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JEWISH
FEDERATION ELECTS HARRIS AS PRESIDENT
HARVEY HARRIS
president,
Jewish Federation of St. Louis |
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Community leader and attorney, Harvey Harris, has been named president
of the Jewish Federation of St. Louis. A managing partner at The
Stolar Partnership, Harris has been a Federation board member and
held numerous leadership positions for more than 30 years. He has
served the Federation as Vice President of Planning and Financial
Planning, as Treasurer, and has been active on the Endowment, Invest-
ment and Budget Committees. In 1968, he received the Grosberg Young
Leadership Award.
In addition, Harris chairs the Board of Commissioners of Metro,
serves as chair emeritus of KETC-TV and chair of the St. Louis Chapter
– American Red Cross. He currently serves on the boards of the St.
Louis Science Center, American Jewish Committee, Barnes Jewish Hospital,
and the St. Louis Symphony. Harris is a partner in Fox Associates,
which owns and operates the Fox Theatre and Fox Theatricals, winners
of three Tony Awards.
STARR NAMED MANAGING PRINCIPAL OF SUELTHAUS
& WALSH
HELMUT
STARR
managing principal,
Suelthaus & Walsh P.C. |
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Helmut Starr has been named managing principal of the law firm Suelthaus
& Walsh P.C. Former Managing Principal Stuart Zimbalist, who served
the firm for eight years, will remain on the firm’s executive committee.
Zimbalist will also continue as the chair of the firm’s Real Estate
Development, Management & Financing Practice Group.
Starr has practiced commercial litigation and trial work since 1985,
chairs the Municipal and Public Law Practice Group, and has been
a member of the firm’s Executive Committee since 2001. He serves
as the City Attorney for Webster Groves and Oakland, Mo. Starr joined
Suelthaus & Walsh, P.C., as an associate in 1989 and became a principal
of the firm in 1993. He is a graduate of Washington University School
of Law and the University of Missouri–Columbia.
ROSEN JOINS FOLLMAN PROPERTIES
JUDY
ROSEN
vice president and director
of residential services,
Follman Properties•ONCOR International
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Follman Properties•ONCOR International recently appointed Judy Rosen,
CMCA, AMS, PCAM, as vice president and director of residential services.
She will oversee management of about 2,200 residential units including
condominiums, town homes, villas and homeowner association in St.
Louis and St. Charles counties.
With 25 years of residential property experience Rosen previously
served as community manager at THF Realty/The Plaza in Clayton.
She succeeds Ruth Barnes, CMCA, who retired at the end of August.
UNITED WAY APPOINTS GRAESSER AS CFO
KENNETH
GRAESSER, CPA
chief financial officer,
United Way of Greater St. Louis |
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The United Way of Greater St. Louis has named Kenneth Graesser,
CPA, as chief financial officer. Previously, Graesser served as
controller, retail operations, at Wabash National Corp. As CFO,
Graesser directs all financial activities for the local United Way
office, which supports more than 200 health and human services organizations
in the city of St. Louis and 15 adjacent Missouri and Illinois counties.
COLEMAN NAMED FELLOW OF THE INTERNATIONAL
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL
The International Economic Development Council (IEDC), the nation’s
largest economic development professional association, has named
St. Louis County Economic Council President and CEO Denny Coleman
as a Fellow Member. The organization’s Fellow Member designation
is awarded to members who have attained high regard and status in
the field of economic development.
“Denny Coleman has been essential to St. Louis County’s considerable
success in creating jobs, bringing in new businesses and diversifying
our economic base as a foundation for future growth,” said Buzz
Westfall, St. Louis County executive. “His work has made a significant
contribution to the quality of life for all in St. Louis County.”
Coleman began his economic development career in 1975 as a founder
and executive director of the De Sales Community Housing Corporation,
a not-for-profit organization that promotes development in the Fox
Park and Tower Grove East neighborhoods of St. Louis. In 1982, he
joined Mercantile Bank as vice president of community development.
Coleman’s efforts in this role were instrumental in winning Mercantile
Bank two national economic development awards: the White House’s
Private Sector Initiatives Award and the U.S. Department of Housing
and Urban Developmen’s National Fair Housing Award. Prior to joining
the St. Louis County Economic Council in 1990 as president and CEO,
Coleman served in a similar role for the City of St. Louis as executive
director for the Economic Development Corporation.
THE DANIEL AND HENRY CO. PROMOTES MCLAUGHLIN
JOHN
MCLAUGHLIN
senior vice president,
The Daniel & Henry Co. |
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The Daniel & Henry Co. has announced the promotion of John McLaughlin
to senior vice president. The largest independent brokerage firm
in St. Louis, D&H is the 37th largest privately owned insurance
brokerage firm in the country.
MIDWEST BANKCENTRE WELCOMES DYER AS REGIONAL
PRESIDENT
FRED
DYER
regional president–St. Charles,
Midwest BankCentre |
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Fred C. Dyer III, a commercial banker with 20 years experience in
the St. Louis and St. Charles markets, has joined Midwest BankCentre
as regional president–St. Charles region.
Most recently, Dyer was the regional president directing St. Charles
County operations and middle market services at U.S. Bank. Also,
he was previously associated with Firstar, Mercantile and Mark Twain
Banks, where he started his career.
Dyer will continue Midwest BankCentre’s focus on serving St. Charles
County businesses and residents. Midwest BankCentre introduced a
unique bank design and service delivery style to the community with
the August 2002 opening of its WingHaven® bank.
MARSH JOINS ENTERPRISE FINANCIAL AS ST.
LOUIS BANK PRESIDENT
STEVE
MARCH
president of Enterprise
Banking of St. Louis,
Enterprise Financial
Services Corp. |
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Enterprise Financial Services Corp., the holding company for Enterprise
Banking and Enterprise Trust, has appointed Stephen Marsh as president
of Enterprise Banking of St. Louis. Marsh also will serve as the
senior loan officer for the St. Louis bank group, reporting to Peter
Benoist, chairman and CEO of Enterprise Banking. In addition to
his lending responsibilities, Marsh will be responsible for leading
the middle market bank group for Enterprise in St. Louis and will
serve as head of the Clayton unit.
Prior to joining Enterprise, Marsh served as president and senior
loan officer of Southwest Bank, where he began his career in 1984.
At Southwest, now owned by Marshall & IIsley Corp. of Milwaukee,
he managed the commercial real estate department from 1984 to 1992.
In 1992, Marsh was appointed senior loan officer and in 1999 was
named president.
LARSONALLEN ELEVATES TWO TO PRINCIPAL IN
ST. LOUIS
LarsonAllen (Larson, Allen, Weishair & Co., LLP) has promoted to
principal. Curt Mayse in the Health Care division and Scott Strothkamp
in the Auto Dealers division.
Founded in 1953, LarsonAllen’s certified public accountants and
advisors operate four offices in Minnesota, as well St. Louis, Philadelphia,
and Charlotte, N.C.
FORMER KPMG EXECUTIVE RECRUITED AS RCGA
VICE PRESIDENT
Following a several month local and national search, Richard Linder
has been recruited as RCGA Vice President for Industry Sector Development.
Richard comes to the RCGA following recent completion of his Master’s
degree in Business Administration at the Harvard Business School
and studying at the Kennedy School of Public Policy.
A native Missourian, he worked for KPMG in St. Louis for five years,
serving the Emerson account; he was then promoted to KPMG’s Transaction
Services Group in Zurich, Switzerland. There, he served as the Global
Accounts Manager for ABB, a $30 billion industrial conglomerate.
Richard worked directly for ABB’s CFO and led teams in modeling
operational and revenue projections for acquisition targets, and
worked with ABB’s engineers in evaluating technology feasibilities.
In his new RCGA role, Richard is working for RCGA Senior Vice President
for Economic Development Bob Coy in managing the Technology Gateway
Council, as well as leading efforts to advance industry cluster
initiatives for the RCGA (in plant and life sciences, IT, and advanced
manufacturing).
In 1998, Richard attended the Goethe Institute in Munich, Germany
where he participated in “super-intensive” culture and language
courses. He formed Linder Consulting and continued serving clients
in both Zurich and Istanbul prior to beginning studies at the Harvard
Business School in 2000.
While at Harvard, Richard also studied at the Kennedy School of
Public Policy, in addition to completing his MBA. He performed a
comparative analysis of environments created by Ireland and peer
countries in their efforts to capture the “biotech cluster”. The
results of the study were referenced in the Irish Times and
covered by other European papers. He and his team were runners up
in the annual Harvard Business School Business Plan Competition.
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