Attorney changes bar association role

MetaFund begins management plan

MetaFund has begun a management transition plan that includes the promotion of Sarah Reed and Blake Trippet, CEO Tom Loy said Monday.

“We are pleased to have two extraordinarily talented individuals positioned to lead MetaFund into its next 20 years of growth,” said Loy, who founded MetaFund in 1999. “In order to create a collaborative management and leadership structure, MetaFund has formed an Executive Management Committee consisting of Sarah Reed, Blake Trippet, and myself.”

MetaFund, founded in 1999 by Loy, has a mission to profitably invest in projects that create quality jobs, affordable housing, and provide other direct benefits to disadvantaged individuals and distressed geographic areas.

Trippet, who joined MetaFund in 2012, has been promoted to president. Reed, a CPA and former senior manager with a leading accounting firm, has been promoted to executive vice president.

Local attorney Jimmy K. Goodman recently was elected as secretary of the American Bar Foundation. He has served as its treasurer for the past two years, as a member of its board of directors since 2006 and was chair of the Fellows of the foundation in 2008-09.

Goodman, an attorney at Crowe & Dunlevy, will help to coordinate and supervise several projects for the foundation, including funding and research. In addition, he will co-chair the 30th anniversary celebration of the foundation’s Summer Research Diversity Fellowship this fall in Chicago, Illinois.

Goodman is a past president of Crowe & Dunlevy and has been president of the Oklahoma Bar Foundation and Oklahoma Bar Association.

ADDvantage bolsters telecom segment

BROKEN ARROW — ADDvantage Technologies Group Inc. has made changes designed to improve the operating strength of its telecommunications segment, the company announced.

As part of a strategy to strengthen revenue and profitability in the segment, ADDvantage is moving its subsidiary, Nave Communications, which offers refurbished telecom equipment, including the repair, testing and certification of equipment.

ADDvantage acquired Nave in 2014 and continued to operate the firm from its Baltimore facility, interim CEO Joe Hart said. Nave’s inventory management and order fulfillment will move to Huntsville, Alabama. ADDvantage will reduce the Nave workforce in Baltimore by 15 employees.

OG&E crews head to hurricane zone

More than 30 Oklahoma Gas and Electric Co. trucks and 72 crew members left Oklahoma City on Tuesday morning on their way to Raleigh, North Carolina.

The OG&E crews are scheduled to arrive at a staging area in North Carolina by Wednesday evening in preparation for Hurricane Florence, which is expected to make landfall Thursday.

The OG&E crews will be helping teams from Duke Energy assess and repair damage from the storm.