Promotions & new on the job

        • Laura A. Foster has joined the firm of Beckman, Weil, Shepardson & Faller LLC as an associate attorney in the Cincinnati office. Ms. Foster brings experience as a tax consultant with Deloitte & Touche. She graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she was a member of the Law Review and Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights.

        • Jeff Olsen has been named office manager at Quest Engineers Inc., Cincinnati office.

        • Michael Broughton has joined American Express Financial Advisors as financial adviser in the Springdale office.

        • Joe Lind has been named president at Emery Federal Credit Union.

        • David Palm has been named vice president of education and career development at Fifth Third Bank. Mr. Palm was assistant vice president of training at LensCrafters. He is responsible for Bancorp education and diversity initiatives. He is a graduate of Xavier University.

        • Wendy Steuerwald has been named director of audiology at the Hearing, Speech & Deaf Center of Cincinnati.

        • Kent Smith has been appointed director of business development at Business Communication Services Inc.

        • Nancy Wolpert has been appointed clinical manager of the open-heart recovery room and cardiovascular step-down unit at The Jewish Hospital.

        • Julie K. Hoffman has joined Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. as corporate associate.

        • Mark Lorenzo has joined FocusMark Group LLC as graphic designer and Paula Frank as data analyst.

        • Marilyn Thomas has joined Comey & Shepherd Realtors as an associate specializing in residential sales.

        • Daniel O. Berger, partner in the Cincinnati office of Thompson Hine LLP, has been appointed by the Warren County Commissioners to serve on the Warren County Rural Zoning Board.

        • Thomas E. Grossmann, a partner in the litigation department of Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP, has been named chairman of the Economic Development Committee of Mason City Council.

        • Jana Millen has joined Understanding Unlimited, a market research firm, as vice president of the quantitative research division.

        • Mike Finke has joined Neyer Properties Inc. as chief financial officer. He brings more than 11 years of public accounting experience and 10 years as controller/chief financial officer to this position. He is a Xavier University graduate in business administration.

        • Ellen Saenger has been named director, hospitality contract sales, for Ficks Reed, manufacturer of wicker and rattan furniture. Ms. Saenger has been a consultant to Ficks Reed for two years. She has worked with trade associations as a legislative affairs specialist and served with the President's Domestic Council at the White House.

        • Named vice presidents at Towne Bank are S. Beth Zellner and Deborah M. Meyer. Miles R. Armentrout named senior vice president. Named assistant vice presidents are Robert O. Ward, Lea Anne Browne, and Terry L. Franklin. Jennifer D. Mohr to operations officer.

        • Appointed to the Cincinnati Museum Center's board of trustees: Merrie Steward Stillpass, an urban planner at Meisner & Associates, a landscape architecture, land use and planning firm, and Ronald D. Brown, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Milacron Inc.

        • The following have joined the board of directors of Northern Kentucky Family Health Centers Inc.: Lisa H. Buerkley, finance officer of Boone County Fiscal Court; Leo Calderon, coordinator of Latino Student Affairs at Northern Kentucky University; Margaret M. Hardebeck, physician at Deaconess Hospital in Cincinnati; and Pamela W. Popp, attorney with Greenebaum Doll & McDonald.

        • Terina Kramer has been appointed contracts supervisor for Modern Office Methods Inc. and Mary Setser, branch support coordinator.

        • The following have joined Sibcy Cline Realtors as residential real estate specialists: Debbie Lykes, Florence office; John “Jack” Newman, Tri-County office; Fred Haucke, Campbell County office, and Gerrard D. Evans has joined the Harrison office as a real estate sales associate.

        • Camille Popplewell and Stacey Rudolf have been named account supervisors at Libby Perszyk Kathman, and Allyson Harding and Miriam Weiskind have joined the firm as creative interns.

        • D. Bruce Ross has been named executive vice president at Huntington Financial Advisors in Rookwood Tower. Mr. Ross is responsible for Huntington offices that provide investment management, estate planning, trust and private banking services in Southern Ohio, Kentucky and Florida.

        • Courtenay Lambert has joined Target Solutions Inc. as senior consultant. Ms. Lambert will focus on business development and consulting for Corporate Recruiting Solutions. She has more than six years of diversified human resources recruiting and client management experience, as well as experience in sales and corporate training. She is a graduate of Florida Atlantic University.

Awards & honors

               • Steve Campbell, marketing director with KZF Design, received the Marketer of the Year Award from the Greater Cincinnati Chapter of the Society for Marketing Professional Services.

        • Horizon Productions Inc. received an Award of Excellence and an Award of Merit at the Society for Technical Communication 2001-02 awards ceremony.

New businesses

               • Pam Krieg, a neonatal ICU nurse, has created a business — Save the Gonads Ltd., a company that produces and distributes infant lead X-ray shields, specially designed to protect the tiny gonads (reproductive organs) of premature babies. Log onto www.savethegonads.com for information or e-mail Pam at pam@savethegonads.com.

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               Have news of promotions, awards, honors, retirements or company openings or relocations? Send information to Shirley Dees, Enquirer Business News, 312 Elm St., Cincinnati 45202.

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