SPONSORED CONTENT | Roanoke Regional Chamber of Commerce 2015 CHAMBER CHAMPIONS Brown Edwards Cox Business Gentry Locke LifeWorks REHAB (Medical Facilities of America) MB Contractors Pepsi Bottling Group rev.net
The Roanoke Times Rockydale Quarries Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC Trane Valley Bank Woods Rogers Attorneys at Law
Note: Chamber Champions are members who support the Roanoke Regional Chamber through year-round sponsorships in exchange for year-round recognition.
EVENT SPONSORSHIP Thursday Overtime – May 7 Hunting Hills Country Club Spilman Thomas & Battle PLLC Business Summit – May 13 Appalachian Power Cox Business BB&T Business Before Hours – May 19 American Cancer Society Doctors Express
NEW MEMBERS The following members joined the Roanoke Regional Chamber between April 10 and May 11, 2015: Boy Scouts of America
Family Preservation Services
Edward Jones – Jon Templeton
ITT Exelis, Night Vision & Imaging
Springtree Health & Rehabilitation Center
Next Generation Designs
ValleyStar Credit Union
Member news & recognitions Joseph “Butch” Church was the guest speaker at the Roanoke Valley Campus of American National University’s commencement ceremony. Church, who serves on the Roanoke County Board of SuperviChurch sors, is a graduate of American National University. Apptech Solutions LLC, an innovative designer and manufacturer of water and wastewater treatment and conveyance solutions, has announced plans to expand into a 27,000-square-foot facility located at 3993 Daugherty Road in Roanoke County. The company worked with Roanoke County to identify a suitable facility to accommodate its operations and expansion. It was assisted by the Virginia Jobs Investment Program of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership with a $78,000 grant to support recruiting and workforce training needs. Apptech currently has a staff of more than 30 and is projecting to create more than 100 new jobs over the next three years. Bricks 4 Kidz, the highly popular international children’s enrichment program that offers unique educational LEGO model building, has announced that its Roanoke/Salem location is now under the ownerWhitaker ship of Shelly Whitaker. The local franchise will continue offering local camps, after-school programs, in-school workshops and birthday parties at the Bricks 4 Kidz Creativity 34
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Center at Towers Mall as well as through mobile programs around the Roanoke Valley. Clark Nexsen has announced its board of directors for 2015-16. The following new board members were elected by the shareholders at the company’s annual meeting: Chris Brasier, Raleigh, N.C office; Bob Burkholder, Virginia Beach office; Clymer Cease, Raleigh office; Clint Hardie, Macon, Ga., office; Garry Kiskinis, Virginia Beach office; Chad Roberson, Asheville, N.C. office; and Danny Taylor, Virginia Beach office. Draper Aden Associates has announced that Jeffry A. McInnis, P.E., has been selected to assume the position of utilities division manager and will oversee all water and wastewater utilities engineerMcInnis ing services. He has more than 16 years of civil engineering experience in both public and private sector projects. Firefli, a digital agency headquartered in Roanoke, has been selected as an official honoree in the 19th Annual Webby Awards in the business blog website category for www.UnboundEdition.com, a website for Davis Brand Capital. Other honorees in the category included CNN, Hubspot and Autodesk. Hailed as the “Internet’s highest honor” by The New York Times, the awards, presented by the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, are the leading international awards honoring excellence on the Internet. Nearly 13,000 entries were received
from all 50 states and more than 60 countries Twenty percent of the entries won the honoree distinction for exhibiting remarkable achievement. Brooke C. Rosen, a founding partner with the law firm Johnson, Rosen & O’Keeffe, was recently named young lawyer of the year by the Roanoke Bar Association. The award recognizes an outRosen standing young lawyer who has demonstrated dedicated service to the Roanoke Bar Association, the community and the profession. LeClairRyan has been recognized as one of the 100 best law firms for female attorneys in Law360’s inaugural ranking. The rankings stem from the results of Law360’s survey of 308 U.S. firms, or vereins with a U.S. component, about their overall and female head count numbers as of Dec. 31, 2014. The survey, done in conjunction with Law360’s annual Glass Ceiling Report, found that at many of the top 100 firms there are more female nonpartners than male, and a rich potential pipeline of future female equity partners and executive committee members. Poe & Cronk Real Estate Group has been selected to represent Shenandoah Life in the sale or lease of its corporate headquarters property at 2301 Brambleton Ave. in Roanoke. The Shenandoah Life Building is one of Roanoke’s landmark headquarters office locations.