On the move: 2/25/11

Posted: 7:00 pm Thu, February 24, 2011
By Daily Record Staff

Awards

The Baltimore Humane Society recently recognized the Baltimore Police Marine Unit’s Sgt. Michael Kain and Officers William Edgar, John [Americus] Rambeau and John Wagner for saving Penny, a Labrador, from the icy waters of the Inner Harbor on Dec. 29. The ceremony was held at the nonprofit organization’s newly renovated adoption center in Reisterstown.

Boards

Richard C. Bittner was recently reappointed by Gov. Martin O’Malley to the Maryland Board of Physicians for a four-year term. Bittner, who maintains a general law trial practice in Glen Burnie, was first appointed to the board in 2007 after serving 17 years on the Anne Arundel County Liquor Board, the last 12 as chairman. He is a graduated of the University of Baltimore County and the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Brenden D. Frederick, an architect at Becker Morgan Group, was recently appointed to the Salisbury Historic District Commission, which assists in upholding the established Historic District Regulations and reviewing all applications for alterations affecting the exterior appearance of structures in the city’s designated historic districts. Frederick also serves as state coordinator of the American Institute of Architects’ Maryland Intern Development Program. His responsibilities with Becker Morgan Group include architectural design, specifications and project management. The firm has offices in Salisbury, Dover, Del., and Wilmington, N.C.

John Friedman has joined the board of Sequella Inc., of Rockville, a clinical-stage company focused on commercializing novel drugs for treatment of infectious diseases, as an independent director. Friedman is the founding and managing partner of Easton Capital Investment Group. He also was a founder and managing general partner of Security Pacific Capital Investors, a managing director and partner at E.M. Warburg, Pincus & Co., and an attorney with Sullivan and Cromwell. Friedman serves on the boards of Promedior, Experimed, Trellis Bioscience, Cardiovascular Systems, iTherX, and PlaySpan, portfolio companies at Easton Capital, and as a trustee of The New Museum of Contemporary Art.

Construction

Van Deusen Construction Co. recently received the Guildmaster Award for service excellence in home building from GuildQuality. The company also won the award in 2007 and 2008. The Bel Air-based firm specializes in the design, remodeling and renovation of existing residential and light commercial properties.

Gregory J. Morgan Sr. has been hired as an account manager in the commercial and facility services division of Brothers Services Co., a roofing and exterior renovations company based in Hampstead. Morgan has almost 25 years of experience in commercial management. He spent the two previous years as a consultant, focusing on marketing, management and growth strategies. Morgan has been a regional manager with Southern Acquisitions, and as owner and president of Chesapeake Door Service. He has served on the boards of directors of My Brother’s Keeper and Mount Saint Joseph High School, and coached and assisted with athletic programs through the Recreation and Parks Council.

Consulting

Jay Ridder has been appointed managing partner of the Baltimore office of Ernst & Young. Ridder previously served as the Baltimore office assurance leader, the East Central region insurance industry leader and as Ernst & Young’s national managed care leader. His experience includes providing assurance, advisory, and transaction services to life and health insurance, property casualty, managed care and asset management companies. Ridder is a Certified Public Accountant.

E-Commerce

6th Street Commerce, an e-commerce solutions provider to the retail industry based in Baltimore, has added three executives: Tom Lang is the chief technology officer. He has 20 years of management and information technology experience in enterprise-scale application and web development, including serving as CTO at Advertising.com and TidalTV. Lang also founded LCG Technologies. Michael Spinosa is vice president of sales for software services. He co-founded and manages Unleashed Technologies, one of 6th Street’s system integrators. Thomas McMahon is executive advisor. His background includes executive roles in online advertising at Advertising.com and AOL Media Networks. He is president of TidalTV.

Education

Alison Wainwright Davitt has been hired as associate vice president for development and constituent relations by Maryland Institute College of Art. Davitt had been director of major gifts at the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy since 2007, after overseeing annual and special giving programs and events there for two years. Before that, she directed annual giving and other development activities both at the University of Baltimore and the Greater Baltimore Medical Center. Davitt has a bachelor’s degree from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and an MBA in marketing from Johns Hopkins University.

Engineering

Paul H. Hayden has been promoted to vice president of the Laurel office of Geo-Technology Associates, a geotechnical engineering and environmental consulting firm. Hayden specializes in brownfield redevelopment and real estate due diligence, and is head of the firm’s brownfield redevelopment group. He is on the board of directors of the Baltimore chapter of the Homebuilders Association of Maryland.

Health Care

Dr. James P. Higgins of Greater Chesapeake Hand Specialists in Lutherville has been elected chief of the Curtis National Hand Center at Union Memorial Hospital of Baltimore. Dr. Higgins is board-certified in plastic surgery with a Certificate of Added Qualifications Surgery of the Hand. He was selected as the 2010 American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery Godina Traveling Fellow and for the 2010 Visiting Professorship of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Dr. Higgins has twice earned the Microsurgical Case of the Year Award from the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery.

The Cancer Institute at St. Joseph Medical Center, of Towson, has made two staff changes: Dr. Stephen Ronson, a radiation oncologist and director of stereotactic radiosurgery, recently received a three-year appointment as cancer liaison physician. He will be responsible for American College of Surgeons Commission on Cancer initiatives within the cancer program; collaborate with agencies, such as the American Cancer Society; and see that quality improvement initiatives use data from the Commission on Cancer’s National Cancer Database. Also, Dr. Yousuf Gaffar has joined The Cancer Institute as an oncologist. Previously, he served as clinical research director for Alliance Hematology Oncology in the Baltimore area. He is board-certified in internal medicine, medical oncology, and hematology.

Glenn E. Schneider, director of health policy for the Howard County Health Department, has been hired as chief program officer of The Horizon Foundation. He previously was executive director of the Maryland Health Care for All Coalition, and has worked for the Maryland State Medical Society and Smoke Free Maryland Coalition, and as federal project director for the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene in the area of tobacco use prevention. The Horizon Foundation addresses health issues through grants, community programs and partnerships with private and public institutions.

Shareese N. DeLeaver has joined Saint Agnes Hospital, of Baltimore, as its public relations manager. Most recently, DeLeaver served as the community liaison/public relations manager with CSC. She has been a media consultant for clients including the U.S. Secret Service, and a senior account executive at Stanton Communications. From 2002 to 2007 she held communications positions for former Gov. Robert Bob Ehrlich and his Bob Ehrlich for MD Committee, including communications director/press secretary.

Marketing

The Baltimore marketing communications firm gkv has promoted three employees: Associate Creative Director Mark Rosica is now a partner. Ashley Bertrand Amtmann is now senior account manager for gkv Reach, the firm’s outreach and social marketing division. She is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland. Jenn Pinti was promoted to interactive producer from her position as interactive account executive.

Van Eperen & Co., a woman-owned small business in Bethesda that specializes in customized communications, recently received an Award of Merit from the International Association of Business Communicators-DC Metro chapter for a media relations plan. The honor is the firm’s fifth Silver Inkwell honor. The plan was developed for Payroll Network.

Jack Spaulding has been promoted to executive director of strategic planning of Planit. His responsibilities include the integration of social, traditional and online media, and public relations, into account planning and supervision. He will also lead the development in research, planning, consumer insights and trends, and strategic oversight of client positioning and branding. Spaulding, who has been with the Baltimore agency since 2006, had been account director.

Nonprofits

NAMI Metropolitan Baltimore has named Linda Federico Kohler as executive director, succeeding Kate Farinholt, who accepted the executive directorship of NAMI Maryland. NAMI works to ease the suffering and combat the stigma that surrounds biologically based brain disorders, offering peer-led education and support for individuals with mental illness and their relatives, and community workshops and presentations. Kohler founded the Students Sharing Coalition, which provided leadership and service experiences while fostering community involvement and civic responsibility focused on social justice. She is an alumna of what is now Towson University, Leadership-Baltimore County, the Greater Baltimore Committee’s LEADERship Program, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Policy Studies Nonprofit Studies Program, and the Weinberg Fellows Program.

Realty

Suzanne Spencer has joined the resale division of 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty as regional vice president, overseeing sales for the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast regions. Spencer previously was vice president of sales for D.R. Horton Inc., for its Maryland division. She also has managed sales and marketing for Builders 1st Choice, in Columbia. Spencer received her bachelor’s degree in marketing from the University of Maryland. 2-10 Home Buyers Warranty offers customers and their homeowners warranty and service contracts and risk management products.

Software

Micro Focus has hired Seth Braverman as vice president of sales for application management and quality for the software division in North America and Chris Livesey as vice president of sales in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. Braverman most recently worked at Riverbed Technology, managing the Cascade product sales organization for most of the U.S. Livesey started his 17 years in the IT and software industry as a software developer and architect. He has held senior management positions with IBM. Micro Focus, of Rockville, provides application modernization, testing and management solutions.

New Energy Tech makes Maza CFO

Elliot M. Maza has been appointed chief financial officer, on a non-exclusive basis, of New Energy Technologies, a developer of renewable and alternative energy technologies with offices in Burtonsville, Md., and Washington, D.C. Maza has been a partner for transaction advisory services at Ernst & Young, and vice president for structured finance of both Goldman Sachs & Co. and JP Morgan Securities, all in New York. Early in his career, he was a tax and corporate attorney at the New York office of Sullivan & Cromwell. Maza continues to serve on the board of directors of a company that produces tellurium and other metals for the solar photovoltaic industry.

Elliott M. Maza

Education: B.A., accounting, Touro College; J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Accreditations: CPA and member of the bars in New Jersey and New York.

Most recent vacation: Kiawah Island, S.C.

Hobbies: Fishing.

Favorite books: Mysteries by Nelson DeMille and John Grisham.

Most recently read: “By the Rivers of Babylon” by Nelson DeMille.

Favorite food: Sushi

Favorite quotation: “It also has the added benefit of being true.” — Henry Kissinger advising Richard Nixon regarding a news release