Newsworthy people and performances for July 26, 2021
New hires
Norway Savings Bank hired Brittany Robidoux as assistant vice president, trust officer of the asset management group.
Key Private Bank hired Jason Myers as senior vice president, wealth advisor; Suzanne Rende as senior vice president, senior fiduciary strategist; and Jodi Watson as vice president, associate relationship manager. Myers was previously a founding partner for New York based KX3 Capital while Rende and was with Peoples United Bank and Watson with People’s United Advisors.
Franklin Savings Bank in Farmington hired Tim Tunney as vice president, commercial loan officer.
Atlantic Federal Credit Union in South Portland hired Gwen Godin as residential lending sales manager and Jenn Benn as director of member experience.
Rudman Winchell, a law firm in Bangor, hired Timothy Pease as a member of its municipal law group. Pease was previously vice president of legal and regulatory affairs at Versant Power.
The Auburn-based real estate concern Fontaine Family hired Hannah Levesque as an agent.
College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor hired Rachael Blansett as diversity and inclusion fellow. Blansett, who will simultaneously perform the same duties at Sterling College in Vermont as part of the position, was previously resident director at the University of California-Berkeley.
Maine Medical Partners in Portland hired Kellie Sprague as director of the hematologic malignancies program at MaineHealth Cancer Care in South Portland; Cecilia Trydestam as a general surgeon at Maine Medical Partners – Surgical Care; Rebecca Eisenberg at MaineHealth Cancer Care in Sanford; Scott Chase at Maine Medical Partners – Standish Primary Care; and Laura Houk at Maine Medical Partners – Dermatology.
Great Falls Construction in Gorham hired Lisa Beeler as director of marketing. Beeler has 16 years of marketing and business development experience.
Camden National Bank hired Jennifer Bowring as vice president, senior treasury management advisor of its treasury management team. Bowring was previously vice president of treasury management inside sales for People’s United Bank NA.
OTELCO, a wireline telecommunications company in New Gloucester, hired Bryan Pahigian as a marketing coordinator, Matthew Valcancick as a digital content strategist, John Roberto as a field installation and maintenance manager, Robert Fogg as a facilities and inventory supervisor and Thomas Howard as a technical support technician in Bangor.
College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor hired Shawn Keeley as dean of institutional advancement. Most recently Keeley served as senior development officer at Friends of Acadia.
The Maine Public Employees Retirement System in Augusta hired Rebecca Wyke as CEO. Wyke previously served as president of University of Maine at Augusta.
Constant, a Portland-based fintech provider of digital loan servicing and loss mitigation customer portals, hired Jake Fowler as vice president of partnerships, financial services. Fowler most recently was assistant vice president of associate memberships at the Consumer Bankers Association.
Promotions
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust promoted Courtney Bonsant to branch relationship manager in South China. Bonsant was previously assistant branch manager.
Central Maine Power in Augusta promoted Adam Desrosiers to vice president of electric operations. Most recently, Desrosiers managed engineering and construction of the New England Clean Energy Connect project.
Bangor Savings Bank promoted Nicole Ganem to mortgage loan associate in Portland.
Key Private Bank promoted Curtis Jordan to senior vice president, senior client experience manager and Joshua Kezer to associate relationship manager.
Atlantic Federal Credit Union in South Portland promoted Chris Perry to senior vice president real estate and commercial.
Sebago Technics, an employee-owned engineering consulting firm in South Portland, promoted Kylie Mason to COO. Mason joined the company in 2005 and was most recently vice president of project delivery.
Appointments
Healthy Communities of the Capital Area in Gardiner added Salam Al-Omaishi, Patricia Clark, Sara Grant and Colin Webb to its board of directors. Al-Omaishi is a PGY-1 family medicine resident at Maine-Dartmouth Family Medicine Residency, Clark is director of early childhood studies and a professor at the University of Maine at Augusta, Grant is director of the AmeriCorps senior companion program at the University of Maine Center on Aging and Webb is an overdose prevention specialist in harm reduction at MaineGeneral Health’s Prevention and Healthy Living Center.
Franklin Savings Bank added Matt DuBois to its board of directors to represent the Skowhegan and Somerset markets. DuBois is co-founder of the Bankery, Custom Cakes & Pastries and co-owner of Skowhegan Fleuriste & Formalwear.
The Maine Society of Certified Public Accountants in Portland added David Barrett, Ryan Curry and Heather Perreault to its board of directors. Curry is a financial reporting manager at IDEXX; Barret is a professor of accounting at University of Maine’s Business School and Perreault is deputy commissioner of finance for the state of Maine’s Department of Administrative & Financial Services.
Portland Downtown elected Sharon Bunker, Catherine Culley, Kasey Lingley, John Sterling, Lauren Wayne and Amy Wooldridge to its board of directors. Bunker is client administrator for Old Port Advisors; Culley, partner, Redfern Properties; Lingley, senior marketing manager, The Westin Portland Harborview; Sterling, former/retired editor at large, Macmillan Publishers; Wayne, general manager, State Theatre; and Wooldridge, vice president of operations and customer success, CampTek Software. In addition, Kim Farrar, vice president of strategic initiatives for Avesta Housing, was re-elected for a three-year term
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services selected Matthew Siegel, vice president of medical affairs, autism and developmental disorders service at Maine Behavioral Healthcare in Portland, to serve on the board of the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, overseeing the federal government’s work in support of those impacted by autism spectrum disorders.
Achievements
United Way of York County in Kennebunk named Barb Wentworth the recipient of its “The Elise Kittredge Award.” The award is presented to an individual in the community who, through the contribution of time, talent and/or financial resources, has helped improve the quality of life for neighbors in a vital and enduring way. Wentworth is the former president of the organization.
ecomaine named its “eco-Excellence Award” winners. Recipients included Arnold Vickery, Maine Beer Co., Yarmouth Transfer Station, the Ecology School in Saco, Cape Elizabeth United Methodist Church, The Casco Bay Cleanup Project, town of Gorham Public Works and Scarborough Land Trust.
Jake Warn, a student at Thomas College in Waterville, won first place and $10,000 in prize money in the finals of “Greenlight Maine College Edition” for his company called SledTrx.com, a website for snowmobile riders. Fellow Thomas College student Dylan Veilleux captured second place, and $7,500, for TreeFreeHeat, a company that recycles Maine’s hemp waste into fast-lighting, long-lasting fire starters.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce honored U.S. Sen. Susan Collins with the “Jefferson – Hamilton Award for Bipartisanship,” which recognizes members of Congress who demonstrate the bipartisan leadership and constructive governing necessary to move our country forward. Collins received a perfect score for the second consecutive year.
RE/MAX Shoreline in Portland said that Peter Hawkes was named the top individual RE/MAX agent in Maine in May while Scott Sheppard ranked second.
The University of Maine at Augusta announced that it was recognized by Military Times as “Best for Vets,” for its service to veterans, military service members and their families.
The DuBois Realty Group of Keller Williams Realty in Auburn said it was named to the “2021 America’s Best Real Estate Professionals List” for transaction sides in the team category by RealTrends. To qualify for inclusion in this category, real estate teams must do a minimum of 75 transaction sides or $30 million in closed sales volume.
The Portland International Jetport announced that it was chosen by Airport Council International Director General Luis Felipe de Oliveira to join the “ACI Director General’s Roll of Excellence.” Since its creation in 2011, only 58 airports worldwide have been inducted. To qualify, an airport must win multiple “Airport Service Quality Awards” over a five-year period during the past 10 years.
Tyler Technologies Inc. in Yarmouth announced that Aidan Blum Levine, Sarah Hagan and Frazier Dougherty were the top three finishers in the “2021 Tyler Technologies Maine App Challenge.” Levine, of Deering High School, took first place for creating Oops! I Forgot!, an app that provides students a way to stay organized and keep track of school assignments, classes and activities; Hagan, of Cape Elizabeth High School, finished second for The Bookshelf Elf, a tool to help middle school students choose books that interest them to encourage independent reading; and Dougherty, of Yarmouth High School, placed third for Train ME, a workout app that focused on high intensity interval training.
Forbes, in partnership with the research firm Statista, included Town & Country Federal Credit Union in Scarborough and New Dimensions Federal Credit Union in Waterville in its annual list of “Best Credit Unions by State.”
The Maine Justice Foundation in Hallowell named Charles Dingman of Kozak & Gayer PA as its “Howard H. Dana, Jr. Award” winner; Jennifer Bailey of Immigration Legal Advocacy Project as its “Thomas P. Downing, Jr. Award” recipient; and Sara Murphy of Pierce Atwood as its “New Lawyer Award” winner. All three awards recognize outstanding public service.
Katahdin Bankshares Corp., parent company of Katahdin Trust Co. in Houlton, said it ranked No. 88 on the “Top 200 Publicly Traded Community Banks” list by American Banker magazine for the second consecutive year. The bank also named Melissa Dahlgren, assistant vice president, branch manager and retail services officer in Fort Fairfield and Mars Hill, as its “Top of the Mountain Commitment to Community Award” winner and recognized Joe Clukey and Tori Barber for 30 years of service; Crystal Parent, Leslie Gardner, Mindi Yates and Virginia Hartin for 25 years; Allissa Given, Katie Hill, Miranda Wotton, Robin Palmer, Richard Schmidt III, Sue Fox and Tory Delano for 15 years; Adam Bither, Amy Turner, Billi Griffeth, Devin Rolph, Janet Lane, Pamela Ward and Sunny Flannery for 10 years; and Angela Butler, Ann Madore and William Lucy for five years.
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