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APPOINTED
Michael J. Spitzmiller
Appointed to the Board of Visitors for Clemson University by President James P. Clements. Spitzmiller is a commercial banking executive with South State Bank. He serves on the board of trustees of Thornblade Country Club, the board of Coaches for Character and the advisory board for the Greenville Chamber of Commerce.
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ELECTED
William T. Manson III
Named CEO of AnMed Health. Manson joined the AnMed Health executive team in 1981 and was named chief operating officer in 1998. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is chairman of the South Carolina Hospital Association board.
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HIRED
Ashley Boncimino
Named a staff writer for the Upstate Business Journal. Boncimino brings two years of business journalism experience covering technology, manufacturing, energy, real estate, entrepreneurship and economic development at Crain’s Chicago Business and GSA Business. She graduated from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism in Chicago.
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PROMOTED
Sharon Bryant
Named regional vice president of First Citizens BancShares’ two merging subsidiaries, First Citizens Bank and Trust Company Inc., and First Citizens Bank of North Carolina. Bryant will lead the bank’s South Carolina and Northeast Georgia markets. She most recently served as South Carolina banking executive for First Citizens Bank and Trust.
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PROMOTED
Matt Lochel
Promoted by Jeff Dezen Public Relations to senior account executive. Lochel will supervise day-to-day activity in the telecommunications, retirement living and financial services sectors. Lochel joined the JDPR team in March 2013 as an account executive after spending five years as a network news producer on the international desk at NBC News.
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Robert McCormick
Authored the book “Croatia Under Ante Pavelić: America, the Ustaše and Croatian Genocide,” published through I.B. Tauris & Co. Ltd. McCormick is chair of the Department of History, Political Science, Philosophy and American Studies at the University of South Carolina Upstate.
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AUTOMOTIVE
BMW Manufacturing named Franz Linner as vice president of its supplier network in the Americas and Johannes Trauth as vice president of human resources. Linner is responsible for supply chain partners throughout North and South America. In October, he joined the Spartanburg management team from Munich where he has served in various quality management, development and purchasing positions. Trauth arrived in South Carolina in early November to head up the plant’s human resources function. He was previously the head of compensation and benefits/job evaluation for BMW Group in Munich. Prior to joining BMW in 1999, Trauth worked with Rolls Royce GmbH as head of human resource management.
EDUCATION
David Feild was named to the alumni board of Furman University. Feild is Greenville market president for Colliers International. He is responsible for the management of the brokerage staff and the growth of the company’s sales, leasing, property management and project management business. Feild serves on Colliers International’s South Carolina statewide management group.
John Ballato was accepted into the pilot cohort of the Academy for Innovative Higher Education Leadership. Ballato is a Clemson University professor and senior administrator. He will be one of a select group of fellows across the nation who will help to shape the initiative hosted by the presidents of Arizona State University and Georgetown University to help solve problems facing higher education.
Antonis Katsiyannis, alumni distinguished professor of special education in Clemson University’s Eugene T. Moore School of Education, was named president-elect of the Council for Exceptional Children. Katsiyannis has been a member of the Clemson faculty since 1998, teaching courses in special education assessment, applied behavior analysis and legal and policy issues. He is president of the university’s Faculty Senate.
ENGINEERING
SynTerra hired John Haramut as a senior geologist. Haramut has 25 years of professional consulting experience, including the characterization and remediation of contaminated sites for government and industry across North America and Puerto Rico.
LEGAL
Melinda Davis Lux, a shareholder of Wyche P.A., was elected chair of the Private Equity Subcommittee of the American Bar Association (ABA) Business Law Committee on Taxation. She will be responsible for leading the subcommittee’s projects and programs, which focus on tax issues that arise in private equity transactions.
Will Gibbs joined the Greenville office of Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP as an associate. Gibbs will practice in the areas of emerging payment systems and mobile payments, data management and security, bank regulatory law, technology law and general corporate law. He previously worked as a law clerk for the firm in several different practice groups.
Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd P.A. added Pierce T. MacLennan as an associate. MacLennan focuses his practice on business and commercial litigation and construction litigation. Prior to joining Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd, he worked in the office of U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint and as a law clerk for the South Carolina House of Representatives Labor, Commerce and Industry Committee.
MEDICAL
David Forstein, a reproductive endocrinologist with Greenville Health System’s Fertility Center of the Carolinas and associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville, was appointed to serve on the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) board of directors. Forstein is one of the first doctors of osteopathic medicine in the nation to be appointed to the ACGME board.
The Health Industry Distributors Association (HIDA) awarded Brad Connett, vice president and general manager of Henry Schein Medical, the 2014 John F. Sasen Leadership Award. The award recognizes individuals who demonstrate leadership qualities, commitment and service to the health care products distribution industry. Since 2005, Connett has been a member of HIDA’s Board of Directors and served as its chairman in 2011.
NONPROFIT
The Center For Community Services named Andrew Ross as executive director. Ross previously worked for United Ministries Organization in Greenville as a case manager and in fundraising, securing over $1.5 million in grants, donations and gifts during his two years in that position. He also worked with New Horizons Family Health Services as a homeless outreach worker.
