On the Move - Business edition

Posted: 2:08 pm Thu, February 4, 2010
By Daily Record Staff

Architecture

Anath Ranon has been promoted to senior associate of Cho Benn Holback + Associates, a Baltimore-based architecture and planning firm. She specializes in historic restoration. Ranon was recently appointed commissioner of the Baltimore Commission on Historic and Architectural Preservation.

Awards

Steve Macadoff, an associate professor at the Community College of Baltimore County, has won the National GM-ASEP Technical Instructor Award of Merit for the quality of his teaching through the General Motors–Automotive Service Education Program. He has been on the faculty at CCBC for 10 years after working for more than 20 years as a line technician for Cadillac and Chevrolet dealerships. Macadoff earned a master’s degree in technical education from the University of Maryland.

Three Johns Hopkins University Press journals received awards from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. Ralph Cohen, founding editor of New Literary History, received the Distinguished Literary Editor Award. He stepped down as editor in 2009 after 40 years of leading the journal, a major international forum for scholarly exchange. American Quarterly, the official journal of the American Studies Association, received the award for Best Special Issue. An honorable mention for Best New Journal went to the Journal of Late Antiquity.

Clinical Trials & Surveys Corp., of Owings Mills, has been recognized as one of the fastest-growing companies of 2009 by Baltimore SmartCEO magazine. The clinical trials solutions company manages clinical trials and studies for government, university and private organizations.

Boards

Patricia McHugh Lambert has been appointed to the board of directors of the Saint Agnes Foundation, of Baltimore. Lambert is an attorney with Hodes, Pessin & Katz, of Towson.
She is a published author and a featured columnist for Insurance Advisor and the National Association of Baby Boomer Women.

Mark Peck, part-owner of Annapolis-based Tatnet, of Annapolis., and Sam White, owner of Sunshine House Assisted Living, of Annapolis, have been added to the board of directors of Maryland Citizens Against Lawsuit Abuse. MDCALA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization based in Annapolis and dedicated to educating the public about the costs and consequences of lawsuit abuse.

Jacques S. Gansler, a professor at the University of Maryland’s School of Public Policy and former high-level Pentagon official, has been appointed to the Defense Science Board, which advises the Department of Defense. He will provide independent advice on acquisition, scientific, technological and manufacturing issues. Gansler directs the school’s Center for Public Policy and Private Enterprise.

Communications

Jim Reiter has been appointed senior vice president of communications of the Maryland Hospital Association, of Elkridge. He spent the past 16 years at the American Hospital Association as vice president of advocacy and member communications. MHA is the advocate for Maryland hospitals, health systems, and their patients before legislative and regulatory bodies.

Thea Glidden has been named director of marketing and communications of the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, of Baltimore. She previous was executive director of communications and public affairs at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She has been an instructor at Maryland Institute, College of Art; where she earned a bachelor’s degree, and art director at The Daily Record Co./Warfield’s Business Record.

Consulting

Russell Keenan has joined science and engineering company Integral Consulting, of Annapolis, as a principal and vice president. Keenan has specialized in risk assessment of PCBs, dioxins, furans, chromium and mercury and developed time-dependent probabilistic risk assessment methods. Integral Consulting provides multidisciplinary services in health, environment, technology, and sustainability.

Finances

Kevin M. Nolan, a senior vice president–branch director in RBC Wealth Management’s Easton office, recently was selected to be a member of the firm’s consulting group, an exclusive group of consultants recognized for their success in building consultative, fee-based businesses. RBC Wealth Management financial consultants assist individual and corporate clients in selecting investments.

Health Care

Peggy Naleppa, president of Peninsula Regional Medical Center, of Salisbury, has also been named CEO of the hospital and president/CEO of the Peninsula Regional Health System. She has served as a clinical leader or as a senior executive at Anne Arundel Medical Center, Calvert Memorial Hospital and St. Mary’s Hospital, and as president of the Maryland Chapter of the Healthcare Financial Management Association. Also, Lura Cynthia “Cindy” Lunsford has been promoted to executive vice president/COO of the hospital. She had assumed administrative responsibility for its day-to-day operation last summer.

Michael Jablonover has been promoted from vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer to CEO of Kernan Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation Hospital in Woodlawn. Roy T. Smoot Jr. has been named vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer. Smoot recently served as the chief medical officer at Maryland General Hospital. Kernan Hospital and Maryland General are part of the University of Maryland Medical System.

Terri Haber was recently appointed director of business development at Carroll Hospital Center, in Westminster. She previously served as the executive health care consultant at Haber Consulting, of Baltimore. Carroll Hospital Center is a nonprofit, acute care facility.

The Bariatric Center at Saint Agnes Hospital, of Baltimore, has again been designated an Aetna Institute of Quality for Bariatric Surgery center and selected as a Bariatric Center of Excellence by the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery for weight-loss surgery patients.

Information Technology

James P. Breedlove has been named director of tactical weapons solutions by National Office Systems, a space and records management firm based in Gaithersburg. Among the Marine veteran and reservist’s accomplishments was playing a major role in the design and implementation of the ARmory Management System (ARMS), which tracks weapons by utilizing software screens, bar codes and RFID, signature pads and weapons tags.

Rob Umberger has been named director of software engineering at Raxco Software, a maker of computer resource management software in Gaithersburg. He previously worked at Thomson Reuters as director of software development.

Manufacturing

Northrop Grumman Corp. has announced leadership appointments in relation to a realignment of several program divisions within the company’s Electronic Systems sector. Gloria A. Flach has been appointed vice president and general manager, Targeting Systems Division. She earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science and a master’s degree in business administration from Loyola University Maryland. John C. Johnson has been named vice president and general manager, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Systems Division. They will be located at the company’s Electronic Systems sector headquarters in Linthicum.

Nonprofits

Central Maryland Regional Transit, which manages fixed-route and paratransit services in Central Maryland, has added two staff members to support the Central Maryland Transportation Resource Information Project.  Matthew Helfant is TRIP nobility manager, Michael Owino is mobility coordinator. The Laurel-based nonprofit serves Anne Arundel, Howard, Montgomery and Prince George’s counties.

Public Relations

Profiles, a Baltimore-based public relations, marketing and events firm, has promoted Bridget M. Forney and Jessie Benson from junior account executives to account executives. Forney has been with Profiles since graduating from Stevenson University after completing five internships. Benson joined the firm in 2008 after college; the Baltimore native attended St. Paul’s School for Girls.

Public Safety

Antonio Williams has taken command of the University of Maryland, Baltimore Police Force as chief and director of public safety. Williams served for almost 20 years with the Baltimore City Police Department, and shorter stints as police chief for the Baltimore City Public Schools and at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. He succeeds Cleveland Barnes Jr., who recently retired after nearly 40 years on the UMB Police Force.

Religion

Har Sinai Congregation has elected Rabbi Benjamin Sharff, effective July 1, to become its 14th rabbi since its founding in 1842. He now serves as associate rabbi at Temple Emanu-El in Tuscon, Ariz. The Reform congregation is in Owings Mills.

Transportation

Mark Vandehey has been appointed CEO of Kittelson & Associates, an international transportation planning, engineering and research firm with an office in Baltimore. He replaces Wayne Kittelson, who had served as CEO since founding the firm in 1985.