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CERTIFIED
Beverly Deal
Earned the Professional in Human Resources certification. Deal is the Spartanburg branch manager at Phillips Staffing. The credential recognizes her as an expert in the HR field. Deal has two decades of experience in staff development and training, workforce development and talent recruitment and management.
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Frank Knapp Jr.
Named to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Region IV Regulatory Fairness Board. Knapp is the president of The Knapp Agency and serves as the president and CEO of the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce. He will work with small business trade groups to address regulatory concerns.
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Dan Noneaker
Named chairman of the Holcombe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Clemson University. Noneaker joined Clemson in 1993 and began serving as interim chair last summer. He has also served as professor and as the department’s graduate program coordinator.
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Andrea White
Named manager of operations at Valuation & Advisory launched by Cushman & Wakefield. White has more than eight years of real estate appraisal expertise and is a designated member of the Appraisal Institute. She will work closely with Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer to expand both groups’ service offerings.
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Hayes Holliday
Named associate attorney at the Leinster Law Firm. Holliday will practice in the areas of estate planning and residential real estate. He worked as an assistant solicitor in South Carolina’s 7th Judicial Circuit for three years. He also completed a one-year clerkship with Circuit Court Judge Edward W. Miller.
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Kimberly Mode
Named senior vice president at The Palmetto Bank. Mode has more than 30 years of commercial banking experience providing financial services in the Upstate market. She joined The Palmetto Bank in 2011 following various management and officer positions with larger financial institutions.
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COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
The Greenville Chamber awarded the following people at its 125th Annual Meeting: Raj Gavurla, Ambassador of the Year Award; Elizabeth Stall, Arts Leadership Award; Lynn Faust, ATHENA Leadership Award; Steve Brandt, Buck Mickel Leadership Award; Toby Stansell, Chairman’s Award; Steve Bailey, Special Chairman’s Award; Chandra Dillard, Leadership Greenville Distinguished Alumni Award; and Chris Manley, Young Professional of the Year Award.
EDUCATION
Furman University appointed W. Michael Hendricks as vice president of enrollment management. Hendricks currently holds an equivalent position at The Catholic University of America. Under his leadership The Catholic University nearly doubled applications over a five-year period while also raising student quality, selectivity and overall net tuition revenues.
GOVERNMENT
The Sunnie & DeWorken Group hired Molly McCarthy and David Shiley to help with the firm’s advocacy and legislative efforts and policy research. McCarthy most recently interned with Gov. Nikki Haley’s administration in its communications division and also interned with U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham’s re-election campaign. Shiley has experience in the restaurant and hospitality industry.
Gov. Nikki Haley appointed Deborah K. Leporowski to a clinical psychologist seat on the South Carolina Board of Examiners in Psychology. Leporowski is a licensed clinical psychologist with 23 years experience who relocated to the Upstate in 2012 from south Florida.
HEALTH CARE
Gateway Family Medicine of Travelers Rest Group named Kristi Cabiao to its medical team. Cabiao earned her doctorate of osteopathic medicine from A.T. Still University and completed family medical residencies at Danville Regional Medical Center and Spartanburg Regional Medical Center. She is a member of the American College of Family Physicians and the Christian Medical and Dental Association.
The Woodlands at Furman named Candace Williams as the activity coordinator. Williams previously worked at the Woodlands in skilled nursing as a licensed nurse practitioner. As activity coordinator, she is responsible for planning and hosting events for both Woodlands residents and the community at large.
NONPROFIT
Upstate Forever hired Patricia Carson as land protection specialist and Brittany McKee as development associate. Carson has more than a decade of experience in the environmental community. She has been involved in nonprofit advocacy at various levels, including administration, policy, legal and education. McKee has experience in fundraising and technology skills. She primarily manages the donor database and assists in the planning of fundraising events.
MARKETING/PR
Today’s Physician Productions, a division of Creative Design Media Group, hired Jeff McLaughlin as associate producer. McLaughlin has more than 10 years of experience in pharmaceutical and medical device sales, having worked with Johnson & Johnson, Novartis and Covidien.
STAFFING
HTI Employment Solutions promoted Todd White to branch manager of the Greenville Industrial office. White joined HTI in 2010 at the Anderson branch and became team leader for the Mauldin branch in 2014.
TRANSPORTATION
The Greenville Transit Authority elected the following officers for 2015: Pat Dilger, chair; Julian A. Reed, vice chair; Sam Zimmerman, treasurer.
