People this Week: New hires, promotions, awards

CityBusiness staff reports//February 13, 2019//

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Accounting

LaPorte CPAs & Business Advisors has promoted H. Cliff Basinger to chief technology officer in its Metairie office and hired Joey Imarata as senior manager, tax services; Kevin Curren as senior, audit and assurance services; William Cloud as staff, tax services; and Blake Lorio and Jacques LeBlanc as staff, audit and assurance services.

Architecture

Sizeler Thompson Brown Architects has promoted Madeleine Rappold to interior designer, Alex Ratliff to architect and Lance Dickman to architect.

Awards

Winners of the 2019 Love Your City Awards include: Stormwater: Batture LLC; Housing: Tulane Canal Development Corporation; Food: Recirculating Farms Coalition; Culture: Black Men of Labor; Energy: Sheraton New Orleans; Economic Opportunity: Lighthouse Louisiana; Transportation: Friends of Laffite Greenway; Education: Overcoming Racism; Resource Management: Audubon Aquarium of the Americas; and Health: All You Need Institute.

The American Association of Nurse Practitioners has selected LSU Health New Orleans’ Jessica Landry as the recipient of the 2019 American Association of Nurse Practitioners’ Louisiana State Award for Nurse Practitioner Advocate Excellence.

Longtime PJ’s Coffee employees Doralene Quinn and Brian Beck have been honored with the Louisiana Restaurant Association Legends Award.

Banking

Metairie Bank and Trust has announced the election of Sean Bruno as its newest board member.

Michelle Whetten, vice president and Gulf Coast market leader for Enterprise Community Partners, Inc., has been reappointed to the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas’ Affordable Housing Council.

Communications

Cox has hired Kevin Monroe as market vice president for New Orleans; Sarah Olcott Allen as director of government affairs; James Moffett as manager of government affairs; and Sharon Truxillo as director of public affairs.

Construction

Palmisano has announced new hires: Steven Stewart as project executive; Justin James as project engineer; Thomas Savino as project engineer; Josh Foret as assistant estimator; William Cotten as project engineer; Christopher Dupre as project engineer; Louis Milazzo III as project engineer; Joe Somerville as superintendent and Rodney Neumeyer as superintendent.

Education

Christopher Llyod has been named admissions associate II at Tulane School of Professional Advancement. Emma Sloan has been named admissions management specialist.

William Marko, managing director at an investment banking group based in Houston, and Ann Tenenbaum, a philanthropist in New York City focusing on the arts and education, have been elected to the Board of Tulane, the main governing body of Tulane University.

Engineering

Christine Davies has been hired as a designer on the civil & structural engineering team at Heaslip Engineering.

PACE Group LLC has moved to 400 S. Jefferson Davis Pkwy., New Orleans.

Jerri Daniels has been promoted to associate vice president of Dewberry’s New Orleans office.

Insurance

Tim Woodard has been promoted from his role as the marine & energy practice leader of Lockton Companies’ Houston office to head of office for the global insurance broker’s recently opened location in the greater New Orleans area.

Brown & Brown Gulf States has added Emily Jordan as vice president, marketing, and Kelley Calandro, insurance & risk advisor, to the commercial lines team.

Law

Perrier & Lacoste has announced that Michael Robertson and Dustin Poché have become members of the firm.

Perry Dampf Dispute Solutions has announced that retired magistrate judge Daniel Knowles III has joined the firm’s mediation and arbitration panels. Vincent Fornias has joined the firm’s panel of arbitrators and early neutral evaluators. Rebecca Wisbar has joined the firm’s mediation panel.

Seth Bagwell and Brandon Darden have been promoted to partner at Carver Darden Koretzky Tessier Finn Blossman & Areaux LLC.

Adams and Reese has announced that New Orleans attorneys Leigh Ann Schell and Jeffrey Richardson have earned the Appellate Practice Specialist designation as certified by the Louisiana Board of Legal Specialization.

Chehardy Sherman Williams attorneys David Sherman, James Williams, Steven Hayes, Patrick Reso, P.J. Stakelum III and of counsel attorneys Conrad Meyer IV and Fred Herman have been selected for inclusion on the 2019 Super Lawyers list.

Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins, Burr & Smith managing director Jason Waguespack has been elected president of The New Orleans Bar Association.

Locke Lord has announced that Victoria de Lisle, a partner in its New Orleans office, has been elected co-chair of the firm’s board of directors.

Matthew Miller has rejoined Baldwin Haspel Burke & Mayer as a partner.

Barrasso Usdin Kupperman Freeman & Sarver LLC has announced that Viviana Aldous and Lance Waters have joined the firm as associates.

Nonprofit

Family Promise of St. Tammany has named David Doss president of the board; Bryan Hodnett vice president and Denny Otillio treasurer. Teresa Daly, Rachel Harris and Harry Jenkins have been named board members.

Junior Achievement of Greater New Orleans has announced that Crystal McDonald, CEO of Acrew, and Tanya Freeman, director of administration of Palmisano, have joined the board of governors for 2018-2019.

The New Orleans Mission has opened the Mission Pantry at the Giving Hope Retreat, 31294 US-190 in Lacombe.

The Louisiana SPCA has announced Susan Guidry and Ryan McCabe as newly elected members of the board of directors.

Jefferson Parish Human Services Authority welcomes Lynn Alex Redfearn to its board of directors.

The Bureau of Governmental Research has announced its 2019 officer and board members. Officers include Ludovico Feoli, chair; Norma Grace, vice chair; H. Merritt Lane III, secretary; Maureen Clary, treasurer; Nathalie Simon, assistant secretary; and Anne Baños, assistant treasurer. The three new members of the board of directors include Tara Adams, Gary Lorio and Jennifer Roberts. Five directors beginning a second term include Charmaine Caccioppi, Leah Engelhardt, Todd McDonald, Melissa Sawyer and Steven Usdin. Returning members include Christine Albert, Susan Brennan, Kelly Brown, Andrea Chen, Jaimmé Collins, Hardy Fowler, Louis Freeman Jr., Alex Gershanik, Hunter Hill, Andrew Lee, Martin Mayer, Jennifer Medbery, Jennifer Neil, Slade Simons, Blake Stanfill, Larry Washington and Dennis Woltering.