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W W W. M A I N E B I Z . B I Z 27 F E B R UA R Y 8 , 2 0 1 6 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. personal insurance account manager and Kailie Thorp as an account analyst in the business insurance department. Maine Medical Partners, an affi liate of Maine Medical Center in Portland, hired Lucy Amory as a physician at MMP - Westbrook Pediatrics. Avesta Housing, a nonprofi t aff ord- able housing developer and property manager in Portland, hired Rebecca Hatfi eld as assets and acquisitions offi - cer. Most recently, Hatfi eld was senior vice president at Citi. Fluid Imaging Technologies, a labora- tory instrumentation manufacturer in Scarborough, hired Ali Naqui as chief operating offi cer. Naqui most recently served as corporate vice president and corporate offi cer responsible for Asia Pacifi c operations and the global water business for Idexx Laboratories Inc. EMHS in Brewer hired Matthew Weed as senior vice president and chief strategy offi cer. Weed was previously with Intermountain Health in Utah. Furman Gregory Deptula, a law fi rm in Biddeford, hired Bernard Posner as an attorney in the fi rm's litigation prac- tice in Boston. Partners for Rural Health in the Dominican Republic in Portland hired Kristin Motley as develop- ment consultant and Janet Ilott as program coordinator. Motley was previously with the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in New Hampshire while Ilott at the Jenkins-Penn Haitian Relief Organization. [ P R O M O T I O N S ] Broadreach Public Relations, a com- munications fi rm in Portland, promoted Michael Geneseo to senior account executive. Geneseo was previously an account executive. The Nature Conservancy in Brunswick promoted Kate Dempsey to state direc- tor in Maine. Dempsey was previ- ously director of external aff airs. Maine Medical Center in Portland promoted Mary Harkins Becker to fellowship director of the center's palliative medicine division. Harkins was associate residency director in the emergency department. Verrill Dana, a law fi rm in Portland, announced Janet Britton, Katie Gray, Kate Heffernan, Sara Hirshon and Andrew Rusczek were elected partners of the fi rm. St.Germain Collins, an environmental, compliance and engineering fi rm in Westbrook, promoted Scott Collins to managing principal, Patrick Coughlin to director of sentry EHS, Jessica Szafranski to director of EHS services and Donald McFadden to director of environmental services. [ A P P O I N T M E N T S ] David Hamilton, vice president of employee benefi ts at Clark Insurance in Portland, was elected to the board of directors of the Maine Employee Benefi ts Council. e council's mis- sion is to provide unbiased infor- mation to Maine employers and employee benefi ts service providers in order to facilitate compliance with changing laws and regulations. Friends of Midcoast Maine, non-par- tisan smart growth organization in Camden, elected Valli Geiger, Peter Gross and Benjamin Long to its board of trustees. Geiger is a city council member in Rockland, Gross owns Peter Gross Architects and Long owns Essential Grant Writing. Maria-Ausilia Evans, a pharmacist at Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington, was elected to the board of directors R EGI ONAL S PONS OR S www.mainebiz.biz/OTRportland 207.761.8379 x341 F O R M O R E I N F O PORTLAND March 17 | 5–7pm | State Theatre Get out from behind your desk to meet and mingle with other business execs at a special reception for Mainebiz readers. Mainebiz is coming to six new regions of the state to continue facilitating face-to-face networking for the business community. u admission is free u complimentary hors d'oeuvres u cash bar FOLLOW US @MBEVENTS #OTRPortland16 PR ES ENTI NG S PONS OR Donald McFadden Michael Geneseo Scott Collins Jessica Szafranski Patrick Coughlin David Hamilton

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