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V O L . X X I I I N O. I I I F E B R UA R Y 6 , 2 0 1 7 32 U S I N E S S M A I N E I N S H O R T N E W S WO R T H Y P E O P L E A N D P E R F O R M A N C E S Sevee & Maher Engineers in Cumberland hired Jeff Read as a senior project man- ager/civil engineer, Lydia Howes as a marketing specialist and Rhonda Forrester as an environmental engineer. Landry/French Construction Co. in Scarborough hired Kathy Leathers as senior project manager, Keith Pelletier as project superintendent, Nick Gaddar as assistant project manager and Taylor Hudson as an accounting assistant. Maine Medical Partners, a depart- ment of Maine Medical Center in Portland, recently announced new hires in several departments includ- ing: Adam Owen, Michael Binette and Michael Totta, neurosurgery and spine; Abby Fleisch, pediatric specialty care, endocrinology and diabetes; Rebecca Hutchinson and Fernando Moreno, palli- ative medicine group; Gary Hochheiser, as Maine Medical Center's director of thoracic surgery; Timothy Fitzgerald, surgical care; Sarah Dodwell, Jason Helis and Mark Gorman, neurology; Jesse Sammon, urology in South Portland; Caroline Foust-Wright, women's health; Kartik Pandya, pediatric surgery; Amanda Powell, Lakes Region primary care; and Annabelle Rae Chua Norwood, geriatric medicine. Baker Newman Noyes, an account- ing and consulting firm in Portland, hired Peter Fortunato as manager of the firm's Risk and Business Advisory practice. Fortunato was previously as vice president of technology and information security at EnablesIT. The Grand, a nonprofit performing arts center in Ellsworth, hired Nick Turner as executive director. Turner was most recently co-founder and executive director at la-de-da, a performing arts school in Fort Collins, Colo. [ P R O M O T I O N S ] FairPoint Communications promoted Earl Baumgardner to senior account executive in in southern Maine. Baumgardner was previously branch manager for business markets in New Hampshire. KeyBank in Portland promoted Brigitte Ritchie to corpo- rate responsibility officer for its New England Region. Ritchie previously handled public affairs and community relations for the bank's Vermont market. Bernstein Shur, a law firm in Portland, elected Joel Moser as a shareholder. Moser is a member of the firm's Energy Practice Group and the Municipal and Governmental Services Practice Group. Katahdin Trust promoted Yancy LaPointe to branch manager and retail services officer in Fort Fairfield. LaPointe was previously retail services assistant supervisor. Career Management Associates, a human resource service provider in Portland, promoted Audra Becker to presi- dent. Becker most recently served as vice president of HR services. Baker Newman Noyes, a CPA and consulting firm in Portland, named Tabitha Lamontagne tax principal and Matthew Prunier audit principal. Lamontagne specializes in serving financial institutions as well as corpo- rate taxation of large and closely-held businesses while Prunier focuses on delivering audit services to financial institutions, commercial clients and employee benefit plans. EMHS in Brewer named Colleen Hilton president of Rosscare, the organiza- tion's not-for-profit company that oversees the Rosscare Nursing Homes. Hilton is currently an EMHS senior vice president and president of the system's VNA Home Health Hospice. Atlantic Federal Credit Union promoted Stacey Chenevert to vice president of retail services and Dawn Houle to branch manager in Brunswick. Chenevert was previously senior branch manager in Brunswick in additional to overseeing all branches while Houle was assistant branch manager in Brunswick. Gibson LeClair LLC, a CPA firm in Augusta, promoted Scott Nivus to partner. Kennebec Savings Bank in Augusta promoted Jennifer Bechard to human resources officer. Bechard was previ- ously payroll and human resources information system manager. [ A P P O I N T M E N T S ] Make-A-Wish Maine in Portland added Jimbo Marston, Dan Tilton, Kim Anania, Cynthia O'Rourke, Bill Becker, Mark Woronoff, Susan DesGrosseilliers and Brett Foster to its board of director. Marston is owner of Uncle Andy's Digest, Tilton is senior vice president of sales and customer relations at Skowhegan Savings Bank, Anania is owner of KMA Human Resource Consulting, O'Rourke is senior vice presi- dent at Spinnaker Trust, Becker is vice president at Key Private Bank, Woronoff is an attorney at Hopkinson & Abbondanza, DesGrosseilliers is a designer and pro- prietor at Fixtures Maine and Foster is vice president of commercial payments business development at Capital One. Berman & Simmons, a law firm in Lewiston, said that Benjamin Gideon was appointed to the Professional Ethics Commission of the Maine Board of Overseers of the Bar for a four-year term. Gideon represents plaintiffs in medical malprac- tice, personal injury, wrongful death and other complex civil litigation matters. MaineGeneral Health in Augusta elected James Clair, Nathan Cotnoir, Peter Mills, Alane O'Connor and Scott Small to its board of directors. Clair has a more than 30-year history managing and own- ing companies in Maine in the areas of health care, technology, real estate and retail food; Cotnoir is vice president and commercial banking officer at Camden National Bank; Mills is the executive director of the Maine Turnpike Authority; O'Connor is a faculty member of Maine- Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency and currently serves on the medical staff of MaineGeneral Medical Center; and Small is a principal at Macpage LLC. e board of directors of Camden National Corp. named Lawrence Sterrs vice chair of its board. Sterrs serves as a member of both the compensa- tion and technology committees and recently became a member and vice chair of the board of directors for Camden National Bank, the company's wholly-owned subsidiary. Pine Tree Society, an organization in Bath serving children and adults with disabilities, named Jean Youde and Lorraine Twombly to its board of direc- tors. Youde is a program coordina- tor at the Edmund Ervin Pediatric Center at Maine General Medical Center while Twombly is co-owner of Priority Learning in South Portland. Coastal Mountains Land Trust in Camden added Malcolm White and Valerie Foster to its board of directors. White is a retired business executive while Foster is a real- tor with Sotheby's International Realty. The Maine State Bar Association announced that Albert Ayre assumed the office of president for 2017. Ayre, of counsel with Ainsworth Thelin & Raftice in South Portland, has served on the association's board of governors since 2009 and has held positions on the board's membership, investment and finance committees. e National Institute for Civil Discourse selected Terry Hayes as one of three chairs for its National Network of State Legislators commit- ted to Civil Governance. e Network consists of 100 legislators from more than 20 states who participated in the workshop "Building Trust through Civil Discourse." Hayes, previously a member of the Maine Legislature, is currently serves as Maine treasurer. President Barack Obama appointed U.S. Sen. Angus King to serve on the Roosevelt Campobello International Park Commission. e commission is tasked with administering the park as a memorial and preserving it as closely to its condition when occupied by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. e Telergee Alliance, a national network of accounting firms serv- ing the telecommunications industry, elected Julie Keim as chair/president of its board for a two-year term. Keim is principal at BerryDunn, a CPA and consulting firm in Portland. Riding To The Top Therapeutic Riding Center in Windham elected Bo Bigelow of Murray Plumb & Murray, Mary Lynn Engel of Saint Joseph's College and Allan Shepard Looking for exciting business events? Go to mainebiz.biz/calendar to view and post events. @ Nick Gaddar Kathy Leathers Taylor Hudson Keith Pelletier Audra Becker Joel Moser Tabitha Lamontagne Brigitte Ritchie Matthew Prunier Yancy LaPointe

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