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Coldwell
Banker Commercial American Spectrum Promotes Rachell To VP
Donita
Rachell |
Donita L. Rachell
has been promoted to vice president at Coldwell Banker Commercial
American Spectrum, which is responsible for the management, leasing
and sales of more than 50 million square feet of commercial, industrial
and retail properties and more than 12,000 apartments, condominiums
and homeowner association units.
Formerly the leasing manager for Coldwell Banker Commercial American
Spectrum, Rachell has more than 20 years experience in commercial
real estate. She primarily has focused on the leasing and sale
of office buildings, but also has experience in the sale of retail
and industrial properties and land.
Rachell has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Missouri–St.
Louis. She is former president of the Commercial Real Estate Women
of St. Louis (CREW) and treasurer and vice president of Building
Owners & Managers Association of St. Louis (BOMA).
MasterCard International Announces Two Senior VPs
MasterCard International has promoted two St. Louis employees
to executive positions as senior vice presidents.
Joan Kelly was promoted to senior vice president of systems
strategy and non-core development in MasterCard’s Global Technology
and Operations (GTO) division. A MasterCard employee for 10 years,
Kelly has overall responsibility for MasterCard’s Systems Enhancement
Strategy (SES) initiative and legacy project strategies. The SES
initiative is a global multi-year effort to upgrade core processing
systems with hardware and software technology enhancements to
deliver new functions, greater speed and more processing flexibility
to members.
Carolyn Koenig, who joined the company in 1996, was named
senior vice president of human resources in the people services
division. In her new role, she is responsible for global self-service
technology for human resources functions. Her team handles employee
relations, compensation, relocation and benefits at MasterCard’s
GTO headquarters, where she also oversees organizational development.
GTO retains more than 1,300 people who manage MasterCard’s worldwide
network and develop new systems that ensure payment acceptance
for cardholders globally.
RBG& Co. Names Two New Partners
Steven G. Newstead, CPA, FLMI, and Todd R. Pleimann, CPA,
have been promoted to partner at Rubin, Brown, Gornstein (RBG)
& Co. LLP.
Newstead, who joined RBG in January 1998, co-chairs the firm’s
consulting department and heads the internal auditing services
group. He has more than 25 years of business consulting experience.
A part-time accounting instructor at St. Louis Community College,
Newstead has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from
the University of Missouri–Columbia.
Pleimann, who joined RBG in 1990, is a member of the firm’s assurance
service group and specializes in providing accounting and consulting
services to manufacturing and distribution clients. He is a former
member of the board of directors and treasurer volunteer for the
Make-A-Wish Foundation of Metro St. Louis.
New Management Team Positions Fru-Con for Growth
In a move that broadens St. Louis-based Fru-Con Construction Corp’s
management expertise to better position it for growth, the company
has new leadership.
“This is the final stage of a plan that includes top-to-bottom
changes throughout the company,” says Bruce Frost, who
has moved to executive vice president of industrial engineering
and construction for Fru-Con. “Fru-Con is on track to meet business
volume goals of $450 million this year and will be profitable.
The new management organization enables us to maintain focus on
our core competency of engineering, construction and development,
while looking at other avenues for growth.”
As part of the second half of a two-stage plan that was put into
motion earlier this year, Peter Sanderson replaces Frost;
and Matti Jaekel replaces Paul Sauer as executive
vice president and chief financial officer of engineering and
construction. Sanderson comes to Fru-Con from Flatiron Structure
Co. LLC of Longmont, Colo., where he was president of civil divisions.
He now oversees Fru-Con’s future strategies.
Jaekel comes to Fru-Con from its parent company, Bilfinger + Berger.
He recently had been commercial director for all financial and
commercial aspects of a $450 million design-build project with
a sister company, Baulderstone Hornibrook in Sydney, Australia.
Sauer has moved to president of Fru-Con Development Corp. a subsidiary.
His main role is growing the company’s development business.
As part of the recent organizational changes, Fru-Con Engineering
also has centralized operations into two major operating divisions:
St. Louis-based operations and site-based engineering. Michael
Fogarty and Tom Ratliff both have been promoted to vice president
of operations for Fru-Con Engineering.
With more than 25 years of industrial manufacturing and consulting
engineering experience, Fogarty now oversees all site-based engineering
as well as start-up and training services. Ratliff, with
more than 30 years experience in diversified engineering design,
design-build and construction management, is now responsible for
all St. Louis-based engineering.
In other management changes, Fru-Con has named Andy Donnelli
vice president and manager of the special projects group.
He is responsible for a client-specific business unit designed
to focus on long-term relationships.
Michael
Fogarty
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Hampton Corporate Suites Founder Joins Women’s President Organization
Brenda Hampton, founder, president and CEO of Hampton Corporate
Suites (HCS), has been selected for membership in the St. Louis
chapter of the prestigious Women’s President Organization. Membership
is by invitation only and entrepreneurs must have earned $2 million
in annual sales for product driven firms and $1 million annually
for service driven firms.
The organization, one of 15 chapters nationally, meets once a
month and provides women business owners the opportunity to meet,
collaborate and share ideas. The primary focus of the monthly
sessions is business analysis, case studies and real life business
and personal issues.
The St. Louis-based company provides the corporate community,
both locally and nationally, with high quality furnished, extended-stay
executive accommodations. Founded in 1989, HCS is the oldest and
largest company of its type in the St. Louis community.
Finkelstein Appointed Executive Director of Leadership Council’s
Labor Management Committee
Marv
Finkelstein, Ph.D. |
The Leadership Council Southwestern Illinois announced that Marv
Finkelstein, Ph.D., has been appointed executive director
of the organization’s labor-management committee.
As executive director, Finkelstein helps plan, organize and carry
out activities designed to promote labor-management cooperation
in the region. He also writes and administers a grant to support
these activities.
In addition to his duties as executive director, Finkelstein is
a professor of industrial sociology at Southern Illinois University–Edwardsville.
Finkelstein has been a researcher, trainer and advisor to area
labor-management committees and private and public organizations
for almost 20 years. He is the author of A Startup Guide for Worksite
Labor Management Committees and has written several articles in
the field of labor-management cooperation and workplace change.
Finkelstein has a master’s degree in labor and industrial relations
and a Ph.D. in industrial sociology form Michigan State University.
Frey Promoted to Senior VP at Alberici
James
E. Frey |
With more than 25 years experience in the construction industry,
James E. Frey recently was promoted to senior vice president of
J.S. Alberici Construction Co., Inc., which Engineering News-Record
ranks as the 56th largest contractor in the United States.
In his new role, Frey participates in the overall management of
the company, oversees all business acquisition efforts and is
responsible for both business development and estimating.
Ross to Lead United Way Marketing, Communications Efforts
Gloria
Ross |
As the newly appointed senior vice president of marketing and
communications for United Way of Greater St. Louis, long-time
United Way executive Gloria Ross is in charge of the organization’s
marketing, public relations and communications efforts.
Under her leadership, marketing, promotions and public relations
activities, along with market research and other communication
efforts, are consolidated into one division. Formerly the senior
vice president of public relations, Ross also remains the lead
United Way staff person for the media celebrity market segment
of the United Way’s African American Leadership Giving Initiative.
Ross came to the United Way in 1986 as a communications associate.
She worked previously as a marketing assistant for what was then
Centerre Bank, now Bank of America. She also was a newspaper reporter
with the North Side Journal of St. Louis.
Johnson Joins Drake Beam Morin as Managing Consultant
Judy
Johnson |
As a newly appointed managing consultant for Drake Beam Morin
(DBM), Judy Johnson collaborates with team members of the St.
Louis office to ensure ongoing delivery of high-quality career
transition services to clients and customers. Johnson was most
recently a consultant for a major global human resources management
consulting firm.
Johnson has a master’s in business administration from Washington
University and a bachelor’s magna cum laude in information systems
from Maryville University. A recent alumni of CORO’s Women in
Leadership Program, she is an active member of the Compensation
and Benefits Network, International Association of Human Resources
Information Management and Human Resources Management Association.
With more than 200 offices in more than 40 countries, Drake Beam
Morin has provided services in employee selection, development,
retention and transition for more than 30 years.
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