PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Here’s a look at promotions, hirings, movers and newsmakers in the Memphis area:
❚ Reynolds, Bone & Griesbeck announced the addition of Skylar Bursi, Joseph Katool, Jerome Lindsey, Jamison Payne and Parker Sewell to its professional team, recentlly. All will join the firm as interns for the 2020 tax season assisting with completing tax returns and experiencing tax season. Bursi is a student at the University of Memphis where she expects to graduate in December. At the University of Mississippi, Katool expects to graduate this month. Lindsey will graduate this summer from the University of Memphis. Payne attends the University of Mississippi where she’ll graduate this month. Sewell also attends the University of Mississippi and expects to graduate later this year.
❚ Hunt Campbell and Tyrone Burroughs have been elected directors at the, Mississippi, based Guaranty Bank & Trust Co. Campbell was chairman, president and chief executive of First Alliance Bank of Memphis, which Guaranty Bank acquired in 2019. Burroughs served with Campbell on the First Alliance Bank Board. Campbell served as the senior officer of First Alliance Bank for more than 20 years. Since 2010, Burroughs has served as chairman of MG Capital and is the founder, president and chief executive of First Choice Sales & Marketing Group, Memphis.
❚ Ted Bruno and Patrick Lowery have been named as members of Frazee Ivy Davis. Bruno is a partner in the Assurance Services group as an audit specialist and adviser. Lowery is a partner in the Tax Advisory group. He concentrates his practice in consulting to private business owners, investors, executives and individuals.
❚ Harris Shelton Hanover Walsh added three new members to its ranks. Emily Huseth and Taylor Davidson are with the firm’s headquarters in Memphis. Benjamin West is in the Oxford, Mississippi, office. Huseth earned her juris doctor from Emory University. She’s been an associate attorney for the past decade and with Harris Shelton since 2015. Her practice areas include health care, professional liability defense, and business and commercial disputes. Davidson graduated from William & Mary Law School has been an associate attorney at Memphis-based The Hardison Law Firm since 2017 when it merged with Harris Shelton. His focus is on medical malpractice defense, general civil litigation, and health care and commercial law. West earned his law degree from the University of Mississippi School. He joined Harris Shelton as an associate in 2017 and practices in general litigation.
❚ Barge Design Solutions, with an office in Memphis, announced that Paul Bizier was recently announced as the Environmental and Water Resources Institute (EWRI) Lifetime Achievement award winner. He was recognized this month at the World Environmental & Water Resources Congress. Bizier is currently a senior engineering manager at Barge Design Solutions in Nashville. As a professional engineers for 33 years, his career has focused on designing innovative water and wastewater systems. He is an EWRI founding member and current Chair of their Congress Steering Committee.
❚ Crye-leike Real Estate Services announced its 2019 top producing winners for the West Tennessee Region. To be named a top producing agent or team in one of Crye-leike’s nine-state regions, recipients must have earned the highest sales volume, or had the highest number of real estate transactions, for that year. Honored were vice president and broker Joyce Mckenzie (Collierville branch), top producing agent by sales volume; Judy Mclellan “Judy Mac Team” (Quail Hollow), top producing team by sales volume and Lifetime
Top Producer; affiliate broker Rick Travers (Germantown Poplar), top producing agent by transactions; affiliate broker Tyler Tapley “The Tyler Tapley Team”, top producing team by transactions; senior commercial adviser Jeff Moore (commercial division), top producing agent for commercial sales; and Realtor Lindsey Hamm (Atoka, Tennessee, branch), rookie of the year.
❚ Baker Donelson announced that Kay Anderson has become a Rule 31 Listed General Civil Mediator for the state of Tennessee. Thus, she is able to serve as a neutral party who assists in the resolution of disputes through a voluntary settlement process that is less costly, time-consuming and adversarial than litigation. She is a member of the firm’s Memphis office and its Health Care Litigation group, where she represents physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners and CRNAS in malpractice defense litigation.
❚ Jason Yaun, associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics in the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center and Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, was elected vice president of the Tennessee chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics (TNAAP). He is serving a two-year term for the organization which is based in Nashville and comprises physicians and specializes in pediatric advocacy for the state of Tennessee. TNAAP members work with legislators and policy makers to ensure the physical, mental, and social welfare of children, their families, and the pediatricians who care for them.
❚ Anton Mack has been named executive director of Explore Bike Share, Memphis’ nonprofit shared mobility system that operates 600 bikes, 200 seated OJO scooters and 90 docking stations across the city’s core. He’s been a brevet judge for men’s gymnastics.dca, a creative communications consulting firm based in Downtown Memphis, received a dozen Addy awards at Memphis’ 53nd American Advertising Awards on Saturday, February 22, 2020.
❚ DCA brought home a dozen 2020 Addy awards Feb. 22 on behalf of Puck Food Hall, Downtown Memphis Commission, 18 Main, Dunavant Logistics and AAF District 7 campaigns at the 53rd American Advertising Awards. The firm’s winning work displays a wide spectrum of creative execution, from in-house video production and strategic sales collateral to capture the essence and energy of Downtown Memphis, to holistic food & beverage brand identity development. For Puck Food Hall, DCA earned a “Best of Out of Home” recognition in addition to 3 Gold awards and 2 Silvers; for work for Downtown Memphis Commission, 3 Silver Awards; for 18 Main, 1 Silver Award; for Dunavant,, 1 Gold Award; and for AAF, a Silver Award.
❚ Unity Psychiatric Care, a division of Franklin, Tenn.,-based American Health Partners, named Robert Edwards administrator of its Memphis location. He oversees operations for the psychiatric hospital, which provides care for seniors dealing with an acute mental health crisis as well as behavioral complications from dementia. Edwards joins Unity Psychiatric Care from Lakeside Behavioral Health where he served as chief nursing officer.
❚ The Catholic Diocese of Memphis hired Deacon Jeff Drzycimski as its new director of Catechetical & Sacramental Formation. He’ll work in concert with Catholic Diocese of Memphis Bishop David P. Talley and the executive director of Evangelization and Discipleship Alma Abuelouf providing lifelong catechesis and sacramental formation in the Catholic faith, leadership and training for catechists and teachers of children and adolescents. In addition, he will offer marriage sacramental formation and family enrichment training while supporting the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults (RCIA) programs across the Memphis Diocese. H e is a permanent deacon for the Catholic Diocese of Memphis currently assigned to St. Louis Catholic Church.
❚ Neel-schaffer promoted Chris Sellers to the new role of director of Business Development for the East Region. He joined the company in 1999 and most recently served as operations manager for its Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina offices. In his new role, Sellers will focus primarily on business development in Neel-schaffer’s six-state region which includes Memphis.
❚ Ajay J. Talati, the Sheldon B. Korones Chair and Chief of Neonatology in the College of Medicine at the University of
Tennessee Health Science Center, received the Founder’s Award from the Southern Society for Pediatric Research (SSPR). The Founder’s Award is given to a SSPR member who has made significant contributions to both the health care of children and the organization’s activities. Dr. Talati is also a professor in the Departments of Pediatrics and Obstetrics and Gynecology at UTHSC, medical director of the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital, and medical director of the Sheldon B. Korones Newborn Center at Regional One Health.