PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Thomas Goggins has been promoted to vice president of operations at Strike Marketing.
DavidM.Sloanhas joined Muns ch HardtKo pf &H arr as a shareholder in the firm’s corporate and securities and finance practices.
Cypress brook Co. has selectedJim Cooperto lead the firm’s third-party property management and leasing division.
Wood Group has appointed Raymond“Ray” Schlaff to the positions of senior vice president and chief procurement officer, with responsibility for procurement strategies, processes andgovernance, andto drive efficiencies across the group’s global supply chain.
Angelic aM. Hernandez, a partner at Line bar ger Gog gan Blair& Sampson, has been appointed to the State Barof Texas board of directors as a minority director.
Raxit Patelhasbeen promoted to associate principal at Henderson Rogers Structural Engineers.
Vivek Gurjarhasbeen promotedto senior associate, senior project manager, at Henderson Rogers Structural Engineers.
Robert Ling hasjoined professional services firm HS SK as a senior managing director in the firm’s Houstonoffice.
J.B. Dollison, managing director of Crutchfield Capital Corp., has been named vice chairman of the board of directors for the Association for Corporate Growth.
David N. Calvillohas joined Chamberlain Hrdlicka as senior counsel. Hewill serve clients in Houston, as well as the Rio Grande Valley, including Brownsville andMcAllen.
Bill Penczak has joined independent accounting firm Briggs& V es elk a Co. as managing director of practice development.
J. James Cooper, a partner at Reed Smith, was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Coverage and Extra contractual
Counsel. Cooper is a member of the firm’s insurance recovery and shipping groups.
Kristie Alexander has joined architecture and engineering firm Johnston as junior associate/ senior marketing coordinator.
Trans western announced promotions within the Houstonretail services group: Crystal AllenandGrant Walker have been promoted to senior vice president, and Ch ace Hen kean dC hr is Re yes have been promoted to vice president.
Bruce Kulzerhasbeen promoted to regional vice president of the southern region at Cedar Creek, based in its new Houston location. The company distributes wholesale building products.
Charles Johnson, Ross River sand Tim Kunz have been named senior associates atVLK Architects.
Pro xi bid, away to connect buyers and sellers of highly valued items, announced that Tim L an-
caster andTomLancaster have joined thecompany as sales executives, focusing onthe financial, energy, surplus and insurance salvage verticals. They will workwith both local andnational accounts for Proxibid.
The Let ton Hall Group, a provider of oil andgas measurement technology, is expanding its services. ThomasHurstell, a 25year veteran of process systems in the Gulf ofMexico, serves as senior measurement and allocation adviser. He is joined by Robert A. Webb, former head of measurement a tB P and chair of both the AP I committees on petroleum measurement and production measurement and allocation, and Jefferson Creek, emeritus fellow andformer senior research consultant in fluid sand flow assurance at Chevron.
Wes Garner has been named president of T DEC U WealthAdvisors. The Chronicle lists appointments to executivelevel positions in Houston. Send announcements to katherine.feser@chron.com.