The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
NEWSMAKERS
Ryan Taylor has joined Fallon Benefits Group as a vice president.
Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP has added Nelofar Agharahimi and Gillian S. Crowl as associates in the firm’s coverage and commercial litigation practice group, C. Pari Fakhrzadeh in the workers’ compensation practice group and David A. Smith in the litigation practice group.
Intellectual property lawyer
Jeffery B. Arnold has joined Holland & Knight’s Atlanta office as a partner
Corporate broker Stephanie
Marino has joined Newmark Knight Frank as senior managing director.
Diane Maddox has joined Winter Construction as a senior estimator.
PNC Bank has named Joe
Kennedy as vice president and commercial banking relationship manager.
Liz Jamison recently joined Lennar Atlanta as new home consultant.
ArtsBridge has named Jennifer
Dobbs Hill to the position of executive director.
Fifth Third Bank has hired Chris
Pettis as vice president, business banking relationship manager.
The Atlanta chapter of Les Dames d’Escoffier International has added nine new members. They are Lelia Bryan, co-owner, Vino Venue & Atlanta Wine School;
Mallory deGolian, food stylist and culinary producer; Shirley Hughes, owner, Sweet Cheats;
Natalie Keng, owner-founder, Chinese Southern Belle; Mandy Landefeld, lifestyle expert/ founder, Sumptuous Living; Denise L. Pickett-Bernard, assistant dean of nutrition, Life University; Sarah O’Brien, owner, Little Tart Bakeshop; Susan Pavlin, founder, Global Growers & The Common Market Georgia, and Christy Simo, editor, Restaurant Informer Magazine, executive editor, Georgia Trend Magazine
The Center for Puppetry Arts has elected attorney Jeffrey Blake, partner in the Atlanta office of Merchant & Gould P.C., and Nancy
Scheppmann, educator and community volunteer, to its board.
Dr. Josh Turknett, a boardcertified neurologist, has been named to lead Turknett Leadership Group’s foray into the neuroscience of leadership and learning by incorporating behavioral neuroscience into TLG’s existing services and will lead creation of the Turknett Center for Elite Cognition.
GPS Hospitality, a franchisee of Burger King and Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen restaurants, has hired industry veteran Chris
Phillips to provide companywide oversight for strategy, analytics, and mergers and acquisitions.