In short from May 30, 2011 | A roundup of new hires, promotions, accolades and appointments from Maine's business community

New Hires

Putney Inc., a pet pharmaceutical company in Portland, recently hired Patrick Powell as vice president of sales. Previously, Powell was director of sales, east region for Bayer Animal Health.

Biovation, a manufacturer of antimicrobial formulations and nonwoven fiber products for food packaging and wound care in Boothbay, recently hired Val Gunn as its technical director.

Onpoint Health Data, a health data management and research services organization with operations in Portland and Manchester, N.H., recently hired Jeff Cain and Peter Farnsworth as systems analysts.

Mechanics Savings Bank recently hired Ray Teixeira as vice president, commercial banking officer. Previously, Teixeira was vice president, commercial banking officer and retail regional manager at Camden National Bank.

Central Maine Orthopaedics in Auburn recently hired Mindy Pomerleau as a physician assistant and Will McClaran as marketing assistant.

Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine in Portland recently hired Karen MacDonald as chief operating officer.

The Portland Museum of Art in Portland recently hired Alice Barrett as curatorial coordinator. Previously, Barrett was a museum assistant at Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Conn.

The Susan L. Curtis Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization in Portland, recently hired Melissa Cilley as executive director.

Paula Banks Consulting/Two Lights Home Care in Cape Elizabeth recently hired Charles Beecher as manager of home care and geriatric care management.

Fluid Imaging Technologies Inc. in Yarmouth, a manufacturer of the FlowCAM particle analysis instrument, recently hired Jonathan Dawson as sales manager for municipal markets. Previously, Dawson was the business development manager at Air & Water Quality Inc. in Freeport.

Lucid Stage, a nonprofit arts organization in Portland, recently hired Donovan Gray as development director.

Emerald Hospitality Associates recently hired Carolyn Krahn as sales manager at the Hampton Inn & Gatehouse Conference Center in Freeport.

Camden National Bank recently hired Ward Graffam as vice president, commercial regional manager for the southern and central regions of Maine.

Direct Personnel, a division of Maine Staffing Group, recently hired Nancy Ferro as business development manager at its office in Westbrook.

Winxnet, an IT services provider in Portland, recently hired Meghan Vance as a sales representative and Sarah Hughes as a sales and marketing assistant.

Sweetser, a behavioral health care organization in Portland, recently hired Robert Fowler as director of affiliates. Previously, Fowler was executive director of the SafeLawns Foundation.

Mercy Hospital recently hired John Meserve as a new provider at its primary care facility in Westbrook.

Evergreen Credit Union in Portland recently hired Jack Miller as vice president, commercial lending. The credit union also hired Suzanne Cange as assistant vice president and branch manager for the Broadway branch in South Portland.

Woodman Edmands Danylik Austin Smith and Jacques, a law firm in Biddeford, recently hired Keith Jacques, a trial lawyer.

Gilchrist Scott, a financial, business process and e-commerce system provider in Portland, recently hired Darren Woodbrey as a technical consultant.

Great Falls Insurance Co. in Auburn recently hired Gary Hall as president and CEO.

The Executive Search Group, a Scarborough-based search firm, recently hired Lindsay Fisher as a relationship manager in its cross industry/local practice.

Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty in Portland recently hired Maureen Weaver as a real estate agent serving the York County market.

People’s United Bank, Southern Maine recently hired Jennifer Gaghan as a mortgage account officer, who will be located in the bank’s Brunswick branch.

Patriot Insurance Co. in Yarmouth recently hired Melissa Williams as a senior underwriting assistant.

Know Technology, a provider of IT and support services in Camden, recently hired Kathleen Gilbert as director of marketing.

Promotions

Skowhegan Savings recently promoted Vicki Alward to senior vice president of operations.

DeLorme, a mapping and GPS technologies company in Yarmouth, recently promoted John Auble to vice president of data products.

TD Bank in Bangor recently promoted Jillian Faucher to vice president, commercial loan officer in commercial lending.

The Brunswick Sewer District recently promoted interim finance manager Lorraine Caron to finance manager.

Norway Savings Bank recently promoted the following: Anna Colpitts to assistant vice president, commercial credit analyst in Portland; Kurt Garascia to vice president, investment officer in Portland; Cindy Hakala to assistant vice president and South Paris branch manager; Anita Hamilton to assistant vice president, commercial credit analyst in Norway; Irene Millett to assistant vice president, senior commercial credit analyst in Norway; Tina Ruhland to assistant vice president, junior commercial lender in Norway; Chuck Williams to vice president, finance and accounting in Norway; and Pamela Veilleux, assistant vice president, executive administration in Norway.

Community Credit Union in Lewiston recently promoted Danielle Brown to branch support.

Sweetser, a behavioral health care organization in Portland, recently promoted Kelli Star Fox to director of training and Beth Rudai to human resources manager.

Appointments

Roger Roy, associate professor of mathematics and business at the University of Maine at Fort Kent, was recently elected a regional director to the board of directors of the International Assembly for Collegiate Business Education.

KeyBank recently appointed Susan Baracco of Echelon Circles in Portland to the national Key4Women Advisory Board, a KeyBank program for women business owners.

Port Resources in South Portland, an organization serving the needs of area people with developmental disabilities, recently appointed Eric Blom, vice president of Broadreach Public Relations in Portland, to its board of directors.

Gloria Pinza, managing partner at Portland-based law firm Pierce Atwood, was recently named to Gov. Paul LePage’s Judicial Selection Committee.

Presque Isle city councilor Walt Elish was recently named to the 12-member executive committee that helps guide Maine Municipal Association.

The Maine Association of Nonprofits recently appointed the following new members and officers: Board members appointed to their first three-year term are: Leonard Cole, an attorney with Portland-based Preti Flaherty; Ellen Golden, senior vice president for development at Wiscasset-based Coastal Enterprises Inc.; Lisa Miller, senior program officer of the Augusta-based Bingham Program; Julia St. Germaine, assistant vice president of marketing communications at Portland-based Unum; and Megan Williams, executive director of Waterville-based Hardy Girls Healthy Women. Board members appointed to a second three-year term are: William Floyd, executive director of the Damariscotta-based Genesis Community Loan Fund; Tracy Michaud-Stutzman, executive director of Dover-Foxcroft-based Maine Crafts Association; and Cathy Ramsdell, executive director of South Portland-based Friends of Casco Bay. Elected as board officers for a one-year term were: Jennifer Hutchins, executive director of the Portland Arts and Cultural Alliance and Creative Portland, as president; Kathryn Davis, president of the United Way of York County, as vice president; Cathy Ramsdell, executive director of Friends of Casco Bay, as treasurer; and Jane Richmond, director of operations for The Nature Conservancy, as secretary.

Bruce Spang was recently named the Portland Poet Laureate.

Peter Noyes, president of Earle W. Noyes & Sons Moving Specialists in Portland, was recently elected to a two-year term on the board of directors of UniGroup, the parent company of United Van Lines, Mayflower Transit and other transportation-related companies.

Joy Siegel, treasurer and co-founder of Building Solutions, a plan, design and build firm in Oxford, was recently named to the board of corporators at Mechanics Savings Bank.

Putney Inc., a pet pharmaceutical company in Portland, recently appointed E. Thomas Corcoran, president of Fort Dodge Animal Health, to its board of directors.

Preti Flaherty, a law firm in Portland, recently announced that attorney and partner Neal Pratt has been appointed by the Honorable John Woodcock, chief U.S. district judge, district of Maine, to the Local Rules Advisory Committee.

The Maine Department of Environmental Protection recently named Melanie Loyzim as acting director of its Bureau of Air Quality.

Woodard & Curran, an engineering firm in Portland, recently appointed Angus King, Bruce Wagner and Carolyn Chin to its board of directors.

Spotlight

The Maine Office of Community Development recently awarded $350,000 to the town of Livermore Falls to offset construction and site work costs of a new 13,500-square-foot medical arts center located in vacant space on Main Street. The OCD administers the HUD-funded Community Development Block Grant Program in Maine.

The new center will be owned by Franklin Memorial Hospital and is designed to bring together personnel and services currently provided at Franklin Health Livermore Falls Family Practice on Union Street and Franklin Memorial Hospital Outpatient Services on Main Street.

Preliminary site assessment work has been completed and the project’s completion is projected for late 2011. PDT Architects designed the building; construction will be overseen by Developers Collaborative, an association of real estate developers. The total cost of the project is $4 million.

Company News

Planetearthsupport, a technology support service, recently opened an office at 99 Silver St. in Portland.

The Amtrak Downeaster, which is operated by the Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority, was recently approved for a $20.8 million grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation to construct a 10.4-mile section of double track between Wilmington and Andover, Mass.

CreativeMind Search Marketing, an inbound marketing agency in South Berwick, recently announced it added nine new clients in the first quarter of 2011.

Goodwill Industries of Northern New England recently earned Energy Star status from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for its Belfast and Rockland retail stores.

The First Bancorp recently announced unaudited results for the quarter ended March 31. Net income was $3.1 million, up $459,000, or 17.1%, from the same period in 2010, and earnings per common share on a fully diluted basis of $0.29 were up $0.05, or 20.8%, from the same period in 2010. Compared to the previous quarter, net income was up $66,000, or 2.1%, and earnings per common share on a fully diluted basis were up $0.01 to $0.29.

The U.S. Economic Development Administration recently announced it is providing Loring Development Authority with a $1.1 million investment for critical repairs and infrastructure upgrades to the water distribution and treatment systems serving the Loring Commerce Centre in Limestone.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development recently announced it will award grants totaling $151,400 to the following organizations: Friends of the Church on the Hill in Addison, $97,000, to renovate a historic church into a community center; The LifeFlight Foundation in Camden, $11,250, to construct a weather observing station on the roof of Rumford Hospital to improve access for emergency medical helicopters; and Walter T.A. Hansen Memorial Library in Mars Hill, $43,150, to make repairs to the library. It also announced the town of Thomaston will receive $1.8 million to make improvements to its wastewater infrastructure.

The city of Belfast recently received a Community Development Block Grant Community Enterprise Grant in the amount of $150,000 for the construction of a segment of the Belfast Harbor Walk that will run through the former Stinson Seafood site, a site currently being developed into the Front Street Shipyard.

Rinck Advertising in Auburn was recently named the advertising and marketing agency of record for Building Solutions, a plan, design and build firm in Oxford.

Accolades

Woodard & Curran, an engineering firm in Portland, recently announced it ranks number 108 among the top 500 on Record’s list of the Top 500 Design Firms. The firm also ranked 76 on the list of “pure design” firms, which includes only companies that derive the majority of their revenue from engineering and design work.

Annick Cadot, a French teacher at Deering High School in Portland, recently received the 2011 Russell Award from the University of Southern Maine.

The Greater Bangor Convention & Visitors Bureau recently presented the Eagle Award for Organizational Achievement to Bangor International Airport for showing resiliency during economic challenges.

Central Maine Moving & Storage in Bangor recently received the customer quality excellence award from NorthAmerican Van Line.

Maine Coast Heritage Trust, a statewide land conservation organization, recently presented the Downeast Lakes Land Trust the 2011 Espy Land Heritage Award for exemplary conservation efforts in Maine.

York County Emergency Management Agency Director Robert Bohlmann was recently presented with the first annual Michael R. Nadeau Award by the Southern Maine Regional Water Council for exemplary commitment to partnerships and regional initiatives within the public sector.

Brenda Garrand, CEO of Garrand, a marketing and communications agency in Portland, recently received the 2011 Tribute to Women in Industry Award from the Maine Women’s Fund.

Cyr Bus Line in Old Town recently received the 2011 Motor Coach Safety Award from the International Motor Coach Group.

Good Shepherd Food-Bank recently presented Albert Lepage and Andy Barowsky of Lepage Bakeries in Lewiston with the 2011 JoAnn Pike Humanitarian Award.

The University of Maine in Orono recently presented awards to the following professors: Alfred Bushway, the 2011 Distinguished Maine Professor Award; John Mahon, the 2011 Presidential Research and Creative Achievement Award; Douglas Nangle, the 2011 recipient of the Presidential Outstanding Teaching Award; and Kathleen March, the 2011 Presidential Public Service Achievement Award.

U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe recently received the Golden Spike Award from the National Association of Railroad Passengers in recognition of her support of passenger train service.

Nadia Glucksberg, a senior hydrogeologist at Haley & Aldrich in Portland, recently received the Community Innovation and Leadership Award from the Connecticut Technology Council for her volunteer work with Engineers Without Borders.

The Camden Harbour Inn was recently named Best Boutique-Style Hotel in the Best of New England lodging section of the current issue of Boston magazine.

North Monmouth-based Video Production Services recently won a Telly Award for outstanding achievement in production for its video program “Our 2nd Century Campaign,” a fundraising video produced for Winchester Hospital in Winchester, Mass.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently presented Brownie Carson, former executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, the lifetime achievement award for the protection of Maine’s air, land and waters.

Central Maine Orthopaedics and its Wellness Program in Auburn were recently recognized by the Healthy Androscoggin’s Work Healthy Award program with a gold award for an initiative to promote the wellness of their employees.

Verrill Dana, a law firm in Portland, recently announced that attorneys Juliet Browne, Gregory Fryer, Gregg Ginn, James Goggin, Mark Googins and James Kilbreth have all been named to the Lawdragon 3000.

The Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor recently won the facility of the year award presented by ALN Magazine and ALN World.

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