Accounting
Brookfield-based Vrakas/Blum, S.C. has hired Ryan Sneed as a staff accountant in the audit department. In his new role, Sneed will be responsible for audit, review and compilation procedures.
Architecture
PDC Midwest Inc., headquartered in Hartland, has hired Jeff Scray as a design associate. In this position, Scray will execute designs into construction documents.
Arts & Entertainment
Marquette University’s Haggerty Museum of Art has named Emilia Layden an associate curator. Layden has been working at the museum as interim associate curator since July. She previously worked as the programming and exhibitions manager at Art Chicago and Next. Her museum experience also includes roles at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Banking & Finance
Chicago-based Cole Taylor Bank has added Susan Jensen and Andrea Bukacek Fahnrich to its commercial banking office in Franklin. Jensen has been named vice president of commercial banking, and Bukacek Fahnrich has been hired as a commercial banking loan officer.
Child Care Services
Laura Bitzer has been appointed center coordinator for Ebenezer Child Care Centers’ Mequon center. In her new role, Bitzer will collaborate with staff to make sure the center and its programs operate efficiently, fit the developmental needs of the children they’re serving and are welcoming and engaging for each child. Bitzer previously worked as the lead teacher in the preschool classroom at Ebenezer’s location on Milwaukee’s south side.
Consulting
Top Floor Technologies, New Berlin, has promoted Justin Kerley to SEO assistant manager. Kerley previously served as SEO specialist. In his new role, he will focus on reporting, creating new service options and offering strategic direction for the SEO team.
7Summits, Milwaukee, has named R.J. Reimers president. Reimers co-founded 7Summits in 2009 and has more than 25 years of experience in developing and selling business solutions. In his new leadership position, he will advance the social business agency’s mission to create innovative social business solutions and build on client and partner relationships.
Nalani Services Inc., located in Menomonee Falls, has hired Lynnette Hahn as a strategic rainmaker and trainer. Hahn is a certified Dale Carnegie Trainer with more than 26 years of experience in B2B and B2C business development, marketing and sales.
Daniel Nelson Jr., president of Nelson Schmidt Inc., Milwaukee, has been elected president of the board of directors of the Marketing & Advertising Global Network of leading independent advertising agencies (MAGNET). Nelson has served on the board for more than seven years in various positions, and his agency has been a member of MAGNET since 1978. His term as board president will run two years.
Education
Alverno College, Milwaukee, has added Myra Huth to its faculty in the JoAnn McGrath School of Nursing. Huth is president of the Society of Pediatric Nurses and has begun working with Alverno staff to incorporate pediatrics into their curriculum. She has more than 35 years of experience in pediatric nursing, consulting, research and teaching. She will teach research in the college’s graduate program.
Health Care
Dr. Rita Hanson has been appointed senior vice president and chief medical officer for Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Glendale. In her new leadership role, Hanson will oversee clinical quality, care management and clinical informatics. Prior to her new position, Hanson served as chief medical information officer for the Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare System. She also served as vice president of medical affairs at Wheaton Franciscan – St. Joseph Hospital in Milwaukee and The Wisconsin Heart Hospital in Wauwatosa.
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, Glendale, has named Andrew Hillig vice president of operational excellence. Hillig has worked for Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare since 2003 when he was hired as a medical technologist. He has served in the operational excellence department since 2007. In his new position, he will lead initiatives to improve business processes and advance proactive management in labor utilization, productivity, efficiency, quality and service excellence.
Dr. Michael McCormick has joined the staff at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwaotsa, as an assistant professor of otolaryngology and communication sciences (pediatric otolaryngology). McCormick also works with patients at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin in Wauwatosa and at Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin New Berlin clinic. As an otolaryngologist, he will focus on stridor, neonatal and pediatric airway disorders, pediatric sinusitis, sleep-disordered breathing, and congenital and acquired pediatric neck masses.
Froedtert Health Menomonee Falls Clinic has hired ophthalmologist Dr. Jeffrey Young. Prior to his new position, Young was part owner of the Verre-Young Eye Clinic with offices in West Bend and Menomonee Falls. He focuses on medical and surgical treatments for cataracts, glaucoma, diabetes, macular degeneration and retinal tears as well as treatments and therapies to address eye diseases.
Rogers Memorial Hospital in Oconomowoc has promoted Keith Degner to vice president of finance, Renee Patterson to vice president of human capital and Teresa Schultz to vice president of patient care.
Insurance
Johnson Insurance has named Justin Abbott vice president – commercial sales executive for greater Milwaukee. Abbott has more than 14 years of sales experience, including 8.5 years in his current line of insurance sales. He previously worked as a commercial lines producer for Integrated Risk Solutions, and he specializes in large property risk and workers compensation insurance programs.
Laura Polancich has been hired as an agency recruiter at State Farm Insurance in Brookfield. Polancich works with entrepreneurial-minded individuals aiming to be small business owners.
Legal Services
Quarles & Brady LLP has added Tonya Vachirasomboon as an associate in the Corporate Services Group of its Milwaukee office. Vachirasomboon will advise businesses in merger and acquisition transactions as well as in private equity and venture capital transactions. She will also focus on entity selection and formation, corporate governance, stockholder matters and commercial contracting.
G. Michael Halfenger has been named United States Bankruptcy Judge for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. Halfenger is a partner with Foley & Lardner in the Milwaukee office and concentrates on commercial litigation and business disputes. He will take office for his new position this month and will serve a 14-year term.
Professional Services
The Waukesha County Business Alliance has hired Robyn Ludtke as membership/sales associate. Ludtke served as a summer intern with the Alliance while a marketing student at Waukesha County Technical College. Her new responsibilities will include organizing monthly programs for the Alliance and assisting with membership sales.
Senior Living Communities
Randall Crosby has been named chief operating officer at the Jewish Home and Care Center Inc., located in Milwaukee. The position has been newly created. Crosby has spent much of his career with the Jewish Home and Care Center and most recently served as director of facilities.
Technology
Terrie Beede, a senior technical engineer, has rejoined Glendale-based River Run Computers after working for the company as a senior technical engineer from 1999 to 2006. Beede has more than 20 years of experience in technology and focuses on active directory, exchange, and routing and switches.
