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Douglas J. Elmore, a shareholder at Williams Parker in Sarasota, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Easter Seals Southwest Florida and the Easter Seals Southwest Florida Foundation.
Easter Seals offers care and services to children and adults with special needs so that they can enjoy access, opportunities and increased life choices.
Elmore is a trusts and estates attorney. He counsels individuals, families and institutions in estate planning, business succession, and estate and trust planning and administration matters. His masters in law in taxation, his law degree and master’s and bachelor’s degrees in accounting all are from the University of Florida.
State College of Florida, Manatee-Sarasota mathematics professor Altay Özgener has been appointed to the Halmos-Ford Award Committee of the Mathematical Association of America.
Özgener, president of the Florida Two-Year College Mathematics Association, begins a four-year term on April 1.
The Halmos-Lester Award recognizes articles of expository excellence published in The American Mathematical Monthly. Authors of four papers published during the prior year receive $1,000 during MAA’s Math-Fest events. In addition to selecting winners, the committee writes the accompanying citations.
The Sarasota Music Club recently elected its new board of directors, who will serve until 2019.
Mary Webb continues as board president; Jan Balazs is first vice president; Barbara Chertok is second vice president; Janet Jackson is secretary and treasurer; Charlyn Craver is communications secretary; and John Fischer is assistant treasurer.
At-large board members are Louise Baar, June Buck, Barbara Roth Donaldson, Wes Snyder and Dorothy Whaley.
Sarasota Music Club, founded in 1930 as an offshoot of the historic Sarasota Women’s Club, is the oldest organization supporting professional music performance in the Sarasota area and a long history of funding scholarships to support music education.
The board will oversee two years of professional musician performance programs as well as the organization’s participation in Suncoast Music Scholarships, a partnership with Artist Series Concerts of Sarasota.
Dr. Jeffery Fraser, Christine Robinson, Wayne Roberts and Vanessa Carusone have joined the Board of Directors of the SKY Family YMCA, in Sarasota. Fraser completed medical school at the Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 1995 and his residency at Munson Medical Center in 1998. He has been practicing for over 20 years, currently practices Family Medicine in Venice and is affiliated with Venice Regional Bayfront Health. Robinson received her law degree in 1999 from the University of Miami and worked as an assistant state attorney in the 11th Judicial Circuit from 1999 to 2001 and the 12th Judicial Circuit from 2001 to 2004. She was appointed to the Sarasota County Commission in 2010 and was elected in 2012. She now is executive director of the Argus Foundation. Roberts graduated from the University of Florida with a bachelor’s degree in 1979 and joined Nationwide Insurance. In 1983 he opened Roberts Insurance and has since been active within the community, serving on many boards, including the Venice Area Chamber of Commerce, United Way and Big Brothers Big Sisters. Carusone is a North Port city commissioner. She was elected in 2002, in 2006 and again in 2016. She fills the District 1 seat and serves as the commission’s vice-mayor. Carusone has been a strong supporter of local services, including expanded bus routes and a much-needed Health Department, Social Service Building and Children’s First. Fraser, Robinson, Roberts and Carusone join the newly elected officers: Board President Sheriff Tom Knight, Vice President Keith Farlow, Secretary Rita Bicknell and Treasurer Dorothy Korzen.
Erica Shea, chief business development officer for Shumaker Loop & Kendrick LLP’s Florida offices, has been selected as one of the Business Observer’s 2017 “40 Under 40.”
At Shumaker, Shea focuses on initiatives to grow and expand the companies of the firm’s clients, to bring new and engaging opportunities to the firm and to create greater client satisfaction. She has 13 years of experience in business development and client relations, previously working as a senior multimedia account executive at the Tampa Bay Business Journal.
Shea is membership chairwoman of the University of Tampa Board of Fellows, is a member of the Board of Trustees for Gracepoint Foundation and is on the executive cabinet for the 2018 American Heart Association’s Go Red for Women. She is a member of the current Leadership Sarasota County class and a recent graduate of Leadership Tampa 2017.
Dr. Marc H. Levy, neuro ophthalmologist at the Sarasota Retina Institute, recently was invited to participate in the Department of Ophthalmology’s Grand Rounds at the Moorfields Eye Hospital in London, England, and to lecture on new developments with the implantable miniature telescope, which treats patients with the advanced form of dry macular degeneration.
Levy is the principal investigator for the state of Florida in a new study inserting an intraocular telescope in patients who have previously undergone cataract surgery. This technique was perfected in London and Levy was the co-author in this initial study.
The Kiwanis Club of Siesta Key celebrated the start of a new club year recently with its annual Officer & Director Installation Dinner at Café Baci. President Clark Lauren presented recognition awards to several members for their exceptional work during the year while highlighting various club achievements.
Florida Kiwanis Division 17 Lt. Gov. Michael Lubrano installed officers and directors for 2017-2018: President, Clark Lauren; president-elect, Peter Kiziu; past president, Doug Griffin; secretary, Jeanine Signorelli; and treasurer, Fred Scheerle.
Directors include Mary Lynn Desjarlais, Steve Stonecipher, Carolyn Jones-Penn, Carmen Ramsey, Joy Horne-Jones and John Masters.
Members’ Appreciation Awards were given to outgoing Lt. Gov. Carolyn Kofler and to Carmen Ramsey. President’s Appreciation Awards went to Katherine Johnson, Marianna Ehmke and Joy Horne-Jones.
Signorelli won Outstanding New Member; Stonecipher was Chair of the Year; and William Irish was Kiwanian of the Year.
The club recognized past president John Wilson’s extensive Kiwanis career with a 50-Year Legion of Honor certificate.
Total joint specialist Dr. John Harkess and pain management specialist Dr. Justin Sirianni have joined Coastal Orthopedics Sports Medicine and Pain Management, based in Bradenton.
Harkess completed an orthopaedic surgery residency at the University of Tennessee-Campbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a lower extremity reconstruction fellowship at Scripps Clinic in California. He has a doctorate from the University of Tennessee Health Sciences Center and a bachelor’s in biology from the University of Virginia.
Sirianni finished a pain medicine fellowship at Wake Forest University and the Carolinas Pain Institute. He completed his anesthesiology residency at University of Arizona Medical Center, where he also acted as its chief resident for a year. He has a doctorate from Drexel University College of Medicine and received a master's degree in biology from Chatham University.
Sirianni also obtained a bachelor's degree in Italian language and literature, with a minor in chemistry, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In addition to English, he speaks basic Italian, Spanish and American Sign Language.
Premier Community Bank, which has branches in Venice, Parrish and Bradenton, recently promoted Cabot Hart from senior underwriter to chief credit officer at its Bradenton location.
Hart, who has more than 32 years of experience in the banking and financial industry, joined Premier Community Bank in March 2017. In his new role, he will lead the management of a team of credit analysts and loan operations professionals, oversee the existing loan portfolio, manage the credit quality of the bank and ensure that the bank adheres to all credit policy and standard underwriting guidelines.
Before joining Premier Community Bank, Hart acted as a senior credit administrator for Gateway Bank of Southwest Florida, now Center State Bank. He spent 17 years with Enterprise National Bank of Sarasota. Hart moved to Sarasota in 1985 and joined Southeast Bank in its Sarasota commercial lending department.
He has a bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Alabama.
The State College of Florida Foundation has hired a new director of development to lead fundraising for scholarships, equipment and capital campaigns at SCF. Barbara Lewis Bourgoin has been working in fundraising for more than a decade in Manatee and Sarasota counties.
She comes to the SCF Foundation after working as chief development officer for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Manatee County. Bourgoin, a certified fundraising executive, also was development director for Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center and the University of South Florida, Sarasota-Manatee.
Peter Magnuson has been selected as a 2017 Harbor Financial Services President’s Council member for the third year in a row. President Council membership is awarded based on high standards of production and compliance and recognizes professional dedication and achievements over the past year.
Magnuson has been a financial advisor with Harbor Financial Services since 2005, has 30-plus years of financial industry experience and is currently registered in numerous states. He owns Magnuson Financial in Sarasota.
Magnuson was awarded the President’s Council distinction at Harbor Financial Services’ annual Compliance Meeting in September in Mobile, Alabama.
Jessica Rogers is joining Children First as vice president of philanthropy.
Rogers comes to Children First from New College of Florida, the state’s designated Honors College for the liberal arts and sciences.
As the leader of Children First’s philanthropy department, she will provide strategic direction for fundraising, with the goal of expanding early childhood education and family services for our community’s most economically vulnerable children and families.
During her 11-year tenure at New College, she was associate vice president of advancement and associate director of the New College Foundation, acting as chief liaison with the New College Alumnae/i Association and its fundraising and engagement programs. She joined the college in July 2006 as executive director of the New College Alumnae/i Association after working in banking and, before that, nonprofit and teaching work within higher education.
Children First is the nonprofit organization serving as Sarasota County’s exclusive provider of Head Start.
Iberia Wealth Advisors, a division of IberiaBank, has hired Lori A. Sutton as vice president, wealth advisor. A veteran of the financial services industry with 23 years of experience, Sutton will be responsible for providing fiduciary services and asset management strategies to help individuals, families and charitable organizations with their financial planning needs.
Sutton acquired the Certified Trust and Financial Advisor designation in 2011 and completed advanced training with the Florida Graduate Trust School in 2000. She most recently was a trust adviser with the Northern Trust Co.
Sutton moved to Sarasota nearly 35 years ago. In 2017, she completed the Sarasota Chamber of Commerce Leadership Sarasota program. She is a member of the Southwest Florida Planned Giving Council. She volunteers with several local organizations to provide addiction counselling, as well as grief and peer counseling.
Sutton has a bachelor’s in human development from Eckerd College in St. Petersburg.
Dr. Sara Simmons, a hand-and-wrist specialist with Coastal Orthopedic Sports Medicine & Pain Management, was the head medical doctor for Suncoast Aquatic and Nature Center Associates Inc. during the 2017 World Rowing Championships at Nathan Benderson Park.
During the event, Sept. 24 through Oct. 1, Simmons acted as a liaison between SANCA and the doctors for the 69 rowing teams participating in the competition. As a former collegiate rower and U.S. National Team member, Simmons was able to bring insight as a medical professional and a former athlete. She won a gold medal in the Lightweight Women’s Four at the 1995 World Rowing Championships in Finland.
She spent most of her time making sure the athletes remained hydrated and made it safely across the finish line, while also coordinating any issues that arose between SANCA and the medical teams.
Bay Village of Sarasota has hired Eric Nichols as president/CEO. Nichols has over 29 years of experience in the senior living industry.
He was a licensed nursing home administrator in West Virginia and, more recently, was the executive director of Homewood at Frederick, in Frederick, Maryland.
Nichols has a bachelor’s in health planning and administration from Pennsylvania State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Phoenix.
He plans to bring more information technology to the campus for residents and is also updating apartments with new features.
Jean Juchnowicz, owner of Human Resources Simplified in Sarasota, recently led a two-day professional development management program on “Critical Thinking and Problem Solving” for U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, at training sites in Hialeah and Phoenix, Arizona.
Human Resources Simplified is a human resources consulting, training and facilitating company. Juchnowicz also owns Career Advice Simplified.