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THEVOICE • rockfordchamber.com
October 2020
in the news MEMBERS IN THE NEWS
Rockford Chamber members appear bolded. Thank you for your support of your fellow Chamber members.
1. Leslie West
2. Dr. Jeffrey R. Smith
3. Billy Gregory
4. Jason Wombacher
5. Fred Schneiderman
6. Dr. Rhonda Verzal
7. Julie Elliott
8. Dr. Sunil Krishna
9. Dr. Raju Schanmugam
10. Dr. David F. Saldanha
11. Dr. Vikram Sobti
12. Sarah Beam
13. Melissa Loesch
14. Brian Hintzsche
15. Chris Soutar
16. Aaron McDonald
17. Kathy Palmer
18. Dr. Scott Trenhaile
19. Dr. Philip R. Schalow
20. Norman Walzer
21. Mim Evans
22. Andy Blanke
BOARD APPOINTMENTS Leslie West (1), State Farm Insurance & Financial Services, was appointed to the Rosecrance, Inc., board. Rockford Promise elected board officers: Susan Fumo, president; Maurice Redd, vice president; Jorge Herrera and Kay Wadsworth, co-treasurers; and Emily Hartzog, secretary. Elaine Breck and Brian Kobischka retired from the board. University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford appointed Jeffrey R. Smith (2), M.D., FACC, as chair for the department of medicine and medical specialties.
NEW HIRES, PROMOTIONS, RETIREMENTS CoyleKiley welcomed Billy Gregory (3) as life insurance advisor and Jason Wombacher (4) as commercial insurance advisor. Fred Schneiderman (5), director of personal lines underwriting, retired from Rockford Mutual Insurance Company. RAMP will say farewell to Julie Bosma as executive director. Rhonda Verzal (6), M.D., FAAFP, joined the faculty of the University of Illinois College of Medicine Rockford as assistant professor in the department of family and community medicine. Commissioner Julianne (Julie) Elliott (7) announced her retirement from the Rockford Park District Board of Commissioners. The new commissioner will be appointed, but will have to run for the seat in the April 2021 election. Mercyhealth welcomed Sunil Krishna (8), M.D., neonatal medicine and neonatal intensive care, to Javon Bea Hospital–Riverside, and Raju Shanmugam (9), M.D., to Mercyhealth Perryville. SwedishAmerican welcomed Dr. Jose Sanchez Gomez, family
physician, to Belvidere Clinic; Dr. Otavio Pereira Rodrigues to SwedishAmerican Infectious Disease Clinic, and Dr. Mali Him, family physician, to Five Points Clinic. OSF HealthCare Saint Anthony Medical Center celebrated the retirement of Brenda and Karl Meintz who have worked at the hospital a combined 65 years as a nurse and in the maintenance department, respectively. Forest City Diagnostic Imaging, LLC welcomed radiologists David F. Saldanha (10), M.D., and Vikram Sobti (11), M.D., MBA. Rockford Promise introduced its new executive director, Dr. Tasha Davis. Fehr Graham hired Sarah Beam (12) as project engineer. Licensed Clinical Professional
Counselor Melissa Loesch (13) was named director of Rosecrance McHenry County.
Premiere Partner Status.
Blackhawk Bank hired Tammy Fanning as vice president business development and Sara Reque as mortgage planner in Janesville, Wis.
Syverson (R-Rockford) a Champion
RSM US LLP promoted Brian Hintzsche (14) to partner in our Rockford office. Brian serves a variety of client types with a focus on the manufacturing and distribution sectors. He is involved in the planning and preparation of corporate, partnership and individual income tax returns.
EMPLOYEE/COMMUNITY RECOGNITIONS, AWARDS Chris Soutar (15 and Aaron McDonald (16), Entré Computer Solutions, were named to the Partner Advisory Council. The company achieved Solarwinds
aMBaSSaDOR DOR SPOTLIGHT Jan Hagenlocher
Rockford Chamber President & CEO Einar Forsman honors Jan Hagenlocher on her official “retirement” from the Rockford Chamber Ambassadors. The former director of public relations for 35 years at SwedishAmerican believes it was 1995 that she started as an Ambassador and in welcoming new businesses to the chamber and the community. “Volunteering in the community has always been a big part of my life since high school,” Hagenlocher said. “It was just natural to continue doing that after retiring, when I had a little more time to do so.” Her mother volunteered until she was 90 years old.
The Illinois Chamber of Commerce
named Illinois State Senator Dave of Free Enterprise.
University of Illinois - Extension
announced that Kathy Palmer (17), a Winnebago County 4-H volunteer, was named to the Illinois 4-H
Foundation Hall of Fame award. Ted Brolund won a 2020 Governor’s Volunteer Service Award in the senior category for service to Rockford Area Habitat for Humanity.
OF GENERAL INTEREST Surgeon Scott Trenhaile (18), M.D., OrthoIllinois, was one of four
co-inventors awarded a U.S. patent
for a new surgical suture anchor with internal locking of sutures for better fixation and less suture slippage by Smith & Nephew, Inc.
A paper by Philip R. Schalow (19), D.C., DCCJP, clinic director, Upper
Cervical Care Center, “Chiropractic Management of Performance
Related Musculoskeletal Disorder in a Career Violist,” published in
American Journal of Case Reports; free for download.
Norman Walzer (20), Danny
Langloss, Mim Evans (21) and
Andy Blanke (22) were authors in
three policy profiles by the Northern Illinois University Center for
Governmental Studies to help civic
leaders better understand and shape the future of localities in Illinois.
