People in Action


Published on Friday, December 07, 2007



New Hires

The Planning Center hired


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Southwestern Business Financing Corporation hired

RE/MAX hired two new commercial real estate agents.

Sunstreet Mortgage, LLC increased its residential mortgage origination team by hiring three new employees.

 

Appointments

Annie Kennedy

Ruth Brinkley

The Pima Community College Board of Governors has appointed

The Arizona BioIndustry Association named

The board of directors for Ionatron, Inc. appointed

 

Elections

Tucson Commercial Real Estate Women elected its 2008 Board of Directors. Those elected are:

 

Awards, honors, and recognitions

Keith Hudson

 

Raquel Goodrich as a community planner and project manager. Prior to working at The Planning Center, Goodrich spent nearly two years as an information manager for the Maine Department of Conservation.Kimberly Stine as its first Tucson-based business development officer. Stine comes to SBFC with an extensive background in banking center management, having worked previously at both Chase Bank and Bank One. Terry Wintz joined the company’s River Road office as a residential and commercial specialist. And commercial specialist, Bob Jones, also joined the company’s River Road office. Phaedra Wilson joined Sunstreet as a senior mortgage advisor. Wilson was previously with First Magnus as a mortgage loan officer. Jane Penttinen joined as a senior mortgage advisor. Penttinen was previously an underwriting manager and has been in the mortgage lending industry since 1980. And Lori J. Gross also joined Sunstreet as a senior mortgage advisor. Gross was with First Magnus as a mortgage advisor for the last 10 years. has been appointed to the newly created position of Muscular Dystrophy Association’s vice president of advocacy. Kennedy, former director of MDA’s ALS Division, has represented the Association on a number of task forces, boards and federal committees. Kennedy started with MDA in 1998 as a case aide in the Baltimore district office in Towson, Md., after having served as an MDA summer camp volunteer for 10 years. is the new president and CEO for Carondelet Health Network in Tucson, and West Ministry Market Leader for Ascension Health. Brinkley brings more than 30 years of healthcare experience – including more than 20 years of Catholic healthcare experience – to her new roles. Brinkley comes to Carondelet from Catholic Health Initiatives where she has worked for the last nine years, including five years as president and CEO of Memorial Health Care System in Chattanooga, Tenn. Christal M. Albrecht as president of the Desert Vista Campus. The Desert Vista Campus serves approximately 6,500 students annually. She previously, was the vice president for Student Learning with Cy-Fair College in Cypress, Texas since 2001. Natascha Hebell-Fernando the association’s chief operating officer. Hebell-Fernando joins AZ Bio from the Arizona Department of Commerce, where she most recently served as the Arizona Small Business Advocate and executive director of the Governor’s Council on Small Business. Dana Marshall as Chairman of the Board. Marshall will also retain his current responsibilities as chief executive officer and president. David Hurley, Ionatron’s Chairman since March 2006, will assume the role of lead independent director. Diana Dessy, president; Eileen Lewis, president-elect; Deborah Darcia, secretary; Sandy Jackson, treasurer; Lesli Pintor, past president; Gerrie Durkin, Gloria Jackson, Jana Long, Kathryn Ludwig, Jane McCollum, Teresa Scott-Gordon and Denise Yardy, were elected as directors. , Director of Architecture for GLHN Architects and Engineers, Inc., received a Juror Citation in the "Best Professional Hand" category of the 2007 Ken Roberts Memorial Delineation Competition. Hudson’s entry placed third among professional hand-drawn entries and is featured on the competition website at: http://www.krobarch.com/. There were 712 entries.

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