PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Melissa
Gaus has been appointed marketing manager for Omni Houston Hotel and Omni Houston Hotel at Westside.
IDE Technologies, a global provider of water treatment solutions, announced the appointment of John Henderson as director of industrial sales with IDE Americas. Henderson will spearhead IDE’s growth in the petrochemical, refining and power sectors. Kim A. Ruth has joined Apex Partners, a boutique investment bank, as a managing director.
Veteran Houston business attorney
Larry Wilson has joined BoyarMiller as a shareholder. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, securities registration and regulation, and other transactional matters. Edge, a commercial real estate firm, announced the expansion of its Edge Capital Markets platform to its Houston office. Burdette Huffman has joined Edge Capital Markets as principal, and
Kevin Holland has joined as senior vice president. They join Houston Edge principal Josh Jacobs, senior vice president Jed Mandel and associate Bill Pyle. Linda Retherford of Bastion Technologies has been re-elected as president of Armand Bayou Nature Center for 2016. The Intercontinental Chamber of Commerce has promoted Alexia Cisneros to director of marketing and Erica
Reifel to chief of staff. Appointed to the organization’s board of directors are: Tom McDonald, business development executive at Willis Towers Watson, and Patrick
Matthews, president of AJER Logistics.
RPS Klotz Associates, a Texas-based civil engineering firm, has expanded the role of Kevin
Tyer to include firmwide responsibilities as deputy operations manager. Tyer will continue to work on projects in the firm’s traffic and intelligent traffic systems department. Thomas Lamb has been named executive vice president, chief marketing officer, at Academy Sports + Outdoors, effective
May 23. Lamb was recently chief marketing officer at Lowe’s Cos.
Thomas R. Miller has been appointed chief financial officer of Sunoco GP, the general partner of Sunoco.
Tiffany Sylvester has been promoted to director of marketing communications at TDECU.
John Cornwell has joined Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr in its bankruptcy, financial restructuring and insolvency practice group.