Architecture
NANO LLC has hired Olivia Szczerba to oversee business development and marketing.
Banking/Financial Services
The Greater New Orleans Chapter of the Financial Planning Association, FPA, has elected its 2020 board members: John Gin, president; Desiree Kelley, secretary; Sharon Cassiere, treasurer; Kevin Conley, community outreach director), Kenneth Aucoin Jr., director at large; and Allen Kuhn Sr., director at large.
Construction/Engineering
Joel Tillery has joined Freese and Nichols as coastal engineer/senior project manager in the New Orleans office.
Shields Mott LLP has been recognized by Construction Executive for the second year in a row as one of the 2020 Top 50 Law Firms.
Education
Two Ochsner physicians have been bestowed the title of professor by The University of Queensland Ochsner Clinical School: George Chimento, MD, department chairman of orthopedics, Ochsner Health, and Daniel Morin, MD, director of cardiac electrophysiology research and director of cardiovascular research, Ochsner Health.
William (Bill) Rials, the current associate director of Tulane University School of Professional Advancement’s Information Technology Programs and Professor of Practice, has been named a Senior Fellow for Government Technology’s Center for Digital Government.
General Business
Dynisha Hugle has been promoted to statewide data & targeting director for the Power Coalition for Equity and Justice.
Michelle Butler, a former EEOC senior litigator, has joined Gotcha Covered HR to expand the mediation and investigation portion of its business.
Jake Dufour has been promoted to director of HR operations at HR Nola.
The Lake Pontchartrain Basin Foundation has rebranded as Pontchartrain Conservancy.
New Orleans-based tasc Performance, a sustainable, activewear apparel brand and a repeat listee on Inc. magazine’s top 2,500 fastest-growing private companies ranking, has named multicultural consumer branding expert Blake Lopez as its new vice president of marketing.
Covington-based OffenderWatch has launched its sex offender registry technology for the state of Maryland.
Fat Boy’s Pizza has expanded to the North Shore and will open this fall in Covington at Interstate 12 and Highway 21, across from Target.
New Orleans EMS has appointed diversity officers: Derek Blanchard, Heather Currie, Logan Johnson, Samuel Mayora, Fredrica Thompson and Liliana Varela.
The Board of Directors of the American Professional Society of the Abuse of Children has announced Stacie LeBlanc as president.
Health Care
Cardiovascular Institute of the South interventional cardiologists Dr. Owen Mogabgab and Dr. Michael Gaglia are now seeing patients in Uptown New Orleans at 2633 Napoleon Avenue #500.
Kendra Barrier, assistant dean for student services at LSU Health New Orleans School of Nursing, became president of the New Orleans District Nurses Association on June 1.
Law
The Louisiana State Bar Association has installed Alainna Mire as president; H. Minor Pipes III as president-elect; Patrick Talley Jr. as secretary; John McAuliffe Jr. as treasurer; Robert Kutcher as immediate past president; and Carrie LeBlanc Jones as chair of the LSBA Young Lawyers Division.
Chehardy Sherman Williams has welcomed its newest associate Jonathan Lee, who primarily handles personal injury cases for the firm.
Phelps Dunbar has expanded its intellectual property services group with the addition of Warner Delaune as partner.
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