New hiresAndroscoggin Home Care & Hospice in Lewiston hired Sonya Purington as marketing and development director. Purington most recently served as director of marketing and communications for Make-A-Wish Maine.Pen Bay Family Medicine in Rockport hired Kendra Emery as a primary care provider. Emery completed a sports medicine fellowship at the Montana Family Medicine Residency and […]
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New hires
Androscoggin Home Care & Hospice in Lewiston hired Sonya Purington as marketing and development director. Purington most recently served as director of marketing and communications for Make-A-Wish Maine.
Pen Bay Family Medicine in Rockport hired Kendra Emery as a primary care provider. Emery completed a sports medicine fellowship at the Montana Family Medicine Residency and is board certified in family medicine.
The city of Portland hired Julia Trujillo Luengo as the first director of the Office of Economic Opportunity, which was created late last year as a means to help immigrants and disadvantaged Mainers find jobs. She most recently served as director of the state of Maine's Office of Multicultural Affairs and as state refugee coordinator. In a related role, the city named Mandy Levine as workforce diversity and inclusion specialist within the city's human resources department; previously, she served as HR business partner at Maine Medical Center. Trujilllo's start day was May 1, while Levine took her post on April 24.
Verrill Dana, a law firm in Portland, hired David Warren as a full-time senior counsel in the firm's business and corporate group. Since 2009, Warren worked for the firm while also filling a role as president of Tranzon LLC.
Bangor Savings Bank hired Jaclyn Silk as assistant vice president and branch manager for its State Street location in Bangor and Tina Willard as a consumer banking senior relationship manager in Lewiston. Silk was previously with People's United Bank while Willard was with Androscoggin Savings Bank.
19 Oaks, a marketing and sales company in Portland, hired Liz Woodbury as a writer, Daniel Heutz as a graphic designer and Paul Harris as a project manager.
Diversified Communications, an international media company in Portland, hired Sean Carter as an application developer and Bradford Nelson as a web developer.
Gov. Paul R. LePage hired Brent Davis as chief legal counsel. Previously, Davis served as first assistant district attorney in the Somerset and Kennebec County District Attorney's Office.
United Mid-Coast Charities in Camden hired Megan Williams as executive director. Williams was previously with Georges River Land Trust.
York County Community Action Corp. hired Carter Friend as deputy director. Friend brings more than 25 years of management and leadership experience to the position.
Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor hired Tobias Mattei, a spine surgery specialist, as a member of EMMC Neurosurgery and Spine Specialists.
Gilbert & Greif PA, a law firm in Bangor, hired Tracy Collins. Previously, Collins was an assistant district attorney in the Penobscot-Piscataquis District.
Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington hired Amelia Allen as a provider of cardiology specialty services. Allen is affiliated with Maine Medical Partners MaineHealth Cardiology.
Fontaine Family – The Real Estate Leader in Auburn hired Sandra Godin as an agent in Scarborough.
Promotions
Kaplan Thompson Architects in Portland promoted Adrienne Stauffer to director of operations and marketing and Jamie Broadbent, a licensed architect, to leader of the firm's restaurants sector. Both Stauffer and Broadbent were previously associates.
The MEMIC Group, a workers' compensation specialist in Portland, promoted Karen Schwartz to vice president, underwriting compliance. Schwartz was previously director of compliance.
CEI Capital Management LLC, an investor of New Market Tax Credits in Portland, promoted Aimee Cates to investment officer and Elizabeth Chenevert to asset and relationship manager. Cates previously was asset and relationship manager while Chenevert was a compliance assistant.
Harriman, a design and engineering firm in Portland, promoted Mark Ouellette to associate. Since joining the firm in 2006, Ouellette has worked extensively on the design of municipal and office projects.
Geiger, a promotional products distributor in Lewiston, promoted Christine Carrion, Jamie Catarnichi, Vicky Cooper, Tracey Despres, Kristen Flaherty, Noel Kaiser and Jenn Vegtel to key customer specialists.
Appointments
Drummond Woodsum, a law firm in Portland, announced Adrianne Fouts was elected to its board of directors and that Benjamin Marcus and Aaron Pratt were re-elected to its board. Fouts concentrates her practice in the areas of commercial litigation, appellate matters and higher education law. Marcus is the firm's managing director. Pratt represents businesses, health care organizations, investment funds, investors and Indian tribes in a wide range of corporate, partnership and commercial matters.
Skowhegan Savings Bank announced Richard Anzelc Jr. was named as the incoming chairman of its board of directors and Joshua Broder, CEO of Tilson Technologies in Portland, was elected to the board. In addition, Skowhegan Savings elected four corporators: Heather Johnson, executive director of the Somerset Economic Development Council; John Beaupre, Tombeau Enterprises; Lindsay Skilling, CEO of Gifford's Ice Cream; and Ed Goff, owner of Butler's Car Wash and Fast Eddie's Car Wash.
Waterville Creates!, an arts and cultural organization in Waterville, elected Jim LaLiberty as vice president of its board of directors and Elizabeth Finch as a member of its board. LaLiberty is an attorney at Jabar, LaLiberty & Dubord LLC while Finch is the Lunder curator of American art at the Colby College Museum of Art.
Tim Nightingale, executive vice president and senior loan officer at Camden National Bank, was recently confirmed by the Maine Legislature to the commercial lender seat on the Finance Authority of Maine board of directors.
Scarborough Land Trust appointed Seth Hanson to its board of directors. Hanson is business development manager at mWave Industries.
Eric Meyer, president and CEO of Spurwink, a nonprofit in Portland that provides behavioral health and educational services for children, adults and families, was appointed to Maine's 21st Century Economy and Workforce Task Force. Meyer will be one of 16 members, including elected officials and business and education leaders, representing the interests of Maine business that employ fewer than 1,000 workers.
OUT Maine, a rural LGBTQ youth support organization in Rockland, elected Rev. Ralph Moore Jr. and Rev. Holly Morrison to its board of directors each for a three-year term. Moore is an ethics teacher at the Watershed School in Camden and Morrison serves as pastor of Phippsburg Congregational Church, a designated open and affirming church with a commitment to welcoming LGBTQ people.
Achievements
Fontaine Family – The Real Estate Leader in Auburn named Clayton Larochelle as the winner of its sales leader award for 80 closed units and Bill Bergero as the peak producer award winner for 60 closed units. Outstanding achiever awards went to Pat Long-Cressey, Cindy Moring, Kelly Webb, Kathy Lee Cook, Dawn Marston and Charmaine Raby. Maria Morrissette won the rookie of the year award, Mathew Zimmerman earned a gold medal for the highest average sale price and Harriet Cummings, Maryanne Bear, Megan Fortin, Diane Brule and Barbara McGuire were selected for top producer awards.
Miss Moonmaker, a producer of all-natural, hand-made, bath and body products in Falmouth, won the best booth award at the New England Made trade show held March 18-20 in Portland.
The National Association for the Support of Long Term Care honored U.S. Sen. Susan Collins with the “NASL Award” in recognition of Collins' leadership on issues important to seniors, including introducing bipartisan legislation to repeal arbitrary Medicare therapy caps as well as to fix the three-day hospital stay rule. Collins also recently received the National Association of Community Health Centers' “2017 Distinguished Community Health Advocate Award” from the Maine Primary Care Association and received a “GRAMMYs on the Hill Award” from the Recording Academy for being an outstanding champion of music programs.
The National NeighborWorks Association presented Kara Hay with one of its three national annual Excellence Awards, which honors outstanding practitioners in the field of housing and community development. Hay is president and CEO of Penquis, a nonprofit community action agency in Bangor.
Mary Ann Ordelt, a sexual assault forensic examiner at Waldo County General Hospital in Belfast, received the Maine Coalition Against Sexual Assault Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner of the Year Award.
Firestone Building Products, a manufacturer of single-ply roofing materials, presented G&E Roofing Co. Inc. in Augusta with a “2017 Master Contractor Award.”
Diversified Communications, an international media company in Portland, recently presented its 2017 bi-annual awards. The chairperson's “7 Cs Award” went to Carol Poirier; five-year service awards went to Marjorie Ferris, Allie Keeley, Doug Stewart and Jason Zecchinelli. Ten-year service awards went to Kristin Bathe, Matt Boucher, Cory Crocker and Amanda Whitmore. Fifteen-year service awards were presented to LuAnn Littlefield and Liz Plizga. Twenty-year service awards were presented to Jennifer Finn, Diedre Isherwood and Cheryl Rawson.
SCORE, the nation's largest network of volunteer, expert business mentors, announced the winners of the fourth annual “American Small Business Championship” including Maine-based businesses Tip Whip, The One Gallon Soap Co. and Arthilin Jewelry LLC. A total of 102 winners nationwide were selected to receive expert training, resources and networking opportunities. The winners will now compete for three grand prizes of $25,000 each, to be awarded at the SCORE awards gala in September.
The American Hospital Association announced that Kris Doody, chief executive officer of Cary Medical Center in Caribou, was awarded its 2017 Board of Trustees Award. The award is presented to individuals or groups who have made substantial and noteworthy contributions to the work of the association.
JCPenney in Waterville was recently honored with parent company J.C. Penney Co. Inc.'s “Founder's Award” recently as one of the national retailer's top performing stores.
Thompson-Hamel LCC, a financial services firm in Presque Isle, said that Pam Scheppele earned the Retirement Income Certified Professional designation from the American College of Financial Services and that Natalie Nadeau, who is based in the firm's Bangor location, recently passed the Maine Life & Health Insurance licensing exam.
Bridgette Vermette, a real estate agent in Portland, was named No. 1 individual agent in gross commissionable income at Keller Williams Realty for 2016.
