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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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APPOINTED
Jamie Stover
Named director of program services of Make-A-Wish South Carolina. Stover has served as the Certified Child Life Specialist and Camp Courage Director for BI-LO Charities Children’s Cancer Center. Previously, she worked for Greenville Children’s Hospital, where she was responsible for the psychosocial well-being of patients and their families.
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HIRED
Kevin Crittendon
Named as director of continuous improvement at GreenWood Inc. Crittendon has more than 20 years of experience in industrial manufacturing and maintenance. He also spent more than seven years with GreenWood serving as a site manager with similar responsibilities for the Honeywell site locations.
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PROMOTED
Rob Johnson
Promoted to manager of training and development at Human Technologies Inc. Johnson has more than 15 years of experience in human resources. He previously served as a training specialist. He will oversee the training and development function at HTI and collaborate with HTI Organizational Solutions.
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APPOINTED
Scott Mason
Appointed to a three-year term as senior vice president of continuing education for the Institute of Industrial Engineers. Mason is the Fluor Endowed Chair in Supply Chain Optimization and Logistics and a professor of industrial engineering at Clemson University.
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GRADUATED
Jil Littlejohn
Graduated from the Municipal Association of South Carolina’s Municipal Elected Officials Institute. Littlejohn is a District 3 Greenville City Council member. The Elected Officials Institute is designed to give municipal elected officials a knowledge base for establishing good public policy for their hometowns.
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DEVELOPMENT
O’Neal Inc. hired Austin Crooks as process engineer and David Shuey as senior civil engineer. Crooks has about 10 years of process consulting experience, having worked with the firms of Fluor, Ford, Bacon & Davis and MeadWestVaco. Shuey has more than 20 years of civil design experience, having worked with the firms of SC Steel, Caliber and Jacobs Engineering.
REAL ESTATE
NAI Earle Furman named Tony Bonitati, Tom Daniel, Kay Hill and Jake Van Gieson as company shareholders. Bonitati previously worked for Maytag as a franchisee and Equifax/TALX Corporation as a regional sales manager. He joined NAI Earle Furman in 2010. Daniel began his career at Trammell Crow Company. He later served as the managing director and president of TC Atlanta Inc. and president and CEO of Triad Properties Corporation. He founded Daniel Investments LLC in 2010. Hill previously worked for the City of Charlotte, Cardinal Real Estate Partners LLC and Duke Energy in their real estate services division. She also worked at Jones Lang LaSalle as the research analyst for the Carolina markets. She began working in the Multifamily & Investment Division at NAI Earle Furman in 2012. Jake Van Gieson joined NAI Earle Furman after graduating from Clemson University in 2007. He has been involved with restaurant and national tenant assignments throughout the Southeast. He currently serves as a board member for Pendleton Place and Greenville Family Partnership.
LEGAL
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart P.C. elected John Merrell as a shareholder. Merrell represents management in all aspects of labor and employment law, including preventive employment and labor law advice related to matters under the National Labor Relations Act, Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, Family and Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act and Fair Labor Standards Act.
ENTERTAINMENT
Brandy Bocchino was selected to join the 2015 Disney Parks Moms Panel. Bocchino is one of 22 new panelists selected for a spot on the interactive platform which allows guests to pose questions to an online panel of real-world parents and grandparents on a variety of topics related to Disney properties.
STAFFING
Alex Cochran, Amy Fischer, James Aiken, Josh Wilbanks, Karen Skjerning, Scott Seation, Sarah Best, Lua Groff and Erin Langford of Human Technologies Inc. earned the Certification for Staffing Professionals. Participants completed a five-week training session to further expand their knowledge and expertise in the staffing industry.
MARKETING/PR
Blair Burke, Cole Vance and Amelia Marlowe joined Crawford Strategy as interns. Burke, a senior at Furman University, will serve as a marketing intern. She previously interned with L’Oreal in New York City. Vance, a senior at Furman, will assist the public relations team. He has previous internship experience in financial services and digital marketing. Marlowe, a senior at Clemson University, will focus on event planning. She previously interned with Clemson.
Jackson Marketing-Motorsports-Events hired Annie Lake as administrative assistant, Alyssa Guerrero as associate art director and Carrie Ann Culbertson as traffic intern. Lake has held multiple management roles and joins the team as the administrative assistant to Darrell Jackson, CEO of Jackson. Guerrero joined the team as associate art director after working with the creative department as a contract graphic designer. Culbertson will assist the traffic department with assigning, coordinating and closing client projects. During college, she spent a summer writing grants for Greenville County.
Complete Public Relations hired Kaitlyn Hudson as a public relations representative. Hudson previously worked as a business development representative at SYNNEX. She interned at Complete Public Relations in 2012 during her time at Newberry College.
Infinity Marketing hired Shannon Kohn as social media strategist. Kohn has more than 20 years of professional experience and has worked with clients in a variety of industries, including grocery, healthcare and telecommunications. She previously worked as a senior online community and social media strategist at Brains on Fire. She also served as a community management team trainer and mentor.
EDUCATION
University of South Carolina Upstate’s alumni relations director Charlianne Wyatt Nestlen was appointed as secretary of the South Carolina Association of Alumni Directors. Nestlen is a 2003 graduate of USC Upstate, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in communications.
