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ACCOUNTING
Four team members—Corey Jambon, Krystal Pertuit, Kyle Mason and Melanie Talley—were promoted by Postlethwaite & Netterville to the newly created role of principal. Principals work alongside the firm’s directors and lead practice areas within their departments.
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ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN
Kevin Schimpf has been hired by Mullin as its Baton Rouge branch manager. Schimpf has 11 years of experience supervising operations for various companies. On a day-today basis, he will maintain strong relationships with clients and oversee many of the branch’s activities while promoting the core values of the firm, which provides comprehensive planning, building and maintenance of outdoor spaces.
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at a commercial architecture firm while getting his license. He joined Onsite Design in 2013. Mitchel has been with Onsite Design since 2015 and became a licensed architect shortly after. A 2013 graduate of LSU, he has 10 years of experience in custom residential design in the Baton Rouge area.
BANKING & FINANCE
Jennifer Clowers has been named chief financial officer of Our Lady of the Lake Health. Clowers has 16 years of service within the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, most recently serving as the system’s vice president of ambulatory services. She also has served in multiple capacities at Our Lady of Lourdes Health, beginning as vice president of finance/controller before moving up to CFO and eventually interim market president.
Todd Ezell has been hired by Investar Bank as its consumer banking director and senior vice president. Ezell joins Investar from First Horizon, formerly Iberia Bank, where he was a consumer credit manager. Over his 26-year career in financial services, he has held various banking titles in lending, credit and consumer banking. EDUCATION
Haley Carville has stepped into a new role at The Dunham School as director of the McKay Academic Center. Carville brings nearly 10 years of experience in differentiated instruction and special education, including three years in administration. She also spent more than six years in the classroom working directly with students of all ages.
Todd Manuel, who currently serves as director of organizational health and diversity for Entergy, has been named by LSU as the school’s vice president of inclusion, civil rights and Title IX. Since January 2021, Manuel has also served as vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion transformation for the Edison Electric Institute, an association that represents all U.S. investor-owned electric companies and more than 65 international electric companies.
Bobbi Zaunbrecher, who has been an integral member of the alumni relations team at the Paul
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HEALTH CARE
Stephen Howell has joined Ochsner Baton Rouge as chief financial officer. Howell spent the first 20 years of his career with Baton Rouge General, starting as
STEPHEN HOWELL Ochsner Baton Rouge GREG SNOW Woman’s KEVIN GUIDRY Woman’s CHRIS BROADWATER CSRS
a financial analyst and eventually being named director of decision support, strategy, business development and physician analysis. He then formed his own consulting firm that worked with hospitals across the country and was involved with the startup of the Louisiana Healthcare Information Exchange. In 2015, he joined Northern Light Health, a $2.1 billion health system in Maine, where he served as vice president of capital planning and finance before joining Ochsner.
Two new members have joined the executive leadership team at Woman’s. Greg Snow joined as vice president of revenue cycle and Kevin Guidry joined as vice president of payor relations. Prior to joining Woman’s, Snow worked as senior vice president of market strategy for complex claims firm Enable Comp in Franklin, Tenn. Guidry spent the last 15 years with Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System in various capacities. Most recently, he served as president of Our Lady of the Lake Assumption Hospital in Napoleonville, where he was responsible for providing strategic direction.
ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION
Chris Broadwater has joined CSRS as vice president and deputy general counsel. Prior to joining CSRS, Broadwater served as vice president for workforce policy and general counsel for the Louisiana Community & Technical College System. He previously served in the Louisiana Legislature as a state representative, representing Tangipahoa Parish, and practiced law with firms in both Hammond and Baton Rouge. In addition, he served as assistant secretary of labor during Gov. Bobby Jindal’s administration.
Sahar Haddadian has joined Neel-Schaffer Inc. and will serve as a coastal hydraulic engineer based in the firm’s Baton Rouge office. Haddadian earned a doctoral degree in civil engineering-coastal engineering from LSU in 2020 and has experience working for the Water Institute of the Gulf and the Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority. Haddadian also worked for multiple years providing coastal engineering and modeling services to coastal clients in Florida and the Caribbean.
Gary LeBlanc has been hired by Neel-Schaffer Inc. to serve as a transportation project manager based in the firm’s Baton Rouge office. LeBlanc has 28 years of experience, all with the Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development. He served as LaDOTD’s design development engineer manager the last 10 years. Prior to that, he held roles
TRANSFORMATIONAL CAPITAL
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CONGRATULATIONS LISA & TOM ADAMEK
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OUR FOUNDER AND BATON ROUGE’S 2022 OUTSTANDING PHILANTHROPIST OF THE YEAR!
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JEREMEY MILLER YMCA of the Capital Area
MATTHEW BAILEY Lofton Security Service Inc.
of HPMS/highway needs engineer and design engineer.
INSURANCE
Sherri Enright has been named senior vice president and chief human resources officer for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana. In her new role, she is also a member of Blue Cross’ senior management team. Enright comes to Blue Cross after serving as the CHRO of Dallas College in Texas for the past two years.
LAW
Zelma Murray Frederick of McGlinchey Stafford has been named office managing attorney in the firm’s Baton Rouge office. In her new role, Frederick will focus on the day-to-day operations and management of the employees and the office itself. Frederick represents clients in a wide range of litigation with a focus on commercial and construction litigation as well as collection disputes.
Brook Villa has been promoted to assistant general counsel, state regulatory affairs at Lumen. Villa, based in Baton Rouge, has been with Lumen since 2019. Prior to joining Lumen, she was in private practice for 11 years, focusing on a wide variety of areas including administrative law and commercial litigation.
MARKETING
Olivia Gulino has joined The TJC Group as manager of administration. Her duties include day-to-day organization and planning, office management, client services, project management and assisting The TJC Group staff. Gulino is experienced in teaching, strategic planning, content creation, writing, team management and project administration. Her previous work includes time as a teacher at St. Joseph’s Academy and as associate director of youth and young adult ministry for the Diocese of Baton Rouge.
NONPROFITS
Jeremey Miller has been named executive director of diversity, inclusion and belonging for the YMCA of the Capital Area. Miller has been a community ambassador for Build Baton Rouge and an ExxonMobil YMCA board member.
OTHER
Matthew Bailey has been promoted by Lofton Security Service Inc., a division of The Lofton Corporation, to director of security operations. Bailey began his career with Lofton Security in 1998 as an EMT/security officer at one of Lofton’s valued clients, and he has received numerous promotions over his career because of his industry knowledge and expertise, his ability to understand his clients’ security needs and execute the delivery of that service, as well as his ability to identify, train and coach security officers.
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INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
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East Baton Rouge Parish School System MAGNET
5 Years and Thriving—
MSAP schools prepare students for careers in renewable energy
As magnet schools in the Project Explore cohort enters its fifth year, students have been exposed to a series of activities incorporating the tenets of a STEAM project-based model. In addition, innovative educators in the East Baton Rouge Parish School System are introducing students to a variety of ways to incorporate renewable energy into their daily lives.
Thanks to the Magnet Schools Assistance Program (MSAP) Grant awarded in 2017, the East Baton Rouge Parish School System implemented four innovative magnet programs designed to ignite the flames of curiosity. These innovative schools are all centrally located in the district. Each offer Creative Sciences and Arts themes, including engineering, animation, coding, entertainment technology, and virtual reality instruction (VRI), with an overall focus on renewable energy.
• Villa del Rey Elementary • Park Forest Elementary • Park Forest Middle • Belaire High
The four MSAP schools provide high-quality educational programs through implementation of a STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) theme-based curriculum with components like: • Coding and Robotics • Engineering • Renewable Energy • Entertainment Technology • Digital Animation
Through project-based learning, the magnet programs encourage collaboration, criticalthinking and problem-solving to increase student engagement. Students have access to and the ability to use the most sophisticated technology available for understanding the applied use of science and mathematics in the STEAM fields. Students are prepared with skills and technology awareness to succeed a postsecondary environment. For more information or to schedule a tour, visit ebrmsap.org or email msap@ebrschools.org.
Program Highlights
• Renewable energy labs are are established at each MSAP school. • All four schools utilize outdoor gardens and outdoor learning spaces to enhance the students’ educational experience. • Garden Grow Towers are present in classrooms providing students with hands on learning. • Because renewable energy is taught at the elementary level, students are able to continue to grow, progressing through the MSAP middle and high school curriculum. • Villa Del Rey won the National Green Ribbon Award presented by the US Department of Education for their work with renewable energy at their school.
The team was honored in Washington, D.C. by the
U.S. Department of Education.
