John Hichborn, of Rogers Ace Hardware in Bath, has sold the family-owned and operated business to Rocky’s Ace Hardware of Springfield, Massachusetts.
Rogers Ace Hardware has been servicing the MidCoast region for over 140 years. The business was established in 1872 and has operated at its current location, 55 Congress Ave. in Bath, since 1985. Hichborn and the Rogers family have owned and run the business for four generations.
Rocky’s Ace Hardware is also a family-owned and operated business. A press release about the sale says “there will be no interruption or change in the quality level of service. The familiar faces will remain on staff.”
Rocky’s currently operates stores in Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and now Maine.

Kenneth Levinsky was re-elected to the board of trustees of the Portland Water District, representing Portland for a five-year term. Levinsky ran unopposed.
Also elected was Joseph Siviski, a trustee of the water district, representing South Portland and the town of Cape Elizabeth for a five-year term. Siviski also ran unopposed.

The Maine Center for Entrepreneurial Development welcomed two new members to its board of directors: Jennifer Bush, chief operating officer for HistoryIT; and Brett Austin, president of Kepware Technologies.

March of Dimes has announced that Zander Abbott, vice president of the Women and Children Service Line at Maine Medical Center, was named chair for the March for Babies to be held May 1.
This year’s goal is to raise $30,000 as part of the overall goal of $160,000 on behalf of the organization’s mission to help reduce the premature birth rate and improve the health of babies.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland announced new officers for its board of directors:
John Shumadine of Murray, Plumb & Murray will serve as the board president.
Peter Tousignant of TD Bank will serve as vice president; Julie Ray of Perkins Thompson is secretary; and Jeremy Handlon of Dawson, Smith, Purvis and Bassett is treasurer.

Friends of Midcoast Maine elected three new board members to its board of trustees for three-year terms:

Valli Geiger of Rockland is a member of the City Council.

Peter Gross of Camden is a Maine-licensed architect in Camden and owns Peter Gross Architects.

Benjamin Long of Bowdoinham owns Essential Grant Writing, a freelance grant writing and management service he founded in 2005.

The Kids First Center appointed the following to its board of directors:
Kimberly Kump was appointed chairperson. She has been a board member since 2007.
Ellie Chatto is a certified fraud examiner with extensive experience working with nonprofit organizations.
Also appointed was Dana Prescott, an attorney who practices at Prescott Jamieson Murphy Law Group, who also has a doctorate in social work.

Day One in South Portland elected the following officers to its board of directors:

Dennis Carrillo

L. Dennis Carrillo, an attorney at the law offices of Doyle & Nelson, was named president of the board.

Douglas Cranshaw

Douglas Cranshaw, a retired professional, was named vice-president.

Zander Abbott, vice president of the Women & Children Service Line at Maine Medical Center, was named treasurer.

David Mount, a retired professional, was named secretary.

NEW HIRES

n Dr. Lisa Keiski joined the staff at Bath Family Medicine, a Central Maine Medical Group practice.

She began her career at Massabesic Regional Medical Center in Waterboro, serving as an attending physician from 2005 to 2012. In 2007, she joined the University of New England’s College of Osteopathic Medicine in Biddeford, where she served as an attending physician and medical director until 2015.

n Gentiva Home Health in Sanford has hired Dr. Philip Abraham as its new medical director.

He has worked as a private practice internist since 2003. His practice is at 25A June St., Suite 111, in Sanford.

n Kim Morrison joined Health Affiliates Maine as a licensed master social worker.

She will work in the Lewiston-Auburn and Augusta areas providing therapy for young adults, couples and the immigrant-refugee population.

n Dr. Joseph Vitterito II joined The Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital at Maine Medical Center as neonatology division director and medical director of its neonatal intensive care unit.

Vitterito has been a member of the MMC Division of Neonatology for the past seven years.

n Dr. Robert Galler joined the surgical practice at Maine Spine Surgery at Mercy.

Galler comes to Mercy from the Stony Brook Medicines Department of Neurosurgery in Stony Brook, N.Y. He brings more than 15 years of experience in spine surgery.

n Spectrum Medical Group has hired Ann Robinson as chief legal counsel and director of government affairs.

Most recently, she was a partner at Preti Flaherty, where she served as chair of the firm’s government affairs practice group for over a decade. She was also a member of the firm’s management committee.

n Maine Medical Center named Dr. Isabella Stumpf as the division director for palliative medicine.

She serves as the director for palliative care at MaineHealth and has held a per diem faculty position at Massachusetts General Hospital since 2014. She currently serves as the chair of Maine Medical Center’s Clinical Ethics Committee.

PROMOTIONS

n Dr. Mary Harkins Becker was named fellowship director of Maine Medical Center’s Palliative Medicine Division.

She first joined the hospital as an attending physician in emergency medicine, and later served as associate residency director in the emergency department. She has experience at the health systems level, serving as the director of cardiovascular health for MaineHealth.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS

n Maria-Ausilia Evans, a pharmacist at Franklin Memorial Hospital, was elected to the 11-member board of directors of the Maine Society of Health-System Pharmacists.

She is the Region 2 director representing Androscoggin, Franklin, Oxford and Sagadahoc counties. She has been a member of the nonprofit organization since 2009.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS

n Mount Desert Island Hospital was named to the 2015 Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Hospital Honor Roll.

Harvard Pilgrim reviewed hospital performance in four categories: cardiac care, health care associated infection, pneumonia care and surgical care improvement. The results measured the quality of these processes of care and included surveys evaluating patient experience.

NEW HIRES

• Julia Greenleaf Pitney joined Drummond Woodsum’s bankruptcy, restructuring and creditors’ rights practice group.

Pitney will be based in the firm’s Portland office. Her practice will focus on bankruptcy matters and debtor and creditor litigation. She previously spent 10 years practicing in Lewiston and Portland.

• Douglas Britton joined Verrill Dana’s real estate group in Portland.

He was previously a partner at Drummond & Drummond, LLP, where he started his practice in 1998.

• Bernstein Shur has hired John Moran to the firm’s business law practice group in Portland.

Moran was previously a business associate at a Portland law firm. He also served as a legal extern with both the Maine District Courts and the Appellate Division of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, District of Maine.

PROMOTIONS

• Curtis Thaxter LLC has admitted Amy Devin as a member of the firm.

Devin practices in the areas of real estate, commercial and corporate law, with a particular focus on affordable housing and community redevelopment.

• John Aromando, an attorney at Pierce Atwood, was named chair of its litigation practice group. Aromando succeeds David Barry, who will become the firm’s managing partner.

Aromando has been a partner since 1993 and a trial lawyer for more than 30 years. His practice focuses on defending businesses and individuals in complex litigation, for clients in industries as diverse as financial services, energy, pulp and paper, manufacturing, insurance, and professional services. He has tried cases in both state and federal court, and argued appeals before the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals.

• Bernstein Shur recently elected Eben Albert and Steven Gerlach as shareholders.

Albert is a member of the firm’s business, litigation and dispute resolution and technology, outsourcing and data security practice groups.

Gerlach is a member of the firm’s labor and employment and business law practice groups.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS

• Gerald Petruccelli, Michael Martin, James Haddow and Bruce McGlauflin, partners at Petruccelli, Martin & Haddow, LLP in Portland were named for inclusion in the 2016 Edition of Best Lawyers in America.

Petruccelli was recognized in several areas of practice, including appellate practice, arbitration, commercial litigation, litigation – construction, litigation – mergers and acquisitions, litigation – regulatory enforcement, mediation and personal injury litigation.

Martin was recognized for his work in commercial litigation and insurance law; Haddow for litigation – municipal and municipal law; and McGlauflin for corporate law.

• The American Camp Association recognized Jack Erler of Portland with its Special Recognition Award

Erler is an attorney at Curtis Thaxter LLC. He was recognized for his efforts to promote camp on a national level.

• The National Academy of Criminal Defense Attorneys recently published its list of nationally ranked criminal defense attorneys.

The following attorneys from Maine made the list: Edmund Folsom, of Biddeford; Jay McCloskey, of Bangor; Leonard Sharon, of Auburn; Richard Hartley, of Bangor; Sarah Churchill, of Saco; Scott Gardner, of Biddeford; Wayne Foote, of Bangor; and William Bly, of Biddeford.

• Skelton Taintor & Abbott announced that attorney Stephen Wade was named to the 2016 Best Lawyers in America list.

Wade was also singled out to receive the “Lawyer of the Year” award in the area of product liability litigation.

• Maine Equal Justice Partners honored Augusta attorney Charles Dingman with its Pro Bono Equal Justice Hero Award.

Dingman, of Leeds, is a partner at PretiFlaherty in Augusta. He serves on MEJP’s Board of Directors and is a past chair of the Campaign for Justice. He also is a member of the board of the Justice Action Group and frequently serves as moderator of town meetings in Androscoggin County.

GENERAL

• The European Union Office in Kosovo extended the appointment of Michael Cunniff as a senior short term expert in a mission supporting the Kosovo Judicial Council and the Kosovo Prosecutorial Council.

Cunniff is a trial lawyer at the law firm of McCloskey, Mina & Cunniff, LLC in Portland and a dual citizen of the United States and Ireland. He has been involved since 2011 in international rule of law missions sponsored by the United States and the European Union in the Balkans. Currently, he is advising the councils on strategic planning and operational matters, as well as their efforts to evaluate and discipline judges and prosecutors.

NEW HIRES
Brian Kenney joined Piper Shores as its new facilities director.
Kenney is the former facilities manager for Windham Schools and Idexx Laboratories. He will oversee a staff of nine on the 138-acre campus, which consists of two main buildings and administrative offices, over 160 residences and cottages, a wood shop and a maintenance building.

Katherine Drake has joined the team at Dawson, Smith, Purvis & Bassett.
Drake, of Portland, graduated in December of 2015 from the University of Maine with a degree in accounting. She completed an audit internship with another local accounting firm and joined the Dawson, Smith, Purvis & Bassett team upon graduation.

J&J Mercier Enterprises has hired Leslie Gary to manage The Lobster Cooker restaurant. She has years of experience in the food service industry.
Eric Murphy will take over the duties as manager of the Freeport Café.

Verrill Dana has hired Kelly Donahue to the firm’s intellectual property group in Portland.
Donahue was previously an associate at Locke Lord in Boston.

Baker Newman Noyes has hired 12 interns for its Portland office in preparation for tax season.
The following students will intern at the firm during the spring 2016 semester:
Jennifer Day, of West Gardiner; Addison Dunn, of Dayton; and Mikenzi Merrill, of Waterford; who all attend Thomas College.
Also joining the firm as interns are Katrina Lyons, of Cornville; Andrew Perkins, of Somersworth, New Hampshire; Benjamin Staples, of Rockland; Dylan Wetmore, of Madawaska; and Megan Wittine, of Corinth; who each attend Husson University.
Other interns include Danielle Hansen, of Portland, and Wren Saunders, of Gorham, students at the University of Maine School of Law; Nathaniel Marcet, of Gorham, a student at the University of Southern Maine; and Alexia Pappas, of Cape Elizabeth, who attends McGill University.

Conrad Birkett joined Norton Insurance Agency as a commercial lines assistant.
Birkett, of Portland, is a 2014 graduate of Endicott College. He previously worked for J.H. Birkett CPA, PA in Brunswick.

Broadreach Public Relations has hired Emily Paul as a public relations specialist.
Paul joins Broadreach from Weber Shandwick in Chicago, Illinois.

Hospice of Southern Maine has hired Shannon Barnicle, RN, as the house manager of Gosnell Memorial Hospice House in Scarborough.
Barnicle was formerly the clinical director of operations for Sentry at Home Comprehensive Home Care in York. She lives in South Berwick.

Gawron Turgeon Architects has hired Emma Carmody to join its interiors team.
Carmody is a recent graduate of the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University. She was a recipient of the Suffolk University BFA Interior Design GPA and Portfolio Award among other academic accolades.

Habitat for Humanity of Greater Portland has hired Molly Brake as director of family services.
Brake previously worked as the director of operations and administration at The Progress Center in Norway. Prior to that she was the director of finance and human resources for the town of Naples.

PROMOTIONS
Bristol Seafood has promoted Peter Handy to president and chief executive officer.
Handy previously served as vice president of business development.

Outgoing CEO Darrell Pardy will stay on board as senior vice president of sales. Both founders, Pardy and Ray Swenton continue to be shareholders and serve on the board of directors, with Swenton as chairman.
Also promoted was Brian Pomerleau to senior vice president of operations.

Broadreach Public Relations promoted Michael Geneseo to senior account executive.
Geneseo, of South Portland, works with clients in professional services, health care and technology sectors. He joined the firm in 2013 and was most recently an account executive.

GENERAL BUSINESS
J&J Mercier Enterprises has expanded to a third business, The Lobster Cooker and Sports Pub, on 39 Main St. in Freeport.
With this move, J&J Mercier Enterprises has promoted Jeffrey Mercier to chief executive officer. Mercier will continue his position as chief financial officer.
Amy Gilles was also promoted to general manager of both the Freeport Café and The Lobster Cooker.

Baker Newman Noyes recently announced 13 promotions and eight new hires in its Portland office.

Adam Aucoin, Drew Blaney, Kelly Bristol, Dan Gayer and Remy Vazquez were promoted to managers in the firm’s tax practice.

Aucoin, of Buxton, joined the firm in 2012.

Blaney, of Boothbay Harbor, earned a master’s degree in taxation from Bentley University.

Bristol, of Skowhegan, earned a master’s degree in business administration from Thomas College.

Gayer, of Cape Elizabeth, specializes in closely-held businesses, with a focus on complex federal and state tax issues.

Vazquez, of Lake Worth, Florida, is a member of the firm’s estate and gift tax practice. Vazquez specializes in income and estate tax planning and compliance.

Pamela Cook was promoted to senior manager in the health care consulting practice. Cook specializes in reimbursement services for hospitals, rural health clinics and physician groups.

Tiffany Edwards was promoted to senior manager in the audit practice. Edwards specializes in the commercial and hospitality industries, as well as employee benefit plan clients.

Courtney Francis, of Caribou, was promoted to senior in the tax practice. Francis joined the firm in October 2014.

Josie Hajdysz was promoted to senior accounting coordinator in the finance department.

Greg Knight, of Portland, was promoted to senior in the health care consulting practice. Knight specializes in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for hospitals.

Josh Lapierre, of Freeport, was promoted to senior manager in the tax practice. Lapierre has been with the firm since 2010, having previously interned at BNN in 2009.

Stephanie Richio and Dianne Rodrigue were promoted to managers in the firm’s health care consulting practice.

Richio, of Cape Elizabeth, specializes in reimbursement services for hospitals, rural health clinics and physicians’ groups. She has been with the firm since 2008.

Rodrigue specializes in medical chart auditing, clinical documentation improvement and provider education.

The following people were hired at Baker Newman Noyes.

Gilda Bryand, of Portland, was hired as an administrative assistant in the tax practice. She earned a bachelor’s degree in human services from the University of Rhode Island.

Jordan Emery, of Skowhegan, joined as a staff member in the tax practice. Emery completed accounting courses at the University of Maine.

Jacqueline Guerin, of Sanford, was hired as a paraprofessional in the tax practice. Guerin is currently attending York County Community College working toward her degree in business.

Diane Kandilakis was hired as a consultant in the health care consulting practice.

Kristie Krouse joined as an administrative assistant in the operations department. Krouse serves as treasurer for the Gorham Cooperative Preschool and a board volunteer for the Southern Maine Youth Hockey Association.

Lauren O’Neil was hired as an administrative assistant in the tax practice.

Roshay Reddy, of Boston, was hired as a senior in the tax practice. Reddy earned a master’s degree in accounting in 2009 from Vanderbilt University.

Nicole Shaffer, of Gorham, was hired as a proposal coordinator in the marketing department. Shaffer earned her bachelor’s degree in advertising/public relations and history from Pennsylvania State University, where she served as a legislative fellow for the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Judiciary Committee.

NEW HIRES

Michelle Whitney joined Huffard House, a boutique interior design firm in South Portland.
She is in charge of the company’s new Home Staging services. She is a certified home stager and redesigner. She previously worked at Diversified Communications, as well as created and owned Maisey Mae Designs.

Hancock Lumber has hired chief financial officer Paul Wainman.
Wainman, of Kennebunkport, has extensive experience in both finance and management with market leading brands, including Hallmark/William Arthur and Kleinfeld Paper.

Annie Cambridge has joined the University of Maine Alumni Association as its director of alumni programs.
Cambridge graduated from the University of Maine with a bachelor of arts degree in journalism in 2011. Most recently, she served as the membership and convention sales coordinator for the Greater Bangor Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Jill Fiore also joined UMaine’s Alumni Association as its new director of strategic engagement. Fiore recently served as Husson University’s director of marketing.

Mainestream Media’s WHTP-Hot 104.7 has hired Samantha Sylvia as its new promotion director.
Sylvia was previously at WWKX (Hot 106) in Providence and WRDW (Wired 96.5) in Philadelphia.

Daymark Energy Advisors has hired Kathleen Kelly as principal consultant and vice president of consulting operations.
Kelly spent 18 years with Lummus Consultants International, formerly called Stone & Webster Management Consultants, as director and practice leader of the utility management and planning practice.

SailMaine has hired Charlotte Kinkade as program director.
Kinkade grew up in SailMaine programming and has been involved with the organization for over a decade. She brings several years of project management experience in the private sector, a background in sailboat racing and dingy coaching.

The following people joined Diversified Communications:
Arien Chason joined as a member services and marketing administrator. Chason previously worked with Genesan/COR in Gorham.
Pooja Desai joined as a web support/ QA Technician. Desai previously worked for Kohl’s in Westbrook.

 NEW FACES

Ocean Communities Federal Credit Union hired three employees for its team.
Stephanie Hatch was hired as a teller at the Kennebunk branch. Taylor Williams and Kristine Bernier were hired as call center representatives for the credit union’s Sanford branch.

   Heather Willey-Toussaint, of Minot, joined TD Bank as branch manager in Portland.
Prior to joining TD Bank, Willey-Toussaint served as Tri-branded branch manager at Enterprise Holdings at the Portland International Jetport.

Chris Byrne joined Norton Financial Services as Internet technology manager.
Byrne, of Cumberland, comes to Norton with a strong IT background as founder and president of Cogent Information Systems / EZBackup.com for 14 years. He was previously with Commonwealth Financial Network as manager of field technology.

Bar Harbor Bank & Trust has hired Ruth Dunbar as vice president, trust officer and John Testa as vice president, trust investment officer to Bar Harbor Trust Services. Dunbar, of Holden, began her career in banking in 1987. She previously served as senior vice president, senior fiduciary officer at People’s United Bank since 2013.
Testa has over 10 years of investment experience managing endowments and foundation funds. In 2010, he joined Morgan Stanley in Hartford, Connecticut, as a registered associate.

The following people were hired at Baker Newman Noyes.
Gilda Bryand, of Portland, was hired as an administrative assistant in the tax practice. She earned a bachelor’s degree in human services from the University of Rhode Island.
Jordan Emery, of Skowhegan, joined as a staff member in the tax practice. Emery completed accounting courses at the University of Maine.
Jacqueline Guerin, of Sanford, was hired as a paraprofessional in the tax practice. Guerin attends York County Community College working toward her degree in business.
Diane Kandilakis was hired as a consultant in the healthcare consulting practice.
Kristie Krouse joined as an administrative assistant in the operations department. Krouse serves as treasurer for the Gorham Cooperative Preschool and a board volunteer for the Southern Maine Youth Hockey Association.
Lauren O’Neil was hired as an administrative assistant in the tax practice.
Roshay Reddy, of Boston, was hired as a senior in the tax practice. Reddy earned a master’s degree in accounting in 2009 from Vanderbilt University.
Nicole Shaffer, of Gorham, was hired as a proposal coordinator in the marketing department. Shaffer earned her degree in advertising/public relations and history from Pennsylvania State University.

PROMOTIONS

Baker Newman Noyes recently announced 13 promotions and eight new hires in its Portland office.
Adam Aucoin, Drew Blaney, Kelly Bristol, Dan Gayer and Remy Vazquez were promoted to managers in the firm’s tax practice.
Aucoin, of Buxton, joined the firm in 2012.
Blaney, of Boothbay Harbor, earned a master’s degree in taxation from Bentley University.
Bristol, of Skowhegan, earned a master’s degree in business administration from Thomas College.
Gayer, of Cape Elizabeth, specializes in closely-held businesses, with a focus on complex federal and state tax issues.
Vazquez, of Lake Worth, Florida, is a member of the firm’s estate and gift tax practice. Vazquez specializes in income and estate tax planning and compliance.
Pamela Cook was promoted to senior manager in the health-care consulting practice. Cook specializes in reimbursement services for hospitals, rural health clinics and physician groups.
Tiffany Edwards was promoted to senior manager in the audit practice. Edwards specializes in the commercial and hospitality industries, as well as employee benefit plan clients.
Courtney Francis, of Caribou, was promoted to senior in the tax practice. Francis joined the firm in October 2014.
Josie Hajdysz was promoted to senior accounting coordinator in the finance department.
Greg Knight, of Portland, was promoted to senior in the health-care consulting practice. Knight specializes in Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement for hospitals.
Josh Lapierre, of Freeport, was promoted to senior manager in the tax practice. Lapierre has been with the firm since 2010, having previously interned at BNN in 2009.
Stephanie Richio and Dianne Rodrigue were promoted to managers in the firm’s health-care consulting practice.
Richio, of Cape Elizabeth, specializes in reimbursement services for hospitals, rural health clinics and physicians’ groups. She has been with the firm since 2008.
Rodrigue specializes in medical chart auditing, clinical documentation improvement and provider education.

Leah Punch was promoted to loan servicer at Community Credit Union.
Punch was previously the new accounts member representative. She attended Central Maine Community College, New England College of Business and has completed Certified Teller Training.

Laurie Pelletier was promoted to vice president of lending at Community Credit Union. She previously worked as vice president of branch operations.

Ashley Ward was named asset quality representative at Community Credit Union. Ward, of Sabattus, previously worked as a member representative.

Bath Savings Institution promoted two bank officers to senior vice presidents.
Theresa Hodge, of Topsham, was named senior vice president and senior commercial lender. She has worked for Bath Savings for more than 12 years.
Julie Wagoner, of Yarmouth, was promoted to senior vice president – community development and commercial lending. Wagoner has been with Bath Savings for 15 years.

Saco & Biddeford Savings Institution promoted Brian Ballute and Stephanie Paquet to vice presidents and DeAnn Lewis to assistant vice president.
Ballute, of Saco, joined SBSI in 2012 as an assistant treasurer. Ballute previously served as a senior associate auditor at KMPG in Boston.

Paquet, of Saco, was hired in 2009 as a retail
retirement program manager. She recently held the position of deposit support manager. She previously worked for Bangor Savings and Pepperell Bank & Trust.

Lewis, of South Portland, joined SBSI in February 2015 as a general bank auditor. She previously worked as an audit analyst with Iberdrola USA and brings more than 25 years of experience in the banking industry.

Franklin Savings Bank has promoted Bernice Cote to assistant vice president for customer service.
Cote, of Wilton, has been a customer service officer since 2013 and also oversees the bank teller training program.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
Androscoggin Bank’s MainStreet Foundation named Lacey Gammon and Dennis Lajoie to its board of directors.
Gammon, of Andover, is a loan operations representative at Androscoggin Bank.
Lajoie, of Hebron, is the vice president of economic development and housing at Community Concepts Inc.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Ryan Hale, an adviser with Kennebunk Investment Services, was recognized as one of the nation’s Top 50 Bank and Credit Union Advisors for 2015 by Bank Investment Consultant. Hale lives in Kittery.

Oxford Networks recently hired several new executives and senior managers.
Mark VanLoan joined as vice president, customer support.
VanLoan, of Norway, has worked in technology-related fields for more than 30 years focusing on a variety of areas including networking, telecommunications, sales engineering, project management, operations management and customer support.

Wendy Flowers was named a financial and business analyst in the finance department.
Flowers, of Gray, was most recently manager of network operations for Martin’s Point Health Care, and also was manager of finance and planning for Unum, where she was employed for 18 years.

Anthony Pelletier was hired as financial analyst in the finance department.
Pelletier, of Lewiston, was most recently at WEX, where he served as senior tax accountant. He has also served as a lead analyst at Iberdrola, as well as a staff accountant at Austin Associates.

Coastal Enterprises Inc. has hired Betsy Biemann as the organization’s next chief executive officer and Keith Bisson as its new president.
Biemann currently serves as a consultant to FocusMaine and recently completed serving as a project director at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Bisson is CEI’s senior vice president of program management and development.
They will succeed founder, President and CEO Ron Phillips who will retire this spring after 38 years of leading the rural development organization.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Rosemary Reid of Portland, a representative of Modern Woodmen of America, was named to Modern Woodmen’s President’s Cabinet.
Reid was recognized for her high achievement in life insurance sales and ranking among the organization’s top representatives nationwide.

Harriman and The Cecil Group announced that two staff members recently earned professional certification and accreditation.

Jeffrey LaPierre received the Certified Energy Manager credential from the Association of Energy Engineers.

Kathryn Wise has passed the Architecture Registration Examination and is now a licensed architect.

UPS driver Ted Kalicky of Gorham was recently inducted into its Circle of Honor for achieving 25 years of accident-free driving.
Kalicky and six other elite drivers from Maine are among 1,613 newly inducted into the company’s honorary organization.
Maine has 42 active Circle of Honor drivers with a combined 1,142 years of accident-free driving.

Aaron Fitzgerald, manager of McDonald’s in Topsham, was selected to receive the 2016 Ray Kroc Award, which recognizes the top 1 percent of McDonald’s restaurant managers from around the world. The honor comes with a cash prize and a trophy.
Fitzgerald has been working for McDonald’s for nearly 10 years. He began his career in 2006 as a crew person at the Lisbon restaurant and was promoted to manager in 2008.
Lee Jackson was recognized as the McDonald’s Crew Person of the Year.
Jackson was one of only 25 McDonald’s employees nationwide to receive the award.

Kirby Littlefield, a longtime employee of Maine Water, was presented with the Sid Anthony Award of Merit from the Maine Water Utilities Association.
Littlefield was hired as a plant operator in May 1966 in the water treatment plant in Biddeford. He is now completing his 50th year in that role.

Sophia Rosendo, a Portland auction professional, recently received her designation as an Accredited Auctioneer Real Estate from the National Auctioneers Association’s Education Institute. Rosendo, of Cape Elizabeth, is an auction professional with Tranzon Auction Properties.

Scott Simons was named to the College of Fellows of the American Institute of Architects.
Simons is one of three Fellows in Maine and the seventh in the state’s history to receive this honor. He has practiced architecture for over 30 years.

Anna Moorman, of Allen Insurance and Financial, recently received an award from Martin’s Point Generations Advantage as one of their top 10 performing producers in Medicare sales for Maine.
Moorman has been with Allen Insurance since 2012. She assists people who are aging into the Medicare system.

Scott Edwards, an employee of Poland Spring, was named one of four employees to receive the Nestlé Waters North America President’s Award in January.
Edwards was recognized for his commitment to the community and dedication to Poland Spring. He lives in Harrison and has worked for Poland Spring for 22 years.

Shane Perry recently received the Accreditation in Public Relations designation, joining only about 5,000 skilled public relations professionals worldwide.

Baker Newman Noyes was recently ranked in Accounting Today’s list of the top 100 firms in the country.
The annual list ranks CPA firms by revenue. The firm received high marks for its growth of 30 percent in 2015, allowing it to enter at 96 and rank fourth in the New England region. Overall growth for the top 100 came in at 9.32 percent.

The Society of Certified Insurance Counselors recently recognized Gene McKeever of Allen Insurance and Financial in Camden with a certificate honoring his 35 years of committed professional leadership and advanced knowledge.

Donna Millett Ewert, a financial adviser at Robinson Smith Wealth Advisors in Portland, was accepted for membership in the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors.
With membership, Millett Ewert is affiliated with an organization of more than 2,400 qualified financial advisers in the nation.

NEW HIRES
Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty has hired Elise Kiely as a senior vice president of its Portland office.
Kiely, of Falmouth, spent almost 10 years as a litigator in Washington, D.C., and Maine. She then started developing and investing in real estate, which led to a high-end real estate brokerage practice.

Christina Stone also joined Legacy’s team as a vice president of its Kennebunk office.
Stone, who specializes in coastal locations such as Biddeford Pool, Fortunes Rocks, Granite Point and Hills Beach, has practiced real estate in Maine for more than a decade.

Aaron Crossman joined Legacy’s real estate team as a vice president of its Camden office.
Crossman’s real estate career started in 2002 in Camden. In 2005 he went to the Cayman Islands to work with the sales team of a new condominium development project.

Fontaine Family real estate has hired Kelly Webb to its team in Auburn.
Webb, of Monmouth, worked as a legal secretary before starting her real estate career in 1990. She spent seven years as the office manager at ERA Webb. She joined the Fontaine team with 26 years of real estate experience.

Joyce Frost and Suzanne Lowell, previously of RE/MAX By The Bay, have joined Bean Group and will work together as a team.
They have a total of 30 years experience in the real estate market, specializing in southern Maine.

Becki Thomen joined Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northeast Real Estate.
She brings several years of experience in the industry.

Portside Real Estate Group in Portland has hired Jaye Gorham, Nancy Keast and Ben Ray.
Gorham brings more than 30 years of experience in the industry. She has owned her own appraisal company and has many years of real estate experience.
Keast joined Portside with over a decade in the business and connections in the Deering area.
Ray comes to Portside with a strong design and architectural eye. He brings years of sales experience.

Portland’s Choice Realty has hired Karen Parenteau. She has been in the business since 2006 and is a native of the Biddeford-Saco area.

Laura Rohrer joined the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office in Saco as a sales associate.
Rohrer, of Old Orchard Beach, will provide residential real estate services in Saco and the communities of Biddeford, Old Orchard Beach, Kennebunk, Buxton and Hollis.

PROMOTIONS
Landry/French Construction Co. has promoted Mason Rowell to senior project manager.
Most recently, Rowell served as project manager on a medical office building for Western Maine Health in Norway. He currently serves as a project manager on new branch banks for Bangor Savings Bank on Marginal Way in Portland and in Brunswick, and a new facility for Allagash Brewing Co.

Julia Bassett has received the commercial broker designation from Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage.
The course included training on valuation of commercial properties, green commercial properties and representation of buyers and sellers in commercial transactions.

NEW HIRES

LeBlanc and Young added two new attorneys to its team.

Matie Little joined the firm as a partner, with a practice encompassing all areas of trusts and estates law. She was previously a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm.

Eliza Nichols became an associate attorney with the firm last October and assists individuals and families with their estate planning needs, as well as trust and estate administrations. She previously practiced with a large law firm in Los Angeles.

Curtis Thaxter LLC has hired Rebecca Klotzle to join its litigation practice group.
Klotzle focuses her practice on civil and appellate litigation and advises clients in property disputes, intellectual property matters, zoning appeals, employment law and contract-related issues. Most recently, she was an associate attorney at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom in Boston.

Amy McNally joined the Biddeford law firm Woodman, Edmands, Danylik, Austin, Smith and Jacques as an associate.
McNally, of Arundel, focuses her practice on estate planning and administration, civil litigation and criminal defense. She previously worked at a law firm in York.

PROMOTIONS
Sara Moppin was recently elected as a shareholder and director of Perkins Thompson in Portland.
Moppin will continue to practice in the areas of business transactions, commercial lending and regulatory matters.

The attorneys of Skelton Taintor and Abbott named Benjamin Smith as a shareholder of the firm.
Smith, of Chelsea, is a litigator and possesses extensive experience in public utility law. He was previously a staff attorney for the Maine Public Utilities Commission.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Bernstein Shur recently announced 2015 pro bono and volunteer service results. Two attorneys were honored, along with the firm’s Sunshine Committee.
Talesha Saint-Marc, member of the firm’s labor and employment and litigation and dispute resolution practices groups, was recognized with the Sumner T. Bernstein Pro Bono Award. Saint-Marc provided legal services to victims of domestic violence, including a custody trial for a mother and son.
David Soley, member of the firm’s real estate and litigation and dispute resolution practice groups, was recognized for his continued service to the American Civil Liberties Union and Maine Homeless Legal Clinic.
The Sunshine Committee, a group of Bernstein Shur’s staff that raises funds, collects donated goods, and raises awareness for the needy in our community, was recognized with the Barnett I. Shur Civic Award. The committee members are: Janet Davis, chair; Jo Dyke, Ruth Earley, Mandy Furbush, Debra Humason-Fulgham, Robin Learned, Karla Quirk, Laura Rodrigues, Angela Stewart, Michelle Thomas and Angie White.

Skelton Taintor and Abbott shareholder Rebecca Webber was named president of the Central Maine Human Resources Association.
The president oversees the board of directors, presides at membership and board meetings and supervises the affairs and business of the organization.

Elizabeth High, a principal with LeBlanc & Young, was named the Portland Trusts and Estates Lawyer of the Year for 2016 by Best Lawyers.

GENERAL
Sarah Churchill, a civil and criminal litigator, became a partner with Matthew Nichols to establish the law firm Nichols & Churchill, P.A.
Churchill comes into partnership after three years as an associate at Nichols’ prior firm, Nichols and Webb, P.A.
Her focus is advocating for clients in workplace discrimination, sexual harassment and personal injury cases.
Nichols has been in private practice in Maine since 1988.

Jeffery Burrell was named general manager of the 289-room and suite Westin Portland Harborview in Portland, a Rockbridge portfolio property.
Burrell was most recently the general manager of the AAA four-diamond, Westin Riverfront Resort & Spa in Avon, Colo., which he opened in 2008.

Sebago Technics hired two design professionals to join its staff.

Glissen Havu joined Sebago as a civil engineer. Havu, of Steep Falls, previously worked at the Portland Water District in a variety of roles.

Tyler Peabody also joins as a civil engineer. He previously worked for a site-civil surveying firm in the Bangor area. He lives in Biddeford.

Jamie Thompson joined Diversified Communications as an email deployment administrator.
Thompson was previously employed with HIMSS Media in Portland.
Heather Laverriere also joined as a project manager.
Nathan Coffren was hired as a data analyst. Coffren previously worked for Paradigm Window Solutions in Portland.

Emma Hathaway joined Maine Maritime Academy as captain of the schooner Bowdoin.
Most recently, Hathaway captained the Seaward out of San Francisco Bay and the Unicorn, sailing from Connecticut through the Saint Lawrence Seaway to the Great Lakes. She has worked as a trainer, mentor and teacher on various ocean classroom vessels.

Katherine Lehman joined The Bowdoin International Music Festival as executive director.
For the past six years, she served as director of Tennessee’s Sewanee Summer Music Festival.

David Ball has joined Vets First Choice as director of business-to-business marketing and sales enablement.
Ball has more than two decades of experience in traditional and digital marketing in the hi-tech industry. He previously worked for Silicon Valley-based Cisco Systems Inc. for 15 years.

Certified Master Chef Daniel Harrison Dumont was hired as executive chef at the Black Point Inn on Prouts Neck.
Dumont will be responsible for a kitchen staff of 25 in the Black Point Inn’s two restaurants: The Point Restaurant for fine dining; and The Chart Room for more casual fare.

NEW HIRES
Esther Davis, a certified nurse midwife, joined the Lisa Stewart Women’s Health Center at Mount Desert Island Hospital.
Davis has worked in obstetrics since 1980 when she began her practice as a labor and delivery nurse at South Baldwin Hospital in Foley, Alabama.

Spurwink announces the following new hires and one promotion.
Patricia Miles joined as manager of its community support program. Miles previously worked as a child protective worker for the Maine Department of Health and Human Services.

Kira Personette was hired as an occupational therapist in the Casco and Chelsea Day Treatment Schools. Personette completed a master’s program in occupational therapy at the University of Southern Maine.

Berkeley Nappi and Jessica Conery-Poulin joined as public school counselors.
Nappi will serve the Western Maine Region at Oak Hill High School, Lewiston High School and Thomas J. McMahon Elementary School in Lewiston.

Conery-Poulin was promoted. She will work with students at the Harpswell Coastal Academy. For the past three years, she was a residential clinician.

Central Maine Orthopaedics and OA Centers for Orthopaedics, divisions of Spectrum Medical Group, have hired Matthew Perkowski to their teams.
Perkowski specializes in interventional pain medicine and the non-surgical management of spinal disorders.

New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Portland has hired Carol Treacy as therapy manager.
Treacy most recently served as director of Rehab at Aegis Therapies.

Diana Goodman, M.D., has joined Maine Medical Partners Neurology as a neurohospitalist.
Goodman completed her Neurocritical Care Fellowship at Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

Erica Richards has re-joined the practice at Mercy All About Women.
She comes to Mercy from Women’s Wellness Comprehensive Care.

Tammy Dow has joined Mount Desert Island Hospital as its compensation and benefits manager in human resources.
Dow brings several years of experience, including the past 28 years in the field at The Jackson Laboratory.

Aatif Ansari also joined MDI Hospital as the new oral health provider at the Community Dental Center in Southwest Harbor.
Ansari received his doctor of dental surgery degree from Indiana School of Dentistry in 2015. His medical interests and expertise include hospital-based dentistry, management of medically compromised patients in both the dental clinic and hospital setting.

Suzanne Berlin, D.O., and John Paul Winters III, M.D., joined New England Cancer Specialists.
Most recently, Berlin worked at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, where she specialized in gynecologic oncology and medical oncology.

Winters joined the hematology team at New England Cancer Specialists.
Most recently, he was a staff physician specializing in hematology/oncology at Saint Charles Cancer Center in Bend, Oregon.

The board of directors of Maine Behavioral Healthcare has tapped Stephen Merz, a health care executive from Connecticut, to be the organization’s next chief executive officer.
Merz, who most recently has led the behavioral health service line of Yale New Haven Hospital, will replace Dennis King, who retires in June.
Merz spent nearly his entire career with Yale New Haven Hospital, one of New England’s largest hospitals with more than 1,500 beds and 13,500 employees.
In his new role, Merz will lead an organization that was formed in 2014 when Spring Harbor Hospital merged with three community mental health care providers, Community Counseling Center, Counseling Services Inc. and Mid-Coast Mental Health Center.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
Todd Reagin, of Maine Medicare Options LLC, received an award from Martin’s Point Generations Advantage as one of their Top 10 performing producers in Medicare supplement sales for Maine.
Reagin has been with Maine Medicare Options since it was founded in 2011. He assists people who are new to the Medicare system, as well as people in the community in need of guidance and advice on their Medicare insurance options.

Daniel Bonner, chief operating officer for Spurwink, was recognized for his 35 years of service.
Bonner joined Spurwink in 1981 as a direct care worker and has spent his entire professional career with the behavioral health and educational services agency.

APPOINTMENTS
Ann Phillips, of VNA Home Health Hospice, was recently accepted as an advanced professional member of the Aging Life Care Association.
Phillips has been practicing as an aging life care professional, also known as a geriatric care manager, since 2014.

Meghan Houdlette, a senior project engineer at VHB, was named to the advisory board for the Healthy Cumberland County.

Daniel Puglisi, of Saco; and Michael Stevenson, Ph.D., of Portland, joined the board of directors for the Frannie Peabody Center, an HIV service organization in Maine.

GENERAL
Carrie Levine, founder and owner of Whole Woman Health in Newcastle, is partnering with Coastal Pharmacy and Wellness in Portland to offer consultations beginning April 27.
Levine opened Whole Woman Health in 2014 and offers a variety of services including comprehensive gynecology, hormone balancing, digestive health and nutrition counseling.

Michael Mullin has started a private practice and consulting business, Integrative Rehab Training LLC.
He will see clients for fitness rehab out of Back Cove Personal Fitness in Portland. Clients needing clinical athletic training services will be seen at Beyond Strength in Falmouth. He previously worked as a clinical athletic trainer at OA Centers for Orthopaedics in the physical therapy department for over 15 years prior to starting his own practice.

Linda Riddell, population health scientist/principal, Health Economy LLC, has joined the editorial board of the peer-reviewed journal, Population Health Management.
The journal, published by the Thomas Jefferson University School of Public Health of Philadelphia, appears six times annually.

NEW HIRES
Charter Oak Capital Management announced the following hires.
Robert Vail brings over a decade of experience as a wealth manager. Previously, he held this role at Peoples United Bank and JP Morgan.

Katy Carr joined as relationship manager. She brings nearly 16 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Sarah Serling joined as a financial adviser.
Serling is an attorney and certified financial planner.

Timothy Wooster was named vice president, portfolio manager for First Advisors.
Wooster, of Camden, recently worked for Bar Harbor Bank & Trust as a vice president and investment officer.

Angela Butler has joined Katahdin Trust Co. as senior vice president, commercial services officer.
She brings more than 22 years of experience at People’s United Bank and Merrill Bank. Most recently, she served as senior vice president, commercial Banking Region Manager in Bangor.

Jenny Rottmann joined the Genesis Community Loan Fund as director of finance and administration.
Rottmann, of Portland, brings over a decade experience in both nonprofit management and community-based work.

PROMOTIONS
TD Bank has promoted Ellen Niewoehner to senior relationship manager in commercial lending in Portland.
Niewoehner, of Portland, has 26 years of banking and lending experience. She joined TD Bank in 1997 as a vice president in private banking. Most recently, she served as a relationship manager in commercial lending.

Bath Savings Institution has promoted Melissa Libby to branch manager of its Yarmouth office.
Libby joined Bath Savings in 1999 as a teller. She has served as the assistant branch manager of Yarmouth since 2005.

First National Bank announced several promotions.
Terri Geroux was promoted to vice president, systems and support officer. She joined the bank in 1982 and she has worked in a variety of positions. Most recently, she was the bank’s information systems project manager.

Denise Griffin was promoted to vice president, human resources officer. Griffin joined the bank’s human resources department in 2004.
Melissa Bryant was named assistant vice president, mortgage underwriter. She joined the bank’s mortgage department in 2011.
Matthew Weaver was promoted to vice president, senior portfolio manager. Weaver joined First Advisors in 2000.
Nazrin Dixon was named vice president, business development officer. Dixon joined First Advisors in 2013 in Bangor. She has over eight years of experience in the financial services industry.
Lorraine Ouellette was named vice president, senior administration and compliance officer. She has been with First Advisors since 2011 and has over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Mark Leighton was promoted to senior vice president, financial adviser at Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Leighton, of Falmouth, has been with the firm since 1993.

NEW HIRES
Fluid Imaging Technologies expanded its team with four new hires.
Frances Buerkens joined as a sales manager for aquatic markets. Buerkens will work to promote and sell the FlowCam in algae technology markets.
Kay Johnson joined as a technical customer support associate. Johnson will be responsible for direct customer support related to the operation of the FlowCam imaging particle analysis instrument and its VisualSpreadSheet software.
Dave Hamel joined as director of sales, bio/pharma markets. Hamel will develop sales strategies and sell the FlowCam to customers and prospects within the biopharmaceutical market. Hamel is based in Boston, Mass.
Steve Northup was hired as a software engineer. He will participate in the design of Fluid Imaging Technologies’ software products, as well as identifying and developing cost-effective technology solutions for all aspects of the organization.

Sebago Technics added four new design professionals.
Rebecca Gabryszewski, of Biddeford, and Emmerald “Emmy” Irvin, of Portland, joined as permitting specialist/project coordinators. Gabryszewski has more than 20 years of experience in land development consulting. Irvin worked this past year with Sebago Technics as an intern.

Caleb Gervais, of Augusta, joined as a survey technician. He interned with Sebago Technics last summer in the survey group and spent most of his time on the MDOT crew.
Matthew McGuirk joined as a civil engineer. He recently graduated from the University of Maine with a degree in civil and environmental engineering. He grew up in Biddeford and interned with a geotechnical firm.

Casco Systems announced new hires in its Portland, Waterville and Idaho offices.
Heidi Mills joined as a project engineer specializing in control and power systems design.

Nate Meade was hired as an electrical engineer specializing in protection and control system design.

Bob Sherman joined as a principal project engineer focused on control and automation projects for the power industry.

Chiara Battelli and Paige Teller

NEW HIRES
Maine Medical Center announced new co-directors of the hospital’s breast care center in Scarborough.
Paige Teller, M.D., is a fellowship-trained breast surgical oncologist. Chiara Battelli, M.D., is a fellowship-trained medical oncologist specializing in breast cancer. Both Teller and Battelli return to Maine after having completed part of their specialized training at MMC.

Teller, a physician with Maine Medical Partners, recently served as the co-director of Breast Care Services for Atrius Health-Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates in Boston. Battelli, a physician with New England Cancer Specialists, joined the hospital’s medical staff in 2013.

Maya Ramirez, M.D., a bariatrician, has joined Central Maine Bariatric Surgery in Lewiston.
Ramirez obtained certification in functional medicine in 2014 and became board certified by the American Board of Obesity Medicine in 2016.

Acadia Benefits Inc. has hired Mike Burton as vice president of business development.
Burton has more than 25 years of experience in the health care industry. He will be focusing on bringing creative solutions to help control the cost of employee benefits for Maine firms.

PROMOTIONS
Martha Searchfield joined the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce as the new executive director.
Searchfield, of Bar Harbor, has been serving as interim director since January.

AWARDS and RECOGNITIONS
The National Rural Health Association recently named Bridgton Hospital a top 20 critical access hospital in quality performance.
Bridgton Hospital scored best among critical access hospitals based on iVantage Health Analytics’ Hospital Strength Index for Quality. Its ranked in the top 20 out of more than 1,300 rural and critical access hospitals throughout the United States.

Mount Desert Island Hospital was named Trauma System Hospital of the Year by Maine Emergency Medical Services in Augusta.

Deborah Hoch of Maine Medical Center was recognized with the American Association of Nurse Practitioners 2016 State Award for Excellence.
Hoch, of Kennebunk, has worked at MMC for 14 years in its division of transplant medicine.

New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Portland recently presented several awards at its annual Employee Appreciation Day.
David Hesselink of Portland, an occupational therapist, received the Buzz Fitzgerald Award.

Nancy Lizotte of Brunswick, a certified rehabilitation registered nurse, was selected as clinician of the year.

Pamela Pelletier of Raymond, a CNA, was chosen as outstanding employee of the year. Bonnie Deveau of Gorham, director of quality and risk management, received the leadership award.

Tim Daigle of South Portland, a nutrition manager, was recognized with the rehabilitation services award.

Joe Dacey of Scarborough, a certified rehabilitation registered nurse, was awarded the Sandra Marriner Certified Rehabilitation Nurse of the Year Award.

NEW HIRES
Mike Anderson joined the brokerage staff of Malone Commercial Brokers in Portland.
Anderson, a licensed broker in Maine, previously worked as a broker at Paragon Commercial Real Estate in Portland for seven years.

TC Haffenreffer joined NAI The Dunham Group
Haffenreffer brings experience and knowledge in building acquisitions and investments. He was previously a managing partner at Shoreline Development Group, LLC.

Tiffany Hampton has joined The Rob Edgerley Real Estate Team of Keller Williams Realty as chief operations officer.
Hampton brings 15 years of industry experience.

Stacey Schuler-Cannon also joined the firm as lead listing specialist. She moved to Maine from Keller Williams First Atlanta, where she maintains a successful team.

EXPANDING
Portside Real Estate Group is expanding with a new office at 330 Forest Ave. in Portland.

GENERAL
The Boulos Co. has created a new help desk to assist people with business planning, lease renewals and long-term strategic planning
It will be staffed by the company’s own real estate professionals – experts on the local market, commercial lease terms, acquisitions, dispositions, and market rates for leases and financing.

AWARDS & RECOGNITIONS
Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New England recently honored its top 50 affiliated sales associates, including real estate professionals affiliated with the company’s Maine and New Hampshire offices.

Bryan Plourde, of Cumberland, completed the requirements for the Certified General Real Property Appraiser license in Maine.
This certification requires 3,000 hours of satisfactory cumulative experience, a bachelor’s degree, 300 hours of appraiser specific education, and passing the National Uniform Licensing and Certification Exam.

NEW HIRES

Theresa Taplin joined R.M. Davis as a personal affairs management administrator.
She will be responsible for direct service to clients, ensuring that personal and financial household affairs are organized and taken care of in a timely manner.
She brings more than 20 years of administrative support experience.
The firm also hired Reid Smith as a vice president and portfolio manager.
Based in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire, office, he brings 25 years of leadership experience in the field. He previously served as vice president for David Wendell & Associates Inc. of Portsmouth.

Kirsten Allen has joined Macpage LLC as an audit associate.
Allen, of Litchfield, recently completed an internship with Macpage. She previously worked as a teller at a credit union in Maine, where she was responsible for various accounting related tasks.

John Quesnel has joined Katahdin Trust as vice president, managed assets officer.
Quesnel, of Hampden, was previously with People’s United Bank in Bangor, where he served as vice president, business banker.

Angela Butler joined Katahdin Trust Co. as senior vice president, commercial services officer.
She joined Katahdin Trust after spending more than 22 years at People’s United Bank and Merrill Bank. Most recently, she served as a senior vice president, commercial banking region manager in Bangor.

University Credit Union has hired Stephanie Beck as a marketing manager.
She previously worked in marketing at a local law firm. She has a background in sales and management and brings experience in brand development and public relations.

PROMOTIONS
University Credit Union has expanded its management team with two promotions.
Shauna Baker was promoted to operations manager. She has been with the credit union for more than 12 years and most recently served as training manager.
Stacey Young was promoted to retail services manager.
She has been with UCU for more than three years, most recently as manager of its Bangor branch. She brings more than 20 years of experience in the banking industry.

PROMOTIONS
Barbara Tuttle of Pownal was named the new manager of Bath Savings in Bath
Tuttle, an assistant vice president, has been with Bath Savings for 18 years. She previously served as branch manager of the bank’s Yarmouth branch.
She replaces Patricia Taggart, who joined Bath Savings as a teller 18 years ago. She is retiring as vice president and branch manager of the bank’s main office in Bath.

Julie Marquis was named CEO of Five County Credit Union.
Marquis, of Brunswick, had served as executive vice president and chief operating officer since July 2013. She joined the credit union in 1993.

AWARD and RECOGNITIONS
Seth Webber, a principal at BerryDunn, was recognized by the National Association of Certified Valuators and Analysts as its Outstanding Member Award winner.

Peter Fendler, president of Norton Financial Services; and Ray Emery, a financial consultant with the company, were recently recognized in their industry.
Fendler is president of Norton Financial Services in Cumberland, and Emery is a financial consultant at Norton Financial Services. They have both achieved Commonwealth President’s Club status for 2016.

BOARD APPOINTMENTS
The Maine Credit Union League has elected the following people to its board of directors:
Tucker Cole, president and CEO of Maine State CU, was elected to a three-year term to serve as a director on the Maine CU League Board of Directors.

Richard Lachance, president and CEO of Connected CU, was elected chair.

Kyle Casburn, president and CEO of Seaboard FCU, was elected vice chair.

David Desjardins, president and CEO of Acadia FCU, was elected secretary.

Scott Chretien, president and CEO of York County FCU, was elected treasurer.

NEW HIRES
Bob Currie was hired as director of transportation for York County Community Action Corporation. Connie Garber, the program’s director for the past 37 years, retired at the end of May.
Currie previously worked as project manager for the Capitol Region Education Council in Connecticut. He brings several years of management experience.

Kraig Sourbeer joined Carrabassett Valley Academy as its new alpine program director. He will be responsible for the staffing, programming, implementation and supervision of the academy and its weekend alpine programs.
Sourbeer brings extensive experience to the CVA. He spent the past six years coaching under 16 and 19 boys at Burke Mountain Academy.

John Moran was hired as the new principal of Cheverus High School.
Moran will succeed longtime principal John H.R. Mullen, who retired after 37 years at Cheverus. Moran will begin his tenure on July 1. He has served as the principal of St. Louis University High School since 2008.

David Walker, a licensed professional geologist, joined R. W. Gillespie & Associates, Inc.
Walker will conduct environmental site assessments, groundwater assessment and remediation and aquifer testing. He will also assist the geotechnical group in explorations, sampling, geophysical testing and seismic studies.

Maine Audubon announced that it was hiring Jeremy Cluchey as director of communications and marketing.
Cluchey brings more than a decade of strategic communications and management experience spanning the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. He previously served as director of creative design at Bates College.

Kossi Gamedah joined Goodwill Industries of Northern New England as senior vice president of retail.
Most recently, Gamedah was the regional director for Dollar General for West Tennessee, where he was responsible for retail operations.

The Ecology School in Saco has hired Bryan Matluk as development director.
Matluk previously worked at York County Community College in the same capacity. He is founder and owner of Exchange Street Studio in Portland.

Mid-Maine Chamber of Commerce has hired Brittnae DeRoche to help grow its regional marketing efforts.
DeRoche will focus on updating social media pages, all chamber websites and help member businesses network through chamber events and activities.

The MDI Biological Laboratory has named Stephen Krasinski as vice president for administration.
Krasinski succeeds Patricia Hand, who retired last month after 15 years. He comes to the MDI Biological Laboratory from Boston Children’s Hospital, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. He was a principal investigator at the children’s hospital.