Business Milestones

Katherine S. Serfas

Luke C. MacDowall

Kitty Lyon

Robert Dailey

By: Fran Daniel | Journal reporter
Published: December 04, 2011

Robinson and Lawing LLP in Winston-Salem has added two associates to the firm. Katherine S. Serfas and Luke C. MacDowall will concentrate their respective practices in workers' compensation and employment litigation.

The board of directors of Paul J. Ciener Botanical Garden has named Kitty Lyon of Greensboro as the garden's executive director. Lyon is a 20-year veteran of the garden industry. She is the founder and president of Garden Tapestry, a landscape-design firm based in Greensboro.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton has added Robert Dailey to the firm's Winston-Salem office as an associate on the Health and Life Sciences Team in the Intellectual Property Department. Dailey focuses his practice on patent prosecution, counseling and litigation. He previously was intellectual property counsel to an emerging drug-discovery company.

Crisis Control Ministry's board of directors has elected these officers: chairman, David Burke; vice chairwoman, Carla Brown Rumph; secretary, Barry Boyd; and treasurer, J. Kirk Glenn Jr. Other new members are Gregory D. Fox, a pharmaceutical supply chain coordinator at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center; Nancy Keshian, a community volunteer; and Cristina Roche, educational director of Language Links Inc. The returning board members are: the Rev. Darryl Aaron, Bobbi Bales, Barbara S. Campbell, Bertha M. Carter, Lynn Castañeda, Carolyn J. Doherty, Sylvia A. Flack, Anne Griffin, Susan Jones, Margaret Long, Nola G. Miller, Dona Neal, Corena Norris-McCluney, Kevin Owen, Graham Rights, Chris Safley and Barbara Steele.

Thomas H. Hughes/Architecture P.C. has just completed work for a retail revitalization project in Winston-Salem at 832 E. Sprague St. Originally built in 1977, the building formerly housed a convenience store and a boutique clothing store. When complete, it will be the home of four small retail shops.
Algenon Cash has been appointed to the Forsyth Tech Foundation board of directors and the Winston-Salem Symphony Development Committee. The Winston-Salem Symphony appointed Cash as a community adviser on its development committee. Cash is managing director of Wharton Gladden & Co., a real-estate investment banking firm in Greensboro.
BB&T Retirement & Institutional Services has received eight Best in Class awards in a 2011 national survey of 401(k) providers conducted by Plansponsor Magazine. BB&T Retirement & Institutional Services clients rated its participant and sponsor services A- and higher in the 2011 survey. Plansponsor magazine awarded BB&T these "Best in Class" Sponsor Services awards in the small-market category ($5 million to $50 million plan size): Best in Class award for "Compliance Support/Testing," Best in Class award for "Legislative and Regulatory Updates," Best in Class award for "Account and Service Team Responsiveness," Best in Class award for "Staff Consistency and Lack of Staff Turnover" and Best in Class award for "Plan Design Flexibility." BB&T also received three national "Best in Class" Participant Services awards in the small market category ($5 million to $50 million plan size): Best in Class award for "Retiree Services and Payments," Best in Class award for "Participant Loan and Withdrawal Processing" and Best in Class award for "Participant Beneficiary Administration."
Robert H. Kluttz Jr. of Northwestern Mutual Financial Network in Winston-Salem has received the Chartered Financial Consultant professional designation from the American College in Bryn Mawr, Pa..
Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC law firm, which has an office in Winston-Salem, has been honored as a 2012 Go-To Law Firm for the Top 500 Companies by ALM, a publisher of multiple regional and national magazines tailored to the legal community. AIG, Capital One Financial and Textron named Spilman as a "Go-To Law Firm" for litigation. DuPont and Mylan named Spilman as a "Go-To Law Firm" for labor and employment law.