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Imagecraft names first ever CEO
Imagecraft Exhibits, a maker of customer trade show booths, named Tom Blair its first chief executive officer.
Blair previously served as owner of D Brands LLC, an area development company for Tin Star restaurants and Sport Clips, a Georgetown-based men’s hair salon franchiser.
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Star Nine Ventures announces new director
Star Nine Ventures, an Internet marketing company, named David Breshears director of product development.
Before joining Star Nine, Breshears was co-founder and director of product development at Crockom Breshears Inc.
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New manager at Reddwerks
Reddwerks Corp., a provider of warehouse performance management software, named Rathan Levins manager of its controls software group.
Levins was vice president of sales at Electro-Mechanical Integration Technologies.
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MetLife names agency sales director
MetLife Financial Group of Texas named Michael Bayer agency sales director.
Bayer has worked in the financial services industry for 15 years.
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Fulbright & Jaworski has new Austin partner-in-charge
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP, an international law firm, named Butch Hayes partner-in-charge at its Austin office.
Hayes will oversee 90 lawyers and 100 staff members at the office.
He succeeds Terry Tottenham, who will continue in an of-counsel capacity with the firm while serving as president of the State Bar of Texas.
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Gilbert & Sullivan nonprofit elects new board
The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of Austin, an education and performance nonprofit, recently elected five new members to its board of directors.
Pat Hobbs, Leonard Johnson, Roberta Long, Randall McIntyre and Michael Meigs joined the board.
On Sunday, March 7, the society performs “Musical Rarities from The Yeomen of the Guard.”
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New nonprofit appointments
Ted Keyser
Helping Hand Home for Children, which offers residential services and therapeutic care for neglected children, named Ted Keyser executive director. Keyser was general manager of Cordillera Ranch in Boerne.
The newly organized Austin Clubhouse, which offers services and programs for adults with mental illness, named Gordon Butler executive director. Butler previously worked for the Bluebonnet Trails clubhouse program.
The Austin Community Foundation recently appointed new board officers. Sylvia Acevedo, president and chief executive of CommuniCard, is chair of the board of governors. Jolynn Free, a registered investment adviser, is the board chair-elect. Max Sherman, a former state senator, is vice chair.
The Long Center for the Performing Arts named Mark Truett director of marketing and external communication and Jennifer Houlihan director of development. Truett previously worked for Broadway Across America. Houlihan previously was managing director and principal for education at Advancement Solutions Consulting Group.
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Local professional honors and appointments
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| Brett Matens |
Robin Melvin |
Brett Matens, chief operating officer and interim chief executive of St. David’s South Austin Medical Center, was awarded the American College of Healthcare Executives Early Career Healthcare Executive Regent’s Award. Matens, the hospital’s chief operating officer since 2003, has been interim CEO since January.
Robin Melvin, an Austin attorney with Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody PC, was named chair of the Texas Lutheran University Board of Regents. Austin resident Glynn Bloomquist, president and chief executive of Koalaty Products Inc., was re-elected as the board’s secretary.
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Cedra Corp. names VP
Cedra Corp., a clinical research and bioanalytical services provider, named Steve Unger vice president and laboratory director.
Unger previously served as senior director at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals.
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Valence Tech names new VP
Valence Technology Inc., a maker of rechargeable batteries, named Randall Adleman vice president of sales and marketing.
Adleman was the principal and founder of Fords Barron.
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Strategic Partnerships names new director
Strategic Partnerships Inc., an Austin-based national research and procurement consulting firm, named David Robinson director of training.
Robinson spent nine years as a senior education manager for a software development company before joining Strategic Partnerships.
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Bury + Partners promotes another
Christopher Randazzo
Bury and Partners, an engineering and consulting firm, promoted Christopher Randazzo to senior associate.
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Recent real estate appointments
Pam Chandler
The Skywater Over Horseshoe Bay Property Owners Association named Pam Chandler manager of the development community. Chandler is president of Chandler Association Management Co.
The Austin chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women named M’Lou Patton Bell the group’s 2010 president. Bell is managing shareholder of the Austin office of Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC.
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Local law firm promotions
Jackson Walker LLP named Austin attorneys Tara Allen, Elise Green and Chris Pepper partners in the law firm. Allen and Green are partners in the corporate and securities practice group. Pepper is partner in the legislative and environmental practice group.
Hawkins, Parnell & Thackston LLP’s new Austin office has six attorneys joining the business law firm. Kay Andrews, Todd Wade, Doug Lackey, Bill Fountain, Chris Ege and Taylor Smith previously worked for the toxic tort group of Brown McCarroll LLP.
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Advancements at JPMorgan and NorthStar
Financial services:
JPMorgan Chase & Co. promoted Brenda Pollard to vice president in Austin.
Pollard was an assistant vice president.
Insurance:
NorthStar, the agent advisory panel for Encompass Insurance, named Vicky Lindsey vice chairman of its national board.
Lindsey is a personal account executive and personal lines manager for Brown & Brown Agency in Austin.
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Recent area nonprofit board appointments
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| Colleen Horton |
Kimberly Zabaneh |
The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health, which supports mental health programs in Texas, named Colleen Horton program officer and Kimberly Zabaneh operations manager. Horton will lead the foundation’s mental health policy unit. Zabaneh, an experienced human resources manager, will oversee the foundation’s daily operations.
The Roy F. & Joann Cole Mitte Foundation’s board of directors appointed Coleith Molstad executive director. Molstad previously was the controller of RGK Foundation. The Mitte Foundation is a private philanthropic institution.
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Alex Albright |
Laura Scanlan Cho |
Planned Parenthood of the Texas Capital Region named Alex Albright board chair and Laura Scanlan Cho vice chair. Albright is senior lecturer and associate dean at the University of Texas School of Law.
The American Diabetes Association elected new officers based in Central Texas for its board of directors. David Davis, founding shareholder at Davis & Wilkerson, was named chair. Dr. Maria Elena Arizmendez, executive medical director of HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of Austin, was named board president. Jaime Capelo was named advocacy chair, and Kathryn Tesar was named marketing communications chair.
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Heather Bendes |
Jana Burns |
The Technology Advisors Group appointed Heather Bendes and Jana Burns to its board of directors. Bendes is an associate with Maxwell Locke & Ritter, and Burns is a sales associate with Envision Creative.
Kurt Summers was appointed to the National Federation of Independent Business/Texas’ Leadership Council Executive Committee. Summers is president of Austin Generator Service.
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New VP for Austin Quadrant Financial office
Doug LeBlanc
Quadrant Financial Inc., which offers small-business loans, named Doug LeBlanc vice president and business development officer in Austin.
LeBlanc previously worked for Wachovia Small Business Capital. He will be responsible for business development throughout Texas.
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Recent law firm promotions
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| Bill Parrish |
Ray Mort |
DiNovo Price Ellwanger & Hardy, an Austin-based intellectual property and commercial litigation law firm, added partners Bill Parrish and Ray Mort. Parrish was the managing partner of the Austin office of Jenkens & Gilchrist. Mort was a partner with international law firm DLA Piper.
The Austin office of law firm Phillips & Reiter hired international attorney Daniel Jochnowitz. Jochnowitz was vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for Centillium Communications.
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Pivot Networks adds to IT support sales team
Grant Dishman
Pivot Networks, which offers information technology services, added executive Grant Dishman to its expanded IT support and sales team.
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Big Red Dog hires two executives
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Shannon Gilmore |
Big Red Dog Engineering and Consulting named Matthew Stewart a principal and Shannon Gilmore director of business development.
Stewart previously worked for Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. as a project manager.
Gilmore was the director of business development for both Rone Engineering and Fugro Consultants.
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Bury and Partners announces promotion
Joseph Isaja
Bury and Partners, an engineering and consulting firm, named Joseph Isaja principal.
Isaja previously was senior vice president and has been with the firm since 1993.
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