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Attractions, cultural, tourism
Lion Country Safari has promoted Jennifer
Berthiaume to managing director. Berthiaume has been the park’s public relations and marketing director since 2002. Before Lion Country Safari, Berthiaume spent six years working in the public relations industry, including at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay. Vice President Marc
Unterhalter will assume the role of chief executive officer. Harold Kramer, vice president and general manger is retiring. Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society named Kathleen Breland its chief operating and chief financial officer, as its interim chief executive officer. Breland joined the zoo in July 2009. She was promoted to chief operating officer in January 2015. The Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami has named Chana Budgazad Sheldon executive director. She was most recently the Miami director and national program adviser for ProjectArt, a nonprofit organization that provides free after-school art classes to underserved youth in public libraries through an artist residency program. Greater Miami Convention & Visitors Bureau has promoted Rolando Aedo to chief operating officer. Rolando has been with the GMCVB for more than 22 years and was previously executive vice president and chief marketing officer.
Medical
Broward Health has named Tory Y. Drakeford as its new vice president of human resources. Drakeford was previously with the Jackson Health System, where he was director of compensation. Prior to that, he was director of compensation and recognition-retention at Vidant Health, and he also held the position of compensation manager at Tenet Healthcare. HCA East Florida announced the appointment of Matt Hughes as chief financial officer of Plantation General Hospital. Hughes has been the controller at Aventura Hospital since 2015. Before that, Hughes was controller at Westside Regional Medical Center from 2014-2015. He also worked in the accounting department at Westside Regional Medical Center from 2007-2014. Hughes began his career as an office assistant at Planation General Hospital from 1999-2002
Recognition
The Boca Chamber will be hosting its 12th annual Diamond Award Luncheon on Feb. 23 at the Boca Raton Resort & Club’s Mizner Center. It will recognize Barbara Cambia, executive director of the Hannifan Center for Career Connections at Lynn University, who will be the 2018 Diamond Award Recipient. The honor recognizes a professional woman in Boca Raton and South Palm Beach Country that contributes to the vibrancy of the community.
Governmental, regulatory
Lee Chaykin, of Davie, the chief executive officer at Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, was recently reappointed to the board of Florida Correctional Medical Authority for a term that began Dec. 8, 2017, and will end July 1, 2020. Gov. Rick Scott appointed Gunster shareholder G. Joseph Curley to the judicial bench of the 15th Judicial Circuit Court in West Palm Beach. He fills a vacancy created by resignation of current circuit judge James T. Ferrara. The National League of Cities appointed North Miami Councilman Alix Desulme to the 2018 Information Technology and Communications federal advocacy committee for a second term. This committee takes the lead in developing the league’s federal policy positions on issues involving public access to telecommunications and information systems, privacy concerns, cable TV, phone services, spectrum issues, communications tower siting, universal service, broadcasting and defense of city rights-of-way from degradation caused by installation of communications facilities. The leadership of this year’s committee also includes Chair Gary Resnick, mayor of Wilton Manors. The Miami Association of Realtors announced that member Phyllis Choy was appointed as commissioner to the Palm Beach County Housing Authority, a group that aims to provide affordable housing to low- and moderate-income families. Choy has spent more than 20 years in real estate and is a Realtor with Water Pointe Realty Group in Tequesta.
Advertising, marketing
Miami-based rbb Communications has announced the expansion of its services with the establishment of Reputation & Risk Advisors that will be led by rbb Executive Vice President Laura Guitar. The crisis and issues management division will focus on crisis preparedness and other issue-oriented campaigns.
Law
Carlton Fields announced that three attorneys joined its Miami office: Jay Koenigsberg,
Michele B. Softness and Matthew H. Jacobson, in the firm’s Real Estate and Commercial Finance practice group. They join from the Miami law firm of Isicoff, Ragatz & Koenigsberg. Holland & Knight announced that two associates and one senior counsel were elevated to partnership. They include:
Ariadna Alvarez, formerly a senior counsel; and Elena
Otero and Patrick Emans, formerly associates. Greenspoon Marder promoted Marla Neufeld to partner and Joshua J.
Remedios to senior counsel in Fort Lauderdale and Miami, respectively.
Nonprofit
Carolina Cardozo, Dan Schevis and Angie Stone have joined the board of directors of the Hispanic Unity of Florida.
Education
Miami resident Lucien C. (Bay) Proby has been re-elected executive director of StormZone, a schoolbased multidisciplinary science and social studies education program designed for middle and high Proby schools in the United States and overseas. The program is sponsored by the International Association of Emergency Managers, Florida International University, the Weather Channel, Pasco Scientific, the American Red Cross and CBS4 Neighbors 4 Neighbors. Proby, president of Proby & Associates, Inc., a Miami-based public relations firm, founded StormZone in 2006.
Finance
Craig Storch has been promoted to managing director and principal in the Miami Office of Bernstein Wealth Management. U.S. Century Bank announced the addition of Sheila Morales to its business banking division as vice president, business banking lender ll, in Doral. Previously, she was a vice president and commercial banking officer at Mercantil Bank, N.A. for more than three years. She has also worked as a lender for Banco Do Brasil Americas, JGB Bank, N.A., Florida Community Bank, N.A., Premier American Bank and Ocean Bank. Lockton has named Matt DiGregorio as a senior vice president in its South Florida operation in Miramar. Most recently, he was a principal with Mercer Health & Benefits, based in Fort Lauderdale. Additionally, JoAnne Steed has joined Lockton as a senior account executive.