■ Aaron Singleton has been reappointed to the Council for Advancement and Support of Education's Board of Directors for the Southeast U.S. region. He is the director of news and media relations in the Office of Marketing and Communications at Winston-Salem State University.
■ Kilpatrick Stockton said that Cynthia Rothschild, has been chosen vice chairwoman of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the N.C. Bar Association for the 2009–10 term. She practices intellectual property law in Kilpatrick Stockton's Winston-Salem office.
■ BB&T Capital Markets said that six of its equity research analysts were recently recognized for their stock selection and earnings estimation performance in separate national surveys by The Wall Street Journal and Financial Times/StarMine.
These analysts were recognized: Holden Lewis, No. 1 stock picker in trading companies and distributors, FT/StarMine; Jack Kasprzak, No. 1 earnings estimator in construction materials and No. 1 earnings estimator in building products, FT/StarMine; Andy Wolf, No. 1 earnings estimator in food and staples retailing, FT/StarMine; Michael Lewis, No. 3, by The Wall Street Journal, and No. 2, by FT/StarMine, stock picker in aerospace and defense and No. 1 stock picker by FT/StarMine in information technology services; Newton Juhng, No. 3 earnings estimator in health-care technology, FT/StarMine; and John Barnes, No. 4 stock picker by The Wall Street Journal in heavy machinery and materials and No. 3 by FT/StarMine in road and rail.
The BB&T Capital Markets Equity Research Department also was ranked in the FT/StarMine survey as No. 2 in the "most productive brokers" category based on having the second-highest number of individual award winners compared with the total number of qualifying analysts.
■ A team of Winston-Salem State University students recently placed third in an annual college business-plan competition recently held in Atlanta by the Opportunity Fund Corporation. Tracy Askew, Erin Hammond, Tiyi Moori, Jonathan Sadler and Crystal Wilson took the third-place prize with their project BioPURE, a green initiative to process and convert used cooking oil to biodiesel fuel and purified water.
■ The National Council of Textile Organizations has elected Jerry Cook of Hanesbrands Inc. to the board of directors of the Fabric and Home Furnishings Council.
■ Dr. Christopher J. Godshall, a vascular surgeon at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, has been awarded the Brooks Scholarship in Academic Medicine. Godshall is an assistant professor of vascular and endovascular surgery at Wake Forest Baptist.
■ CJMW, a design company based in Winston-Salem, has received the Silver Award in the 2009 Best of 50+ Housing Awards by the National Association of Home Builders. CJMW's design for Danberry at Inverness, a continuing care senior living community just outside of Birmingham, Ala., was recognized in the Best Large CCRC on the Boards category. Key members of the design team included senior CJMW principals Alan Moore and Peter Epermanis and associates Mike Osman and Kevin Jarrett.
■ Two Wake Forest University alumni, Anthony Pecorella and Yuri Shtridelman, along with Jed Macosko, an assistant professor of physics at Wake Forest, have won a $25,000 award from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in its 2009 Digital Media & Learning competition. The team's winning project, "CellCraft: Exploring the Cell through Computer Games," will be produced with additional support from Carol Strohecker at the Center for Design Innovation and BioBotz, a nonprofit company founded by current Wake Forest students, which Macosko advises.
■ Elden Cave has been named a top produce manager by United Fresh Produce Association. The award honors the top 25 produce managers across the industry. Cave, produce manager at the Food Lion at 600 E. Atkins St. in Dobson, was awarded a $1,000 prize for being named one of the top five produce managers among the 25 overall winners.
■ Debbie Berg was recently invited by the Winston-Salem Society for Human Resource Management to speak at a luncheon seminar on the topic of COBRA Premium Assistance and Changes to COBRA Law under the new American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. She is a certified public accountant and the president and chief financial officer of Savers Administrative Services in Winston-Salem.
Also, Savers Administrative Services said that it has received SAS 70 compliance based on an audit of its internal processes. Savers is a locally owned and operated third-party administrator of Cafeteria Plans, payroll, COBRA and state continuation services. The review was performed by the accounting firm IS Partners LLC.
■ The Piedmont Triad Partnership has been recognized by the Northwest Area Health Education Center of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and part of the NC AHEC Program for its collaborative relationship with this organization. The PTP received the Northwest AHEC Horizons Partnership Award.
■ Commercial Real Estate Women Network, known as CREW, has launched its newest chapter in North America, Piedmont Triad CREW, in Greensboro. The chapter, which was recently awarded national affiliation with CREW Network, promotes business opportunities for women in the field of commercial real estate and provides a communication network in the region. Members of the Piedmont Triad CREW 2009 Board of Directors include: president, Kim Kelly Mann, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC; president-elect, Jody Efird, Efird Sutphin Pearce & Associates PA; treasurer, Terry Ball, TM Ball Inc.; secretary, Linda Secco, Wachovia Bank N.A.; chairwoman of the board, Christina N. Freeman, Schell Bray Acock Abel & Livingston PLLC; and board vice chairwoman, Carol Faucette, Investors Title Insurance Co.
■ A free online financial-planning service developed by graduates of Wake Forest's Babcock Graduate School of Management was named Best In Show during a national conference in San Francisco. SimpliFi.net, based in Winston-Salem, is the creation of former Babcock School students Bryan Link and Bill Grizack, who began developing SimpliFi in December 2003 and officially launched the startup in the Demon Incubator in early 2004.
■ Platinum Producers chapter of Business Networking International in Pilot Mountain has received a Hall of Fame Award for breaking records with its chapter launch last summer. The chapter was well above the Hall of Fame threshold to qualify.
■ The Heart Transplant Program at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center has received certification for three years from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The heart transplant team is led by Dr. Vinay Thohan and Dr. Timothy E. Oaks. Thohan is the program's medical director.
Oaks is the program's surgical director.
■ The Boards of Directors of NewBridge Bancorp and NewBridge Bank have elected Michael S. Albert as the chairman of the board of both organizations. Albert has served on the NewBridge and NewBridge Bank boards, or predecessor boards since 1995. He recently became a partner of Entrepreneurial Resources, a group of former CEOs and CFOs providing managerial and financial consulting services. Robert F. Lowe, who has held the title of chairman since the creation of NewBridge in July 2007, has retired as chairman but will remain a member of the boards. Lowe is the former chairman and CEO of LSB Bancshares Inc., which merged with FNB Financial Services Corp. in 2007 to form NewBridge Bank.
■ Wake Forest University said that 16 faculty members retired during the 2008--2009 academic year.
Reynolda Campus: Robert C. Beck, professor of psychology; Stephen Ewing, professor, Calloway School of Business and Accountancy; James Edwin Hendricks, professor of history; Frederic T. Howard, professor of mathematics; Donald P. Robin, J. Tylee Wilson Professor of Business Ethics, Calloway School of Business and Accountancy; David F. Shores, professor, School of Law; and Peter D. Weigl, professor of biology.
Wake Forest University School of Medicine: Dr. Richard H. Dean, professor of surgical sciences-general surgery; Dr. John W. Hammon Jr., professor of surgical sciences--cardiothoracic surgery; Susan M. Hutson, professor of biochemistry; Frederick W. Kremkau, professor of medical ultrasound; Ronald J. Prineas, professor of public health sciences--epidemiology; Dr. Walter M. Roufail, professor of internal medicine–gastroenterology; Richard W. St. Clair, professor of pathology; Jack W. Strandhoy, professor of physiology and pharmacology; and Reidar Wallin, professor of internal medicine--rheumatology and clinical immunology.
■ Homestead Hills, a full--service retirement community in Winston-Salem, has promoted Anne Letsky to lifestyle advisor. She was a marketing assistant.
■ Bob Seach has joined General Tobacco, based in Mayodan, as the director of sales planning. He was a sales representative for Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp.'s Michigan branch and held multiple field positions throughout the United States.
■ Tim Gaines, a financial planner, recently joined Oak Ridge Wealth Management based in Greensboro. He has 25 years of financial experience helping individuals with financial, long-term care and estate planning. He most recently worked with UBS Financial Services.
■ The Lees-McRae College Board of Trustees has elected Scott Colley, the president emeritus of Berry College in Georgia, as president of Lees-McRae. He has years of experience in higher-education administration, including strategic planning, capitol fund management and alumni relations.
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