PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Kimberly Hickson has joined architecture and design firm Perkins+Will as principal. Kaci Hancock has been promoted to senior property manager at Wulfe Management Services. Janna Roberson has been named executive director of Urban Harvest. Nick Laettner has been named city partner-development at Morgan, a national multifamily development, construction and propertymanagement firm based in Houston. Houston investment executive Benjamin Warren has been elected chair of Holocaust Museum Houston’s board of trustees and board of advisers. Jared Ford has been appointed as president of construction and partner at the Dinerstein Cos., a national developer of multifamily and student housing communities based in Houston. Ford will join the company in September. EEPB CPAs & Business Advisors has promoted Courtney Blackburn to audit shareholder, Jason Warren to tax shareholder, Christopher Suffron to tax director, Ryan Kelting to tax director, Kyle Doughty to manager and Stephan Shipp to manager.
Dr. Crystal Collier has joined the Hope and Healing Center & Institute as the Murphy-Peterson Behavioral Health Fellow, specializing in adult and adolescent mental illness, behavioral disorders, and substance abuse. Russell Gips has joined Houston litigation firm Copeland & Rice as a partner, representing companies and individuals in commercial and business matters. Rob Sanders has joined the accounting firm of Compton & Wendler as a valuation analyst. Alasdair A. Roberts has joined the Houston office of Preis as an attorney. Lauren Quinn has been promoted to vice president of external relations at LifeGift.