People this Week: New hires, promotions, awards

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Accounting

Christopher Breaux Jr., Ryan Berger and Nischal Adhikari of Kushner LaGraize have been designated Certified Public Accountants.

Advertising/Public Relations

Beuerman Miller Fitzgerald, Inc. has hired Courtney Cash as an account executive.

Brandon Cox has been promoted to senior web developer, Sylvia Morphy-Payne has been promoted to controller/office administrator and Val Galati Gibbons has been promoted to account director at Deep Fried Advertising.

Architecture

RHH Architects has opened an office in downtown Covington at 410 East Lockwood St.

Awards

Candy Wright, a director in the Accounting & Assurance Services Group of Postlethwaite & Netterville, has been selected as one of the 2019 Most Powerful Women in Accounting by the American Institute of CPAs and CPA Practice Advisor magazine.

AOS has announced that architecture firms EskewDumezRipple and VergesRome Architects have been awarded Architectural Record’s 2019 Good Design Is Good Business Award for its headquarters and showroom.

Tulane University students Nathalie Clarke and Danielle (Nelle) Kulick have been named 2019 Goldwater Scholars by The Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation. Recent graduate Steven Stradley received the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.

Banking/Financial Services

Richard Allen is the new director of strategic initiatives at Stonehenge Capital.

General Business

The Historic New Orleans Collection president and CEO Priscilla Lawrence has retired after 40 years.

Michael Conerly, president and CEO of LAMMICO, has been elected to serve a three-year term on the Medical Professional Liability Association’s board of directors.

Health Care

Sophia Thomas, a pediatric nurse practitioner in the Daughters of Charity Health System and at Children’s Hospital, has been elected president of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.

Laura Bonanno, nurse anesthesia program director and associate professor of clinical nursing at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, has been elected president of the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs.

Law

Loyola University School of Law graduate Chandel McDonald has joined the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center as director of development and major gifts.

Smith & Fawer founding member and managing partner Randall Smith has been appointed by the Owners’ Counsel of America for the second year in a row to serve as chairman of the board in 2019-2020.

Nonprofit

Foundation for Louisiana has hired Charmel Gaulden as chief operating officer.

Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans has hired Kristen Green as director of education, Karla Morris Program as manager for the River Parishes and Eric Walter as program manager.

Boys Town Louisiana has hired James Howell as director of development.

Real Estate

Urban Properties has hired Brock Reardon as business manager intern.

Tourism/Hospitality

Stephanie Turner has joined New Orleans & Company as vice president of convention sales and strategies.

Chef Bronwen Wyatt has joined the culinary team at Bacchanal and The Elysian Bar.

Café Beignet has announced that Eugenie Stevens has joined its team full time as marketing and social media coordinator.

Link Restaurant Group has promoted Bret Macris to the position of chef de cuisine at Cochon.