JANE GRISMER
New job title: Project Manager
Company: Abshire Public Relations
Duties: Grismer will oversee all projects from start to finish. She will also work with clients to complete projects by outlining required resources, scope, budget and timing.
Related Experience: Grismer worked as an executive assistant at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force and has 25 years of executive administration experience. She also worked with Grey Advertising and Tishman Speyer Properties in N.Y.
Education: Grismer earned her associate’s degree in liberal studies from Nassau Community College in Garden City, N.Y.
LYNDSAY DUNNING
New job title: Direct Care/House Manager
Company: The Living Vine Christian Maternity Home
Duties: Dunning will be responsible for direct care of residents, public relations and publication design.
Related Experience: Dunning completed an internship with Missions Work.
Education: Education: She holds a B.A. in English/Professional Communications from Armstrong Atlantic State University.
DANIELLE SWIFT
New job title: Project manager
Company: J.T. Turner Construction
Related Experience: Swift has more than 12 years of experience in the field of construction, and worked with J.T. Turner Construction as a superintendent from 2006 to 2008 working on such notable projects as the William F. Brantley House, a recipient of a Preservation Award from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.
Education: She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a bachelor of fine arts in historic preservation and a bachelors of architecture. She also earned her master of architecture from SCAD in 2004.
MATT POUND
New job title: Pre-owned sales consultant
Company: OC Welch Ford Lincoln
Duties: Pound will help potential buyers find vehicles.
Related Experience: Pound has almost two decades of experience in the Coastal Empire, Lowcountry and Atlanta regions.
Education: He holds a Ford and Lincoln Sales certification.
MARK PENICK
New job title: Pre-owned sales consultant
Company: OC Welch Ford Lincoln
Duties: Penick will help potential buyers find vehicles.
Related Experience: He has 29 years of automotive industry experience.
Education: Penick holds a Ford and Lincoln certification.
ROSELINE DIKE
New job title: Sales team
Company: Coldwell Banker Platinum Partners
Duties: Dike specializes in new and older homes in Savannah and Pooler.
Education: She has a B.A. from Savannah State, an MHS from Capella University and a BBS from Armstrong Atlantic State University.
SUSAN MONDELLO
New job title: District manager
Company: Parker’s
Duties: Mondello will oversee all Statesboro, Metter and Lyons markets. She will be responsible for maintaining the Parker’s brand and overseeing daily operations.
Related Experience: Mondello began working with Parker’s in 2010. She has studied psychology, ethics and leadership management.
ROBERT SCHREITMUELLER
New job title: Chief operating officer
Company: WebsterRogers
Duties: Schreitmueller will be responsible for overall management and assisting partners with achieving strategic goals.
Related Experience: Schreitmueller spent the past five years as the chief operating officer of a regional accounting, consulting and technology services provider.
Education: Schreitmueller is a graduate of Southern Connecticut State University and holds an MBA from the University of New Haven in West Haven, Conn.
WALTER CHAPPAS
New job title: Director of advanced materials
Company: Herty Advanced Materials Development Center
Duties: Chappas will lead Herty’s contract manufacturing and contract research and development in wet-laid nonwovens, composites and new product development.
Related Experience: He was on the faculty of the University of Maryland’s Department of Materials and Nuclear Engineering and was director of the university’s laboratory for radiation and polymer science and radiation engineering facilities.
Education: He has a Ph.D. in nuclear engineering from the University of Maryland.
LENARD T. ROBINSON
New job title: Director of landside facilities
Company: Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
Duties: Robinson oversees and is responsible for the planning, organizing, directing, coordinating and controlling all activities related to facility services to include building maintenance, grounds maintenance, custodial maintenance and equipment maintenance in addition to landside operations, which include parking and ground transportation.
Education: He holds an associates of science, computer engineering technology from Savannah State University and a bachelor of science, computer science from Savannah State University.
JOHN F. RAUBACK
New job title: Assistant executive director
Company: Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
Duties: Rauback assists the executive director in all work of the Savannah Airport Commission in whatever respect and plans, schedules, assigns and supervises the work of a staff in carrying on the fiscal, purchasing, personnel, operations and related administrative activities as established by the policy of the airport commission; assists the executive director in developing and formulating policy both on long-term and short-term programs.
Education: He holds an associate of arts from University of Florida, bachelor of science in business administration from University of Central Florida and masters in business administration from University of Central Florida. He received AAAE certification in April 2013.
ANDREW C. SINGHAS
New job title: Senior airport operations manager
Company: Company: Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport
Duties: Singhas ensures compliance with airport issues, contracts, FAA FAR Part 139, CFR 1500 series as well as applicable local, state, and other federal regulations. During non-business hours of operation, he acts as the senior airport representative on duty and is the designated point of contact for information regarding safety, security, compliance, construction, maintenance and interaction with airlines, passengers and tenants.
FRED BRICKETTO
New job title: Area Manager for the Georgia Division
Company: Mungo Homes
Duties: Bricketto has experience in the homebuilding industry and will oversee all operations in the Savannah market, including land procurement, construction and sales.
Education: Bricketto is a licensed residential homebuilder in Georgia and South Carolina, a licensed real estate broker in South Carolina and a graduate of Georgia Southern University.
MATTHEW KNIGHTON
New job title: Project manager
Company: J.T. Turner Construction
Duties: Knighton will work as a project manager at Palmetto Bluff in Bluffton.
Related Experience: Knighton has more than 15 years of experience in construction.
Education: A 2001 graduate of Wiregrass Georgia Technical College in Valdosta, Knighton graduated with a degree in advanced machine tool technology.
Dr. Harold Black to speak at sleep professionals meeting
Dr. Harold Black, DDS of Morrison Dental Associates, has been invited to speak on treatment of obstructive sleep apnea with oral appliance therapy at the Georgia Association of Sleep Professionals annual meeting on April 26 in Atlanta.
Black is the only dentist on the teaching faculty and will present a technical review of oral appliance therapy as a non-surgical treatment for sleep apnea. Black has practiced dentistry for more than 50 years and is considered the founding father of dental sleep medicine in Savannah.
Park Place Outreach names new board member
Park Place Outreach Youth Emergency Shelter, 514 Henry St., announces the addition of Todd Cellini, president of South University, Savannah, to their board. Cellini has been appointed to a three-year term.
Ryan Sewell receives Keystone Thoroughbred Award
Ryan Sewell, a vice president in commercial lines at Bernard Williams & Co. Insurance and Financial Services, is a recipient of the Keystone Thoroughbred Award. The honor, given by Keystone Insurers Group, recognizes the accomplishments of insurance sales executives that generate the highest sales numbers in new business for their respective states. Sewell is one of two Thoroughbred Award winners in Georgia.
Sports Council director named to national board
Ben Wilder, director of the Savannah Sports Council, a division of the Savannah Chamber of Commerce and Visit Savannah, has been selected as a board member with the National Association of Sports Commissions (NASC). Wilder has been a member of NASC for more than 10 years.
Lasky selected as ‘top lawyer’
Jeffrey W. Lasky, the senior litigation partner with Lasky Cooper Law, has been selected as a “2014 Top Rated Lawyer in Medical Malpractice Law.” In addition, Lasky has been selected for inclusion in the National Trial Lawyers: Top 100 Trial Lawyers organization in the area of Civil Plaintiff law for the State of Georgia.
McCorkle and McCoy named ‘Rising Star’ lawyers
McCorkle & Johnson, LLP announce that two of its partners have been recognized in Atlanta Magazine’s Super Lawyers 2014. Mathew M. McCoy and Robert L. McCorkle, III were recognized as Rising Stars.
The Steward Center elects board members, officers
Dr. David Baxter was named 2014-2015 chair of The Steward Center for Palliative Care at the organization’s March 25 annual meeting. Dr. Martin Greenberg was named vice chair, and Holden Hayes, was named secretary/treasurer.
Newly elected to three-year terms on the board are Dr. Nolan Cordill Moore and Dr. Ramon Meguiar.