Accounting

Grossman Yanak & Ford LLP promoted several professionals: Erika Deiseroth to senior manager and Ryan Misenheimer to manager in the assurance and advisory services group; Alecia Kidder, Paul Oris and Katie Sprow to senior associates in the tax services group; and Nicole Croll to senior consultant in the ERP solutions group.

Contractor & Construction

PJ Dick Industrial, a division of PJ Dick, hired Michael Montgomery as director of business development, industrial.

Law

Cohen & Grigsby appointed four associates: Angela C. DeSantis, real estate group; Gabrielle E. Farkosh, employee benefits and executive compensation practice; Cezanne S. Tollari, litigation group; and Nicholas E. Uhler, corporate group.

Media

WQED Multimedia elected new board members to its community advisory board: chair, Tom McGough, executive vice president and chief legal officer, UPMC; vice chair and secretary, Mildred S. Myers; vice chair and treasurer, Nancy Bromall Barry; vice chair, James Singer; and president and chief executive officer, Deborah L. Acklin. Also, the board welcomed two new members to three-year terms: Max F. Miller, president and chief tasting officer, Raise Your Spirits LLC; and Gail Novak Mosites, musician. The board approved the following people to serve on the WQED Community Advisory Board for three-year terms: Albert Abramovic, county commissioner, Venango County; Gisele Barreto Fetterman, founder, Freestore 15104; Michelle Gerwick, chief financial officer, George Junior Republic and Affiliates; Karlye Rowles, director of marketing communications, University of Pittsburgh; LaWana Simmons, chief financial officer, East End Cooperative Ministry; and Robyn Vittek, director, Mt. Lebanon Public Library.

Marketing

Mindful Kreative hired Nicole Bandurski as account supervisor.

Nonprofit

Kelly Strayhorn Theater appointed Deborah L. Acklin, president and chief executive officer of WQED Multimedia, and Kannu Sahni, director of community affairs, Highmark Health-Allegheny Health Network, to three-year terms on its board.

Make-A-Wish Greater Pennsylvania and West Virginia elected Matthew Ray and Tracey Staley to its board. Mr. Ray is president of HM Health Solutions. Ms. Staley is senior vice president and chief human resources officer for Ainsworth Pet Nutrition.

Professional Services

West Penn Multi-List Inc. elected George Hackett, president of Coldwell Banker Real Estate Services, Pittsburgh, as president for a two-year term.

Public Relations

Havas PR hired Jacob Gnieski as a fellow to support its communications efforts.

Awards and Honors

Donald M. Yealy, a physician and chair of emergency medicine at UPMC and professor of emergency medicine and clinical and translational sciences at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was elected to the National Academy of Medicine.

UPMC Senior Services will honor Arthur S. Levine, a physician and senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and John and Gertrude Petersen Dean of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, as its 2017 grand champion for bringing worldclass senior services to Pitt.