Kevin R. Bonniwell, named executive vice president and commercial lender for TowneBank Virginia Beach. Bonniwell has 16 years of experience in the financial sector. (News release)
Lawrence G. Cohen, named secretary and general counsel to INIT Innovations in Transportation Inc. of Chesapeake. Cohen recently retired as a senior partner in the law firm Vandeventer Black LLP where he was chairman of the International Business Group. (News release)
Paul F. Cullum III, named a partner in LeClairRyan’s Litigation Group. He will be based in the Williamsburg office, developing the firm’s estate litigation practice. (News release)
Bill Ermatinger, named vice president of human resources and administration for Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding in Newport News. He joined the company in 1987 and has held a number of positions dealing with human resources. (News release)
Ashleigh K. Fiero, named marketing communications manager for Optima Health, a Virginia Beach-based health plan. Fiero had held positions with ValueOptions Inc. in Norfolk. (News release)
John P. Matson, named senior executive vice president for TowneBank’s Corporate Banking Group. His focus will be serving operating companies in Hampton Roads with revenues in excess of $15 million. (News release)
Kirk Michealson, chosen as a Lockheed Martin Fellow for his work in the area of operations analysis. The Fellows program recognizes excellence by company engineers, scientists and technology workers. Michealson works at Lockheed’s Suffolk facility. (News release)
Matthew J. Mulherin, named vice president and general manager of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding where he will oversee all Newport News operations. Mulherin joined the Newport News operations in 1981 and has led programs for the construction of aircraft carriers and submarines. (News release)
Dr. Jerry Nadler, named chairman of the internal medicine department at Eastern Virginia Medical School in Norfolk. Nadler had chaired the endocrinology and metabolism department at the University of Virginia Medical School. He will work to recruit top talent to EVMS to develop nationally competitive research operations. That $8 million
effort will be underwritten in part by Sentara Healthcare. (The Virginian-Pilot)
Dennis W. Napier, named executive vice president for TowneBank Oyster Point. Napier is part of the Real Estate Finance Division. (News release)
Barbara Niland, named senior vice president of business management and CFO of Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding. She joined Northrop Grumman in 1979 and has held a number of management positions with the company. (News release)
Tony Parrow, named general manager for SpringHill Suites Norfolk Virginia Beach Hotel. He was general manager for the Residence Inn Virginia Beach Oceanfront. (News release)
Karen Riddle, named executive director of the Luray-Page County Chamber of Commerce. Riddle has had a number of corporate sales and marketing positions in the U.S. and abroad. She returned to America in 2002 and settled in Virginia. (The Daily-News Record)
Lee Shuler, named regional vice president in the Harrisonburg office of Richmond-based Bankers Insurance LLC. He will oversee sales and customer service. (The Daily-News Record)
John J. Sygielski, president of Lord Fairfax Community College in Winchester, accepted the presidency of Mount Hood Community College near Portland, Ore. Sygielski was president of Lord Fairfax for five years and previously served as vice chancellor of work-force development for the Virginia Community College System. (The Winchester Star)
Dot S. Baynes, named regional vice president of the Danville Region of Bankers Insurance LLC where she will oversee the sales and customer service efforts. She has been with the firm for five years. (Danville Register & Bee)
Brain R. Charville, named partner at the Danville law firm Daniel, Medley & Kirby. Charville is a board member of Goodwill Industries, Downtown Danville Association and several other local organizations. (Danville Register & Bee)
Brian Higgins, named nature and heritage tourism project manager for the Dan River Basin Association. He will work on developing nature and heritage-based tourism, as well as water quality and river access programs. Higgins was a projects manager for the consulting firm Jones & Stokes and worked for several years as a whitewater river guide.
(Danville Register & Bee)
Laurie S. Moran, re-elected secretary of the National Association of Workforce Boards, an organization representing more than 550 state and local Workforce Investment Boards across the country. Moran is president of the Danville-Pittsylvania Chamber of Commerce. (Danville Register & Bee)
Steve Beach, associate professor of finance, and Alex Orlov, associate professor of economics, both at Radford University, won the Swisscanto Award for Best Professional Paper in Financial Markets and Portfolio Management. The paper, published in the June 2007 issue of Financial Markets and Portfolio Management, examined the Black-Litterman
model of portfolio allocation. (News release)
Stacey Campbell, named vice president of strategy and business development, Delta Dental of Virginia in Roanoke. She joined Delta Dental in 2000 and has been director of strategic planning and business development since 2004. Previously, she was a senior product manager with Blue Cross and Blue Shield. (News release)
Terri Jones, named Advertising Person of the Year for efforts in advancing the advertising industry in the Roanoke Valley. Jones is a senior vice president at AccessPR. (News release)
William Kennedy, named associate counsel for Shenandoah Life Insurance Co. of Roanoke. Kennedy was an attorney with the National Western Life Insurance Co. in Austin, Texas. (News release)
Brad Knopf, named vice president of underwriting and actuarial at Delta Dental of Virginia in Roanoke. He joined Delta Dental in 1996. Knopf has 23 years of experience in health and dental insurance marketing and finance. (News release)
Edward D. Barnes received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Virginia State Bar’s Family Law Section. Barnes is founder and CEO of the Chesterfield law firm Barnes & Diehl PC, and is one of the founders of the National Center for Family Law at the University of Richmond. (News release)
Dennis Belcher, named president-elect of the American College of Trusts and Estate. Belcher is a partner in the Richmond office of McGuireWoods LLP and focuses his practice on the estate planning and administration. (News release)
Shawn Boyer, named Small Business Person of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Boyer is president and CEO of SnagAJob.com, the nation’s largest job site for part-time jobs and full-time hourly jobs. (News release)
Matthew Brotherton received the National LTCi Sales Achievement Award for leading long-term care insurance specialists. Brotherton is with the Mid Atlantic Agency of John Hancock in Richmond. (News release)
Gregg Crowe, named campus director for the University of Phoenix, Richmond. Crowe was most recently enrollment manager at the University of Phoenix, Pittsburgh. (News release)
John G. Douglass, named dean of the University of Richmond law school. Douglass has been serving as the school’s interim dean. He joined the UR faculty in 1996 and teaches criminal law and trial advocacy courses. (News release)
C. Burke King, named president of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield in Virginia, replacing Tom Byrd who earlier announced plans to leave the company. King joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Virginia in 1992 and most recently headed individual businesses product management for WellPoint Inc., Anthem’s parent company. (Richmond Times-
Dispatch)
Paul G. Mahoney, named dean of the University of Virginia law school. Mahoney joined the U.Va. faculty in 1990 and is an expert in corporate law. (The Daily Progress)
Walter W. Price III, named headmaster of The Miller School of Albemarle. Price is currently co-acting head of school and dean of students for Maine Central Institute in Pittsfield, Maine. He succeeds Lindsay R. Barnes Jr. who is assuming the post of headmaster of Hawaii Preparatory Academy. (News release)
Phyllis M. Rubinstein, named shareholder in the Richmond law firm of LeClairRyan. Rubinstein focuses her practice on commercial real estate issues. She is a member of Commercial Real Estate Women. (News release)
Jay Turner, named partner in the Richmond law firm Williams Mullen, returning after serving as senior counsel at SunTrust Bank since 2004. His practice focuses on estate and trust issues. (News release)
Steve Roberts, named senior vice president of advertising sales and strategy for LevelVision of Roanoke. Based in San Francisco, Roberts will be responsible for advertising sales, product sales, placement and strategic planning. Previously, he directed business development for Buzzlogic and Technorati. (News release)
Catherine Underwood, named director of construction management at Branch & Associates in Roanoke. She joined the firm in 2000. (News release)
Richard P. Colombo, named director of the Federal Systems division of Avineon Inc. in Alexandria. Colombo has more than 30 years of government experience, most recently as program manager and computer specialist with the Internal Revenue Service. (News release)
Joseph K. Dodd, named vice president of business development and marketing for the intelligence group of Northrop Grumman Information Technology in McLean. Previously, he was director of business development and marketing for the same group. (News release)
Scott Freund, named president of the Wealth Management Division of GCC, a McLean-based merchant banking firm. He founded Family Office Research and was a vice president and private client adviser at The Private Bank at Bank of America. (PRNewswire)
David Goldberg, named assistant vice president of operations and chief growth officer at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital. Previously, he was president of planning and development for Inova Loudoun Hospital. (News release)
Alex Pineda, named general manager of The Country Inn & Suites by Carlson in Sterling. He previously served as corporate human resources and accounting director for Fairbrook Hotels. (News release)
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