The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
NEWSMAKERS
■ Greenberg Traurig LLP, has promoted John Dyer, Sean Jessee and Courtney Noce to shareholder, and Joshua Portnoy to “of counsel” in the Atlanta office.
■ Kelly Fink was just promoted to vice president of sales and marketing for The Providence Group of Georgia LLC.
■ Cardlytics has hired former Nielsen executive Randall Beard as group president, advertisers, and SunTrust and PNC veteran Shannon
Johnson as group president, financial institutions.
■ The Council for Quality Growth named Steve Labovitz as the new vhair for 2018. ■ Cushman & Wakefield has hired Amy Gerber as executive managing director of the firm’s business incentives consulting team. ■ Waveguide LLC, a technology and acoustics consulting firm headquartered in Atlanta, has named Jason Rogers as an audiovisual designer in its Atlanta office.
■ Trusted Counsel (Ashley) LLC, an Atlanta-based corporate and intellectual property law firm, has hired Thomas Wardell. ■ Ross Conway has joined Fallon Benefits Group as an account manager. ■ Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP has named Daniel S. Sanders Jr. as a partner in the Greenville and Atlanta offices. ■ Horizons Atlanta has added four new board members. They are Tiffany Burns of McKinsey & Company, M. Patrick Carroll of the Carroll Organization, Jeff Fendler of Primerica and Stacy Goodman Scott, a longtime community advisor. ■ Darlene Hunter has rejoined Stonemark Management as regional vice president. In addition, Michael Slaton has been named Stonemark’s director of maintenance.
■ Southeastern Mills Inc. has promoted Peter W. Hjort Jr., chief operating officer, to the position of president. Also, Linda Owens, outgoing president, will remain as chair.
■ The Council for Quality Growth has named Steve Labovitz, senior partner with Dentons LLP, as its board chairman.
■ Faraz Iqbal, long-time technology solutions and delivery vice president, has been named chief operating officer of the Atlanta-based franchise IT solutions and operations software company.