, partnership, trust and individual returns. Vivaldo’s special focus will be in international taxation.
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Jessica Raizk, a new hire by R&A CPAs, is a senior audit associate. She specializes in for-profit and not-for-profit financial statement audits, employee benefit plan audits, overhead rate audits, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
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LawLytics’ new director of attorney strategy Jared Jorde, was in the 2013 graduating class at the UA College of Law.
Jorde clerked for a U.S. District Court judge in New Mexico and won the Richard Grand Legal Writing Competition in 2011.
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Dr. David G. Armstrong, director of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance, has been named a 2013 Raine Visiting Professor by the University of Western Australia.
The award is given to top international scholars to participate in collaborative seminars, keynotes, research and workshops. Armstrong is the first podiatric surgeon to receive the award.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Luis Alvarado as an advisor in Tucson.
He holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses, has extensive experience in the insurance industry and a strong background in marketing and sales, Farmers said in a news release.
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Kit Cramer, (University of Arizona BA 1985, Juris Doctorate 1989) becomes director of marketing at local tech start-up, LawLytics.com after a 20-year career in advertising as a copywriter and creative director in Chicago, San Francisco and on Madison Avenue.
He has won numerous creative awards, including a Clio for a radio spot he wrote and co-produced for Coca-Cola. Cramer’s work has been featured in Leurzer’s Archive of Worldwide Ads, Communication Arts Advertising Annual and on the Super Bowl.
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LawLytics’ new director of education Brian Tedder was in the 2013 graduating class at the UA College of Law.
Tedder worked as a professional photojournalist before law school, and while at the UA clerked for a judge at the Arizona Court of Appeals.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Ruben Mada as an advisor in Tucson.
He holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses, has extensive experience in the insurance industry and a strong background in marketing and sales, Farmers said in a news release.
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Dr. Paul Gordon has been selected to serve as co-chair of the Test Materials Development Committee for the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills Exam.
Gordon is the director of the doctor and patient block and professor of family and community medicine at the UA College of Medicine.
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Dr. Daniel Roe has been named director of medical affairs for Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee.
Roe, a five-year employee of the hospital, is also working on his MBA.
Roe was instrumental in creating the hospital’s tele-medicine programs, which allow patients to receive care that otherwise would not be available in rural Bisbee and surrounding communities.
In addition to his new role, Roe will continue as medical director of the Emergency Department.
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Dr. Ryan C. Teeple has joined Southern Arizona Ophthalmology, 5635 E. Grant Road, as a new partner.
He joins his father-in-law, Dr. Harry Schlosser, who has been in solo practice since founding the business in 1984.
Teeple grew up in Tucson and studied at the University of Arizona for both his undergraduate and medical degrees. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and spent most of his time at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
Teeple specializes in cataract surgery, the treatment of glaucoma and diabetes-related eye problems.
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Dr. Lesta Whalen has joined the University of Arizona faculty as assistant professor, section of critical care.
As a pediatric intensivist, Whalen will care for critically ill children in the pediatric intensive care units at the University of Arizona Medical Center- Diamond Children’s and Tucson Medical Center.
Whalen earned her medical degree from Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota. She went on to complete her residency in pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
She focuses on improving quality of patient care and communication in pediatrics and pediatric critical care. She has specific interests in the care of pediatric patients with cardiac defects.
Whalen is board-certified in pediatrics and board-eligible in pediatric critical care.
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Dr. Mridula Aggarwal has joined the University of Arizona faculty as clinical assistant professor, section of hospital medicine.
As a pediatric hospitalist, Aggarwal will care for hospitalized children at the University of Arizona Medical Center- Diamond Children’s and Tucson Medical Center.
She completed medical school at the Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine and a residency in pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
Before joining the UA, Aggarwal worked at El Rio Health Center, St. Mary’s Hospital and Tucson Medical Center in internal medicine and pediatrics. She is board certified in pediatrics and internal medicine.
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Trey Wesson was promoted to senior account manager at Anchor Wave Internet Solutions, LLC.
Wesson started with Anchor Wave in 2012 as an online marketing consultant. He is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert.
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Dr. Jeffrey Rein has joined the University of Arizona faculty as clinical assistant professor, sction of hospital medicine.
As a pediatric hospitalist, Rein will care for hospitalized children at the University of Arizona Medical Center- Diamond Children’s and Tucson Medical Center.
Rein earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his residency in pediatrics from Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York).
Before joining the UA, he worked at El Rio Health Center, St. Mary’s Hospital and Tucson Medical Center. He is board certified in pediatrics and internal medicine.
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Dr. Andrea Hobson has joined the University of Arizona faculty as clinical assistant professor, section of neonatology.
As a neonatologist, Hobson will care for critically ill newborns and premature babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University of Arizona Medical Center-Diamond Children’s and Northwest Hospital.
Hobson earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed her residency in pediatrics at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson. She went on to complete a fellowship in neonatology at the University of Florida.
She has research interests in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and therapeutic hypothermia, and is board certified in pediatrics.
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Dr. Michele Ley, assistant professor in the UA Department of Surgery, has been appointed director of the Breast Surgery Program at the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
Ley will direct breast surgical services and oversee the development of collaborative breast surgical research and educational initiatives.
She will focus the program’s efforts on:
• Increasing patient participation in clinical trials and introducing new investigator-initiated clinical trials.
• Educating the community at large about breast cancer and treatment options.
• Improving clinical operations for the breast surgeons and the breast health team.
• Providing training for medical students and residents in medicine, radiology, surgery, radiation oncology, pathology and gynecology.
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John Kintz is managing director of the project finance group for Solon Corp., responsible for commercial and utility-scale solar project financings.
Before joining Solon, Kintz was a director of project finance at SunPower Corp.; and vice president of portfolio trading and acquisitions at Bank of America.
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Jeff Calabro is senior director of procurement and acquisitions for Solon Corp.
Calabro previously was senior director of procurement and asset management at PsomasFMG. He has more than 14 years of experience in the photovoltaic industry, having worked for Kyocera Solar, Canadian Solar, SunEdison and Amonix.
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Katherine “Missy” Bowden has joined the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona as chief financial officer.
She is responsible for managing the financial operations of CFSA, which includes planning and strategic development, overseeing systems for reporting program and financial activities, and safeguarding assets.
Bowden brings 25 years of experience in bank accounting and financial reporting to the position. For the past 17 years she has been chief financial officer of the Bank of Tucson.
She has been a board member of La Paloma Family Services for 11 years, serving in roles including secretary, vice chair and finance committee member. She has also served on the boards of the Arizona Center for the Study of Children and Families and Kids-Aid.
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Jed N. Lightcap CPA has joined Regier Carr & Monroe, LLP as a tax manager.
His responsibilities include review and preparation of complex income tax returns, tax and general accounting compliance and planning, and training and supervision of staff.
Lightcap has more than 12 years of accounting experience, in the public and private sectors. He earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from The University of Missouri.
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Alexandra ‘Allie’ O’Brien has joined the University of Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center as development coordinator.
O’Brien will support the center’s director of development on fundraising and development activities. She will also serve as a liaison and representative to volunteer groups and donors who support the Steele Center; and she will assist with its expansion to Phoenix.
O’Brien recently graduated from the UA Eller College of Management with a bachelor of science degree in business management with an emphasis in global studies.
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Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort has named Jennifer Brack as marketing manager of the AAA Four Diamond Award resort.
Brack was most recently the marketing manager at The Westin La Cantera Hill Country Resort in San Antonio. She also held a previous position with Tapatio Springs Resort & Conference Center.
Brack will manage and oversee all resort collateral, as well as digital and print marketing for the resort, conference center, tennis and golf facilities, and the country club.
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Local association management company Cadden Community Management announced that Mike Polletta has joined the Tucson office as director of sales and marketing.
Cadden “is responsible for maintaining and increasing property values of homes in approximately 200 communities in Tucson, Green Valley and Sierra Vista,” the company said in a news release.
Polletta has lived in Tucson since 1996. His background is in graphic design, print production and sales.
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Matt Brode: Matt Brode was named chief meteorologist for KVOA-TV/News 4 Tucson (NBC).
Brode has been working as consulting chief meteorologist at KVOA since rejoining the station in May, coming from the CBS affiliate in Portland, Ore.
He began his broadcast career at the CBS affiliate in Duluth, Minn., then joined the ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla.
He previously worked at KVOA as a morning and midday meteorologist from 2006-2010.
Brode holds dual degrees from the University of Arizona: a bachelor of arts in communications and a bachelor of science in atmospheric sciences.
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Tracy Goggin: Tracy Goggin was appointed assistant administrator of clinical operations, pediatrics, at the University of Arizona Health Network. Goggin will oversee the pediatric service line revenue cycle to include non-payor contract negotiations and management, as well as work closely with health network’s corporate leadership on global corporate projects, the UA said in a news release.
Goggin has worked with the University of Arizona Department of Pediatrics since 1995.
She started as reimbursement coordinator and for 14 years served as operations, reimbursement and coding manager, providing oversight of all clinical operations and revenue cycle activities for the department
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Bill VandenBerg: Bill VandenBerg joined Lang Wyatt Construction as director of development.
He will represent the company in developing and nurturing client relationships through customer service.
VandenBerg brings more than 40 years of commercial construction and management experience. Proficient in business development and project management, he is also a LEED accredited professional as well as ASHE and MSHA certified, the company said.
He previously owned a general contracting firm in Michigan and was a licensed builder in multiple states as well as a real estate broker.
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Ray P. Montoya: Ray P. Montoya, PE, has joined Engineering and Environmental Consultants Inc. as director of water and wastewater services in Arizona.
Montoya has more than 15 years of experience in project management, planning design, and construction services for water and wastewater projects and was previously with Kennedy/Jenks Consultants.
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Julie A. Sherrill has been named head of St. Gregory College Preparatory School. She replaced Rick Belding, who retired in June.
Sherrill formerly served as principal at Sunrise Drive Elementary School in the Catalina Foothills School District, a post she held since 2003.
Sherrill began her career as a high school teacher in California and Ohio after receiving a bachelor's degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. She earned a master's degree in education administration and a Ph.D. in professional development of teachers from Ohio State University.
Sherrill served as an administrator at Ohio State before going on to serve as a high school assistant principal and a middle school principal in Ohio.
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The Board of Directors of Tucson-based UNS Energy Corp. (NYSE: UNS) has named President David G. Hutchens as the company's chief operating officer.
The new, second title reflects Hutchens' direct oversight of the business operations of UNS Energy and its subsidiaries, including Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and UniSource Energy Services (UES), the company said in a news release.
Hutchens served five years as a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy and worked as an engineer before joining TEP as an energy analyst in July 1995. He later held management positions overseeing wholesale energy sales and, in January 2007, was named vice president of wholesale energy and UNS Gas, an operating subsidiary of UES. He became vice president of energy efficiency and resource planning in May 2009 and rose to executive vice president in March 2011 before being named president in December 2012.
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Lisa Lovallo, Southern Arizona market vice president for Cox Communications, has been named the 2013-2014 United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona campaign chairwoman.
Lovallo grew up in Tucson and is a graduate of the University of Arizona. In 2008, Lovallo was named vice president and system manager for Cox in Southern Arizona.
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Go Web Solutions has hired Jameel Bokhari as web design project manager.
Bokhari will be responsible for Web design, graphic design and project coordination, focusing mainly on Wordpress website development. He previously worked at Adam D Technologies, and he also owned his own business.
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Anne E. Cress, professor of cellular and molecular medicine and radiation oncology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, has been named interim director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
Cress, who also is deputy dean for research affairs at the UA College of Medicine-Tucson, succeeds Dr. David S. Alberts, who served as cancer center director for more than eight years until his recent retirement. Alberts remains at the UA Cancer Center to conduct research.
Cress was named a research associate in 1980 and became a research assistant professor in 1981, both in the UA's Division of Radiation Oncology. She was named an associate professor in 1990 and attained full tenured professorship in 1996. She has been a Cancer Center member since 1987.
Cress also served as the College of Medicine's associate dean for research and academic affairs for six years.
Her research, which has been supported by federal and American Cancer Society grants since 1981, is focused on stopping tumor cells and preventing them from spreading throughout the body.
Cress received her bachelor of science in microbiology/chemistry and a doctorate in biochemistry/molecular biology from the UA.
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Go Web Solutions has hired Stacey Harding as marketing and sales specialist.
Harding is responsible for selling products and services, as well as managing the social media and internet marketing. She formerly was a sales executive for the Arizona Daily Star and has more than 20 years of marketing and advertising experience.
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Paul Cicala has been named sports director for KVOA-TV/News 4 Tucson (NBC), starting Aug. 19. Cicala joins KVOA from KVIA-TV (ABC) in El Paso, Texas. Cicala had previously worked in Tucson for KVOA and for KOLD-TV.
Prior to working in El Paso and Tucson, Cicala also worked for Fox Network Sports in Hollywood, NBC Network News in Burbank, Calif., and ABC affiliates in Palm Springs, Calif., and Las Vegas.
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The Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa has named Glenn Sampert general manager.
Sampert previously served as the general manager of the Sheraton Nassau Beach Resort and Casino, a 694-room property in Nassau, Bahamas.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, he has been a member of the Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide team since 1998, including roles at the Westin Los Angeles Airport, The Westin Maui Resort and Spa, and the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel in Ontario, Canada, after beginning his career at the Sutton Place Hotel in Vancouver.
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Alan Fischer: Arizona Public Media announced the addition of Alan Fischer as a host of “AZ Illustrated Science,” a news magazine that airs Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. on PBS Channel 6.
Fischer will join host Jane Poynter to share hosting duties.
Fischer is public information officer at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute.
He formerly worked as a reporter at the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen, and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Arizona.
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Aleksey Gromochenko: Aleksey Gromochenko joined Goebel Interiors, specializing in computer design/drafting.
He brings with him years of technical experience in both fields, Goebel said in a news release.
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Enrique Aldana: At Arizona Public Media (AZPM), Enrique Aldana has been promoted to director of development, where he will solicit donors to secure philanthropic gifts.
Aldana joined AZPM as associate director of development in June 2012.
Previously, he worked for Tucson Newspapers, Inc. as advertising sales manager since 2004.
Before that, he as an executive with Xerox Corp., an account executive with Lincare, a customer support specialist for IBM and an HR specialist for Tascor.
Aldana is a graduate of the UA’s Eller College of Management.
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Brandon Cathey: Loews Ventana Canyon has named Brandon Cathey to head its Flying V Bar & Grill as the chef de cuisine.
“While the restaurant’s focus on sourcing from local and regional farmers, and popular menu items like the restaurant’s tableside guacamole, barbeque ribs and chili relleno will continue on in the Flying V tradition, Cathey plans to add his own twist by returning to the Flying V’s old ranch style of cuisine with Sonoran desert influence,” Ventana Canyon said in a news release.
Cathey, who has served as the restaurant’s sous chef since June 2012, brings nearly eight years of culinary experience. He has been sous chef and pastry chef at Maynards Market and Kitchen and chef de cuisine at Hacienda del Sol, among other positions.
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Judy Kaiser: Judy Kaiser “returned to her passion, closing escrows” at Fidelity National Title, the company said in a news release.
Kaiser has been in the real estate industry for 32 years, including 28 years with Fidelity National Title, most recently as escrow manager.
She is a member of Commercial Real Estate Women’s Association and Metropolitan Pima Alliance, and is a Certified Commercial Investment member.
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Dave Barber: Regier Carr & Monroe LLP announced the appointment of Dave Barber, CPA/CFE, as partner-in-charge of the Tucson office.
Barber has been with the accounting firm more than 11 years, becoming a partner in 2005.
As a certified fraud examiner, Barber assists clients in strengthening their internal controls and provides consulting and litigation support, the company said in a news release.
Barber, a graduate of the University of Illinois-Springfield, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the AICPA Employee Benefit Audit Quality Center, Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Healthcare Financial Managers Association.
He is active in the Tucson Sunrise Rotary Club, Caballeros del Sol and Catalina Council of Boy Scouts.
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Dave Niichel: Dave Niichel has joined TCI Wealth Advisors Inc. as a financial adviser.
Niichel is responsible for all aspects of managing client finances, including researching, analyzing and preparing financial plans.
He received his bachelor of arts in finance from Washington State University.
Niichel has an extensive background in medical and pharmaceutical sales and marketing, the firm said in a news release. He has supported local charities including Child and Family Resources, San Miguel High School and Youth on Their Own
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Anthony Crespo: Anthony Crespo is the new director of the Diocese of Tucson Catholic Cemeteries Inc.
He replaces James DeCastro, who left the position in mid-April.
Crespo will oversee operations at the cemeteries operated within the Diocese of Tucson, which include Holy Hope Cemetery, 3555 N. Oracle Road, and Our Lady of the Desert/All Faiths Cemetery, 2151 S. Avenida Los Reyes.
Crespo was owner and managing partner of Crespo & Jirrels Funeral Home in Baytown, Texas, for the last 12 years. A third-generation funeral director, he has a long affiliation with the Knights of Columbus, the National Funeral Directors Association and the Serra Club of East Harris County, Texas.
He is fluent in Spanish.
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Tara Gibson: Tara Gibson is now marketing and community relations coordinator for Tu Nidito Child and Family Resources. She will work on community partnerships, marketing, public relations, fundraising and planning of the El Tour de Tucson Ride for a Child program. She has experience in both private and nonprofit business.
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Erica Scott: Erica Scott is the new volunteer coordinator, recruiting and training volunteers for Tu Nidito Child and Family Resources. Scott has been a community volunteer for the past 15 years.
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Gerald Lankin has been named Tucson office director at Helix House Internet Marketing Agency.
Prior to joining the firm he was president of Baja Nueva Design and Decorating Studio in San Felipe, Mexico.
Lankin has more than 25 years of experience in the securities and stock-exchange industry, including serving as vice president of wealth management for Smith Barney – Citigroup in Scottsdale, he said in a news release.
He attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School.
He is a past grand master of Masons in Arizona and immediate past president of the Tucson Pima Rotary Club.
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Dasha Ross: Dasha Ross has been named development coordinator, for Tu Nidito Child and Family Resources. She is responsible for fundraising, grant writing and event planning. Ross brings 11 years of experience.
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Dan Derksen, M.D., professor and chair of the Public Health Policy and Management section of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, has been appointed to the Walter H. Pearce Endowed Chair and director of the Center for Rural Health.
Derksen joined the College of Public Health in 2012. His health-services research interests include covering the uninsured, enhancing access to quality care, reducing health disparities, and implementing community and team-based health services for rural, underserved and vulnerable populations.
He serves on the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Governmental Advocacy and the American Hospital Association’s Governing Council Section on Rural or Small Hospitals.
He graduated from the UA College of Medicine in 1984 and did his family-medicine residency at the University of New Mexico, where he worked as a faculty member for 25 years.
In 2011, Gov. Susana Martinez appointed Derksen director of the New Mexico Office of Health Care Reform, where he submitted the state’s health insurance exchange establishment proposal funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Derksen completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship in 2008 with then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.
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Joe Sprague has been named executive director of the Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter.
Before joining the Hermitage, Sprague worked in Tucson as a private consultant to a variety of civic and arts organizations.
Previously he spent 11 years in Chicago as consultant to animal welfare, civic and arts groups and 11 years as the executive director of the Washington County SPCA in Hudson Falls, N.Y.
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John-Michael Sauer joined the Critical Path Institute as executive director of the Predictive Safety Testing Consortium, C-Path's longest-standing research group.
Sauer, who received his doctorate in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Arizona, most recently led research teams at Pfizer-CovX in San Diego, and at Covance in Chandler.
The safety-testing consortium brings together pharmaceutical companies to share and validate each other's safety testing methods under the advisement of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and counterpart European and Japanese regulatory agencies.
Before his work at Pfizer-CovX and Covance, Sauer held several senior positions at Elan Corp. and Eli Lilly and Co. He also served as the project leader for the National Toxicology Program within the UA Center for Toxicology.
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Itzik Becher was named director of development for UApresents, the University of Arizona's professional performing arts presenter.
Becher is founder of the Phoenix-based artist management company Aviv Productions, Inc.
He will lead UApresents' fundraising efforts, which include private solicitations, event sponsorship, grant writing and a membership program.
Becher will also coordinate outreach programs. He was instrumental in launching an outreach program used in 22,000 schools in North America and Israel, UApresents said in a news release.
He has consulted for the Australia Council for the Arts, New Zealand Arts Commission and the Hong Kong Dance Company, and served on the boards of the Western Arts Alliance and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. His book, "Living Tradition," sold more than 100,000 copies.
He holds a bachelor's degree in comparative and Hebrew literature from Haifa University and a master's degree in mass communication from New York University.
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Kelle M. Maslyn was named director of community relations in Arizona State University's Tucson office.
Maslyn will promote ASU's relationships and interactions with key business groups, elected officials and decision makers in Pima County. "She also will focus on Sun Corridor megaregion initiatives linking the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas," ASU said in a news release.
ASU's College of Public Programs has served greater Tucson through its School of Social Work for nearly 40 years. In January, the college expanded its offerings in the Tucson area to include undergraduate and professional degrees leading to careers in public service and nonprofit leadership.
Before joining ASU, Maslyn was corporate affairs manager at Comcast of Arizona, Inc. in Tucson for the past 10 years.
She served as executive director of the Marana Chamber of Commerce in Marana from 1999 to 2003.
Maslyn is a vice president on the board of directors of Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson and Tohono Chul Park. She also sits on the Governor's Commission on Service & Volunteerism and the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Candidate Evaluation Committee, and chairs Citizen Accountability for Regional Transportation.
She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism from Northern Arizona University.
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Steve Nash is the new executive director of the Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation.
He replaces Lew Riggs, who retired as director April 30 after serving 25 years.
A native Arizonan, Nash majored in journalism and history at Northern Arizona University and earned a law degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Nash comes to the foundation from the Pima County Medical Society, where he was executive director for nearly 22 years. Upon learning that he was leaving, the Medical Society created an award in his name that will be given regularly to the non-physician who has most contributed to the improvement of health care in Tucson.
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Waterfall Economidis, a Tucson-based law firm, announced that Jill D. Wiley has been appointed to the board of directors for Meritas, a global alliance of business law firms.
Wiley will be responsible for reviewing and establishing policy and setting strategy for the alliance. She will also serve as a liaison to member firms on administrative issues.
The Meritas board of directors comprises 21 lawyers from its member firms around the world.
Wiley practices in the area of estate planning, trusts, probate administration, estate and trust litigation, and charitable foundations. She earned her law degree from University of Arizona.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Dustin Zimmerman as a new adviser in Tucson:
Zimmermann, who holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
He has specialized in the sales and marketing industry for more than 12 years.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Jay Hansen as a new adviser in Tucson:
Hansen, who also holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
He has specialized in human resources and worked with non-profit organizations.
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Attorney Edward Moomjian II joined the Rusing Lopez & Lizardi law firm, bringing expertise in complex commercial litigation, prosecuting and defending class actions, employment law and legal malpractice litigation.
He is a contributing author to the fourth edition of Newberg on Class Actions, the leading class-action treatise, the law firm said in a news release.
Before becoming a lawyer, Moomjian worked as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace and electronic medical device industries.
He received a mechanical engineering degree from Arizona State University and a law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law, serving on its Law Review. He was a law clerk to Judge Thomas C. Kleinschmidt of the Arizona Court of Appeals.
Moomjian practiced most recently with the Udall Law Firm in Tucson, and is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell, its highest rating.
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McGlamery Longley Wealth Management LLC, a Tucson-based financial services firm, appointed Beau McGlamery as managing coordinator of business operations. He will also serve as senior agent for Meditunion, the firm's Medicare insurance services division.
McGlamery has management experience with the Tucson Orthopedic Institute, overseeing the digital file transfer of medical records. He is licensed in life and health insurance, proficient in Medicare and individual health insurance, and led the Life Insurance Department at Berwick Insurance Group LLC.
He holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Arizona.
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Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse named Ed Mercurio-Sakwa as CEO.
Mercurio-Sakwa has served the organization in various roles including director of program operations and chief operating officer since 2008.
He will be responsible for providing fiscal, strategic and operational leadership.
Mercurio-Sakwa has worked in the Tucson nonprofit community since 1997, most recently at Every Voice in Action Foundation promoting youth activism and leadership.
He is a graduate of Cholla High School and the University of Arizona. Mercurio-Sakwa earned his master of business administration at James Madison University. Prior to returning to Tucson in 1997, he worked for several nonprofits including as executive director for two domestic violence programs.
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Jesse Vankurin joined the West Press team as Web and multimedia supervisor.
Vankurin has 20 years of Web development experience and law and liberal arts degrees.
Heading up the firm's Internet division, Vankurin will oversee website design and development and multimedia projects for Tucson area and out-of-state businesses. His primary focus will be building responsive websites, e-commerce development and search engine optimization.
He has experience in Web design, cutting-edge software and video manipulation, and in the back-end coding languages needed to bring the vision to completion, West Press said in a news release.
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Janet Wood has joined Catalina Community Services as marketing manager.
She will develop promotion and branding strategies, public relations, social media and community outreach.
Wood worked for World Care as marketing/development manager for three years. Previously she worked for Tucson Newspapers Inc. (the Arizona Daily Star and the former Tucson Citizen) from 1991 to 2009, including 16 years as manager of the Newspapers In Education program.
She has also served on nonprofit boards including Foundation for Animals in Risk and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Wood received her bachelor's and master's degrees in education from the UA, with additional graduate work in media communications at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School.
Catalina Community Services is a nonprofit organization providing assistance to residents in northwest Tucson, Catalina, southeast Pinal County, Vail and neighboring rural communities.
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Khole Lamey of Tucson has been named a financial representative for Country Financial.
Lamey, who recently completed the company's training, earned an associate's degree in business from Pima Community College this year.
Lamey will offer auto, home, life and long-term care insurance, annuities, mutual funds and college funding options, investment management, retirement planning and trust services.
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Todd Rockoff will join Tucson Jewish Community Center as chief executive officer on July 8.
He will succeed Ken Light, who has led the JCC as CEO for more than 27 years. A special event, "Lighting the J's Way," will be held on Oct. 12 to honor Light's tenure.
Rockoff brings more than 28 years of related experience and spent the last 11 years at the Shaw JCC of Akron, Ohio, where he served as executive director since 2002.
He has received several honors from the JCC field in program development and is part of the national training staff for JCC Association in staff development and customer service.
Rockoff received his bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Cortland.
The Tucson JCC employs nearly 200 people on its 100,000-square-foot campus.
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Todd Camenisch, associate professor in the department of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has assumed the new part-time position of director of economic development and strategic partnerships.
Camenisch is the college's liaison to businesses and other organizations interested in developing relationships with the college through research, educational outreach and innovative services.
Camenisch joined the College of Pharmacy faculty in 2002. He also is deputy director of the UA Superfund Research Program and a member of the Bio5 Institute at the UA.
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Robert Lara, AIA, has joined GLHN Architects & Engineers Inc. as architecture department manager.
Lara will share leadership of the firm's growing architecture section with Brian Hagedon, AIA, who was named director of architecture in 2012, and David Grigsby, AIA, principal in architecture.
Lara brings more than 35 years of award-winning architectural design and project management experience, primarily in the K-12, higher education and health-care sectors, the firm said in a news release.
GLHN is celebrating 50 years of professional service in 2013.
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John Capehart will join Guardvant Inc., a provider of mining-safety technology, as vice president of global business development.
Guardvant's North American corporate office is in Tucson.
Capehart has more than 14 years of operational mining experience in precious metals and industrial minerals and experience in fatigue monitoring and proximity detection technology, the company said in a news release. He also has market development experience in fleet-safety-monitoring systems and high-precision GPS applications. He holds a bachelor's from University of Nevada-Reno and a master's from Michigan Technological University, both in mining engineering.
Capehart was formerly vice president of business development for Seeing Machines and has worked in business development for Caterpillar Technologies and Advanced Mining Technologies.
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BMO Private Bank has announced that Teresa Nowak has joined the Tucson office as a senior private banker.
She will be responsible for providing tailored private banking services to high-net-worth individuals, families and organizations, including closely-held and family-owned businesses, as part of an overall personal wealth-management strategy.
Nowak has more than 15 years of banking experience in the Tucson market. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona and her master's in business administration from the University of Phoenix. She also graduated at the top of her bank management class at Western States School of Banking, BMO said in a news release.
Nowak has been named a Woman of Influence by Inside Tucson Business and an Emerging Leader by the Arizona Bankers Association.
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Gloria Rich
Staff Matters, a Tucson-owned and -operated firm, has hired Gloria Rich as vice president of the light industrial and administrative staffing services division for the state of Arizona. Rich has more than 20 years of industry experience.
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The Parsons Group has announced that Angela Brown is the new executive director of Hundred Palms Tucson.
Brown has worked as a licensed practical nurse since 1974 specializing in geriatrics and memory care. She previously served as assisted-living director at Hundred Palms.
Brown attended Willoughby-Eastlake School of Practical Nursing in Willoughby, Ohio.
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The Northwest Fire District's elected governing board approved a contract to name Michael J. Brandt as fire chief. The two-year contract is effective May 28.
Brandt has served as the district's interim fire chief since Oct. 6, following the retirement of Jeff Piechura.
Brandt has more than 35 years of fire/EMS service in the Tucson area. He previously served as Northwest Fire's assistant chief of operations and administered the Operations/Suppression, Emergency Medical Services, Special Operations/Wildland, Training, and Communications divisions.
He is a magna cum laude graduate of Arizona State University in fire administration, and of the Arizona State School of Public Affairs Advanced Public Executive Program, the district said in a news release.
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Tucson-based Modular Mining Systems has appointed Greg Lanz as general manager, North America.
Lanz, who has more than 15 years of experience in mining and information technology, previously was Modular's manager of global sales.
He also has prior experience in the North American region as an account manager and project manager, dating to the region's inception in 2002. He began his Modular career as a project engineer.
Before joining Modular in 1999, Lanz worked as a mining engineer at Marston & Marston.
He received his B.Sc. in mining and mechanical engineering from Queen's University at Kingston, in Ontario, Canada.
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The Arizona Technology Council has elected Roger Vogel, chairman, president and CEO of Tucson-based Vante Medical Technologies, as its board chair.
Vogel is the first chairman from a Tucson company for the Phoenix-based council, which has more than 700 members statewide.
Vogel joined Vante, a developer of precision manufacturing systems for the medical device industry, in March 2005. He previously had a 20-year career with IBM Corp., where his last position was vice president and general manager of IBM's Tucson data-storage development center.
He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Vogel is vice chairman of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, vice chairman of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and a director of the Campus Research Corp., a nonprofit organization that manages the University of Arizona's research parks.
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The Pima County Juvenile Court has chosen Kim Smith as its new public information officer.
Smith will act as a liaison between the court and the media, while also keeping members of the general public up to date on programs aimed at helping youths involved in the courts, whether they are going through the dependency or delinquency system.
Smith, a former Arizona Daily Star reporter with more than 20 years of journalism experience, will produce a quarterly communication bulletin, update the court's website and use social media to help get the court's message out.
In 2007, Smith was one of the Star's Employees of the Year, and in 2012, she received an award from the Arizona Press Club for news blog writing.
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Arizona Party Rental announced the promotion of Leah Morin from store manager and event specialist to director of showroom operations and senior event specialist.
Morin, an eight-year veteran of Arizona Party Rental, worked in the hospitality, restaurant and resort industry. She was catering manager for Red Sky restaurant, and before that held manager positions at The Lodge at Ventana Canyon, Boulders Resort, the Peaks at Telluride and Carefree Resorts.
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Arizona Party Rental announced the promotion of Paul Lofgreen from operations manager to vice president and general manager.
Before joining the company eight years ago, Lofgreen held positions as warehouse supervisor for Parties Plus, technical support representative for AOL, underground miner for Stillwater Mining Co. and underground development supervisor for BHP Copper Co.
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Matt Williams has joined STG Design.
He holds a bachelor of science in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as both a professional bachelor's and post-professional master's of architecture from the University of Arizona.
Williams has worked on projects such as the Rialto Block Renovation in downtown Tucson, which included renovation of restaurant and office interiors. He has also worked on small landscape architecture projects and custom home designs and remodels.
While at the UA, he was involved in the design and construction of a team entry into the 2009 Department of Energy-sponsored Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C.
His strengths include extensive 3D modeling and Revit experience, STG said in a news release.
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Bob Malin has joined Tucson-based Chestnut Construction as director of project development.
He will be responsible for marketing, new client development and pre-construction services.
Malin's experience includes the planning, development and construction of retail, office, industrial, R&D, medical office, hospital and communications facilities as well as solar power plants, Chestnut Construction said in a news release.
Originally from San Franciso, Malin moved to Tucson in 2002 "and has since worked closely with many of Tucson's owners, developers, architects, engineers and subcontractors."
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Bank of America has named Adriana Kong Romero market president for Tucson and Southern Arizona.
Romero "will work with company leaders across the region to help deliver a wide range of global financial services," the bank said in a news release. She also will oversee corporate philanthropic giving, community development lending and investing, environmental initiatives, diversity efforts, arts and culture projects, and employee volunteerism.
In addition, Romero is a senior client manager for Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Business Banking Group in Tucson and Southern Arizona.
She joined Bank of America 14 years ago as a teller, and has served premier banking clients in global wealth and investment management.
Romero is on the board of the Lohse branch of YMCA of Southern Arizona; a committee member for the Tucson Metro Chamber; and a member of the University of Arizona Eller College Associates.
She is a graduate of the UA with a B.S. in finance and holds an M.S. in organizational management from University of Phoenix.
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Brian Erstad, professor and interim head in the department of pharmacy practice and science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has been promoted to head of the department.
A member of the department since 1988, Erstad has served as interim head since February 2012. He was assistant department head from 1997 through 2011.
He also is a clinical pharmacist in critical care at the University of Arizona Medical Center-University Campus and the program director of the college's postgraduate year two critical care pharmacy residency there.
Erstad is a member of the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a steering committee member of the United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group, the UA said in a news release.
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Kasey Nye has joined Mesch, Clark & Rothschild P.C. as a partner in the law firm.
Nye has been practicing bankruptcy and restructuring law for more than a decade, representing large and small business and nonprofit entities as debtors and creditors in Arizona and throughout the U.S. He joins the bankruptcy section of the firm.
Nye chairs the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Policy Committee on Budget, Finance and Legal Issues, and previously served on the chamber's Government Affairs and Candidate Evaluation Committees. He was recently named Volunteer of the Month for March by the Volunteer Lawyers Program, which he has served since 2002.
In 2006, Nye was recognized by the University of Arizona Alumni Association as Outstanding Young Alumni Volunteer.
He received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and Spanish from the University of Buffalo and his juris doctorate from the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona.
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Thom Cope has joined Mesch, Clark & Rothschild P.C. as a partner in the law firm.
Cope, who is part of the firm's employment section, has more than 40 years' experience in employment and labor law, with an emphasis on litigation and representing clients before administrative agencies such entities as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board.
Cope teaches classes at the University of Phoenix and was an adjunct professor in labor law at Pima Community College. He is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and authored "The Executive Guide to Employment Practices," third edition, the law firm said in a news release. He has been a judge in the area of public employment law.
Cope received a bachelor of arts degree in political science/history with honors from Syracuse University and his juris doctorate from the Nebraska College of Law.
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Carondelet Foundation has hired Jessica Galow as corporate and foundation development officer.
Galow will develop and strengthen foundation relationships with the Southern Arizona business community, and will assist with the foundation's overall development operation.
She was previously fund development manager at Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona, where she created a plan to increase donor and alumni support during its centennial anniversary.
She also worked in fundraising with a focus on special events for Youth on Their Own.
Galow sits on the board as co-chair of the philanthropy committee of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She is a member of Tucson Young Professionals.
A graduate of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, Galow holds a bachelor of science in entrepreneurship and business management.
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Realtor David Winter is now assistant sales manager at Long Realty's River/Campbell branch office.
His responsibilities include new agent development and helping the office's sales associates maximize the company's technology and support systems. Winter, a Realtor since 2001, has worked in the retail industry.
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In its 120th year, Arizona State Museum has named Patrick D. Lyons, Ph.D., as director. Lyons, an archaeologist, will be ASM's seventh director since its founding by the territorial Legislature in 1893.
Lyons replaces Beth Grindell, who was named director pending a national search, following the death of Hartman H. Lomawaima in 2008. Lyons will assume the directorship on June 1.
Nancy Odegaard, ASM's head of preservation and chair of the search committee, praised Lyons' scholarly credentials in the Southwest, administrative experience in a university museum, and leadership in repatriation.
Lyons has served as head of collections at Arizona State Museum since 2006 and as associate director since 2009. Before that he was a preservation archaeologist at Archaeology Southwest (previously known as Center for Desert Archaeology) in Tucson.
Lyons is best known for his fieldwork and research on the Salado phenomenon in the San Pedro River Valley in southeastern Arizona, and for his research on the collections housed at Arizona State Museum, the museum said in a news release.
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Tucson resident Nate Clark has joined BMO Harris Bank as a premier banker serving the greater Tucson market.
Clark will be responsible for business development and managing the financial needs of clients with investable assets over $250,000.
He brings more than 10 years of industry experience to the position.
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Tucson-based Chestnut Construction Corp. announced that Randy S. Bond has joined the company as a partner and as vice president and senior project manager. He has 33 years of commercial construction experience in public and private sector projects.
Tom Chestnut will continue to serve as chief executive officer and Pat Johnson as president.
Bond served with the U.S. Army prior to his construction career. He owned and operated a construction company in Phoenix for several years before settling in Tucson in 1998.
His education includes journeyman level advanced classes, active involvement with the Carpenter union, and he holds a bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Phoenix. He volunteers with the Arizona Builders Alliance where he was named Volunteer of the Year in 2012.
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The Southern Arizona district office of Farmers Insurance Group appointed Roman Campuzano as its newest adviser in Tucson.
He holds property and casualty and life and health insurance licenses and has worked in the financial industry several years.
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Silverado Technologies added two network technicians:
• Bill Davies, who has 11 years of computer services experience.
Davies worked as a computer analyst and field technician for Advantage Micro Corp and, most recently, was with Intellitech as a computer network administrator.
Davies is a graduate of Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, with a diploma in network systems, and has multiple certifications in computer technology.
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Silverado Technologies added two network technicians:
• Teresa Nolan, who specializes in Windows, Exchange and IT Security implementation.
Nolan worked most recently as a network operations center technician at Intellitech, providing server support, virus removal and desktop support. Before that, she was a technical support engineer at Captaris - Open Text.
Nolan is an adjunct instructor at ITT Technical Institute, and has a bachelor's and MBA from ITT.
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The board of Tucson-based Critical Path Institute (C-Path) announced Thursday that Martha Brumfield was named interim president and chief executive officer.
Brumfield, C-Path's former director of international and regulatory programs, takes over immediately for Dr. Carolyn Compton, who is moving full-time to the National Biomarkers Development Alliance based at Arizona State University.
Brumfield, who holds a Ph.D., brings leadership and experience from her career in bio-pharma, "having successfully led global organizations, both large and small, through the complex arena of medical product approval," said Peter B. Corr, chairman of the C-Path board, in a news release.
Brumfield will help C-Path "benefit patients worldwide" by continuing its mission to expand "novel tools and methodologies that will accelerate the development and review of medical products," Corr said.
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The Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort & Spa has named Antonio Rodriguez as executive chef.
Rodriguez returns to Tucson after two years of serving as executive chef of the Hotel Galvez & Spa in Galveston, Texas.
He has 20 years of culinary experience. Previously, he was executive chef for nine years at Omni Tucson National Golf Resort and Spa, executive sous chef at Omni Hotel Park West and Westin Hotel Galleria in Dallas, banquet sous chef at Westin William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh and restaurant sous chef/banquet sous chef at Westin Paso Del Norte Hotel in El Paso, Texas.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Edgar Duran as its newest adviser in Tucson.
Duran holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
He focuses on auto, home, life, and business insurance products.
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Altobelli and Wall join Roediger Hoff PLC
Local tax and accounting firm Roediger Hoff PLC has two new employees: Chiara J. Altobelli, staff accountant; and Amy M. Wall, income tax preparer.
Altobelli completed her undergraduate degree in accounting at the University of Arizona in 2010. She has worked in the public domain and the corporate sector, and is experienced in financial reporting, payroll, sales tax, and income tax return preparation.
Wall, a member of the National Association of Tax Professionals and the Southern Arizona Chapter of Enrolled Agents, is certified to represent taxpayers before the IRS.
Before obtaining her master’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix, she earned a bachelor of science degree in both chemistry and economics from Harvey Mudd College of Science and Engineering in Claremont, California. She prepares tax returns for individuals and small businesses and also has expertise in divorce taxation.
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Cathy Strommen joined Granite Kitchen & Bath as in-house designer. She will assist customers with granite and quartz slab countertop selections.
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Bill Hitchcock joined RDO Equipment Co. as manager of the company's Tucson store at 5051 S. Outlet Center Drive.
Hitchcock has nearly 25 years of dealership experience, including 20 years in several management roles at Caterpillar dealers across the Northeast.
Most recently, Hitchcock was a sales manager for a New York Caterpillar dealer and prior to that worked as a territory sales professional for Butler Machinery in Minot, N.D.
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Insurance broker John Foxworthy formed TucsonInsurance.com, an independent insurance agency offering health, auto, home, life and business insurance. Foxworthy is the agency principal and joins forces with Pacific International Insurance and agency principal Ned Ingram to serve customers in Arizona and New Mexico.
Recently added to the staff were licensed property and casualty agent Michelle Kluth in Oro Valley and Lori Panchot in customer service and marketing. The business remains at 2193 N. Camino Principal, Suite 105.
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The Westin La Paloma hired James M. Gelfand as director of sales and marketing.
He will direct group and leisure sales teams and programs, catering, and convention services at La Paloma, which has held a No. 1 rating for Westin properties in meeting planner satisfaction six of the last eight years.
Gelfand previously was director of sales and marketing at Turnberry Isle Miami and the Westin Copley Place; director of sales at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa and the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Florida; and VP of sales, marketing and revenue management at PGA National Resort and Spa. He has been honored as a Starwood Most Valuable Sales Partner.
Gelfand is a graduate of Georgia State University's hotel/restaurant and travel management program.
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Rick Kelley joined Raskob Kambourian Financial as a senior financial adviser, helping make policy decisions around holistic financial planning, client-centered portfolio allocation and wealth preservation.
Kelley is a licensed certified financial planner and a chartered mutual fund counselor.
He was president of the local Financial Planning Association from 2006 to 2009 and is a member of the Financial Planning Association and the Southern Arizona Estate Planning Council. He has taught the Money Matters program to youths at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Tucson.
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Lisa Levine
Lisa Levine joined AlphaGraphics Commercial Printing Services as a self-publishing specialist.
She is a writer, editor and teacher with experience in small press book publishing in Tucson, Manhattan, and San Francisco, notably with Kore Press, the Not for Tourists Guides and France Today.
She joins Kevin Jones, who oversees two AlphaGraphics retail stores and has worked with several authors through the process of self-publishing their books.
Levine taught fiction at the University of Arizona while earning her master of fine arts degree in creative writing and now teaches writing at Pima Community College. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
She recently published a broadside with Tucson’s Edge Reading Series. Previous literacy outreach work includes serving as a teaching artist at Sam Hughes Elementary and as a Big Sister in the Alameda County School District.
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Mary Babbitt was appointed director of student services for St. Gregory College Preparatory School. She has been an administrator at St. Gregory since 2008 and comes to this position with experience in independent schools as assistant to the head of school, director of financial aid, registrar and director of summer programs.
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Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen, PLC, announces that Tanis A. Duncan has merged her Tucson law office and employees into its firm.
Duncan has been an attorney for more than 30 years in the areas of community association and co-op law, real estate, development and contracting, and litigation and is certified by the State Bar of Arizona as a real estate specialist.
Carpenter, Hazlewood, Delgado & Bolen has offices in Tempe, Prescott, Tucson and New Mexico.
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Jennifer Port was named school advancement associate for St. Gregory College Preparatory School. She is responsible for supporting the development office and assisting the director of student services.
Port most recently served as development associate at Tucson Hebrew Academy. She also served as executive assistant to the principal at Salpointe Catholic High School and previously was a member of the St. Gregory development team.
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Becky Rebenstorf was named director of development and school advancement for St. Gregory College Preparatory School. She brings more than 20 years’ experience in development, communications and community relations.
She most recently was director of development for the Amerind Museum and Research Center.
She serves on the board of Catholic Community Services Foundation, is an active member of Angel Charity for Children and is chair of the University of Arizona Medical Center Friends Board.
Rebenstorf will strategize funding priorities for the school and secure philanthropic support by focusing on donor acquisition, attentive stewardship and cultivating relationships with donors and alumni.
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The board of directors of the Southern Arizona Regional Science and Engineering Fair, SciEnTeK-12, has named Elizabeth Baker the fair’s director.
Recently the STEM specialist with the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona, Baker graduated from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with a master’s degree in evolutionary and comparative psychology and received a bachelor’s degree in comparative psychology and ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona.
A three-time winner of the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, Baker represented the United States as a science delegate to China. Before being named as fair director, she participated in the science fair as a judge and as a SciEnTeK-12 board member.
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Margaret Koppen has been named general counsel of CyraCom International Inc., a Tucson-based company that provides language interpretation and document-translation services.
Koppen was formerly with the local office of Standard Microsystems Corp., a semiconductor company.
She received her law degree from Pepperdine University School of Law, holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Arizona State University, and teaches contract drafting part time at the University of Arizona School of Law as an adjunct professor.
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Attorney Patricia Victory Waterkotte has joined the Tucson law firm Rusing Lopez & Lizardi PLLC.
Waterkotte, a native Tucsonan, specializes in complex commercial litigation, product liability, real-estate litigation and financial services. She practiced business litigation at Klinedinst PC and McGuireWoods LLP in Los Angeles for eight years before joining Rusing Lopez & Lizardi.
Waterkotte, who served as a congressional intern and caseworker for Sen. John McCain and in the Pima County Attorney’s Office, received a bachelor’s degree in management information systems, magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona in 2002. She received her law degree from the University of Notre Dame Law School in 2005.
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Psomas named Heidi Lasham as construction-management leader for the Tucson area. Lasham’s background includes a mix of transportation planning, roadway design and construction field experience. She is the past president of the American Society of Civil Engineers Arizona Section, a member of Women’s Transportation Seminar and of Tucson Utility Contractors Association, and an engineering mentor to the Sonoran Science Academy for the Future Cities Competition. In 2012, the American Society of Civil Engineers’ Southern Arizona branch recognized Lasham with the Young Engineer Award for members under age 35. She received her bachelor’s degree from Purdue University in civil engineering, with a focus on construction and structures.
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Television journalist Lorraine Rivera was named producer and host of PBS 6’s “Arizona Week,” Arizona Public Media’s weekly news and public affairs program. Rivera will start as producer and host of the news and public affairs program this Friday. Rivera has worked in the Yuma and Tucson television markets for the last decade. She is a graduate of the University of Arizona School of Journalism, with minors in English and Mexican-American studies.
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The Tucson Association of Realtors promoted Christine Sanchez to marketing and events coordinator. Sanchez will be responsible for planning and executing TAR events, including the housing market forecast, Expo trade shows and the Installation & Awards ceremony, among others. She began with TAR in 2007 as a part-time customer-service representative and ascended to housing-opportunities coordinator in 2008.
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The University of Arizona College of Science announced that Bob Logan has been promoted to assistant dean for external and corporate relations. He will be central to an impending capital campaign for the college.
Logan, who has been at the UA for 25 years, has been senior director of development in the College of Science for the last 13 years.
He received his MBA from the Eller College of Management and was in sales management for AT&T Computer Systems.
He began his UA career as a football coach under Larry Smith in the mid-1980s. He spent nine years as associate director of athletics under Cedric Dempsey and Jim Livengood.
Logan is a former board member of the Rotary Club of Tucson, a board member for the DM-50 and a member of the Centurions. He is a member of the Association of Fund Raising Professionals and has served on the Salpointe Catholic High School Board of Advisors.
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Philip Williams has joined Zanes Law, a personal injury firm with offices in Tucson and Phoenix, as operations manager, bringing two decades of executive operations experience.
He was previously the first CEO of hydroGEOPHYSICS Inc.; also was at ABM Industries; and held multiple manufacturing roles at irrigation device maker Rain Bird. He also served at sea in the U.S. Navy Nnuclear P power Pprogram.
Williams is a graduate of the University of Arizona, for his master’s of business administration and bachelor of science in mechanical engineering degrees.
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Jonathan Davis has been named director of tennis at The Lodge at Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club.
He is a second-generation tennis professional following his father, who was director of tennis at the Westward Look resort for more than 20 years.
Born and raised in Tucson, Davis attended Eastern Washington University in Spokane. Previously he taught tennis at the Jewish Community Center and Hilton El Conquistador Resort.
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John Basden is the new director of golf instruction at The Lodge at Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club. A graduate of Arizona State University with degrees in fundamental education in psychology and education psychology, he is interested in “the psychological process and biomechanical fundamentals that make some golfers better than others,” The Lodge said in a news release.
He has been at The Ventana Canyon Golf & Racquet Club since 2010.
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Dianne Gallego-Lopez has joined Mutual of Omaha Bank as a senior mortgage loan officer.
Based out of the bank’s location at 2120 W. Ina Road, Gallego-Lopez will offer customers a comprehensive portfolio of residential financing solutions, including conventional loans, refinances, investment property loans, jumbo loans, bridge loans, FHA and VA loans and new-construction loans.
A native of Tucson, Gallego-Lopez has nearly 20 years of financial services experience, most recently serving as a mortgage banker for a mortgage firm in Tucson. She has held various roles in retail banking and wealth management.
Gallego-Lopez has been involved with the Tucson Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, where she served on the Gala committee, and is a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity.
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The Farhang & Medcoff law firm announced the promotion of Roscoe Mutz. Mutz relocated to Tucson from Boston and is admitted to practice in both Massachusetts and Arizona.
He is a graduate of Boston College Law School, where he was the Mock Trial Champion in 2008 and a member of the Boston College Mock Trial National team.
At Farhang & Medcoff, he will continue his practice in commercial litigation, employment law, firearms regulation compliance and appeals, and personal injury/products liability.
In addition to his legal practice, Mutz is a producer for a Tucson nonprofit community storytelling event called Odyssey Storytelling and has been a featured monologist for Tucson Improv Movement.
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Timothy Anderson has been named director of sales at the Ritz-Carlton, Dove Mountain.
He joins the resort from positions of director of sales and global sales for Omni Hotels & Resorts, based in Chicago. Prior to relocating to Chicago, he held several senior sales positions with the Omni Tucson National in Tucson.
Anderson has a strong background and track record in Arizona hospitality, the Ritz-Carlton said in a news release. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in business administration from the University of Arizona and a master’s degree in Business from the University of Phoenix.
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Dr. Nancy K. Sweitzer will become director of the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center and chief of the Division of Cardiology in the UA College of Medicine, Department of Medicine, effective March 1, 2014.
Currently, she is an associate professor of medicine and director of numerous programs at the University of Wisconsin Cardiovascular Medicine Division in Madison. Those programs include clinical research, quality, and the heart failure and cardiac transplant programs (as interim director). She also directs the cardiovascular medicine and heart failure and cardiac transplant fellowship programs there.
Sweitzer is a board-certified advanced heart failure and transplant cardiologist and physiologist.
She has a clinical research program focused on the interaction of the dysfunctional heart muscle in heart failure with the vasculature and kidneys to better understand how to improve symptoms and organ function in heart failure patients. She has done extensive work on the physiology of heart failure with preserved systolic function, a disease that disproportionately affects elderly women, UA said in a news release.
Sweitzer has led and collaborated on studies sponsored by the National Institutes of Health as well as studies supported by industry and academic sponsors. She also has served on numerous NIH committees and currently is on its Clinical and Integrative Cardiovascular Science Study Section and the American Heart Association’s Cardiac Biology and Regulation Committee.
She received both her medical degree and doctorate in physiology at the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1993. Prior to joining the faculty there in 2001, she completed her internship and residency in internal medicine, and fellowships in cardiology, heart failure and cardiac transplantation at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, where she remained as an instructor in medicine from 1999-2001.
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Arizona Public Media has announced that Michael Chihak has been promoted to news director.
Chihak will be responsible for news operations and reporting on AZPM’s television, radio, online and social media platforms. Formerly host of AZPM’s weekly public affairs program “Arizona Week” and director of online news, Chihak will continue as interim host of “Arizona Week” until a full-time host has been selected.
Chihak is a former editor and publisher of the now-closed Tucson Citizen. After leaving the Citizen, he was an independent media relations consultant.
He previously held editorial positions at The Californian in Salinas, Calif.; USA Today and The Associated Press.
Chihak, a seventh-generation Tucsonan, holds a UA bachelor of arts degree in journalism.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Mark Channell as associate director of development.
Channell will assist in major and estate gift development. He comes to AZPM from the University of Arizona Foundation, where he worked as a senior accountant and as a gift-planning officer, working with donors and generating estate gifts.
Before that, he worked as an accountant for Carondelet Healthcare Network and University Physicians Healthcare.
He is a graduate of the UA’s Eller College of Management and licensed as a certified public accountant in Arizona.
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Arizona Public Media has announced that John Booth has been hired as executive producer.
Booth will lead and manage all aspects of planning, production and presentation of original programming for AZPM’s radio and television, as well as online and social network content.
Booth, a Tucson native, graduated from the University of Arizona with a bachelor of fine arts in radio and television and then spent five years at KUAT (now called Arizona Public Media).
In 1989 he moved to Portland, Ore., where over a 17-year span at Oregon Public Broadcasting he shot and edited for such national PBS programs as “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour,” “Frontline” and “Nova”; produced and wrote programs including “Sinking the Lusitania,” “Occupied Japan” and episodes of “The Great Lodges of the National Parks” and “Great American Railway Journeys.”
From 2005 to 2009, Booth was executive producer and director of production at Eight, Arizona PBS/Phoenix. His credits include the history series “Arizona Stories,” “Arizona Memories of the Seventies,” “Under Arizona” and “Arizona Lodges.” Most recently, he was deputy director of content at KCTS 9 in Seattle.
Booth has received awards including Tellys, CINEs, a Chicago International Film Silver Hugo Award and several regional Emmys.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Julie Ben-Yeoshua as program coordinator for development and underwriting.
Ben-Yeoshua’s career in the public sector includes experience with the UA College of Medicine, the city of Tucson, and educational institutions in Southern California. She graduated from Northern Arizona University with a BSIS in public management.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Amanda Le Claire as underwriting reporter.
Le Claire comes to AZPM after working in Detroit at WDET-FM, where she launched a daily talk show and worked as a producer, morning edition host and reporter.
She also worked at Team Detroit, a global ad agency, where she produced a series of short documentaries that showcased the city’s cultural life. She has produced and art-directed independent music videos featured by Vice and MTV, and blogged for the Huffington Post.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Andrew Brown as videographer.
Brown graduated from the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State University in 2004. He spent six years covering Southern Arizona as a videographer at KOLD News 13. Brown has been nominated and won awards for his work, including two Edward R. Murrow Awards for videography.
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Chuck Williams has joined Stantec as a senior project manager in its Tucson water practice.
Williams brings more than 25 years of experience in managing public-works projects for local government agencies.
He operated an independent consulting firm responsible for water-planning services for projects across the Southwest. He remapped the flood plains for Southern Arizona’s Santa Cruz County and carried out a management study of the Lee Moore Wash Basin for the Pima County Regional Flood Control District, in partnership with Tucson and Sahuarita.
Williams is a past president of the Arizona Floodplain Management Association and the Arizona Association of County Engineers. He also held a 20-year tenure as a member of the Arizona Department of Water Resources State Standards Work Group for Floodplain Management.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Arizona.
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Melissa Ramos has returned to BrakeMax Car Care Centers and Max Auto Glass as business development coordinator.
Ramos is experienced in management and sales and previously started her own business, the company said in a news release.
She will coordinate community and business events and help to enact marketing and account management strategies.
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Arizona Public Media has announced the addition of Sandra Riggins as underwriting consultant.
Riggins was an advertising manager with the Arizona Daily Star and Tucson Citizen newspapers for 17 years. Her advertising sales and marketing experience also includes management positions with the Miami Herald, Sarasota Herald Tribune and the Marin Independent Journal.
She is a recipient of the Charles Horne Lifetime Achievement Award for advertising, the Vic Mergard Lifetime Achievement Award with the Hearth Foundation for Homeless Women With Children, and the Tucson Indian Center’s Service and Dedication Award.
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Donald Cox is now an insurance adviser in Tucson for the Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group.
He holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
Cox has worked in education for many years, Farmers said in a news release.
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David Hatfield has been named senior director of business development and marketing for the Tucson Airport Authority, which operates Tucson International Airport and Ryan Airfield.
Hatfield will oversee airline and nonairline business development efforts for TAA, including marketing and advertising to consumers and business partners of airport services and commercial and industrial properties on airport land. He will also be responsible for community and media relations.
Hatfield spent many years in Tucson media, most recently as editor of Inside Tucson Business since 2004. Previously, he held positions with KVOA-TV 4, KOLD-TV 13 and the Arizona Daily Star.
Outside of the media, Hatfield served two terms on the Catalina Foothills School District school board.
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Carondelet Health Network announces that a longtime St. Mary’s Hospital surgeon has joined Carondelet Specialist Group.
Dr. Gerlinde S. Tynan is a board-certified general surgeon specializing in surgical disease of the breast. She is medical director of The Breast Center at Carondelet St. Mary’s Hospital and the Breast Health Program at Carondelet Health Network.
Tynan graduated from the University of Washington School of Medicine and completed her surgical residency at the University of Arizona. She is a fellow in the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the American Society of Breast Surgeons.
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Carondelet Health Network announces that a longtime St. Mary’s Hospital surgeon has joined Carondelet Specialist Group.
Dr. Brian Levine is a board-certified general surgeon who focuses on general and advanced laparoscopic surgery.
Before he joined Carondelet Specialist Group, Levine was a credentialed physician with Carondelet Health Network, and he saw the majority of his patients at St. Mary’s Hospital.
Levine earned his medical degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine and completed his residency in general surgery at Swedish Medical Center in Seattle.
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The Planning Center has hired a new planner: Steve Hagedorn.
Former planning and zoning director for the town of Oro Valley, Hagedorn brings more than 30 years of project management experience as an urban planner and registered landscape architect to the firm.
Hagedorn has served as project manager, planner, and senior landscape architect on numerous site design, landscape and irrigation design projects, as well as on parks, recreation and trails master-planning projects. He spent 11 years with Oro Valley.
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The Planning Center has hired a new planner: Brian Underwood.
Underwood brings expertise as a planner, researcher and geographic information systems specialist to The Planning Center.
He specializes in land-use plan preparation and entitlement processing. Underwood has participated in local planning projects including completion of a historic preservation plan for the Warehouse Arts District north of downtown Tucson, The Planning Center said in a news release.
He holds a master of science in planning from the University of Arizona and received the American Planning Association’s Outstanding Student Award in 2012.
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The Planning Center has hired a new planner: Hillary Turby.
Turby joins The Planning Center as a land-use planner, researcher and policy analyst.
She is a former senior planner for the town of Oro Valley, where she managed planning cases, led neighborhood meetings and made presentations.
Turby holds a bachelor of arts degree in government and environmental science from Connecticut College, and a master of science in planning from the University of Arizona.
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Stephanie Black has joined Home Instead Senior Care as director of sales and marketing.
Black brings an extensive background in sales to Home Instead, having worked in pharmaceutical sales as well as senior living and, most recently, home health.
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Evie Stamps has been promoted to director of client care for Home Instead Senior Care, from her previous position as client care manager. Stamps has been with Home Instead for more than four years, also working as a caregiver and staffing coordinator.
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Peter Greenawalt has joined Home Instead Senior Care as director of operations.
Greenawalt’s background consists of operations, management and accounting in senior living the past 12 years. Before that, he co-owned and operated a medical billing and consulting company and a medical equipment retailer, Home Instead said in a news release.
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Robin E. Barnes, registered landman and certified paralegal, has joined the Tucson office of Quarles & Brady LLC.
Barnes works in the areas of public land and mining law; natural resources, water rights and environmental law; and real estate, corporate, tax and general transactional law.
Barnes received a bachelor’s of science degree in range management from the University of Arizona, and an A.A.S. degree as a paralegal from Pima Community College. She also received a petroleum land management certificate from the University of Houston.
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Christopher M. Pastore has relocated to the Tucson office of Ogletree Deakins from its Las Vegas office.
Pastore focuses his law practice on labor and employment related issues, including unlawful discrimination, wrongful termination, Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and state and federal wage and hour laws and regulations.
Pastore earned his J.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona, Ogletree Deakins said in a news release.
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Tech Parks Arizona announces that Anita Bell has been named acting director of the Arizona Center for Innovation, a business incubator located at the University of Arizona Tech Park.
Her responsibilities include directing daily operations, managing client services and programs, and recruiting new clients. Bell has managed client services for AzCI since its inception in 2003.
Bell succeeds Joann MacMaster, who was recently appointed associate for venture development with Tech Launch Arizona.
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Dr. Christian J. Moher has joined Tucson-based Sinfonia as its chief medical officer.
Moher is a board certified family physician and a graduate of the University of Arizona Medical School. He has most recently been a medical director for CVS Minute Clinics and the team physician for the Tucson Padres, Sinfonia said in a news release. He is also an assistant professor at the UA College of Medicine.
In addition to his corporate duties, Moher will supervise the medical component of the new Assurance Hospice, under Assurance Healthcare, a Sinfonia division.
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Kevin Futch has been named chief operating officer of Good Ole Tom’s. He oversees the management of its six stores: three in Tucson, two in Connecticut and an affiliate in Florida.
Also, Good Ole Tom’s has moved its headquarters from Connecticut to Arizona.
After serving in the Navy on active duty during the Gulf War, Futch held leadership positions with Fortune 500 companies including ABB, Weyerhaeuser and Domtar, Good Ole Tom’s said in a news release.
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Lisa McDaniel has joined the Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group in Tucson.
McDaniel holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
She has worked in the realty industry for many years and has a strong background in marketing and sales, Farmers said in a news release.
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Claire Larmonier is a new faculty member at the University of Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center and Department of Pediatrics. She is an assistant professor in gastroenterology.
Larmonier received her doctorate in immunobiology from the University of Arizona.
She earned an engineer diploma in life science with honors (master’s equivalent), from Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, Sorbonne, Paris, France.
As a scientist with the Steele center, Larmonier’s research focuses on new treatments for colitis and inflammatory bowel disease.
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Farhang & Medcoff announces the promotion of Kacie Dillon to partner.
Dillon represents Arizona individuals and businesses in tax controversy disputes with the IRS, Arizona Department of Revenue and other local taxing authorities.
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Elizabeth Zelinka has joined Farhang & Medcoff in its Tucson office.
Following a career with the Washington, D.C., office of a Wall Street firm, Zelinka relocated to Tucson where she was the corporate counsel for a national talent management firm, Farhang & Medcoff said in a news release.
She is experienced in corporate transactional law, finance, restructurings and workouts, real estate, environmental risk management, licensing and other contractual arrangements.
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Julie Kennedy Oehlert, RN, has joined the University of Arizona Medical Center in the new position of vice president of patient experience, where she will “serve as the patients’ voice.”
She will oversee key hospital departments that impact the patient experience — Food Services, Environmental Services, Security, Transportation, Volunteer Services and Pastoral Care at both UAMC – University Campus and UAMC – South Campus.
Kennedy Oehlert, who comes to Tucson from Wisconsin, has extensive experience in emergency/trauma nursing, forensic nursing and as a nurse leader.
She is seeking a doctorate in nursing practice in health care innovation and leadership from the University of Minnesota. She received her bachelor’s degree in nursing from the Carroll Columbia College of Nursing in Milwaukee in 1987.
Before joining UAMC, she was a leadership coach and national speaker with the Studer Group, a health-care consulting organization that works to improve the patient experience. She has written and presented widely on such topics, UAMC said in a news release.
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DeConcini McDonald Yetwin & Lacy announces the addition of associate Shijie Feng to the firm’s Tucson office.
Feng, a native of Shanghai, China, earned her B.A. in ethics, politics and economics from Yale University.
In law school at the University of Arizona, she participated on the National Appellate Advocacy Moot Court team and served as the articles editor for the Arizona Law Review.
Feng is a Judge Thomas Tang Writing Competition winner and also received the Richard Roberts Memorial Scholarship while at UA. Her note, “Madness and Mayhem: Reforming the Mental Health Care System in Arizona,” was published in 2012.
She worked as a judicial clerk for Judge Patricia K. Norris at the Arizona Court of Appeals, Division One before joining the DeConcini firm.
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The adjutant general of the Arizona National Guard announced a new leader for the 162nd Fighter Wing at Tucson International Airport.
Col. Howard “Philip” Purcell will serve as commander of the Arizona Air National Guard’s international F-16 Fighting Falcon training wing.
Purcell is currently the vice wing commander of the 192nd Fighter Wing, Virginia Air National Guard.
He is a veteran of Operations Desert Storm and Iraqi Freedom with 26 years of service and more than 3,000 flying hours in the F-16 and F-22 Raptor.
Purcell will be the wing’s 12th commanding officer since its inauguration in 1956 and will replace Brig. Gen. Michael “Mick” McGuire, who departed the wing Sept. 7 to assume duties as adjutant general.
Details of Purcell’s assumption of command will be announced when available, the Guard said.
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Noël Kurtz was named home-show director for the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association.
She will oversee the organization’s twice-yearly home shows, which attract hundreds of exhibitors showcasing the latest in home improvement, gardening and outdoor living, SAHBA said in a news release.
Kurtz was most recently with Meritage Homes as an administrative services manager. Before that she was with Pulte Homes, where she was a lifestyle director for Del Webb, HR generalist and new-home specialist.
Kurtz is a University of Arizona graduate and worked for the UA coordinating new-student orientations and recruitment events for six years, SAHBA’s news release said. Additionally, she co-chaired several major fundraising events for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Oshkosh, Wis., and Columbus, Ohio.
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Bruce Weigold is the new executive director of Community Extension Programs.
Weigold is a retired principal from Amphitheater Public Schools. He received his bachelor of science and master of education degrees from the University of Arizona.
Community Extension Programs has provided family resources since 1970, including before- and after-school programs for elementary children, preschool early-learning centers and summer programs.
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Jennifer L. Pappalardo, DPM, joined the University of Arizona department of surgery division of vascular and endovascular surgery as assistant professor.
She also is a member of the UA Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance team, where she recently completed a fellowship.
A diabetes foot-care specialist, Pappalardo focuses on education and conservative treatment options, with elective surgeries if needed.
She completed her medical studies at Rosalind Franklin University and a residency in podiatric surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center, both in Chicago.
Pappalardo has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals. Her research interests include bioengineered tissue alternatives in treatment of diabetes-related lower-extremity complications.
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Caridad Community Kitchen, a branch of the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona, named Kristen Culliney as life skills instructor/program manager.
Culliney will be responsible for the non-culinary student activity and classroom curriculum for a 10-week job training program.
As program manager, she will oversee the on-site meal and training programs.
Culliney has served as chief operating officer of the Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona and assistant director of undergraduate programs at the University of Arizona, Eller College of Management, the food bank said in a news release.
She earned a bachelor of science degree from the University of Arizona with a major in agriculture and resource economics.
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Tom Yunt was named president and chief executive officer of Sierra Vista-based Wick Communications Co.
The company publishes 28 newspapers and 18 specialty publications in 12 states.
Its Southern Arizona papers include The Daily Territorial, Inside Tucson Business, the Tucson Weekly, the Green Valley News & Sun, the Sahuarita Sun, the Sierra Vista Herald, the Arizona Range News, the Bisbee Review and the Nogales International.
Yunt was most recently president and CEO of Woodward Communications Inc., a multimedia company with media and marketing services businesses in Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin.
Yunt, who is scheduled to start work Monday, replaces John M. Mathew, Wick’s president and CEO since 2001. Company officials say Yunt and Mathew, who resigned in May, will work together through a transition period, The Associated Press reported.
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Meghan Darlinton joined Long Realty’s Golder Ranch office.
Darlinton, who has relocated to Tucson from Phoenix, obtained her Realtor’s license in 2009, and a short sales and foreclosure resource (SFR) designation in 2010.
She focuses on the active adult and resort communities in the northwest Tucson area.
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David Wolsky was named vice president of mortgage lending at Guaranteed Rate.
Wolsky, a licensed mortgage originator with more than 19 years of experience, is the company’s first representative in Tucson, he said in a news release.
He is also the president of Tucson Sunrise Rotary.
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Denis Smirnov
Denis Smirnov, CFP, has joined Gordian Advisors LLC as a financial planner.
Smirnov has more than 11 years of experience in investments and financial planning.
He holds a BBA degree from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
Smirnov worked for six years on Wall Street, most recently in the Equity Strategy group at institutional research firm Sanford Bernstein.
He then spent four years as a financial adviser with Raymond James in Ann Arbor, Mich., where he received a Certified Financial Planner designation. Smirnov also spent 18 months as a proprietary trader.
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Marco Mercaldo
Marco Mercaldo joined the Mercaldo Law Firm. Before relocating to Tucson, Mercaldo practiced in San Diego, where he was rated a top attorney in San Diego magazine, the law firm said in a news release.
He has been Martindale Hubbell AV rated since 2009 and is listed in SuperLawyers magazine, the news release said.
Mercaldo has a B.A. from the University of Arizona and a law degree from the University of San Diego School of Law.
He was an associate/partner at Wingert Grebing Brubaker & Ryan and a partner at Ryan Mercaldo LLP.
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Tari Auletta
Tucson Realty & Trust Co. announced the affiliation of Tari Auletta to the firm.
Auletta brings more than 25 years of experience in the local commercial real estate industry.
Before joining Tucson Realty & Trust Co., she served as vice president at Newmark Grubb Knight Frank’s Tucson office, focusing on office and medical properties. She was previously president of Synergy Commercial Real Estate Inc.
For several years, Auletta has been a CoStar Power Broker in the Tucson Office Market, as well as the winner of the 2010 CCIM Forecast Competition for the Tucson Office Market, Tucson Realty said in a news release.
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Susan Goodman
Susan Goodman joined Mesch, Clark & Rothschild, P.C. Goodman specializes in regulatory and business aspects of health-care law and litigation. Her legal expertise is augmented by over 25 years in hospital operations, medical device sales and bedside nursing, the law firm said in a news release.
Goodman received her juris doctorate from the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, where she graduated with distinction, including Summa Cum Laude and Order of the Coif. In addition, she holds a bachelor of science from the University of Phoenix in business administration and an RN diploma from Bronson Hospital School of Nursing.
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Eric M. Schroeder
Fidelity National Title, a Fortune 500 firm, promoted Eric M. Schroeder to escrow branch operations manager for Pima and Cochise County operations.
Schroeder is responsible for the management of the company’s escrow branch locations and its personnel.
He has 15 years of experience within the escrow and title insurance industry and has worked for Fidelity National Title since April 2010.
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John Rinella was named general manager of the DoubleTree Hotel Tucson at Reid Park, a position he also held from 1997 to 2001.
For the past 10 years he has held general manager positions at hotels in Idaho, Texas and Arizona.
Rinella will oversee a staff of more than 200 and annual revenue of more than $10 million.
Rinella started his career as director of rooms at the Sheraton Colorado Springs and later became director of operations at DoubleTree Guest Suites in Columbus, Ohio, and Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; and general manager of a DoubleTree complex in Orlando, Fla.
Between his Tucson stints, he was general manager of the DoubleTree Boise Riverside, the DoubleTree Hotel El Paso Downtown, and the Nautical Beachfront Resort in Lake Havasu City.
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Kim Challender was named membership services coordinator for the Southern Arizona Home Builders Association. She will oversee member relations and community outreach.
Challender most recently served as marketing director for Organic PR. Before that she was with Masco Cos., where she managed teams recognized for customer service and subcontractor excellence, SAHBA said in a news release.
She has been an active member of SAHBA and served on the Green Builders and Remodelers committee.
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Robin Morales, a music teacher and new hire at Green Field Country Day School, has more than 15 years of experience teaching music performance in Southern Arizona schools, directing both instrumental and choral programs. She earned a doctoral degree in vocal performance from the University of Arizona. She’s also a voice coach, vocalist, conductor and author of “A Performer’s Guide to the American Musical Theater Songs of Kurt Weill,” published in 2008.
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Mike Holmes was named acting director of Arizona Forward’s Southern Regional Council.
Arizona Forward is a business-based environmental public interest organization that advocates for sustainable growth.
Holmes was formerly the executive director for Imagine Greater Tucson, which is a founding member of Arizona Forward.
Holmes’ background includes 15 years of executive management experience in new business development and operations. He also has expertise in strategic planning and communication, marketing analysis and project management, Arizona Forward said in a news release.
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Laura J. Liewen, a new hire of R&A CPAs, is a CPA, tax manager. With 15 years of public accounting experience, she specializes in income tax return preparation, compliance and research for individuals and businesses. Liewen also has experience with compiled and reviewed financial statements.
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Meaghan M. Marshall, an academic coach and new hire at Green Fields Country Day School, previously taught at Laguna Elementary in the Flowing Wells School District and worked summers at the Tucson Children’s Museum. She has a master’s degree in special education from the University of Arizona and a bachelor’s degree from Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania. She’s a behavioral support specialist trained in the Bal-A-Vis-X program, a new program at Green Fields that uses rhythmic exercises to improve students’ concentration and academic performance, the school said in a news release.
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Bethany Goldberg, a new hire by R&A CPAs, is a CPA, client services manager. She holds CPA licenses in Arizona, Texas, and California and has expertise in financial statement audits and accounting services, with a focus on not-for-profit organizations and employee benefits plans.
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Anthony Joseph Hagmann, a history teacher and new hire at Green Fields Country Day School, is a graduate of Columbia University with a bachelor’s degree in American history. He taught history for three years at the American School of Tangier in Morocco. He’s also taught at two public charter schools, Desert Marigold High School in Phoenix and Great Hearts Academies / Mesa Preparatory Academy in Mesa.
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Kaleigh Hotchkiss, a new hire by R&A CPAs, is a CPA, senior audit associate. She has public accounting experience in audit and assurance services. Hotchkiss will be responsible for planning and executing financial statement audits, federal and state compliance audits, and preparation of financial statements.
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Ron Zimmerman joined Cushman &Wakefield | Picor brokerage group.
Zimmerman is a 30-year Tucson commercial real estate veteran, most recently with Newmark Grubb Knight Frank.
He has managed the disposition of hundreds of industrial, retail and office properties in Southern Arizona. He has worked with various districts of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to liquidate commercial real estate properties.
Zimmerman continues to represent financial institutions in the disposition of commercial properties, investors searching for income properties, and represents numerous landlords and sellers of Tucson commercial real estate.
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Alice Vivaldo, a new hire by R&A CPAs, is a CPA, tax associate. She has seven years of experience in the public accounting field, specializing in tax preparation of C-Corp, S-Corp, partnership, trust and individual returns. Vivaldo’s special focus will be in international taxation.
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Jessica Raizk, a new hire by R&A CPAs, is a senior audit associate. She specializes in for-profit and not-for-profit financial statement audits, employee benefit plan audits, overhead rate audits, and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.
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LawLytics’ new director of attorney strategy Jared Jorde, was in the 2013 graduating class at the UA College of Law.
Jorde clerked for a U.S. District Court judge in New Mexico and won the Richard Grand Legal Writing Competition in 2011.
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Dr. David G. Armstrong, director of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance, has been named a 2013 Raine Visiting Professor by the University of Western Australia.
The award is given to top international scholars to participate in collaborative seminars, keynotes, research and workshops. Armstrong is the first podiatric surgeon to receive the award.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Luis Alvarado as an advisor in Tucson.
He holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses, has extensive experience in the insurance industry and a strong background in marketing and sales, Farmers said in a news release.
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Kit Cramer, (University of Arizona BA 1985, Juris Doctorate 1989) becomes director of marketing at local tech start-up, LawLytics.com after a 20-year career in advertising as a copywriter and creative director in Chicago, San Francisco and on Madison Avenue.
He has won numerous creative awards, including a Clio for a radio spot he wrote and co-produced for Coca-Cola. Cramer’s work has been featured in Leurzer’s Archive of Worldwide Ads, Communication Arts Advertising Annual and on the Super Bowl.
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LawLytics’ new director of education Brian Tedder was in the 2013 graduating class at the UA College of Law.
Tedder worked as a professional photojournalist before law school, and while at the UA clerked for a judge at the Arizona Court of Appeals.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Ruben Mada as an advisor in Tucson.
He holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses, has extensive experience in the insurance industry and a strong background in marketing and sales, Farmers said in a news release.
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Dr. Paul Gordon has been selected to serve as co-chair of the Test Materials Development Committee for the United States Medical Licensing Examination Step 2 Clinical Skills Exam.
Gordon is the director of the doctor and patient block and professor of family and community medicine at the UA College of Medicine.
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Dr. Daniel Roe has been named director of medical affairs for Copper Queen Community Hospital in Bisbee.
Roe, a five-year employee of the hospital, is also working on his MBA.
Roe was instrumental in creating the hospital’s tele-medicine programs, which allow patients to receive care that otherwise would not be available in rural Bisbee and surrounding communities.
In addition to his new role, Roe will continue as medical director of the Emergency Department.
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Dr. Ryan C. Teeple has joined Southern Arizona Ophthalmology, 5635 E. Grant Road, as a new partner.
He joins his father-in-law, Dr. Harry Schlosser, who has been in solo practice since founding the business in 1984.
Teeple grew up in Tucson and studied at the University of Arizona for both his undergraduate and medical degrees. He completed his residency in ophthalmology at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School and spent most of his time at Parkland Hospital in Dallas.
Teeple specializes in cataract surgery, the treatment of glaucoma and diabetes-related eye problems.
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Dr. Lesta Whalen has joined the University of Arizona faculty as assistant professor, section of critical care.
As a pediatric intensivist, Whalen will care for critically ill children in the pediatric intensive care units at the University of Arizona Medical Center- Diamond Children’s and Tucson Medical Center.
Whalen earned her medical degree from Sanford School of Medicine at the University of South Dakota. She went on to complete her residency in pediatrics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and a fellowship in pediatric critical care medicine at Seattle Children’s Hospital.
She focuses on improving quality of patient care and communication in pediatrics and pediatric critical care. She has specific interests in the care of pediatric patients with cardiac defects.
Whalen is board-certified in pediatrics and board-eligible in pediatric critical care.
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Dr. Mridula Aggarwal has joined the University of Arizona faculty as clinical assistant professor, section of hospital medicine.
As a pediatric hospitalist, Aggarwal will care for hospitalized children at the University of Arizona Medical Center- Diamond Children’s and Tucson Medical Center.
She completed medical school at the Medical College of Virginia School of Medicine and a residency in pediatrics at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York.
Before joining the UA, Aggarwal worked at El Rio Health Center, St. Mary’s Hospital and Tucson Medical Center in internal medicine and pediatrics. She is board certified in pediatrics and internal medicine.
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Trey Wesson was promoted to senior account manager at Anchor Wave Internet Solutions, LLC.
Wesson started with Anchor Wave in 2012 as an online marketing consultant. He is a Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert.
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Dr. Jeffrey Rein has joined the University of Arizona faculty as clinical assistant professor, sction of hospital medicine.
As a pediatric hospitalist, Rein will care for hospitalized children at the University of Arizona Medical Center- Diamond Children’s and Tucson Medical Center.
Rein earned his medical degree from Harvard Medical School and his residency in pediatrics from Mount Sinai Medical Center (New York).
Before joining the UA, he worked at El Rio Health Center, St. Mary’s Hospital and Tucson Medical Center. He is board certified in pediatrics and internal medicine.
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Dr. Andrea Hobson has joined the University of Arizona faculty as clinical assistant professor, section of neonatology.
As a neonatologist, Hobson will care for critically ill newborns and premature babies in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the University of Arizona Medical Center-Diamond Children’s and Northwest Hospital.
Hobson earned her medical degree from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and completed her residency in pediatrics at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson. She went on to complete a fellowship in neonatology at the University of Florida.
She has research interests in hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy and therapeutic hypothermia, and is board certified in pediatrics.
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Dr. Michele Ley, assistant professor in the UA Department of Surgery, has been appointed director of the Breast Surgery Program at the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
Ley will direct breast surgical services and oversee the development of collaborative breast surgical research and educational initiatives.
She will focus the program’s efforts on:
• Increasing patient participation in clinical trials and introducing new investigator-initiated clinical trials.
• Educating the community at large about breast cancer and treatment options.
• Improving clinical operations for the breast surgeons and the breast health team.
• Providing training for medical students and residents in medicine, radiology, surgery, radiation oncology, pathology and gynecology.
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John Kintz is managing director of the project finance group for Solon Corp., responsible for commercial and utility-scale solar project financings.
Before joining Solon, Kintz was a director of project finance at SunPower Corp.; and vice president of portfolio trading and acquisitions at Bank of America.
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Jeff Calabro is senior director of procurement and acquisitions for Solon Corp.
Calabro previously was senior director of procurement and asset management at PsomasFMG. He has more than 14 years of experience in the photovoltaic industry, having worked for Kyocera Solar, Canadian Solar, SunEdison and Amonix.
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Katherine “Missy” Bowden has joined the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona as chief financial officer.
She is responsible for managing the financial operations of CFSA, which includes planning and strategic development, overseeing systems for reporting program and financial activities, and safeguarding assets.
Bowden brings 25 years of experience in bank accounting and financial reporting to the position. For the past 17 years she has been chief financial officer of the Bank of Tucson.
She has been a board member of La Paloma Family Services for 11 years, serving in roles including secretary, vice chair and finance committee member. She has also served on the boards of the Arizona Center for the Study of Children and Families and Kids-Aid.
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Jed N. Lightcap CPA has joined Regier Carr & Monroe, LLP as a tax manager.
His responsibilities include review and preparation of complex income tax returns, tax and general accounting compliance and planning, and training and supervision of staff.
Lightcap has more than 12 years of accounting experience, in the public and private sectors. He earned his bachelor’s degree in accounting from The University of Missouri.
Alexandra ‘Allie’ O’Brien
Alexandra ‘Allie’ O’Brien has joined the University of Arizona Steele Children’s Research Center as development coordinator.
O’Brien will support the center’s director of development on fundraising and development activities. She will also serve as a liaison and representative to volunteer groups and donors who support the Steele Center; and she will assist with its expansion to Phoenix.
O’Brien recently graduated from the UA Eller College of Management with a bachelor of science degree in business management with an emphasis in global studies.
Jennifer Brack
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Hilton Tucson El Conquistador Golf & Tennis Resort has named Jennifer Brack as marketing manager of the AAA Four Diamond Award resort.
Brack was most recently the marketing manager at The Westin La Cantera Hill Country Resort in San Antonio. She also held a previous position with Tapatio Springs Resort & Conference Center.
Brack will manage and oversee all resort collateral, as well as digital and print marketing for the resort, conference center, tennis and golf facilities, and the country club.
Mike Polletta
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Local association management company Cadden Community Management announced that Mike Polletta has joined the Tucson office as director of sales and marketing.
Cadden “is responsible for maintaining and increasing property values of homes in approximately 200 communities in Tucson, Green Valley and Sierra Vista,” the company said in a news release.
Polletta has lived in Tucson since 1996. His background is in graphic design, print production and sales.
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Matt Brode: Matt Brode was named chief meteorologist for KVOA-TV/News 4 Tucson (NBC).
Brode has been working as consulting chief meteorologist at KVOA since rejoining the station in May, coming from the CBS affiliate in Portland, Ore.
He began his broadcast career at the CBS affiliate in Duluth, Minn., then joined the ABC affiliate in West Palm Beach, Fla.
He previously worked at KVOA as a morning and midday meteorologist from 2006-2010.
Brode holds dual degrees from the University of Arizona: a bachelor of arts in communications and a bachelor of science in atmospheric sciences.
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Tracy Goggin: Tracy Goggin was appointed assistant administrator of clinical operations, pediatrics, at the University of Arizona Health Network. Goggin will oversee the pediatric service line revenue cycle to include non-payor contract negotiations and management, as well as work closely with health network’s corporate leadership on global corporate projects, the UA said in a news release.
Goggin has worked with the University of Arizona Department of Pediatrics since 1995.
She started as reimbursement coordinator and for 14 years served as operations, reimbursement and coding manager, providing oversight of all clinical operations and revenue cycle activities for the department
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Bill VandenBerg: Bill VandenBerg joined Lang Wyatt Construction as director of development.
He will represent the company in developing and nurturing client relationships through customer service.
VandenBerg brings more than 40 years of commercial construction and management experience. Proficient in business development and project management, he is also a LEED accredited professional as well as ASHE and MSHA certified, the company said.
He previously owned a general contracting firm in Michigan and was a licensed builder in multiple states as well as a real estate broker.
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Ray P. Montoya: Ray P. Montoya, PE, has joined Engineering and Environmental Consultants Inc. as director of water and wastewater services in Arizona.
Montoya has more than 15 years of experience in project management, planning design, and construction services for water and wastewater projects and was previously with Kennedy/Jenks Consultants.
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Julie A. Sherrill has been named head of St. Gregory College Preparatory School. She replaced Rick Belding, who retired in June.
Sherrill formerly served as principal at Sunrise Drive Elementary School in the Catalina Foothills School District, a post she held since 2003.
Sherrill began her career as a high school teacher in California and Ohio after receiving a bachelor's degree from California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo, Calif. She earned a master's degree in education administration and a Ph.D. in professional development of teachers from Ohio State University.
Sherrill served as an administrator at Ohio State before going on to serve as a high school assistant principal and a middle school principal in Ohio.
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David G. Hutchens
The Board of Directors of Tucson-based UNS Energy Corp. (NYSE: UNS) has named President David G. Hutchens as the company's chief operating officer.
The new, second title reflects Hutchens' direct oversight of the business operations of UNS Energy and its subsidiaries, including Tucson Electric Power (TEP) and UniSource Energy Services (UES), the company said in a news release.
Hutchens served five years as a nuclear submarine officer in the U.S. Navy and worked as an engineer before joining TEP as an energy analyst in July 1995. He later held management positions overseeing wholesale energy sales and, in January 2007, was named vice president of wholesale energy and UNS Gas, an operating subsidiary of UES. He became vice president of energy efficiency and resource planning in May 2009 and rose to executive vice president in March 2011 before being named president in December 2012.
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Lisa Lovallo, Southern Arizona market vice president for Cox Communications, has been named the 2013-2014 United Way of Tucson and Southern Arizona campaign chairwoman.
Lovallo grew up in Tucson and is a graduate of the University of Arizona. In 2008, Lovallo was named vice president and system manager for Cox in Southern Arizona.
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Go Web Solutions has hired Jameel Bokhari as web design project manager.
Bokhari will be responsible for Web design, graphic design and project coordination, focusing mainly on Wordpress website development. He previously worked at Adam D Technologies, and he also owned his own business.
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Anne E. Cress, professor of cellular and molecular medicine and radiation oncology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson, has been named interim director of the University of Arizona Cancer Center.
Cress, who also is deputy dean for research affairs at the UA College of Medicine-Tucson, succeeds Dr. David S. Alberts, who served as cancer center director for more than eight years until his recent retirement. Alberts remains at the UA Cancer Center to conduct research.
Cress was named a research associate in 1980 and became a research assistant professor in 1981, both in the UA's Division of Radiation Oncology. She was named an associate professor in 1990 and attained full tenured professorship in 1996. She has been a Cancer Center member since 1987.
Cress also served as the College of Medicine's associate dean for research and academic affairs for six years.
Her research, which has been supported by federal and American Cancer Society grants since 1981, is focused on stopping tumor cells and preventing them from spreading throughout the body.
Cress received her bachelor of science in microbiology/chemistry and a doctorate in biochemistry/molecular biology from the UA.
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Go Web Solutions has hired Stacey Harding as marketing and sales specialist.
Harding is responsible for selling products and services, as well as managing the social media and internet marketing. She formerly was a sales executive for the Arizona Daily Star and has more than 20 years of marketing and advertising experience.
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Paul Cicala has been named sports director for KVOA-TV/News 4 Tucson (NBC), starting Aug. 19. Cicala joins KVOA from KVIA-TV (ABC) in El Paso, Texas. Cicala had previously worked in Tucson for KVOA and for KOLD-TV.
Prior to working in El Paso and Tucson, Cicala also worked for Fox Network Sports in Hollywood, NBC Network News in Burbank, Calif., and ABC affiliates in Palm Springs, Calif., and Las Vegas.
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The Westin La Paloma Resort and Spa has named Glenn Sampert general manager.
Sampert previously served as the general manager of the Sheraton Nassau Beach Resort and Casino, a 694-room property in Nassau, Bahamas.
A native of Vancouver, British Columbia, he has been a member of the Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide team since 1998, including roles at the Westin Los Angeles Airport, The Westin Maui Resort and Spa, and the Sheraton Hamilton Hotel in Ontario, Canada, after beginning his career at the Sutton Place Hotel in Vancouver.
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Alan Fischer: Arizona Public Media announced the addition of Alan Fischer as a host of “AZ Illustrated Science,” a news magazine that airs Tuesdays at 6:30 p.m. on PBS Channel 6.
Fischer will join host Jane Poynter to share hosting duties.
Fischer is public information officer at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute.
He formerly worked as a reporter at the Arizona Daily Star and the Tucson Citizen, and holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Arizona.
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Enrique Aldana: At Arizona Public Media (AZPM), Enrique Aldana has been promoted to director of development, where he will solicit donors to secure philanthropic gifts.
Aldana joined AZPM as associate director of development in June 2012.
Previously, he worked for Tucson Newspapers, Inc. as advertising sales manager since 2004.
Before that, he as an executive with Xerox Corp., an account executive with Lincare, a customer support specialist for IBM and an HR specialist for Tascor.
Aldana is a graduate of the UA’s Eller College of Management.
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Brandon Cathey: Loews Ventana Canyon has named Brandon Cathey to head its Flying V Bar & Grill as the chef de cuisine.
“While the restaurant’s focus on sourcing from local and regional farmers, and popular menu items like the restaurant’s tableside guacamole, barbeque ribs and chili relleno will continue on in the Flying V tradition, Cathey plans to add his own twist by returning to the Flying V’s old ranch style of cuisine with Sonoran desert influence,” Ventana Canyon said in a news release.
Cathey, who has served as the restaurant’s sous chef since June 2012, brings nearly eight years of culinary experience. He has been sous chef and pastry chef at Maynards Market and Kitchen and chef de cuisine at Hacienda del Sol, among other positions.
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Judy Kaiser: Judy Kaiser “returned to her passion, closing escrows” at Fidelity National Title, the company said in a news release.
Kaiser has been in the real estate industry for 32 years, including 28 years with Fidelity National Title, most recently as escrow manager.
She is a member of Commercial Real Estate Women’s Association and Metropolitan Pima Alliance, and is a Certified Commercial Investment member.
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Dave Barber: Regier Carr & Monroe LLP announced the appointment of Dave Barber, CPA/CFE, as partner-in-charge of the Tucson office.
Barber has been with the accounting firm more than 11 years, becoming a partner in 2005.
As a certified fraud examiner, Barber assists clients in strengthening their internal controls and provides consulting and litigation support, the company said in a news release.
Barber, a graduate of the University of Illinois-Springfield, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the AICPA Employee Benefit Audit Quality Center, Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants, Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Healthcare Financial Managers Association.
He is active in the Tucson Sunrise Rotary Club, Caballeros del Sol and Catalina Council of Boy Scouts.
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Dave Niichel: Dave Niichel has joined TCI Wealth Advisors Inc. as a financial adviser.
Niichel is responsible for all aspects of managing client finances, including researching, analyzing and preparing financial plans.
He received his bachelor of arts in finance from Washington State University.
Niichel has an extensive background in medical and pharmaceutical sales and marketing, the firm said in a news release. He has supported local charities including Child and Family Resources, San Miguel High School and Youth on Their Own
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Anthony Crespo: Anthony Crespo is the new director of the Diocese of Tucson Catholic Cemeteries Inc.
He replaces James DeCastro, who left the position in mid-April.
Crespo will oversee operations at the cemeteries operated within the Diocese of Tucson, which include Holy Hope Cemetery, 3555 N. Oracle Road, and Our Lady of the Desert/All Faiths Cemetery, 2151 S. Avenida Los Reyes.
Crespo was owner and managing partner of Crespo & Jirrels Funeral Home in Baytown, Texas, for the last 12 years. A third-generation funeral director, he has a long affiliation with the Knights of Columbus, the National Funeral Directors Association and the Serra Club of East Harris County, Texas.
He is fluent in Spanish.
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Tara Gibson: Tara Gibson is now marketing and community relations coordinator for Tu Nidito Child and Family Resources. She will work on community partnerships, marketing, public relations, fundraising and planning of the El Tour de Tucson Ride for a Child program. She has experience in both private and nonprofit business.
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Gerald Lankin has been named Tucson office director at Helix House Internet Marketing Agency.
Prior to joining the firm he was president of Baja Nueva Design and Decorating Studio in San Felipe, Mexico.
Lankin has more than 25 years of experience in the securities and stock-exchange industry, including serving as vice president of wealth management for Smith Barney – Citigroup in Scottsdale, he said in a news release.
He attended Temple University and the University of Pennsylvania-Wharton School.
He is a past grand master of Masons in Arizona and immediate past president of the Tucson Pima Rotary Club.
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Dan Derksen, M.D., professor and chair of the Public Health Policy and Management section of the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, has been appointed to the Walter H. Pearce Endowed Chair and director of the Center for Rural Health.
Derksen joined the College of Public Health in 2012. His health-services research interests include covering the uninsured, enhancing access to quality care, reducing health disparities, and implementing community and team-based health services for rural, underserved and vulnerable populations.
He serves on the American Academy of Family Physicians Commission on Governmental Advocacy and the American Hospital Association’s Governing Council Section on Rural or Small Hospitals.
He graduated from the UA College of Medicine in 1984 and did his family-medicine residency at the University of New Mexico, where he worked as a faculty member for 25 years.
In 2011, Gov. Susana Martinez appointed Derksen director of the New Mexico Office of Health Care Reform, where he submitted the state’s health insurance exchange establishment proposal funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Derksen completed a Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Fellowship in 2008 with then-U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.
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Joe Sprague has been named executive director of the Hermitage No-Kill Cat Shelter.
Before joining the Hermitage, Sprague worked in Tucson as a private consultant to a variety of civic and arts organizations.
Previously he spent 11 years in Chicago as consultant to animal welfare, civic and arts groups and 11 years as the executive director of the Washington County SPCA in Hudson Falls, N.Y.
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John-Michael Sauer joined the Critical Path Institute as executive director of the Predictive Safety Testing Consortium, C-Path's longest-standing research group.
Sauer, who received his doctorate in pharmacology and toxicology from the University of Arizona, most recently led research teams at Pfizer-CovX in San Diego, and at Covance in Chandler.
The safety-testing consortium brings together pharmaceutical companies to share and validate each other's safety testing methods under the advisement of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and counterpart European and Japanese regulatory agencies.
Before his work at Pfizer-CovX and Covance, Sauer held several senior positions at Elan Corp. and Eli Lilly and Co. He also served as the project leader for the National Toxicology Program within the UA Center for Toxicology.
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Itzik Becher was named director of development for UApresents, the University of Arizona's professional performing arts presenter.
Becher is founder of the Phoenix-based artist management company Aviv Productions, Inc.
He will lead UApresents' fundraising efforts, which include private solicitations, event sponsorship, grant writing and a membership program.
Becher will also coordinate outreach programs. He was instrumental in launching an outreach program used in 22,000 schools in North America and Israel, UApresents said in a news release.
He has consulted for the Australia Council for the Arts, New Zealand Arts Commission and the Hong Kong Dance Company, and served on the boards of the Western Arts Alliance and the New Jersey Performing Arts Center. His book, "Living Tradition," sold more than 100,000 copies.
He holds a bachelor's degree in comparative and Hebrew literature from Haifa University and a master's degree in mass communication from New York University.
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Kelle M. Maslyn was named director of community relations in Arizona State University's Tucson office.
Maslyn will promote ASU's relationships and interactions with key business groups, elected officials and decision makers in Pima County. "She also will focus on Sun Corridor megaregion initiatives linking the Phoenix and Tucson metropolitan areas," ASU said in a news release.
ASU's College of Public Programs has served greater Tucson through its School of Social Work for nearly 40 years. In January, the college expanded its offerings in the Tucson area to include undergraduate and professional degrees leading to careers in public service and nonprofit leadership.
Before joining ASU, Maslyn was corporate affairs manager at Comcast of Arizona, Inc. in Tucson for the past 10 years.
She served as executive director of the Marana Chamber of Commerce in Marana from 1999 to 2003.
Maslyn is a vice president on the board of directors of Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson and Tohono Chul Park. She also sits on the Governor's Commission on Service & Volunteerism and the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Candidate Evaluation Committee, and chairs Citizen Accountability for Regional Transportation.
She earned her bachelor's degree in journalism from Northern Arizona University.
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Steve Nash is the new executive director of the Tucson Osteopathic Medical Foundation.
He replaces Lew Riggs, who retired as director April 30 after serving 25 years.
A native Arizonan, Nash majored in journalism and history at Northern Arizona University and earned a law degree from the University of Nebraska at Lincoln.
Nash comes to the foundation from the Pima County Medical Society, where he was executive director for nearly 22 years. Upon learning that he was leaving, the Medical Society created an award in his name that will be given regularly to the non-physician who has most contributed to the improvement of health care in Tucson.
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Waterfall Economidis, a Tucson-based law firm, announced that Jill D. Wiley has been appointed to the board of directors for Meritas, a global alliance of business law firms.
Wiley will be responsible for reviewing and establishing policy and setting strategy for the alliance. She will also serve as a liaison to member firms on administrative issues.
The Meritas board of directors comprises 21 lawyers from its member firms around the world.
Wiley practices in the area of estate planning, trusts, probate administration, estate and trust litigation, and charitable foundations. She earned her law degree from University of Arizona.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Dustin Zimmerman as a new adviser in Tucson:
Zimmermann, who holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
He has specialized in the sales and marketing industry for more than 12 years.
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The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Jay Hansen as a new adviser in Tucson:
Hansen, who also holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
He has specialized in human resources and worked with non-profit organizations.
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Attorney Edward Moomjian II joined the Rusing Lopez & Lizardi law firm, bringing expertise in complex commercial litigation, prosecuting and defending class actions, employment law and legal malpractice litigation.
He is a contributing author to the fourth edition of Newberg on Class Actions, the leading class-action treatise, the law firm said in a news release.
Before becoming a lawyer, Moomjian worked as a mechanical engineer in the aerospace and electronic medical device industries.
He received a mechanical engineering degree from Arizona State University and a law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law, serving on its Law Review. He was a law clerk to Judge Thomas C. Kleinschmidt of the Arizona Court of Appeals.
Moomjian practiced most recently with the Udall Law Firm in Tucson, and is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale Hubbell, its highest rating.
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McGlamery Longley Wealth Management LLC, a Tucson-based financial services firm, appointed Beau McGlamery as managing coordinator of business operations. He will also serve as senior agent for Meditunion, the firm's Medicare insurance services division.
McGlamery has management experience with the Tucson Orthopedic Institute, overseeing the digital file transfer of medical records. He is licensed in life and health insurance, proficient in Medicare and individual health insurance, and led the Life Insurance Department at Berwick Insurance Group LLC.
He holds a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Arizona.
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Emerge Center Against Domestic Abuse named Ed Mercurio-Sakwa as CEO.
Mercurio-Sakwa has served the organization in various roles including director of program operations and chief operating officer since 2008.
He will be responsible for providing fiscal, strategic and operational leadership.
Mercurio-Sakwa has worked in the Tucson nonprofit community since 1997, most recently at Every Voice in Action Foundation promoting youth activism and leadership.
He is a graduate of Cholla High School and the University of Arizona. Mercurio-Sakwa earned his master of business administration at James Madison University. Prior to returning to Tucson in 1997, he worked for several nonprofits including as executive director for two domestic violence programs.
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Jesse Vankurin joined the West Press team as Web and multimedia supervisor.
Vankurin has 20 years of Web development experience and law and liberal arts degrees.
Heading up the firm's Internet division, Vankurin will oversee website design and development and multimedia projects for Tucson area and out-of-state businesses. His primary focus will be building responsive websites, e-commerce development and search engine optimization.
He has experience in Web design, cutting-edge software and video manipulation, and in the back-end coding languages needed to bring the vision to completion, West Press said in a news release.
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Janet Wood has joined Catalina Community Services as marketing manager.
She will develop promotion and branding strategies, public relations, social media and community outreach.
Wood worked for World Care as marketing/development manager for three years. Previously she worked for Tucson Newspapers Inc. (the Arizona Daily Star and the former Tucson Citizen) from 1991 to 2009, including 16 years as manager of the Newspapers In Education program.
She has also served on nonprofit boards including Foundation for Animals in Risk and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Wood received her bachelor's and master's degrees in education from the UA, with additional graduate work in media communications at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School.
Catalina Community Services is a nonprofit organization providing assistance to residents in northwest Tucson, Catalina, southeast Pinal County, Vail and neighboring rural communities.
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Khole Lamey of Tucson has been named a financial representative for Country Financial.
Lamey, who recently completed the company's training, earned an associate's degree in business from Pima Community College this year.
Lamey will offer auto, home, life and long-term care insurance, annuities, mutual funds and college funding options, investment management, retirement planning and trust services.
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Todd Rockoff will join Tucson Jewish Community Center as chief executive officer on July 8.
He will succeed Ken Light, who has led the JCC as CEO for more than 27 years. A special event, "Lighting the J's Way," will be held on Oct. 12 to honor Light's tenure.
Rockoff brings more than 28 years of related experience and spent the last 11 years at the Shaw JCC of Akron, Ohio, where he served as executive director since 2002.
He has received several honors from the JCC field in program development and is part of the national training staff for JCC Association in staff development and customer service.
Rockoff received his bachelor's degree from the State University of New York at Cortland.
The Tucson JCC employs nearly 200 people on its 100,000-square-foot campus.
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Todd Camenisch, associate professor in the department of pharmacology and toxicology at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has assumed the new part-time position of director of economic development and strategic partnerships.
Camenisch is the college's liaison to businesses and other organizations interested in developing relationships with the college through research, educational outreach and innovative services.
Camenisch joined the College of Pharmacy faculty in 2002. He also is deputy director of the UA Superfund Research Program and a member of the Bio5 Institute at the UA.
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Robert Lara, AIA, has joined GLHN Architects & Engineers Inc. as architecture department manager.
Lara will share leadership of the firm's growing architecture section with Brian Hagedon, AIA, who was named director of architecture in 2012, and David Grigsby, AIA, principal in architecture.
Lara brings more than 35 years of award-winning architectural design and project management experience, primarily in the K-12, higher education and health-care sectors, the firm said in a news release.
GLHN is celebrating 50 years of professional service in 2013.
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John Capehart will join Guardvant Inc., a provider of mining-safety technology, as vice president of global business development.
Guardvant's North American corporate office is in Tucson.
Capehart has more than 14 years of operational mining experience in precious metals and industrial minerals and experience in fatigue monitoring and proximity detection technology, the company said in a news release. He also has market development experience in fleet-safety-monitoring systems and high-precision GPS applications. He holds a bachelor's from University of Nevada-Reno and a master's from Michigan Technological University, both in mining engineering.
Capehart was formerly vice president of business development for Seeing Machines and has worked in business development for Caterpillar Technologies and Advanced Mining Technologies.
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Teresa Nowak
BMO Private Bank has announced that Teresa Nowak has joined the Tucson office as a senior private banker.
She will be responsible for providing tailored private banking services to high-net-worth individuals, families and organizations, including closely-held and family-owned businesses, as part of an overall personal wealth-management strategy.
Nowak has more than 15 years of banking experience in the Tucson market. She earned her bachelor's degree from the University of Arizona and her master's in business administration from the University of Phoenix. She also graduated at the top of her bank management class at Western States School of Banking, BMO said in a news release.
Nowak has been named a Woman of Influence by Inside Tucson Business and an Emerging Leader by the Arizona Bankers Association.
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Gloria Rich
Staff Matters, a Tucson-owned and -operated firm, has hired Gloria Rich as vice president of the light industrial and administrative staffing services division for the state of Arizona. Rich has more than 20 years of industry experience.
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Angela Brown
The Parsons Group has announced that Angela Brown is the new executive director of Hundred Palms Tucson.
Brown has worked as a licensed practical nurse since 1974 specializing in geriatrics and memory care. She previously served as assisted-living director at Hundred Palms.
Brown attended Willoughby-Eastlake School of Practical Nursing in Willoughby, Ohio.
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The Northwest Fire District's elected governing board approved a contract to name Michael J. Brandt as fire chief. The two-year contract is effective May 28.
Brandt has served as the district's interim fire chief since Oct. 6, following the retirement of Jeff Piechura.
Brandt has more than 35 years of fire/EMS service in the Tucson area. He previously served as Northwest Fire's assistant chief of operations and administered the Operations/Suppression, Emergency Medical Services, Special Operations/Wildland, Training, and Communications divisions.
He is a magna cum laude graduate of Arizona State University in fire administration, and of the Arizona State School of Public Affairs Advanced Public Executive Program, the district said in a news release.
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Tucson-based Modular Mining Systems has appointed Greg Lanz as general manager, North America.
Lanz, who has more than 15 years of experience in mining and information technology, previously was Modular's manager of global sales.
He also has prior experience in the North American region as an account manager and project manager, dating to the region's inception in 2002. He began his Modular career as a project engineer.
Before joining Modular in 1999, Lanz worked as a mining engineer at Marston & Marston.
He received his B.Sc. in mining and mechanical engineering from Queen's University at Kingston, in Ontario, Canada.
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The Arizona Technology Council has elected Roger Vogel, chairman, president and CEO of Tucson-based Vante Medical Technologies, as its board chair.
Vogel is the first chairman from a Tucson company for the Phoenix-based council, which has more than 700 members statewide.
Vogel joined Vante, a developer of precision manufacturing systems for the medical device industry, in March 2005. He previously had a 20-year career with IBM Corp., where his last position was vice president and general manager of IBM's Tucson data-storage development center.
He holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Vogel is vice chairman of the Southern Arizona Leadership Council, vice chairman of the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona and a director of the Campus Research Corp., a nonprofit organization that manages the University of Arizona's research parks.
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The Pima County Juvenile Court has chosen Kim Smith as its new public information officer.
Smith will act as a liaison between the court and the media, while also keeping members of the general public up to date on programs aimed at helping youths involved in the courts, whether they are going through the dependency or delinquency system.
Smith, a former Arizona Daily Star reporter with more than 20 years of journalism experience, will produce a quarterly communication bulletin, update the court's website and use social media to help get the court's message out.
In 2007, Smith was one of the Star's Employees of the Year, and in 2012, she received an award from the Arizona Press Club for news blog writing.
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Arizona Party Rental announced the promotion of Leah Morin from store manager and event specialist to director of showroom operations and senior event specialist.
Morin, an eight-year veteran of Arizona Party Rental, worked in the hospitality, restaurant and resort industry. She was catering manager for Red Sky restaurant, and before that held manager positions at The Lodge at Ventana Canyon, Boulders Resort, the Peaks at Telluride and Carefree Resorts.
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Arizona Party Rental announced the promotion of Paul Lofgreen from operations manager to vice president and general manager.
Before joining the company eight years ago, Lofgreen held positions as warehouse supervisor for Parties Plus, technical support representative for AOL, underground miner for Stillwater Mining Co. and underground development supervisor for BHP Copper Co.
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Matt Williams has joined STG Design.
He holds a bachelor of science in architecture from the Georgia Institute of Technology, as well as both a professional bachelor's and post-professional master's of architecture from the University of Arizona.
Williams has worked on projects such as the Rialto Block Renovation in downtown Tucson, which included renovation of restaurant and office interiors. He has also worked on small landscape architecture projects and custom home designs and remodels.
While at the UA, he was involved in the design and construction of a team entry into the 2009 Department of Energy-sponsored Solar Decathlon competition in Washington, D.C.
His strengths include extensive 3D modeling and Revit experience, STG said in a news release.
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Bob Malin has joined Tucson-based Chestnut Construction as director of project development.
He will be responsible for marketing, new client development and pre-construction services.
Malin's experience includes the planning, development and construction of retail, office, industrial, R&D, medical office, hospital and communications facilities as well as solar power plants, Chestnut Construction said in a news release.
Originally from San Franciso, Malin moved to Tucson in 2002 "and has since worked closely with many of Tucson's owners, developers, architects, engineers and subcontractors."
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Bank of America has named Adriana Kong Romero market president for Tucson and Southern Arizona.
Romero "will work with company leaders across the region to help deliver a wide range of global financial services," the bank said in a news release. She also will oversee corporate philanthropic giving, community development lending and investing, environmental initiatives, diversity efforts, arts and culture projects, and employee volunteerism.
In addition, Romero is a senior client manager for Bank of America Merrill Lynch's Business Banking Group in Tucson and Southern Arizona.
She joined Bank of America 14 years ago as a teller, and has served premier banking clients in global wealth and investment management.
Romero is on the board of the Lohse branch of YMCA of Southern Arizona; a committee member for the Tucson Metro Chamber; and a member of the University of Arizona Eller College Associates.
She is a graduate of the UA with a B.S. in finance and holds an M.S. in organizational management from University of Phoenix.
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Brian Erstad, professor and interim head in the department of pharmacy practice and science at the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy, has been promoted to head of the department.
A member of the department since 1988, Erstad has served as interim head since February 2012. He was assistant department head from 1997 through 2011.
He also is a clinical pharmacist in critical care at the University of Arizona Medical Center-University Campus and the program director of the college's postgraduate year two critical care pharmacy residency there.
Erstad is a member of the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee and a steering committee member of the United States Critical Illness and Injury Trials Group, the UA said in a news release.
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Kasey Nye has joined Mesch, Clark & Rothschild P.C. as a partner in the law firm.
Nye has been practicing bankruptcy and restructuring law for more than a decade, representing large and small business and nonprofit entities as debtors and creditors in Arizona and throughout the U.S. He joins the bankruptcy section of the firm.
Nye chairs the Tucson Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Policy Committee on Budget, Finance and Legal Issues, and previously served on the chamber's Government Affairs and Candidate Evaluation Committees. He was recently named Volunteer of the Month for March by the Volunteer Lawyers Program, which he has served since 2002.
In 2006, Nye was recognized by the University of Arizona Alumni Association as Outstanding Young Alumni Volunteer.
He received a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and Spanish from the University of Buffalo and his juris doctorate from the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona.
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Thom Cope has joined Mesch, Clark & Rothschild P.C. as a partner in the law firm.
Cope, who is part of the firm's employment section, has more than 40 years' experience in employment and labor law, with an emphasis on litigation and representing clients before administrative agencies such entities as the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and National Labor Relations Board.
Cope teaches classes at the University of Phoenix and was an adjunct professor in labor law at Pima Community College. He is a fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and authored "The Executive Guide to Employment Practices," third edition, the law firm said in a news release. He has been a judge in the area of public employment law.
Cope received a bachelor of arts degree in political science/history with honors from Syracuse University and his juris doctorate from the Nebraska College of Law.
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Carondelet Foundation has hired Jessica Galow as corporate and foundation development officer.
Galow will develop and strengthen foundation relationships with the Southern Arizona business community, and will assist with the foundation's overall development operation.
She was previously fund development manager at Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona, where she created a plan to increase donor and alumni support during its centennial anniversary.
She also worked in fundraising with a focus on special events for Youth on Their Own.
Galow sits on the board as co-chair of the philanthropy committee of the Southern Arizona Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. She is a member of Tucson Young Professionals.
A graduate of the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona, Galow holds a bachelor of science in entrepreneurship and business management.
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Realtor David Winter is now assistant sales manager at Long Realty's River/Campbell branch office.
His responsibilities include new agent development and helping the office's sales associates maximize the company's technology and support systems. Winter, a Realtor since 2001, has worked in the retail industry.
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In its 120th year, Arizona State Museum has named Patrick D. Lyons, Ph.D., as director. Lyons, an archaeologist, will be ASM's seventh director since its founding by the territorial Legislature in 1893.
Lyons replaces Beth Grindell, who was named director pending a national search, following the death of Hartman H. Lomawaima in 2008. Lyons will assume the directorship on June 1.
Nancy Odegaard, ASM's head of preservation and chair of the search committee, praised Lyons' scholarly credentials in the Southwest, administrative experience in a university museum, and leadership in repatriation.
Lyons has served as head of collections at Arizona State Museum since 2006 and as associate director since 2009. Before that he was a preservation archaeologist at Archaeology Southwest (previously known as Center for Desert Archaeology) in Tucson.
Lyons is best known for his fieldwork and research on the Salado phenomenon in the San Pedro River Valley in southeastern Arizona, and for his research on the collections housed at Arizona State Museum, the museum said in a news release.
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Tucson resident Nate Clark has joined BMO Harris Bank as a premier banker serving the greater Tucson market.
Clark will be responsible for business development and managing the financial needs of clients with investable assets over $250,000.
He brings more than 10 years of industry experience to the position.
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Tucson-based Chestnut Construction Corp. announced that Randy S. Bond has joined the company as a partner and as vice president and senior project manager. He has 33 years of commercial construction experience in public and private sector projects.
Tom Chestnut will continue to serve as chief executive officer and Pat Johnson as president.
Bond served with the U.S. Army prior to his construction career. He owned and operated a construction company in Phoenix for several years before settling in Tucson in 1998.
His education includes journeyman level advanced classes, active involvement with the Carpenter union, and he holds a bachelor's degree in business management from the University of Phoenix. He volunteers with the Arizona Builders Alliance where he was named Volunteer of the Year in 2012.
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The Southern Arizona district office of Farmers Insurance Group appointed Roman Campuzano as its newest adviser in Tucson.
He holds property and casualty and life and health insurance licenses and has worked in the financial industry several years.
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Silverado Technologies added two network technicians:
• Bill Davies, who has 11 years of computer services experience.
Davies worked as a computer analyst and field technician for Advantage Micro Corp and, most recently, was with Intellitech as a computer network administrator.
Davies is a graduate of Mohawk College in Hamilton, Ontario, with a diploma in network systems, and has multiple certifications in computer technology.
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Silverado Technologies added two network technicians:
• Teresa Nolan, who specializes in Windows, Exchange and IT Security implementation.
Nolan worked most recently as a network operations center technician at Intellitech, providing server support, virus removal and desktop support. Before that, she was a technical support engineer at Captaris - Open Text.
Nolan is an adjunct instructor at ITT Technical Institute, and has a bachelor's and MBA from ITT.
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The board of Tucson-based Critical Path Institute (C-Path) announced Thursday that Martha Brumfield was named interim president and chief executive officer.
Brumfield, C-Path's former director of international and regulatory programs, takes over immediately for Dr. Carolyn Compton, who is moving full-time to the National Biomarkers Development Alliance based at Arizona State University.
Brumfield, who holds a Ph.D., brings leadership and experience from her career in bio-pharma, "having successfully led global organizations, both large and small, through the complex arena of medical product approval," said Peter B. Corr, chairman of the C-Path board, in a news release.
Brumfield will help C-Path "benefit patients worldwide" by continuing its mission to expand "novel tools and methodologies that will accelerate the development and review of medical products," Corr said.
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The Westward Look Wyndham Grand Resort & Spa has named Antonio Rodriguez as executive chef.
Rodriguez returns to Tucson after two years of serving as executive chef of the Hotel Galvez & Spa in Galveston, Texas.
He has 20 years of culinary experience. Previously, he was executive chef for nine years at Omni Tucson National Golf Resort and Spa, executive sous chef at Omni Hotel Park West and Westin Hotel Galleria in Dallas, banquet sous chef at Westin William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh and restaurant sous chef/banquet sous chef at Westin Paso Del Norte Hotel in El Paso, Texas.
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Edgar Duran
The Southern Arizona District Office of Farmers Insurance Group has appointed Edgar Duran as its newest adviser in Tucson.
Duran holds property/casualty and life/health insurance licenses.
He focuses on auto, home, life, and business insurance products.
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Altobelli and Wall join Roediger Hoff PLC
Local tax and accounting firm Roediger Hoff PLC has two new employees: Chiara J. Altobelli, staff accountant; and Amy M. Wall, income tax preparer.
Altobelli completed her undergraduate degree in accounting at the University of Arizona in 2010. She has worked in the public domain and the corporate sector, and is experienced in financial reporting, payroll, sales tax, and income tax return preparation.
Wall, a member of the National Association of Tax Professionals and the Southern Arizona Chapter of Enrolled Agents, is certified to represent taxpayers before the IRS.
Before obtaining her master’s degree in business administration from the University of Phoenix, she earned a bachelor of science degree in both chemistry and economics from Harvey Mudd College of Science and Engineering in Claremont, California. She prepares tax returns for individuals and small businesses and also has expertise in divorce taxation.
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Bill Hitchcock
Bill Hitchcock joined RDO Equipment Co. as manager of the company's Tucson store at 5051 S. Outlet Center Drive.
Hitchcock has nearly 25 years of dealership experience, including 20 years in several management roles at Caterpillar dealers across the Northeast.
Most recently, Hitchcock was a sales manager for a New York Caterpillar dealer and prior to that worked as a territory sales professional for Butler Machinery in Minot, N.D.
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John Foxworthy
Insurance broker John Foxworthy formed TucsonInsurance.com, an independent insurance agency offering health, auto, home, life and business insurance. Foxworthy is the agency principal and joins forces with Pacific International Insurance and agency principal Ned Ingram to serve customers in Arizona and New Mexico.
Recently added to the staff were licensed property and casualty agent Michelle Kluth in Oro Valley and Lori Panchot in customer service and marketing. The business remains at 2193 N. Camino Principal, Suite 105.
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James M. Gelfand
The Westin La Paloma hired James M. Gelfand as director of sales and marketing.
He will direct group and leisure sales teams and programs, catering, and convention services at La Paloma, which has held a No. 1 rating for Westin properties in meeting planner satisfaction six of the last eight years.
Gelfand previously was director of sales and marketing at Turnberry Isle Miami and the Westin Copley Place; director of sales at the Westin Diplomat Resort and Spa and the Walt Disney World Swan and Dolphin Resort in Florida; and VP of sales, marketing and revenue management at PGA National Resort and Spa. He has been honored as a Starwood Most Valuable Sales Partner.
Gelfand is a graduate of Georgia State University's hotel/restaurant and travel management program.
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Rick Kelley
Rick Kelley joined Raskob Kambourian Financial as a senior financial adviser, helping make policy decisions around holistic financial planning, client-centered portfolio allocation and wealth preservation.
Kelley is a licensed certified financial planner and a chartered mutual fund counselor.
He was president of the local Financial Planning Association from 2006 to 2009 and is a member of the Financial Planning Association and the Southern Arizona Estate Planning Council. He has taught the Money Matters program to youths at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Tucson.
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Lisa Levine
Lisa Levine joined AlphaGraphics Commercial Printing Services as a self-publishing specialist.
She is a writer, editor and teacher with experience in small press book publishing in Tucson, Manhattan, and San Francisco, notably with Kore Press, the Not for Tourists Guides and France Today.
She joins Kevin Jones, who oversees two AlphaGraphics retail stores and has worked with several authors through the process of self-publishing their books.
Levine taught fiction at the University of Arizona while earning her master of fine arts degree in creative writing and now teaches writing at Pima Community College. She also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of California at Berkeley.
She recently published a broadside with Tucson’s Edge Reading Series. Previous literacy outreach work includes serving as a teaching artist at Sam Hughes Elementary and as a Big Sister in the Alameda County School District.
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