On the Move – Business Edition

Posted: 6:05 pm Thu, February 25, 2010
By Daily Record Staff

Accounting

Michael I. Berman has been promoted to partner at Kahn, Berman, Solomon, Taibel & Mogol, a Timonium-based certified public accounting firm. Berman has been with the firm since 1995.

Matt Duvall has been promoted to manager at UHY Advisors Mid-Atlantic MD, of Columbia. As a member of the accounting and auditing department he provides auditing and tax services to nonprofit organizations, professional services firms and real estate companies. Duvall has bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Maryland.

Hertzbach & Company, of Owings Mills, has promoted four of its accountants: Daniel J. Wahlberg and Richard L. Wolf have become stockholders of the firm. Travis B. Daniel, a graduate of Frostburg State University and Loyola College Maryland, and David M. Gaither, who has a degree from Stevenson University, have become principals of the firm.

Advertising

Siquis Ltd., of Baltimore, has added Geoff Pizii and Ben Moon to its staff. Pizii will be an interactive solutions manager. He previously was Allegis Group’s director of i.Media and its web marketing director. Moon will be a project manager, the position he previously held at Alexander + Tom. Siquis is a full-service advertising and design agency.

Architecture

Tom Liebel, one of the first LEED-accredited professionals in the U.S., has been promoted to principal by Marks, Thomas Architects, of Baltimore. Liebel has led the firm’s sustainability initiatives. The Johns Hopkins University graduate has lectured at more than 40 conferences and universities on urban revitalization, adaptive use of historic structures, brownfields redevelopment and sustainable design. He is the author of “Industrial Baltimore” and a chapter in the new “Revitalizing Main Street: A Practitioner’s Guide to Comprehensive Commercial District Revitalization.” Marks, Thomas Architects offers planning, urban design, programming and interior design.

Attractions

Mark Yost Jr. has been hired by the National Aquarium, in Baltimore, as director of government relations. He previously worked at Erickson Retirement Communities in a similar position. Yost has also served as legislative director for state Sen. Kathy Klausmeier. He is vice chair of the Maryland Gay & Lesbian Chamber of Commerce.

Awards

TeleCommunication Systems Inc., of Annapolis, received the 2009 Satellite Product of the Year Award from TMCnet.com for two of its SwiftLink products, the flyaway Satellite Access Baseband Remote 2.4M Quad-Band VSAT Terminal and the Stingray 45-X Ultra Small Aperture Terminal, which can be carried in a backpack to remote combat locations.

Community College of Baltimore County recently granted 10 students associate degrees from its massage therapy program. These students are eligible to sit for national certification and Maryland licensure examinations: Paul Blair, Aberdeen; Amanda Metz, Forest Hill; Jonathan Henry and Cassidy Reeves, Perry Hall; Beth Gillespie, Nottingham; Kimberly Jones and April Panzer, Middle River; Karen Zeitlin, Arlington; Tina McClellan, Northwood; and Diana Degnan-Lafon, Towson. Theresa Pac-Marshall was honored as the program’s Instructor of the Year.

Herman Daly, a University of Maryland ecological economist, recently received a lifetime achievement award from the National Council for Science and the Environment for his decades-long research into the underpinnings of a Green Economy. Daly argues that conventional economics fails to account for the true costs of environmental degradation, making a loss of value appear to be a gain.

Reading Is Fundamental, the children’s and families’ literacy nonprofit organization, named the program at Riverdale Elementary School, in Riverdale, its national Program of the Month for January. RIF and the school’s Triple R Club work together to encourage students to read and write every day.

Tracy Marquis, a project architect at Design Collective, of Baltimore, was named 2009 Volunteer of the Year by the Maryland Chapter of the United States Green Building Council for supporting and advancing the Chapter’s mission for sustainability and awareness. Design Collective provides solutions in planning, landscape architecture, and interior architecture.

Amy Fink, a history teacher and coordinator of student support services at the Cardin School, in Baltimore, was honored last month at the “20/20: The Future is Clear” event sponsored by the Jewish Educators Assembly in College Park as one of 20 emerging leaders in the region committed to Jewish life and dedicated to fostering creative, remarkable and interesting work in Jewish education.

Boards

Economic Alliance of Greater Baltimore has added 11 directors to its board: Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake; Pat Vaughan, senior vice president & regional director, RBC Wealth Management; Lou Cestello, senior vice president & regional corporate banking market manager, PNC Bank; Robin Harris, managing director, Morgan Stanley; Augie Chiasera, senior vice president, M&T Bank; Hunter Shull, senior vice president, regional vice president, Wachovia; Karen Campbell, vice president and chief policy officer, Verizon-MD/DC; Bill Couper, president–Mid Atlantic, Bank of America; Charles Monk, managing partner, Saul Ewing; David Peed, vice president & general manager, Ciena Government Solutions; and Kevin Manning, president, Stevenson University. The organization promotes business retention, growth and new investment throughout the Greater Baltimore region.

Jim Mitchell, director of campus security at College of Notre Dame of Maryland, in Baltimore, was elected president of the Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators for the Chesapeake Region, an affiliate of the International Association of Campus Law Enforcement Administrators. Mitchell joined the college’s staff in 2006 after a 30-year career with the Baltimore County Police Department.

William G. Nelson, the Marion I. Knott Professor of Oncology and director of the Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, has been added to the scientific advisory board of the V Foundation for Cancer Research. Nelson is a professor of urology, pharmacology, medicine, pathology, and radiation oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, with a joint appointment in environmental health sciences at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Donna Hill Staton, a former Howard County Circuit Court associate judge, has been elected to the boards of Howard Bank and Howard Bancorp, which are based in Ellicott City. She was the first African-American female deputy attorney general for Maryland. She also serves on the State Board of Education, and is a trustee for the Client Protection Fund of the Bar of Maryland and the Bar Foundation of Howard County.

Karen Trostle, president of Sterling Acceptance Corp., of Annapolis, has been elected president of the National Marine Bankers Association. Trostle previously had served as NMBA’s vice president; she has been a director for five years. Sterling provides financing for private purchase, dealer/broker purchase, new and used purchase, and refinance of boats.

John Bruns, coordinator of instructional technology at Jemicy School, has been named president of the Maryland Branch of the International Dyslexia Association. He has a master’s degree from Johns Hopkins University. Jemicy School, of Owings Mills, provides a highly individualized, flexible and challenging education for above-average to gifted college-bound students with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences. Three other Jemicy faculty members and administrators serve on the board of the Maryland branch of IDA: Barry James, Marcia Walker and Mark Westervelt. The IDA is a nonprofit, scientific and educational organization dedicated to the study and treatment of dyslexia and other language-based learning differences.

Education

Kevin J. Manning, president of Stevenson University, has contributed a chapter to a new book on the effects of technology on higher education. His chapter, “Doing More with Less: Transforming a Program through Technology,” appears in “President to President: Views on Technology in Higher Education, Volume II,” published by SunGard Higher Education and the Council of Independent Colleges.

Marketing

Steve Stewart has been promoted from director of marketing to vice president of marketing and public relations at Carroll Lutheran Village, of Westminster. Before joining the residential community in 2003 Stewart was general manager of the Belk department store in Westminster.

Warschawski, of Baltimore, has hired Jordan Bishop and Franzannie Guiteau as junior associates. Bishop previously was an athletic communications assistant at Loyola University Maryland. Franzannie interned for Capstrat, where she created press materials for clients in the health care industry. Warschawski provides branding, marketing, public relations, advertising and creative design services.

Nonprofits

Patricia Banks has joined the American Urological Association to direct its marketing and communications efforts. She previously served as vice president of marketing at FactorHealth Alliance. The association is an educational nonprofit organization based in Linthicum.