Blackwell
to Lead St. Louis IBM Team
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Joyce Blackwell
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In addition
to her responsibilities as director of Global and Americas Customer
Satisfaction, Joyce Blackwell's new role as senior location
executive for IBM St. Louis operations designates her as an
IBM ambassador to St. Louis. She serves as the link between
the company, which employs 1,300 in St. Louis and 300,000 worldwide,
and the local community.
Blackwell has more than 20 years of experience in St. Louis
in management, sales, consulting, project management and systems
programming. In addition to her role as chairperson for IBM
Days of Caring, Blackwell is active in many community organizations
including: the St. Louis Science Center, Marygrove, the United
Way and St. Louis Public Schools.
Rezich
Promoted to CFO at Kupper Parker Communications
John Rezich, executive vice president of Mergers & Acquisitions
for Kupper Parker Communications (KPC), has been promoted to
chief financial officer of the integrated communications company.
With more
than 20 years of experience starting up and expanding companies,
Rezich played a significant role in the recently announced reverse
merger between KPC and Greenstone Roberts in New York. In his
new position as CFO, Rezich manages the day-to-day financial
operations of the agency as well as continue searching for more
opportunities to expand KPC in the United States and abroad.
A St. Louis
native, Rezich has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from
Northwestern University and a master's degree in accounting
from the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Sprint
Names Dixon Area VP
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Kim Dixon
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Kim Dixon was named Sprint PCS vice president for the
Kansas City, Mo.; St. Louis; Wichita; and Topeka, Kan. markets.
In her new position, Dixon oversees the sales, marketing, distribution
and operations of Sprint PCS' digital wireless phone service
in those areas.
Prior to
her appointment to area vice president, Dixon was the Sprint
PCS senior director of sales and marketing operations for the
Chicago market. She began her career with Sprint PCS in 1996
as area director of marketing in Dallas, where she later served
as district sales manager for the company. She began her telecommunications
career in 1989 as a member of a 15-person sales and marketing
team sent to Argentina to improve the profitability of GTE's
cellular operation for GTE Mobilnet, Inc.
Dixon has
a master's degree in marketing from Pennsylvania State University
in University Park, Pa.
Variety
Club Elects Three New Board Members
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Gloria Waters White
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Gloria
Waters White, Steven N. Cousins, Des Lee and
Thelma Steward have been elected to Variety Club's board
of directors to serve three-year terms.
White, vice chancellor emerita of Washington University, has
a history of service in the community since her retirement from
the University in 1997. White retired as vice chancellor of
human resources after serving 30 years in several different
administrative positions.
Above:
Steven N. Cousins
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Cousins,
partner at Armstrong, Teasdale LLP, is founder and chairman
of the company's financial restructuring, reorganization and
bankruptcy department. He was the first African American to
join the firm, the youngest person to ever head a department
and was recently elected to the firm's executive committee.
Above:
Des Lee
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Lee, one
of the community's most celebrated philanthropists, has displayed
his dedication to improving education in the St. Louis area
through his endowment of 17 professorships in perpetuity at
the University of Missouri - St. Louis and Washington University.
Most recently,
Lee established a connection with the St. Louis Variety Club
through the endowment of a professorship for children with disabilities.
This professorship will strengthen teaching, research and collaborative
community programs that promote education, and provide services
and resources to children with disabilities.
In addition
to his active involvement in education, Lee is a member of the
board of directors of 12 nonprofit organizations.
Lee, founder
of the Lee/Rowan Company, graduated from Washington University
Business School.
Steward,
a registered nurse, takes an active role in a number of civic
and church organizations. She is a member of Charitable Women's
Inc. and the League Larks. She and her husband, David Steward,
of World Wide Technology, Inc., are both actively involved in
the Union Memorial Methodist Church and are Sunday school teachers.
Castellano Nominated for AICPA Post
James
G. Castellano, CPA, managing partner of Rubin, Brown, Gornstein
& Co. LLP (RBG&Co.), has been nominated to serve as vice chair
of the board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
(AICPA). Headquartered in New York City, AICPA is the premier
professional organization of CPA's with more than 330,000 members
in public practice, business and industry, government and education.
Since 1989,
Castellano has been at the helm of RBG&Co., the largest locally
owned accounting and consulting firms in St. Louis and is listed
among the Top 50 accounting firms in the country. Castellano
will be the first Missouri representative to hold the AICPA
position.
Castellano
notes that the accounting profession has undergone significant
changes since he first joined the AICPA in 1976, including an
ever-increasing emphasis on strategic business and technology
consulting services.
"Our clients
are working in a fast-moving, dynamic business environment,
with many of them selling products and services worldwide,"
Castellano says. As their most trusted business advisors, CPAs
need to be several steps ahead of where and how their clients
are doing business today, helping lay a foundation of technology,
systems and services to serve their customers, suppliers, markets,
investors and employees well into the future.
Castellano
has served the AICPA in numerous capacities, including as a
former member of the board of directors and as a member of its
council. He has chaired several national committees, including
those on the Management of Accounting Practice and Future Issues.
He also served as chairman of the Technical Issues Committee
and as a member of the Executive Committee for Private Companies
Practice Section. He currently serves on the AICPA's Continuing
Professional Education Executive Committee.
Mooney,
Kennedy Join HBE
With more
than 18 years of experience in project administration and construction
management, Thomas Mooney has joined HBE Financial Facilities
as vice president-project development. The division is involved
in hundreds of projects nationwide.
Mooney works
with project developers and owners from concept through facility
construction. His responsibilities also include contract and
government agency negotiation as well as the coordination of
HBE architecture, planning and engineering resources.
Mooney has
a bachelor's degree in civil engineering from the University
of Missouri-Rolla and is a member of the national civil engineering
fraternity.
In other
appointments, Thomas Kennedy has joined HBE Corporation
as a vice president responsible for health care facility sales.
He represents HBE's design-build services to hospital and health
care organizations in the southeastern United States.
Kennedy
has more than 22 years of experience in hospital and corporate
health care management, and health care facility design and
construction. He held a similar position with HBE from 1988
to 1995 when he represented health care facility design and
construction services to institutions in the upper Midwest and
southwestern United States.
Kennedy
brings to HBE a record of accomplishments in hospital management,
board/medical staff and employee/community relations, strategic
planning, financial performance, corporate affairs and consulting.
The West St. Louis County resident has a master's degree in
health-care administration from Trinity University in San Antonio,
Texas.
St. Louis
Bar Foundation Names Officers, New Board Members
Carol Chazen Friedman, a Clayton attorney and former president
of The Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis, has been elected
president of the St. Louis Bar Foundation. In other appointments,
Dennis J. Capriglione, a Creve Coeur attorney, was elected vice
president; Howard A. Shalowitz was elected secretary; Robert
M. Sears was re-elected treasurer; and James M. Niemann will
serve as Young Lawyers Division representative.
Since its
inception in 1956, the St. Louis Bar Foundation has funded hundreds
of law-related projects and services, scholarships, conferences
and educational programming to benefit the legal profession,
the public and administration of the justice system.
Also appointed
to the board to serve three-year terms are Jean C. Hamilton,
Joseph E. Birk and G. Harley Blosser.
Founded
in 1956, The St. Louis Bar Foundation serves the educational,
professional and practice needs of the organized bar and provides
a broad range of programs and community services.
Ziercher
& Hocker Appoints First Director of Administration
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Debbie A. Schneider
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Debbie
A. Schneider has been appointed director of administration
at the oldest law firm in St. Louis County, Ziercher & Hocker,
P.C., founded in 1935.
Schneider
has been with the Clayton firm for three years, most recently
as legal administrator. She also has experience in accounting,
human resources and overall law firm management.
Schneider
is active in the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) and
currently serves as the treasurer of the local chapter. She
chaired the secretarial task force committee, which produced
a handbook for local administrators on how to hire, train and
retain legal secretaries. She also has served on the salary
survey committee. She has provided legal consulting services
to small law firms related to the need for a legal administrator
and partner compensation plans.
Irwin
Union Appoints VP-Private Banking
Irwin Union
Bank expands its locally managed financial service presence
in the St. Louis area, Christi Capellupo was appointed vice
president-private banking of the Brentwood financial institution.
In her new role, she manages the creation of the bank's private
banking division in the area.
She spent
the last 10 years in a variety of key positions at Mercantile
Bank and has an MBA from Webster University in St. Louis.
Neuman
Named Managing Partner of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman
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Sanford S. Neuman
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Sanford
S. Neuman, one of the founding members of the St. Louis
law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C., has been elected
managing partner of the firm. Founded in 1976, Gallop, Johnson
& Neuman is the largest law firm in St. Louis County and one
of the largest in St. Louis, with 67 attorneys. He succeeds
Randy S. Gerber who has served as managing partner for more
than 10 years.
"All of
our law practices require a great deal of time and attention,
so we like to periodically rotate this position as well as members
on the law firmÕs management committee," Neuman says. "Randy
has done a wonderful job for the firm and has contributed greatly
to our profitability and growth. Now he can devote his full
attention to his role as chairman of our fast-growing health-care
practice."
Neuman,
an adjunct professor of tax law at the Washington University
School of Law, represents corporations and owners of closely
held corporations in numerous types of tax-related business
transactions and issues, including acquisitions and sales, executive
compensation and business succession planning. He also represents
clients before the Internal Revenue Service and provides estate-planning
services to business owners and other clients.
Before entering
private practice, Neuman spent more than five years as a trial
attorney with the Internal Revenue Service's Office of Chief
Counsel in Boston and Louisville. He received his juris doctor
from the Washington University School of Law and has a master's
of law degree in taxation from the New York University School
of Law.
Tzingberg
Named CFO at Kranson Industries
Neil
Tzingberg, a former partner with the accounting firm of
Lopata, Flegel & Company, has been appointed chief financial
officer for Kranson Industries. His main objectives are to help
the company continue its record of profitable growth and help
manage all critical financial areas of the businesses.
Tricorbraun
(Kranson's principal operating company) is the world's largest
designer and distributor of rigid packaging. Headquartered in
St. Louis, Tricorbraun has 28 offices and warehouses coast to
coast.
Tzingberg
was with Lopata and its predecessor for 23 years and was one
of five founders of the company. His association with Northwestern
Bottle Company (predecessor of Tricorbraun) began as an independent
auditor in 1980. For the past 10 years he has been a financial
advisor to Kranson.
Moorkamp
Promoted to VP, General Counsel of The DESCO Group
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Mary H. Moorkamp
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As the
newly promoted vice president and general counsel of The DESCO
Group, Mary H. Moorkamp, manages all legal affairs for
St. Louis' largest retail property management firm. Moorkamp
joined DESCO in 1998 as real estate counsel, providing legal
services for the company's and its client's real estate holdings.
Prior to
joining DESCO, Moorkamp was in private practice for 11 years,
specializing in real estate and corporate law. She has a law
degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Law.
Arts
& Sciences at Washington University Presents Alumni Awards;
Dean's Medal
Arts & Sciences
at Washington University presented distinguished alumni awards
to six Arts & Sciences alumni who have attained distinction
in their academic or professional careers and have demonstrated
services to their communities and to Washington University.
Ted Drewes,
owner of Ted Drewes Frozen Custard, which his father founded
in 1929, makes it his business to donate to charity and support
education. The former economics major in Arts & Sciences, donates
frozen custard to local fundraisers and to Boy's Hope, a catholic
charity, and actively supports Shriner's causes and children's
hospitals. He is well known for his generosity, offering $3,000-a-year-scholarships
to encourage his college student employees to stay in school.
Carol
Tucker Foreman, a legend in American agriculture circles,
has an international reputation as a consumer advocate and food
policy expert. For more than 25 years, she has worked at the
highest levels of government and advocacy organizations to ensure
that Americans have an adequate supply of safe, nutritious and
affordable food. The political science major in Arts & Sciences
also founded the Safe Food Coalition, which persuaded the U.S.
Department of Agriculture to update its meat and poultry inspection
system and to upgrade inspection of domestic and imported produce.
John
Gianoulakis, a founding partner in the St. Louis law firm
of Kohn, Shands, Elbert, Gianoulakis & Gilijum LLP, is a highly
respected lawyer and a fellow of the American College of Trail
Lawyers, an invitation-only organization comprising one percent
of the nation's attorneys.
From 1983
to 1999 he served as negotiator, then lead attorney, for St.
Louis County school districts in the interdistrict desegregation
case, the largest voluntary interdistrict transfer case of its
kind in the country.
He is a
political science major in Arts & Sciences at Washington University
and a1963 Harvard Law school graduate.
Winifred
Bryan Horner has been described as a "heroine in rhetoric
and composition." Before her second retirement in 1996, she
had a distinguished career at two universities as master teacher,
expert on 18th and 19th century Scottish rhetoric, and author
of 13 books and many articles. Among the 15 awards she has received
is Rhetorician of the Year in 1997 from the Young Rhetoricians'
Society. At age 50, she began her doctoral studies at the University
of Michigan, receiving that degree in 1975.
Jeffrey
Hunt Mantel has been a successful senior executive with
expertise in global business management, product development,
systems design, and derivatives trading and risk management
for several international firms. Last year, Mantel became vice
president of produce management for Buckaroo.com, a California-based
Internet start-up company building an electronic exchange for
trading manufactured commodities.
Mantel is
also an avid traveler and world-class explorer, participating
in seven expeditions to the North Pole and the Canadian and
Greenland Arctic. A mathematics major at Washington University,
he earned a doctorate in mathematics at Northwestern University
and has endowed an Arts & Sciences scholarship in mathematics.
Elizabeth
Gentry Sayad, a musician by training, is a devoted civic
leader and volunteer with a special focus on the arts. She has
led the arts community in various roles: founding president
of the New Music Circle, charter member of the Missouri Arts
Council and the Regional Arts Commission, and advisory commissioner
of the Saint Louis Art Museum. She will chair the 2004 Bicentennial
Ball for the Louisiana Purchase.
The Dean's
Medal was awarded to Richard A. Roloff, executive vice
chancellor of Washington University, for his support and dedication
to Arts & Sciences. All of the recent construction and renovation
at the university has been under the purview of Roloff, a 1951
Washington University graduate with a degree in industrial engineering.
He has guided
the construction of McDonnell Hall, the Psychology Building
and new student dormitories; the complete renovation of Duncker,
Brookings and Eads Halls, as well as the updating of many other
buildings; and the groundbreaking for the new Laboratory Science
Building. He also oversees the entire administrative functioning
of the University.
Wal-Mart
Marketing Exec Joins CPG
Kevin
Breeding has joined Creative Producers Group (CPG) as vice
president of production and client services. As the former director
of advertising for Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer in
the world, Breeding was responsible for creative services, including
worldwide television advertising, international conventions
and marketing for international expansion.
In this
newly created position at CPG, Breeding is responsible for leading
the production division encompassing meetings, events, interactive
multimedia and Internet development.
"Kevin's
experience with creative strategy will be a real asset for CPG,"
says Keith Alper, president of the full-service creative, production
and marketing services agency. "His talent will be invaluable
as we continue to grow, add clients and work with more Fortune
500 companies."
