{"id":35680,"date":"2021-01-15T14:01:25","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T19:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/?p=35680"},"modified":"2021-01-18T11:37:21","modified_gmt":"2021-01-18T16:37:21","slug":"personnel-briefs-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/2021\/01\/personnel-briefs-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Personnel Briefs: January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35681\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brtief-kinsella-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brtief-kinsella-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brtief-kinsella-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brtief-kinsella.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Whiteman Osterman &amp; Hanna LLP announced that Donald T. Kinsella has joined the firm as senior counsel and Robert J. McLaughlin has joined as of counsel.<br \/>\nKinsella joins Whiteman Osterman &amp; Hanna with more than four decades of experience in complex criminal and civil litigation. He prosecuted and defended several significant high profile federal and state criminal cases in New York. He is a former chief of the Criminal Division of the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York.<br \/>\nMcLaughlin will continue to focus his practice on gaming and lottery law, financial transactions and government compliance.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-mclaughlin-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-mclaughlin-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-mclaughlin-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-mclaughlin.jpg 234w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>McLaughlin counsels gaming vendors, online gaming providers, state lotteries, and other entities in matters involving compliance with the complex federal and state regulation governing the gaming industry.<br \/>\nAs bond counsel, he has represented the state Dormitory Authority, the state Environmental Facilities Corp., where he was the former general counsel, and the state Energy Resource and Development Authority\/New York Green Bank. He has also represented numerous industrial development agencies and municipalities in the state.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>The Arrow Family of Companies recently announced the appointments of senior vice president Christine Snow to director of customer experience and senior vice president Marc Yrsha to director of relationship banking for Glens Falls National Bank and Trust Co. and Saratoga National Bank <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-snow-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-snow-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-snow-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-snow.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>and Trust Co.<br \/>\nIn her new role, Snow will oversee the customer experience unit, which includes the call center, and deposit, loan and branch operations. Together these teams care for our customers and ensure a positive and unified customer experience across many different business lines.<br \/>\nSnow joined the company in 2016 and most recently served as senior vice president of branch administration, overseeing all branch and call center functions.<br \/>\nIn his new role, Yrsha will oversee the retail banking unit which includes frontline sales teams for retail, consumer, business and municipal banking, as well as small business and home equity lending. Together these teams will continue to focus on the customer and growing relationships in all our communities.<!--more--><br \/>\nYrsha joined the company in 2015 and most recently served as senior vice president of corporate development, which includes business development, small business and home equity lending, municipal banking, and business services.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35684\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-mott-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-mott-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-mott-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-mott.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Saratoga WarHorse, the nonprofit organization that uses retired thoroughbred racehorses to work with service members and veterans who are experiencing trauma while in the military, announced the appointment Tina Mott to its board of directors.<br \/>\nA longtime supporter and volunteer with Saratoga WarHorse, Mott will work with the organization to further its mission of promoting the physical, mental and emotional health of veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress by providing a healing, equine assisted experience exclusively using retired thoroughbreds.<br \/>\nMott has more than 35 years of experience in the thoroughbred industry and is the wife of Hall of Fame trainer Bill Mott of Mott Thoroughbred Stables.<br \/>\nAs a volunteer, she provides meals for the veteran participants and records their experience connecting with equine counterparts at Saratoga WarHorse\u2019s location in East Greenbush, which is also home to the renowned thoroughbred rescue program ReRun Thoroughbred Adoption.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-35685\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-criswell-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-criswell-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.saratoga.com\/saratogabusinessjournal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/48\/2021\/01\/p-brief-criswell-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>Dr. Zachary Criswell, a fellowship-trained foot and ankle surgeon, has joined Saratoga Hospital Medical Group \u2013 Surgical Podiatry.<br \/>\nCriswell comes to Saratoga Hospital from Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, where he was a clinical instructor in the Department of Medicine. He also was an attending physician at Bergen New Bridge Medical Center, a Rutgers clinical affiliate in Paramus, N.J.<br \/>\nHe earned his Doctor of Podiatric Medicine degree from Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine in Pennsylvania and completed an internship and residency at University Hospital in New Jersey.<br \/>\nHe went on to complete a surgical fellowship, with an emphasis on lower extremity sports medicine and arthroscopy, at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in California.<br \/>\nCriswell is board certified by the American Board of Podiatric Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>* * *<\/p>\n<p>Wellspring, the domestic violence and sexual assault services resource for Saratoga County residents, announced the addition of Cerri Banks and Margaret Smith Cassier to its board of directors.<br \/>\nBanks is the dean of students and vice president for student affairs at Skidmore College. She received her Ph.D. in cultural foundations of education and a certificate of advanced women\u2019s studies from Syracuse University. She specializes in sociology of education, cultural studies, multicultural education and qualitative research.<br \/>\nShe has an extensive background in higher education and has won an array of honors, awards and scholarships over the course of her career. Her book, Black Women Undergraduates Cultural Capital and College Success, documents the academic and social success of black women undergraduates.<br \/>\nSmith Cassier is the president and owner of Airosmith Development Inc., a certified woman-owned-business founded in 2004 that specializes in site acquisition and engineering for commercial wireless providers, broadband companies, utility and government entities. In 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, Airosmith Development was awarded the designation as one of Inc. 5000\u2019s fastest growing companies in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whiteman Osterman &amp; Hanna LLP announced that Donald T. Kinsella has joined the firm as senior counsel and Robert J. McLaughlin has joined as of counsel. Kinsella joins Whiteman Osterman &amp; Hanna with more than four decades of experience in complex criminal and civil litigation. 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