Category Archives: Personnel Briefs

The Wesley Community announced that Jeff Cohn has been appointed chief information officer at the senior living campus in Saratoga Springs.

Cohn will be responsible for supporting and facilitating the needs and strategic growth of The Wesley Community’s technology and business functions. This includes the enhancement of Wesley’s information technology plan; maintenance and operation of information security; operating various business applications; and developing technology solutions throughout the campus.

Cohn has nearly 40 years of experience working in the information technology field and was one of the first certified netware engineers in New York state. He is the co-founder of SAGE Computer Associates. Cohn served as the principal for ADNET’s Albany location for the past three years.

He is a graduate of SUNY Oneonta, where he received a degree in geography and double minored in computer graphics and business. 

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The Patient Experience Project (PEP) announced the addition of Kristen Scannell as a patient experience coordinator and Elizabeth Stauffer as director of strategic planning.

Scannell has more than five years of educational experience as a school counselor at a number of school districts. In her new role, she will coordinate and support the successful execution of the agency’s patient relationship management activities, including PEP’s patient mentor, speaking, and adviser programs.

Scannell received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn., and a master’s degree in education and school counseling from the College of Saint Rose in Albany.

Mannix Marketing has added John Volza and Dawn Neville to its  digital marketing team.

Volza has a wide-ranging small business background. At Mannix, he will be working with local and national business clients who are looking to increase their business through digital marketing and search engine optimization.

Originally from Utica, Volza graduated with a B.A. in English and gender studies from Skidmore College and resides in Saratoga Springs. He previously worked as a radio disc jockey, manager of a local coffee roasting factory and small commercial insurance underwriter, where he worked directly with small business owners.

Mannix Marketing has hired Laura Vecsey as regional digital editor for its Tourism Marketing division.  Vecsey was a news reporter and later a sports columnist for many years in Albany, Seattle and Baltimore, covering the Olympics, Major League Baseball, the NFL, NBA and collegiate sports. She’s also been a political columnist and has worked...

Roohan Realty announced that Diana Gise has joined the company as a licensed real estate salesperson. Gise has a Bachelor of Science degree in dietetics from SUNY Oneonta.  She has 20 years of experience in the nutrition and wellness field.  She is a member of the Greater Capital Region Association of Realtors (GCAR) and...

NBT Bank announced that retail market manager Ian Townsend has been promoted to vice president.

Townsend has over 13 years of experience in the financial services industry. After completing NBT’s management development program, he advanced to positions of increasing responsibility in the bank’s Albany and Saratoga County branches. 

He was named assistant vice president in July 2015 and was promoted to retail market manager in June 2016. 

Townsend is responsible for managing the teams at NBT’s 12 branches in Clinton, Essex, Saratoga and Warren counties.

The Capital District Transportation Authority (CDTA) announced that Georgeanna M. Nugent of Saratoga Springs was elected to serve as chairwoman of its board of directors.  Nugent was appointed to the CDTA board in May 2009. In addition to being chairwoman, she is a member of the board’s Operations Committee and the Strategic and Operational...

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP has hired Gabriella Levine as a new associate. 

Levine graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. degree in political science from Union College, where she was inducted into the chapter of Phi Beta Kappa. She graduated summa cum laude from Albany Law School, where she was the executive editor for State Constitutional Commentary of the Albany Law Review. 

Levine was a finalist in Albany Law School’s Domenick L. Gabrielli Appellate Advocacy Moot Court Competition and received awards for Best Oral Advocate and Best Brief, and was the winner of the Karen C. McGovern Senior Prize Trials Competition.  

Roohan Realty announce its top Realtors for 2017. The top five agents, in order, are Valerie Thompson, Kate R. Naughton, Meg Minehan, Palma Pedrick and Christine Hogan Barton.

In addition, the Rookie of the Year award went to Neil Corkery and the top commercial Realtor was Amy Sutton.

In total, these accomplished Realtors achieved over $51.5 million in real estate property sales last year, the company said.

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The Saratoga Convention & Tourism Bureau has hired Chloejean Tedford as its director of convention services. In this role, she will work directly with meeting and event planners to ensure their meeting, conference or convention is a truly memorable Saratoga experience.

Teal, Becker & Chiaramonte CPAs, PC, announced that Karen Foster, its manager of pension operations with over 30 years of experience in retirement plan management and client services administration, will lead the Retirement Plan Services division as the new director.

A former benefit plan consultant and record-keeper, she joined TBC in 2007. She is a graduate of University at Albany, holding both a master’s and a bachelor’s degrees in economics. She is an American Society of Pension Professionals and Actuaries (ASPPA) credentialed Qualified 401(k) administrator.

She was formerly employed by an actuarial and benefit plan consulting firm, a bank trust department and an ERISA attorney. Her practice focuses on working with brokers and clients to determine the best type of plan for firms and maintaining contact with them to ensure that the plan continually meets their needs.

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Taylor Herrick has been promoted to director of public safety at Saratoga Hospital, responsible for a team of 20 public safety officers.

DZ restaurants announced Carol Ippoliti as the company’s sales manager.

She will be responsible for all private event sales for Chianti Il Ristorante, Forno Bistro and Boca Bistro, all in Saratoga Springs.

Ippoliti began in the industry at Glen Sanders Mansion in Scotia. She studied hospitality management at Schenectady County Community College. During this time, she also began her sales career with the Mallozzi Group. While there, she was promoted to sales manager and off-premise catering director. Most recently, she worked as a sales manager for Mazzone Hospitality.

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Longtime Lake Theatre actor and director, Jarel Davidow has been named as the Lake Theatre’s new artistic director.

Davidow is familiar to Lake Theatre audiences for his onstage roles in “The Love List,” “Moonlight And Magnolias” and “The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (Abridged).”  He also directed 2016’s “Almost Maine” and last season’s “The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis Mccauly Fishing Derby.”

Davidow has been a member of the Oberon Theatre Ensemble and Resonance Ensemble in New York City. His credits also include The Know Theatre in Binghamton; the Bickford Theatre in New Jersey; the New England Shakespeare Festival and The Great American Melodrama in California.  He is a member of Actors’ Equity, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

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