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People on the move Associations & Organizations
The American Coatings Association named Michael H. McGarry chairman of its board. Mr. McGarry is chairman and CEO of PPG.
Education
Shady Side Academy appointed Katharine Fredriksen chief financial and operations officer.
Law
Rothman Gordon PC named Raymond M. Roberts chair of the estates, trusts and taxation group. Mr. Roberts has an estate planning and administration practice, assisting clients with estate planning, estate administration and probate.
Manufacturing
Elliott Group named Takanobu “Nobu” Miyaki
vice president of industrial products and Shane Reph
vice president of global service.
Nonprofit
Danielle L. Dietrich of Tucker Arensberg PC was appointed to the board of the South Hills Interfaith Movement. Ms. Dietrich focuses her practice on serving the needs of small and diverseowned businesses and health care providers. The mission of SHIM is to mobilize community resources and implement sustainable programs that compassionately help meet basic needs, achieve self-sufficiency and build community.
Awards and Honors
Graham Hatfull,a professor of biotechnology in the department of biological sciences at the University of Pittsburgh’s Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences, was elected a 2020 member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Mr. Hatfull’s work with SeaPhages, a national program that teaches undergraduates students to discover bacteriophages, led to the creation of a phage cocktail used to fight an antibiotic resistant infection in a 15year old lung transplant patient.
Herb Douglas was named the 2020 Visit-Pittsburgh Bob Imperata Passion for Pittsburgh Award recipient. The award is bestowed yearly to an individual, group or organization who displays a passion for Pittsburgh and a passion for promoting the city. Mr. Douglas, a Pittsburgh native and the oldest living African American Olympic medalist, has been a staunch advocate for his hometown and for the University of Pittsburgh, where he was a multisport athlete in track and field and football.
The winners of Visit-Pittsburgh’s 2019 Partner of the
Year Awards, which recognize outstanding contributions to the region’s business, sports and travel and tourism industry, are: Meet-Pittsburgh Partner of the Year — Kim Sarkady of the American Trucking Associations; Sports-Pittsburgh Partner of the Year — Jennifer Tuscano of the University of Pittsburgh Athletics; Marketing Partner of the Year — Mitch Swain of the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council; Destination Services Partner of the Year — Megs Yunn of Beverly’s Birthdays; and Partnership Development Partner of the Year — Pittsburgh Brewing Co.
412 Food Rescue was recognized as a winner of Fast Company’s 2020 World Changing Ideas Award. The award honors businesses, policies, projects and concepts that are actively engaged and deeply committed to flattening the curve when it comes to the climate crisis, social injustice or economic inequality. 412 Food Rescue’s Food Rescue Hero app won the Apps category and was selected as a finalist in the Food category. The app coordinates over 10,000 volunteer food rescue drivers in Pittsburgh and is now scaling food recovery in 6 cities nationwide.
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