The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
NEWSMAKERS
■ Invest Atlanta has hired
Nathan Regan to serve as the agency’s senior vice president of economic development.
■ Bruce Ford has been named president of Transwestern Commercial Services’ East Region.
■ Le Bilboquet has named Ilona Knopfler a managing partner, Rainer Shaw regional director of operations, Cyrille Holota regional executive chef and Sosthene Kabore chef de cuisine.
■ S-E-A recently appointed
Chet Patel branch manager in the Atlanta office. It also appointed Nick Mahoney as a project engineer in the electrical engineering department.
■ Equifax Inc. has announced that Heather H.
Wilson, chief data scientist of L Brands, Inc., has been appointed to its board of directors.
■ Lee & Associates has promoted Trip Ackerman and Tyler Flemming to the position of executive vice president and principal.
■ Atlanta-based health care marketing communications and technology agency MERGE Atlanta has added
Kris Krava as executive creative director.
■ Merk Investments has hired Peter Maletis as vice president – gold and precious metals research. Robinson Mertilus ■ Diversified Trust has promoted Robinson
Mertilus vice president in its Atlanta office.
■ Turner Sports has promoted Howard
Mittman to chief executive officer of Bleacher Report.
■ Agrisel USA Inc. has named Tim Martel as vice president of sales and marketing.
■ Dean Burnette, founder of Best Business Brokers, has been named to lead the Georgia Association of Business Brokers.
■ Atlanta-based INSUREtrust has added Hunter Maskill to its executive team along with Christiaan Durdaller and Zane Goldthorp. ■ Cardlytics has named
Jared Luskin as senior vice president for growth verticals and John Hider as vice president of grocery ad partnerships.
■ WestRock Co. has named
Patrick Lindner president of consumer packaging.