• Bob West has been named vice president and chief information security officer at Fifth Third Bank. West earned a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University and a master's degree from North Central College, Naperville, Ill.

• BabyFit.com, an online fitness and nutrition program for pregnant women, has added experts from the Childbirth Education Association of Cincinnati to its advisory board: Zita Jeanmougin, RN; Sue Effler, RN; and Sarah Hambridge, physical therapist at a sports medicine clinic in Cincinnati.

• Chris Hill has joined office furniture dealer OstermanCron as an account executive. Hill earned a bachelor's degree in marketing from Northern Kentucky University.

• Officers appointed to the board of trustees for the Fine Arts Fund for 2004-05: Nancy Heffner Donovan, chair; Joseph H. Head Jr., vice chair; Edgar L Smith Jr., secretary; Karen M. Hoguet, treasurer; and Mary McCullough-Hudson, president and chief executive officer. Newly appointed members to the board of trustees: Margaret E. Buchanan, president and publisher of The Cincinnati Enquirer; Valerie A. Lemmie, manager of the city of Cincinnati; Thomas R. Schiff, chairman of the board and chief executive officer of John J. & Thomas R. Schiff & Co. Inc.; Peter S. Strange, president of Messer Construction; Carol G. Talbot, vice president and trustee, The Procter & Gamble Fund; Karen C. Tripp, general manager, Global Communications, GE Transportation; Gail Wells, vice president of academic affairs and provost of Northern Kentucky University; and James M. Wiseman, vice president for external affairs at Toyota Motor Manufacturing North America Inc. in Erlanger.

• Margaret Anneken and Kristen Wiltanger have joined Empower MediaMarketing as growth directors.

• Andrew C. Shaw has been named executive chef of Five Seasons Sports Country Club in Northern Kentucky. Shaw was sous chef in 2003 after working from 1997 to 2003 at China Gourmet in Hyde Park, starting as a server and later becoming manager of the front of the house, and as a prep cook.

• Molly Williams has joined Mercy Hospital Clermont as manager of rehabilitation services. Williams earned her undergraduate and master's degrees in physical therapy at the College of Mount St. Joseph and received specialized training in sports medicine.

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 or e-mail sdees@enquirer.com.