On the move – Business edition

Posted: 5:41 pm Thu, April 8, 2010
By Daily Record Staff

Accounting

David Goldner presented “Taxes & Alternatives to Shape Your Investment Planning” at a recent American Association of Individual Investors chapter meeting in Washington, D.C. He is the managing partner at Gross, Mendelsohn & Associates, of Baltimore. Goldner serves on the board of the Baltimore Estate Planning Council.

Advertising

Carton Donofrio Partners, of Baltimore, recently presented “StopTheAdness,” its consumer-driven project that aims to make advertising more effective and less offensive by asking consumers what they want, at Transformation 2010, the American Association of Advertising Agencies’ leadership and media conference in San Francisco.

Awards

Lonnie Robbins, Howard County’s first and current chief administrative officer, has received a Trailblazer Award from the Howard County Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Others receiving the award were Alice Gail Clark, the county’s first black District Court judge; C. Vernon Gray, first black county councilman; Herman Charity, first black police officer and sergeant; Kevin Burnett, first black police major; Tara Nelson, first black female police captain; Sydney Cousin, first black superintendent of schools; Frank Turner, first black Howard County member of the General Assembly; Patricia Gordon, first black female Howard County School Board member; Donna Hill Staton, first black Circuit Court judge; Kevin Simmons, first black deputy fire chief; and Karen Burnett, first black female police officer.

Charles C. Fenwick Jr., who has helped shape Greater Baltimore Medical Center for more than a decade, has received the Hunt Valley Business Forum’s first-ever “Business Person of the Year” award. Fenwick has served on the GBMC HealthCare Board of Directors since 1999 and has led the board as its chairman since 2007. Fenwick is president and general manager of Valley Motors, director of the Land Preservation Trust and managing director of the Shawan Downs Legacy Chase.

The Technology and Innovation in Manufacturing and Engineering Center at the Community College of Baltimore County has received the Technology Education Advocacy Award from the Technology Education Association of Maryland. The award is for the center’s professional development activities and funding of learning projects for high school teachers in manufacturing, engineering and STEM (science, technology, engineering and manufacturing) activities.

Holland Construction has earned a Merit Award from the Baltimore Metro Chapter of the Associated Builders and Contractors for the construction of the Weis Markets store in Westminster. The construction contracting firm has its headquarters in Hanover, Pa., and a division office in Columbia. It recently changed its name from Hostetter Construction.

Shawn Curtis, a junior at Reginald F. Lewis High School, was awarded first place and $1,000 in a regional business plan competition sponsored by the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, Baltimore Affiliate. His business, Dante’s Cleaning Service, caters to working professionals and the elderly, primarily in Northeast Baltimore. Tashawna Martin, a junior at the Institute of Business and Entrepreneurship, was awarded second place; Dale Latham, a senior at Forest Park High School, was awarded third place; and Shanelle Gobalt of the Institute of Business and Entrepreneurship won fourth place.

The University of Maryland Medical Center, of Baltimore, recently became the first hospital in the nation to receive a new award from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, for its high standards in nursing care of patients before, during and after surgery.

Loyola University Maryland, of Baltimore, has been named one of five recipients of the 2010 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization, an honor presented by NAFSA: The Association of International Educators. Honorees were selected based on their overall excellence in internationalization efforts as demonstrated in their practices, structures, philosophies and policies.

Consulting

Elizabeth Doubleday has been promoted from vice president of marketing to senior vice president of client services and marketing at iJET Intelligent Risk Systems, of Annapolis, a global intelligence and business resiliency service provider. Before joining iJET she held management positions in marketing at Saba and THINQ Learning Solutions.

Finance

Bernard F. McCrory has been appointed managing director of the mergers and acquisitions practice of Evergreen Capital, of Columbia. His most recent venture had been Learning for Children LLC. McCrory has held executive positions with Sylvan Learning, Caliber Learning Network, Network Storage Solutions and US Design Corp.

Health Care

Jean Hitchcock has been appointed corporate vice president for public affairs and marketing by MedStar Health, of Columbia. She previously served as corporate vice president for marketing and communications for Scripps Health, of San Diego. Hitchcock is a former president and board member of the Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development. In 2008, she was named “Communicator of the Year” by “Health Care Communicators.”

Health system legal officer

Oliver M. Johnson II has been appointed senior vice president and general counsel of MedStar Health, of Columbia.  He will serve as chief legal officer to health system, which consists of nine hospitals and more than 40 corporate entities across the Baltimore-Washington region. Johnson previously served as counsel, global marketing services, counsel, vaccine division and chief privacy officer for Merck and Co., of Philadelphia. Throughout his career he has remained closely connected to nonprofit health care. Johnson is vice chair of the board of Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pa. He previously was vice chairman of the Pennsylvania State Board of Medicine.

Landscaping

Mike Ward has been promoted to the new position of director of pre-construction services & estimates at Ruppert Landscape, of Laytonsville. In his 20 years with the company, Ward had worked his way from a crewman to Purchaser and Production Manager. The company provides commercial landscape construction and management in Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Georgia and North Carolina.

Marketing

Greg Sylvia has been hired as results support specialist by Brave New Markets, of Baltimore. He most recently was a programming and traffic administrator with Fox Sports in Houston. The company works with specialty industries, particularly consumer services, professional services, retail/catalog producers, manufacturers, and special events and conference coordinators.

Suzanne Rothrock has been hired as director of marketing and business development of Mission Media, of Baltimore. She previously served as brand manager and director of strategic marketing at the National Aquarium. Mission Media provides advertising, identity and graphic design, web design, web programming and web hosting, search engine marketing, social media, film, video and still photography, audio production and post production, and event planning and promotion.

Three employees have been added by gkv, of Baltimore: Chuck Fischer has been appointed vice president, account director. He returns to gkv after co-founding Management Worldwide, an international membership community of business professionals, and creating the Business Affairs Forum. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Maryland. Katey Clark joins gkv as public relations account executive. She previously was a project manager for Project Big Fish in Washington, D.C., and a legislative assistant for U.S. Rep. Patrick Tiberi of Ohio. Joey Helsel is a new account executive for the firm’s grassroots marketing division. She previously was an assistant VIP tour manager for Paid Inc.

Nonprofit

Rawle Andrews Jr. has been appointed senior state director of AARP in Maryland. He had served as interim senior state director since January. Andrews previously was managing attorney of AARP’s Legal Counsel for the Elderly in Washington, D.C. Before joining AARP in 2007, he was a civil trial attorney with Squire, Sanders & Dempsey; a partner with Dickinson Wright; founding chair of Andrews & Bowe; and a legislative aide to then-Texas State Rep. Clinton P. Hackney.

Thomas Rothschild has been named business development director for the Casey Cares Foundation, of Baltimore, a nonprofit charity that provides programs for critically ill children.  He previously served as vice president of marketing and business development for Millman Search Group.

Public Relations

Eleni Polites has been named account executive in the Baltimore office of Weber Shandwick, where she provides media relations and digital communications services to corporate, institutional and nonprofit clients. She is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland, of Baltimore.

Real Estate

Ryan Minnehan has become an associate broker for KLNB Retail, a commercial real estate services company in Towson. He previously worked as an intern for KLNB Retail after his graduation from Towson University. Minnehan will research and assist with site selection and leasing activities for retailers.

Technology

Stone Ridge Technology, of Bel Air, has hired William Brouwer as a senior physicist and David Dembeck as an applied mathematician. Brouwer will develop, port and optimize high-performance technical software through graphics processing units. Dembeck most recently worked for Acceleware, helping develop software used in the cell phone industry to model the propagation of electromagnetic waves.