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V O L . X X I I I N O. V I I I A P R I L 1 7 , 2 0 1 7 34 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 practice. Benway specializes in hospital Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, rural health clinic Medicare and Medicaid reimburse- ment, Medicare audits and provider certifi cations. H.M. Payson, an investment advisory fi rm in Portland, promoted Michelle Santiago, Shawnee Sax, Benjamin Michaud, Pamela Stephenson and Deborah Towle to shareholders. CES Inc., a fi rm of engineers, envi- ronmental scientists and land sur- veyors in Brewer, announced that Pete Tuell, Dennis Kingman, Sean Thies and Chris Snowdeal became share- holders. Tuell specializes in struc- tural and geotechnical engineering; Kingman has more than 27 years of experience providing asbestos and lead and PCB management, occupa- tional health and safety consultation and environmental management services to industry and academic institutions and local, state and fed- eral government; ies specializes in civil engineering, including site design, roadway design and permit- ting; and Snowdeal has nearly two decades of structural engineering work experience assisting clients with building and life safety code review, general structural/build- ing analysis and design, construc- tion document development and administration. The Maine Water Co. in Saco promoted Richard Knowlton to president. Knowlton has served as vice presi- dent of operations since he joined the company in 1993. e city of Portland promoted Kolawole Bankole to public health director. Bankole was most recently the family health program manager for the city. FairPoint Communications promoted Michael Reed to state president of Vermont. Reed also serves as the company as state president of Maine. [ A P P O I N T M E N T S ] e Universal Accreditation Board, which governs the industry certifi cation for public relations professionals, the Accreditation in Public Relations, elected Judy Katzel as chair. Katzel, a Maine Public Relations Council board member, is chief communications offi cer for Catholic Charities Maine and owner of KDK Consulting Group LLC. Hospice of Southern Maine in Scarborough added Chris Coon and Nathan Wilson to its board of directors. Coon is vice president of fi nance at Maine Medical Center in Portland while Wilson is vice president of quality and safety at Southern Maine Healthcare Internal Medicine in Biddeford. The University of New England in Biddeford said that Nicole Trufant was appointed to serve on the board of the National Association of College and University Business Offi cers and elected to a serve as vice chair of the Eastern Association of College and University Business Offi cers beginning in the fall of 2018. Trufant is vice president of fi nance and administration at the university. The Maine Department of Education announced that Jon Amory, Jason Judd, Jennifer Mallett, Amanda Nguyen, James Ritter and Robert Neely were appointed by Gov. Paul R. LePage and Acting Commissioner Robert Hasson Jr. to serve on the Maine STEM Council. Amory is an engineering/robot- ics teacher at Baxter Academy, Judd is program director at Project>Login at Educate Maine, Mallett is adjunct math instructor at York County Community College, Nguyen is a digi- tal learning specialist at the Maine Department of Education, Ritter is state librarian and chief administrator at the Maine State Library and Neely is Looking for exciting business events? Go to mainebiz.biz/calendar to view and post events. @ NOW ACCEPTING NOMINATIONS! The Manufacturers Association of Maine is now accepting nominations for the Manufacturer of the Year Award and the New Manufactured Product of the Year Award. Sponsored by: Media Sponsor: Winners will be announced at the 2017 Maine Manufacturing Summit. SAVE THE DATE TODAY! 2017 Maine Manufacturing Summit June 6, 2017 / 8am – 12pm Franco American Heritage Center, Lewiston Go to mainemfg.com/events for more info and to register. Go to www.mainemfg.com and submit your nomination by April 20. Chris Snowdeal Sean Thies Dennis Kingman Pete Tuell Richard Knowlton

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