HIRES/PROMOTIONS
MAKAYLA SCHALLER
New job title: Partner
Company: AWD of Savannah
Related work experience: Schaller joined AWD in 2011 and has over 35 years experience in the furniture and woodworking industry.
LAUREN R. DENMARK
New job title: Sales and marketing
Company: Office Services
Duties: Denmark will sell and design office furniture environments that are functional, comfortable, visually appealing and budget conscious.
Education: Denmark holds a bachelor of business administration degree with emphasis in entrepreneurship and small business from Georgia Southern University.
RACHEL ANSLEY HODGE
New job title: Executive director
Company: ECO in in Hendersonville, N.C.
Education: Hodge received a bachelor of science in environmental science from Georgia College and a master of science in environmental planning from Florida State University.
KAREN DAISS
New job title: Director of corporate advancement
Company: Senior Citizens, Inc.
Duties: Daiss will oversee all revenue-generating efforts with a focus on business development opportunities. She will direct and implement fundraising efforts to include major and individual donors, corporate, and foundation fundraising and will serve as liaison to the community.
Related work experience: Daiss was director of marketing and development at Senior Citizens, Inc. She also worked as a writer and editor for the Savannah Morning News.
Education: Daiss has a B.A. in English communications from Armstrong Atlantic State University.
KELLY APPLEGATE
New job title: Director of marketing
Company: Senior Citizens, Inc.
Duties: Applegate will promote grant-funded and private-pay programs as well as special events and volunteer opportunities.
Related work experience: Applegate owns Applegate Design, a graphic design and advertising company, was creative director at an advertising agency and was art director at Belk Stores headquarters in Charlotte, N.C.
Education: Applegate received a B.S. in graphic design and a B.A. in marketing from Iowa State University.
ISABEL PAULEY
New job title: Prosecutor
Company: Chatham County District Attorney’s Office
Duties: Pauley will work on Judge Karpf’s Superior Court Trial Team in the newly formed Major Crimes Division.
Related work experience: Pauley served in the Atlantic Judicial Circuit. From 2000-2011, she was with the Chatham County DA’s Office and served on both State and Superior Court trial teams.
Education: Pauley earned her B.A. at the University of Virginia and her Juris Doctorate at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, VA.
TAMEIKA PORTER
New job title: Director of Operations
Company: West Broad Street YMCA
Related work experience: For the past six years Porter worked with the Upward Bound Program at Georgia Southern University, and she served as Director over the Kingdom Builders Tutoring Program, which is affiliated with Bethesda House Outreach Ministries.
Education: Porter graduated from Georgia Southern University with a bachelors of science in secondary education and with a masters in public administration, with an emphasis in nonprofit management.
HONORS/AWARDS
Steward Center for Palliative Care names officers
The board of directors of Hospice Savannah, Inc. approved the following officers to serve through March 2014:
• Dr. James David Baxter, president
• Sheri Estes, vice president
• Dr. Kathleen Deloach Benton, secretary/treasurer
Hospice Savannah Foundation, Inc. names officers
The annual meeting of The Hospice Savannah Foundation, Inc. was held on Thursday, March 28. The board of trustees approved the following officers to serve through March 2014:
• Samuel B. Adams, chair
• Amy Webb Peirsol, vice chair
• Myron Kaminsky, secretary/treasurer
Hospice Savannah, Inc. names officers
The annual meeting of Hospice Savannah, Inc. was held on Thursday, March 28. The board of directors approved the following officers to serve through March 2014:
• William A. Baker, Jr., chair
• Myra Hill, chair-elect
• E. B. (Zeke) Gaines, III, secretary
• Paul Meyer, treasurer
• Dr. Ramon Meguiar, member-at-large
• Kacey Ratterree, past chair