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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 27 A U G U S T 2 4 , 2 0 1 5 Newsworthy people and performances I N S H O R T To submit new hires, promotions, appointments, or achievements to Mainebiz, send your press release to editorial@mainebiz.biz. Items are run at the discretion of the editorial staff, and in the order in which they were received. [ N E W H I R E S ] North American Insurance Alliance in Rangeley hired Rebecca Sherwood as director of market- ing and communi- cations. Sherwood was previously with Travelers Insurance Co. as a senior sales specialist. Winter People Inc., a custom uniform, apparel and promotional products distributor and retailer in Freeport, hired Faith Baker as business devel- opment manager, Dee Quatticci as accounting clerk and Nina Elliott as customer service associate. Baker was assistant director of marketing at Fluid Imaging Technologies in Scarborough, Quatticci was assistant manager at e Simons Co. in Portland and Elliott was assistant store manager at e Body Shop in Freeport. The John T. Gorman Foundation in Portland hired Elizabeth Pope as a communi- cations and research associate. Pope formerly was director of research and operations at Idealware in Portland. North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth hired Ben Jackson as head of school and Ashley Randlett as director of admission. Jackson was previously head of school at Evergreen Country Day School in Evergreen, Colo., while Randlett was most recently at e Providence Country Day School in East Providence, R.I. USI Insurance Services in South Portland hired Nancy Burton as a technical analyst and carrier market resource for the firm's Maine and Rhode Island locations. Burton was previously with marketing director with Clark Insurance. The Maine Development Foundation in Augusta hired Yellow Light Breen as president and CEO. Breen was previously execu- tive vice president and chief strategic officer at Bangor Savings Bank. Baker Newman Noyes, an accounting and consulting firm in Portland, hired Elaine Levasseur as a finance coordinator in the operations department, Mike Meserve as an audit senior, Anne-Marie Palmer as an administrative assistant in the opera- tions department, Zachary Porter as a staff member in the risk and business advisory practice, Casey Pyburn as a help- desk analyst in the operations depart- ment, Tom Quentin and Ryan Dubois as staff members in the audit practice and Theresa Seekamp as a file room adminis- trator in the operations department. Hospice of Southern Maine in Scarborough hired Kristin Melville as development and outreach director. Melville was previ- ously the director of donor relations for Northern New England's Divisional Office of e Salvation Army. Portside Real Estate Group in Falmouth hired Kathy McClelland as broker and Victoria Hartig as associate broker. Landry/French Construction Co. in Scarborough hired Jim Gardner as director of preconstruction services and Jon Sirois as project manager. Mercy All About Women in Portland hired JoAnna Wawrzycki. Wawrzycki was previ- ously an obstetrician and gynecologist at Rutland Regional Medical Center. Northland Enterprises, a commercial real estate develop- ment company in Portland, hired Tim Meyer as director of property services. Meyer previously was a superintendent at Benchmark Construction in Westbrook. Franklin Memorial Hospital hired Jay Neil Jr. as a staff member in anesthesiology services and Peter Ameglio as a board- certified orthopaedic surgeon at the hospital and Franklin Health Orthopaedics. Neil previously provided locum (temporary) anesthesiology coverage across New England and the Pacific Northwest; before that, he spent a decade as a staff cardiac anesthesiologist at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Ameglio was most recently at Coastal Orthopaedics in Brunswick. Acadia Hospital in Bangor hired Lewis Mehl-Madrona as a full-time psy- chiatrist overseeing the hospital's Electroconvulsive erapy Services and the Inpatient Consult Service at EMMC. Mehl-Madrona was previously a faculty member at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Augusta. The MEMIC Group, a workers' com- pensation specialist in Portland, hired Marcia Hartt as agency services administrator. Previously, Hartt was vice president of membership and marketing with the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce. Maine Savings in Hampden hired Ashley Corriveau as loan operations specialist; Ranelle Smith, Ashley Stanhope and Ryan Hill as tellers at its Broadway branch in Bangor; and Marcia McFarland as a teller at its Ellsworth branch. TD Bank hired Aaron Hagan store man- ager in Kennebunk. Hagan was previ- ously with Bank of America. HM Payson, an investment advi- sory firm in Portland, hired Derek Blackburn as director of operations. Diversified Communications, an inter- national media company in Portland, hired Ashley Herriman as an online editor and Rosalyn Metzger as a senior market research analyst. Competitive Energy Services, a strategic energy consulting firm in Portland, hired MaryAnn Schwanda as business development and account manager. Schwanda was previously head of student career services at STRIVE U in Portland. Macpage LLC, a CPA firm in South Portland, hired Andrew Wells as an associate in tax. Realty of Maine in Bangor hired Dawn DeBois as director of business develop- ment and marketing. [ P R O M O T I O N S ] Winter People Inc., a custom uniform, apparel and promotional products distributor and retailer in Freeport, promoted Ashley Bailey to finance manager and Heather Provost to assistant retail manager. Bailey was supervisor of accounting and Provost was accounting clerk. Baker Newman Noyes, an accounting and consulting firm in Portland, pro- moted Shelley Duplisea, Michelle Harvey and Spencer Hathaway to audit seniors; Stephanie Leary to manager in the tax practice; Nick Norton to tax senior; and Kevin Chase, Chelsea Reynolds and J. Morgan Smith to managers in the audit practice. Maine Savings in Hampden promoted Kayla Grindle to teller in Brewer, Siobhan Grogan to retail assistant in Hampden and Emily Morin to lead teller at the Broadway branch in Bangor. Grindle was previously a special agent at the bank's member service center in Brewer and Grogan and Morin were tellers at the Broadway branch in Bangor. American Loggers Insurance Program in Bangor promoted Mike Beardsley to marketing and sales director. Beardsley was director of strategic partnerships as well as a producer for Varney Agency. Volk Packaging Corp., a corrugated box manufacturer in Biddeford, promoted Shane Waterhouse to sales representative for southern Maine. Waterhouse was previously a truck driver for the company. Delta Ambulance in Waterville promoted Dustin Nadeau to educa- tion coordinator. Nadeau was previ- ously a paramedic. Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership in Augusta promoted Bill Whittier to senior project manager. Whittier was previously a project manager. Community Credit Union in Lewiston promoted Bria Duncan to vice pres- ident of operations. Ocean Communities Federal Credit Union in Biddeford promoted Elisabeth Bell to assistant branch manager in Biddeford and Britney Cantrell to financial service associate in Saco. Bell was most recently the financial service associate in Biddeford and Cantrell was the lead sales associate in Saco. Ashley Randlett Jim Gardner Kristin Melville Tim Meyer Ben Jackson Jon Sirois Rebecca Sherwood Yellow Light Breen Bria Duncan Dustin Nadeau

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