PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Jessica Rivas has been named vice president and chief nursing officer at Memorial Hermann Cypress.
Marilyn Guion has joined CBRE as a senior vice president on its advisory & transaction services, investor leasing team.
Angie Bowers has joined PGAL, an international architecture, engineering and planning firm, as associate principal.
HOK, global design, architecture, engineering and planning firm, has hired Diana Limon in its plumbing group. Jamie
Giraldo has joined HOK’s regional marketing team.
Chamberlain Hrdlicka announced the election of Habeeb “Hobbs”
Gnaim to the firm’s management committee. Gnaim is a shareholder in Chamberlain Hrdlicka and heads the firm’s tax planning and business transactions group.
Harmony, a master-planned community in Spring, has hired Daniella
Franco as its resident lifestyle director.
Peggy Trott has been named general manager at The Stella Hotel, a 176room hotel slated to open in the Atlas health and wellness-focused masterplanned community in Bryan.
Joel Blake has joined Stibbs & Co. as an associate attorney.
Russell Frohardt has been appointed dean of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas. Sysco Corp. announced the following leadership changes, effective at the beginning of its fiscal year on July 3. Greg Bertrand has been named senior vice president-U.S. food service operations with responsibility for all of Sysco’s U.S. broadline operating companies. Scott
Sonnemaker has been named senior vice president-international food service operations-Americas with responsibility for Sysco Canada, Bahamas Foodservices, International Food Group and Sysco’s joint ventures with Mayca Distributors in Costa Rica and Pacific Star Foodservice in Mexico. Bill Goetz has been named senior vice president-sales and marketing with responsibility for Sysco’s sales and marketing organizations. William T. Johnson has joined Jackson Walker as a partner in its real estate and finance practice groups. Coats Rose has hired
Jarett Dillard, an associate in the construction and surety section, Samantha
Owens, an associate in the construction and surety and litigation sections, and Justin T. Scott, an associate in the general and commercial litigation practice group. Martin Martinez has joined Opportune as a managing director in its energy consulting practice. Ethel J. Johnson has joined Morgan Lewis as a partner on its labor and employment team. The Chronicle lists appointments to executivelevel positions in Houston. Send announcements to katherine.feser@chron.com.