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New hires

North American Insurance Alliance in Rangeley hired Rebecca Sherwood as director of marketing and communications. Sherwood was previously with Travelers Insurance Co. as a senior sales specialist.

Winter People Inc., a custom uniform, apparel and promotional products distributor and retailer in Freeport, hired Faith Baker as business development manager, Dee Quatticci as accounting clerk and Nina Elliott as customer service associate. Baker was assistant director of marketing at Fluid Imaging Technologies in Scarborough, Quatticci was assistant manager at The Simons Co. in Portland and Elliott was assistant store manager at The Body Shop in Freeport.

The John T. Gorman Foundation in Portland hired Elizabeth Pope as a communications and research associate. Pope formerly was director of research and operations at Idealware in Portland.

North Yarmouth Academy in Yarmouth hired Ben Jackson as head of school and Ashley Randlett as director of admission. Jackson was previously head of school at Evergreen Country Day School in Evergreen, Colo., while Randlett was most recently at The Providence Country Day School in East Providence, R.I.

USI Insurance Services in South Portland hired Nancy Burton as a technical analyst and carrier market resource for the firm's Maine and Rhode Island locations. Burton was previously with marketing director with Clark Insurance.

The Maine Development Foundation in Augusta hired Yellow Light Breen as president and CEO. Breen was previously executive vice president and chief strategic officer at Bangor Savings Bank.

Baker Newman Noyes, an accounting and consulting firm in Portland, hired Elaine Levasseur as a finance coordinator in the operations department, Mike Meserve as an audit senior, Anne-Marie Palmer as an administrative assistant in the operations department, Zachary Porter as a staff member in the risk and business advisory practice, Casey Pyburn as a helpdesk analyst in the operations department, Tom Quentin and Ryan Dubois as staff members in the audit practice and Theresa Seekamp as a file room administrator in the operations department.

Hospice of Southern Maine in Scarborough hired Kristin Melville as development and outreach director. Melville was previously the director of donor relations for Northern New England's Divisional Office of The Salvation Army.

Portside Real Estate Group in Falmouth hired Kathy McClelland as broker and Victoria Hartig as associate broker.

Landry/French Construction Co. in Scarborough hired Jim Gardner as director of preconstruction services and Jon Sirois as project manager.

Mercy All About Women in Portland hired JoAnna Wawrzycki. Wawrzycki was previously an obstetrician and gynecologist at Rutland Regional Medical Center.

Northland Enterprises, a commercial real estate development company in Portland, hired Tim Meyer as director of property services. Meyer previously was a superintendent at Benchmark Construction in Westbrook.

Franklin Memorial Hospital hired Jay Neil Jr. as a staff member in anesthesiology services and Peter Ameglio as a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon at the hospital and Franklin Health Orthopaedics. Neil previously provided locum (temporary) anesthesiology coverage across New England and the Pacific Northwest; before that, he spent a decade as a staff cardiac anesthesiologist at Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor. Ameglio was most recently at Coastal Orthopaedics in Brunswick.

Acadia Hospital in Bangor hired Lewis Mehl-Madrona as a full-time psychiatrist overseeing the hospital's Electroconvulsive Therapy Services and the Inpatient Consult Service at EMMC. Mehl-Madrona was previously a faculty member at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency in Augusta.

The MEMIC Group, a workers' compensation specialist in Portland, hired Marcia Hartt as agency services administrator. Previously, Hartt was vice president of membership and marketing with the Portland Regional Chamber of Commerce.

Maine Savings in Hampden hired Ashley Corriveau as loan operations specialist; Ranelle Smith, Ashley Stanhope and Ryan Hill as tellers at its Broadway branch in Bangor; and Marcia McFarland as a teller at its Ellsworth branch.

TD Bank hired Aaron Hagan store manager in Kennebunk. Hagan was previously with Bank of America.

HM Payson, an investment advisory firm in Portland, hired Derek Blackburn as director of operations.

Diversified Communications, an international media company in Portland, hired Ashley Herriman as an online editor and Rosalyn Metzger as a senior market research analyst.

Competitive Energy Services, a strategic energy consulting firm in Portland, hired MaryAnn Schwanda as business development and account manager. Schwanda was previously head of student career services at STRIVE U in Portland.

Macpage LLC, a CPA firm in South Portland, hired Andrew Wells as an associate in tax.

Realty of Maine in Bangor hired Dawn DeBois as director of business development and marketing.

Promotions

Winter People Inc., a custom uniform, apparel and promotional products distributor and retailer in Freeport, promoted Ashley Bailey to finance manager and Heather Provost to assistant retail manager. Bailey was supervisor of accounting and Provost was accounting clerk.

Baker Newman Noyes, an accounting and consulting firm in Portland, promoted Shelley Duplisea, Michelle Harvey and Spencer Hathaway to audit seniors; Stephanie Leary to manager in the tax practice; Nick Norton to tax senior; and Kevin Chase, Chelsea Reynolds and J. Morgan Smith to managers in the audit practice.

Maine Savings in Hampden promoted Kayla Grindle to teller in Brewer, Siobhan Grogan to retail assistant in Hampden and Emily Morin to lead teller at the Broadway branch in Bangor. Grindle was previously a special agent at the bank's member service center in Brewer and Grogan and Morin were tellers at the Broadway branch in Bangor.

American Loggers Insurance Program in Bangor promoted Mike Beardsley to marketing and sales director. Beardsley was director of strategic partnerships as well as a producer for Varney Agency.

Volk Packaging Corp., a corrugated box manufacturer in Biddeford, promoted Shane Waterhouse to sales representative for southern Maine. Waterhouse was previously a truck driver for the company.

Delta Ambulance in Waterville promoted Dustin Nadeau to education coordinator. Nadeau was previously a paramedic.

Maine Manufacturing Extension Partnership in Augusta promoted Bill Whittier to senior project manager. Whittier was previously a project manager.

Community Credit Union in Lewiston promoted Bria Duncan to vice president of operations.

Ocean Communities Federal Credit Union in Biddeford promoted Elisabeth Bell to assistant branch manager in Biddeford and Britney Cantrell to financial service associate in Saco. Bell was most recently the financial service associate in Biddeford and Cantrell was the lead sales associate in Saco.

Appointments

Amy Holland, executive director of the World Affairs Council of Maine in Portland, was elected to the national Board of Directors of the World Affairs Councils of America, a nonpartisan, nonprofit network in the U.S. dedicated to educating the public on global issues.

GrowSmart Maine in Portland elected Ethan Boxer-Macomber and Bruce Kidman to its board of directors. Boxer-Macomber is the founder of Anew Development LLC and Kidman was director of external affairs for The Nature Conservancy in Maine.

The Portland Symphony Orchestra named Harper Lee Collins as president of its board of trustees and added Helaine Ayers, Mary Neal and Jennifer Segal as trustees. Collins is a licensed realtor with RE/MAX Heritage, Ayers is a retired investment banker, Neal is a retired doctor and Segal was with Citigroup Private Bank.

Elizabeth McGlinn, accounting manager with L.L.Bean in Freeport, was selected to serve as treasurer on the American Heart Association's Founders Affiliate board. McGlinn is also a member of the board's Volunteer Leadership Committee and chair of the association's Maine board.

Achievements

IDEXX Laboratories Inc. in Westbrook and creative agency Live Marketing were presented with a Gold Stevie Award in the Best New Product Introduction Event category in The 13th Annual American Business Awards in Chicago. The award recognizes SDMA, a veterinary diagnostic test that detects the onset of kidney disease.

Rockport Marine's 26-foot cold-molded powerboat “Rembrandt” won the award for best professionally built powerboat at the WoodenBoat Show in Mystic, Conn. Rockport Marine is based in Rockport. WoodenBoat magazine is based in Brooklin.

ReVision Energy in Portland earned B Corporation Certification, an official acknowledgement of the company's commitment to creating social change, as well as its commitment to transparency and accountability to its broad community of stakeholders, from B-Labs.

Franklin Memorial Hospital in Farmington was named as one of the nation's most wired hospitals in the 2015 Health Care's Most Wired survey that was published in the July issue of Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association.

Ellen Lauer, a pediatrician at Penobscot Pediatrics in Bangor, was named the Maine Osteopathic Association's Young Physician of the Year for her anti-bullying education work called “Skate Don't Hate” in association with Central Maine Derby.

Tom Largay of Old Port Card Works in Portland, Mary Kate Reny of Renys in Newcastle and Tina Wilcoxson of Royal River Natural Foods in Freeport were recognized as America's Retail Champions by the National Retail Federation, a retail trade association.

Stephen Wilson, a partner at Preti Flaherty, was selected as a 2015 Top Rated Lawyer in Intellectual Property by American Lawyer Media and Martindale-Hubbell. Wilson is co-chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Group, chair of the Sports & Entertainment Law Group and member of the Litigation and Business Law Groups at the Portland law firm.

Mike Lambert and Mitzi Duff were named Caregivers of the Month for June by Comfort Keepers, a Scarborough based provider of in-home support services for older adults in southern Maine.

The Relais & Chateaux Camden Harbour Inn in Camden was named to the Top 100 Hotels in World list in the August issue of Travel + Leisure magazine.

Tedford Housing, a nonprofit in Brunswick working to find solutions to end homelessness, recognized Merrymeeting Board of Realtors as its Scooty Brownell Award winner, Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program as its Tedford Home Award winner and Brunswick Pathway Vineyard Church as its Margit Cook Award winner.

Maine Maritime Academy in Castine ranked No. 8 overall on MONEY magazine's list of “Best Colleges in America for Your Money.”

Unity College earned a national Colleges of Distinction designation in 2014–15 from College of Distinction by “expanding innovative opportunities to earn college credit by participating in service learning, learning communities, internships and other new educational paradigms.” In addition, the college was recognized by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education for achieving “the greatest level of success with green initiatives on-campus and within in its surrounding community.”

Scott Fernald, a commercial banking officer with Camden National Bank, was presented a Leadership Award and was named a Paul Harris Fellow by the Rockland Rotary Club.

The Breathe Easy Coalition of Maine in Portland was one of four programs across the nation to receive the inaugural Housing and Urban Development Secretary's Award for Healthy Homes. The award recognizes organizations whose activities or policies showed measurable benefits in the health of lower income residents.

Bar Harbor Bankshares was named to the American Banker Magazine's Top-200 Publicly Traded Community Banks list for 2015. The list includes publicly traded banks and thrifts with less than $2 billion of assets, posting a three-year average return on equity of 8.66% or higher, along with a capital adequacy requirement.

The Maine Public Utilities Commission won a Special Achievement in GIS Award at the 2015 Esri International User Conference held recently in San Diego, Calif. This award acknowledges vision, leadership, hard work and innovative use of Esri's geographic information system technology.

Eastern Maine Development Corp. in Bangor was ranked 12th in the nation for its efforts in the U.S. Small Business Administration Community Advantage Loan Program.

Gene McKeever of Allen Insurance and Financial in Camden was invited to be an official “subject matter expert” of questions for the property and casualty insurance producer license exams given by the Maine Bureau of Insurance.

Jackman Community Health Center in Jackman achieved Level III Recognition as a Patient-Centered Medical Home by the National Committee for Quality Assurance, the highest level awarded for recognition.

Verrill Dana attorneys Martha Gaythwaite and Karen Frink Wolf were named to the fourth edition of Benchmark Litigation's Top 250 Women in Litigation for the second consecutive year. Gaythwaite is chair of the Portland law firm's Litigation & Trial Group and Frink Wolf is chair of its Professional Liability Group.

Bar Harbor Bank & Trust announced Hillary Carter, consumer lending support in Ellsworth, and Andrew Somes, branch relationship manager in Winter Harbor, received a Certificate of Completion from the Northern New England School of Banking. In addition, several employees received Center for Financial Training and Education Alliance certificates and diplomas including: Susan Albee, customer service manager in Machias (Bank Teller, Advanced Bank Teller, Customer Service Associate and Universal Banker); Sarah Cormier, customer service specialist in Machias (Advanced Bank Teller, Customer Service Associate and Universal Banker); Shelley Gray, customer service manager in Milbridge (Bank Teller, Branch Management and Universal Banker); Teri Stover, core processing manager in Ellsworth, and Peter Swanberg, assistant vice president/senior information management officer in Ellsworth, received Supervisor Certificates; Lynn Huffman, customer service representative in Machias, and Dianne Thompson, customer service manager in Blue Hill, earned Universal Banker Certificates; and Samantha Smith, customer service representative in Machias, and Julie Mockler, customer service representative in Topsham, earned Customer Service Associate Certificates.

Fluid Imaging Technologies, laboratory instrumentation manufacturer in Scarborough, announced Michael Cohrs, application engineer — aquatic markets, was named Sales Presentation Champion and received the Word Picture Contest Award from Dale Carnegie Training: Winning with Relationship Selling.

Laongdao Suppasettawat of TAK Advisory LLC in Cape Elizabeth was accepted for membership in the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors.