Accounting
Plunkett Raysich Architects, Milwaukee, promoted Lynn Jensen and Ryan Thacker to project architects; Adrian Langhus to senior project architect; Crag Eide to project manager; Nicholas Pryor to project specialist II; Matthew Fisher, Anthony Breitlow and Robin Savola to project specialist III and Jamie Spartz to CAD manager.
Avertising and Public Relations
Bader Rutter & Associates, Milwaukee, hired Jill Loehr as an account supervisor; Jon Carlson as senior copywriter and Gail Wentz as an account executive. Loehr most recently served as senior account executive for Rhea & Kaiser Marketing Communications, Naperville, Ill. Carlson most recently served as copy director for Hanson Dodge Creative, Milwaukee. Wentz most recently served as senior account manager for Brady Marketing Group, Menomonee Falls.
Banking and Finance
The Mequon office of Ideal Financial Services, Brookfield, hired Dana Engibous as processor and John Ristau, Joshua Grupe, Kevin Lesh, Nicholas Binder, Joshua Thurber, Patrick Schmitt and Bob Klingforth as loan officers. Jamie Moats joined USA Funding, Brookfield, as loan setup and closing coordinator. Moats most recently served as a lending assistant for Community Savings Bank, Edgewood, Iowa.
Park Bank, Milwaukee, promoted Jerry Schlitz to first vice president at the Capitol Drive office and Craig Schmutzer to first vice president at the Brookfield office. The Brookfield office of Park Bank hired Jeri Sturino as vice president of commercial banking; John Hutchinson as financial advisor and Crista Larson as marketing product specialist. Mark
Wittwer joined the Capital Drive office as vice president of commercial banking.
Building and Construction
The Milwaukee office of M. A. Mortenson, Minneapolis, promoted Nathan Lingard to senior preconstruction manager and Mike Hebbring and Ryan Risch to assistant project managers. Lingard and Risch have been with Mortenson for more than five years and Hebbring joined the company in 2002.
Engineering
The Kenosha office of Clark Dietz, Champaign, Ill., hired Ryan Bonell and Emily Basalla as project engineers. Bonell holds a bachelor’s degree from UW-Platteville. Basalla most recently served as a project engineer at the Evansville, Ind., office of Clark Dietz. She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia.
Crispell-Snyder, Lake Geneva, hired George Satula as director of business development and promoted Lori Draffkorn to office services manager.
Health Care
Community Memorial Hospital, Menomonee Falls, hired Dr. Rongshan Li, Dr. Shenell Miller and Dr. James Stiehl. Rongshan specializes in pathology and will practice from the Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa. Miller specializes in pediatrics and will practice from Advanced Healthcare, Milwaukee. Stiehl specializes in orthopedics and will practice from Premier Orthopedics, Milwaukee.
Sarah Cohn will serve as the general counsel for the Medical College of Wisconsin, Wauwatosa. Cohn currently serves as chief legal officer, executive director of medical and legal affairs and director of risk management at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn.
Insurance
R&R Insurance Services, Waukesha, hired Don Mealy as commercial sales executive and Robert Suycott as senior benefit consultant. Mealy has more than 20 years of experience in the insurance industry. Suycott has more than 23 years of experience in the employee benefits field.
Legal Services
Maria Lazar of Galanis, Pollack, Jacobs & Johnson, Milwaukee, will serve as vice president of the Milwaukee Bar Association, Milwaukee. Michael Cohen of Meissner Tierney Fisher & Nichols, Milwaukee; Francis Deisinger of Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren, Milwaukee and Thomas Reed of Milwaukee Criminal Trial Office of the State Public Defender will serve as directors. Thomas Armstrong of vonBriesen & Roper, Milwaukee; Gwendolyn Connolly of the Law Office of Gwendolyn G. Connolly, Milwaukee and David Feiss of the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office will serve on the judicial selection committee.
Real Estate
Shorewest, Realtors, Brookfield, hired Mandie Farrell and Denise Schiewer in the Brookfield/Waukesha office; Paul Gurgel in the Cedarburg/ Grafton office; Brandon De Leon in the Delavan office; William Gentil in the Elmbrook/Wauwatosa office; Netia Buford, Donna Kenner and Gena Mitchell in the Greater Milwaukee office; Matt Dawson in the Lake Country office; Stojan Jovic in the Menomonee Falls office; Matt Bodner and Michele McGowan in the Mequon office; Deb Deuster and Laura Ormsby in the Mukwonago office; Lisa Schultz in the New Berlin office; Michael Malen and Zahid Sultan in the Southridge office and Eric Boldt in the West Bend/Hartford office.
Marilyn Haroldson joined Equity Commercial Real Estate, Milwaukee, as vice president. Haroldson previously served as executive director of the Jefferson County Economic Development Corp., Jefferson. She has been a licensed Real Estate Broker in Wisconsin since 1976.
David Pudlosky joined Grubb & Ellis – Boerke Co., Milwaukee, as sales associate for the office services group. Pudlosky holds a degree from UW-Milwaukee.
Social Services
Michael Byrnes, associate general counsel at Rockwell Automation, Milwaukee; Jose Mantilla, vice president of treasury management services for M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank, Milwaukee and Eric Reisner, vice president of strategic programs for Johnson Controls, Glendale, joined the board of directors for the United Community Center, Milwaukee.
Retail
Chris Sather joined the Russ Darrow Automotive Group, West Bend, as general manager of the Russ Darrow Cadillac, GMC, and Kia dealerships, Waukesha. Sather most recently served as co-owner of Sale Auto Mall, Dalton, Ga.
Staffing
Nicole Behm joined Core Business Solutions, Waukesha, as an office administrator. Behm has six years of office administration experience.
Technology
TeraMedica, Milwaukee, hired David White and Steve House as regional sales vice presidents. White previously held positions with Cerner, North Kansas City, Mo.; GE Medical Systems Information Technology, Milwaukee and Cedara Software, Canada. House previously held positions with GE Medical Systems, Cedara Software and Philips Medical Systems, Bothell, Wash.
Jim Kurtz joined Stratagem, Menomonee Falls, as director of business development. Kurtz has more than 34 years of IT management and consulting experience. He previously served as managing director, client executive and director of service delivery for the Wisconsin market of Keane, Boston.
Patrick Avery joined QuadTech, a subsidiary of Quad Graphics, Sussex, as director of sales and marketing. Avery has more than 25 years of sales and marketing experience and previously worked for Cooper Power Systems, Waukesha.
Doug Wolf joined Great Lakes Media Technology, Mequon, as new media designer. Wolf has experience in concept development of interactive media and 2D and 3D animation and is a certified trainer for Apple.
Training and Development
Fay Spano joined the American Society for Quality (ASQ), Milwaukee, as senior manager of communications. Spano most recently served as director of public relations for the National Funeral Directors Association, Brookfield.