Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce | SPONSORED CONTENT Assembly Hall at Virginia Tech. The VT graduate gave the audience a personal view of his journey to success.
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Terry T Clements, associate professor of o landscape architecture in the College of o Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, has been named a Fellow V of o the American Society of Landscape Architects. A The T Design Futures Council has named Jack Davis, Reynolds Metals ProfesJ sor s of Architecture and dean of the College le of Architecture and Urban Studies at Virginia Tech, a senior fellow. Davis was V one o of 13 individuals recognized with this honor for 2013. Michele C. Deramo has been named M director of diversity education and initiad tives ti in the Office for Diversity and Inclusion s at Virginia Tech. In her new position, Deramo will plan and implement customD ized iz educational programs that advance the Virginia Tech Principles of Community. V Virginia Tech selected Rachel HolV loway as vice provost for undergraduate lo academic affairs. She began her new a position in September. She has served p on o the faculty at Virginia Tech since 1989. E. E Scott Johnson has been appointed an assistant professor in the p Department of Accounting and InformaD tion ti Systems at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business. C Kathy Kaplan has been named K director of development for the Divid sion s of Student Affairs at Virginia Tech. Kaplan had served as the major gifts K officer, director of donor relations and o assistant director for special events at a Old Dominion University. Roop L. Mahajan, the director of R the th Institute for Critical Technology and Applied Science at Virginia Tech, received A the th 75th Anniversary Medal of the American Society S of Mechanical Engineers Heat Transfer T Division at the 2013 Summer Heat Transfer Conference held in Minneapolis. K Kimberly Mathe-Soulek has been a appointed an assistant professor in the D Department of Hospitality and Tourism M Management at Virginia Tech’s Pamplin C College of Business.
N Morgan, a former Newport News Neil c manager, has joined the team of Vircity g Tech Fellows in Roanoke providing ginia e executive-level leadership training. The F Fellows, headquartered at The Hotel Roan & Conference Center, are part of noke Morgan Virginia Tech’s Center for Organizational and Technological Advancement.
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V Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Res sources and Environment Dean Paul W Winistorfer has appointed Robert L. “ “Bob” Smith the college’s associa dean for engagement, as head of the ate D Department of Sustainable Biomaterials. A Anna-Katherine Ward has been aappointed an assistant professor in the Department of Management at Virginia D TTech’s Pamplin College of Business.
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Michael C. Wolfe has been appointed M aan assistant professor in the Department oof Accounting and Information Systems aat Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of BBusiness. Ryan Zimmerman has been apR ppointed an associate professor in the Department of Management at Virginia D TTech’s Pamplin College of Business.
TThe Al Pollard Memorial Foundation and VVirginia Western Community College hhave announced the designation of the Al Pollard Culinary Arts ProZimmerman A gram. The $500,000 gift will provide scholarships for students pursuing promising careers in local restaurants, catering and dining establishments, as well as funding to support the future development of the culinary programs.
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Wells Fargo announced that it has named W Michael Orr business relationship M manager for Western Virginia’s business m bbanking team. Covering the Roanoke aand New River Valley markets, Orr will work with small and mid-sized business w owners in these communities.
Thirty-three attorneys with Woods Rogers have been named to Best Lawyers in America magazine’s list for 2014. They are: Thomas R. Bagby, employment law-management, labor law-management, and litigationlabor and employment; D. Stan Barnhill, commercial litigation, construction law, litigation-construction, litigation-first amendment, and professional malpractice law defendants; Neil V. Birkhoff, tax law, trusts and estates; Victor O. Cardwell, employment law management and labor law management; Claude D. Carter, real estate law; Francis H. Casola, commercial litigation, litigation antitrust, litigation intellectual property, and litigation real estate; Agnis C. Chakravorty, employment law management, labor law management, and litigation labor and employment; George J.A. Clemo, administrative/regulatory law, corporate law, project finance law, public finance law, securitization and structured finance law; Nicholas C. Conte, commercial litigation, corporate law; James F. Douthat, land use and zoning law; Bradley W. Fitzgerald, transportation law; Frank K. Friedman, appellate practice; H. Allen Glover, Jr., administrative/regulatory law, energy law; Bayard E. Harris, employment law management, labor law management, litigation labor and employment; James
W. Jennings, Jr., commercial litigation, personal injury litigation defendants, product liability litigation defendants, and railroad law; R. Neal Keesee, Jr., corporate law; Talfourd H. Kemper, Sr., corporate law, real estate law, and trusts and estates; B. Webb King, employment law – individuals; Alton L. Knighton, Jr., employee benefits laws, project finance law, and public finance law; Mark D. Loftis, commercial litigation, insurance law, product liability litigation – defendants, and technology law; Heman A. Marshall, III, antitrust law and health care law; Richard C. Maxwell, bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization law, and litigation – bankruptcy; J. Lee E. Osborne, trusts and estates; Thomas T. Palmer, health care law; Elizabeth Guilbert Perrow, medical malpractice law – defendants; Matthew P. Pruitts, transportation law; Alexander I. Saunders, corporate law, tax law, and trusts and estates; Michael K. Smeltzer, real estate law; Christopher W. Stevens, insurance law; Daniel C. Summerlin, III, labor law – management; Paul R. Thomson, Jr., criminal defense, white collar, environmental law, litigation – environmental, timber law, and water law; Thomas M. Winn, III, employment law – management, labor law – management, and litigation – labor and employment; and Dudley F. Woody, employment law - management. In addition, the following attorneys received Lawyer of the Year recognition: Thomas R. Bagby, Roanoke Employment Law-Management Lawyer of the Year; Bayard E. Harris, Roanoke Litigation-Labor & Employment Lawyer of the Year; Alton L. Knighton, Jr., Roanoke Public Finance Law Lawyer of the Year; and Alexander I. Saunders, Roanoke Corporate Law Lawyer of the Year. J Joyce Kessinger with Boxley Materials w hhas been elected chair oof the Western Virginia Workforce DevelopW Kessinger ment Board. Other m J Jones oofficers elected at the bboard’s annual meeting include: William in F. Bill Jones, Jr., F HomeTown Bank, vice H cchair; Carroll GenGentry Brinley ttry, Tanglewood Estates, treasurer; Joe ta Brinley, NECA-IBEW B LLocal 26, secretary; Hiawatha Nicely, H New Century ConsulN Nicely Flippen tants, immediate past cchair; Paul Paradzinski, youth ccouncil chair; and Wayne E. Flippen, Roanoke Regional Small Busip nness Development Center, oversight Paradzinski ccommittee chair. ROANOKE BUSINESS
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