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Accounting
Schneider Downs hired Eric Surma as a senior manager of financial planning and analysis.
Banking
Farmers National Bank appointed Kristin Anderson to assistant vice president, relationship manager, treasury management, in Western Pennsylvania.
First Commonwealth Bank promoted Frank Bovina to corporate banking group manager and hired William Dickson as senior corporate banker and team leader, sponsor finance group.
Engineering
Roger Sandak joined HRG as a team leader, assisting water and wastewater utilities with process control and automation.
Law
Strassburger, McKenna, Gutnick & Gefsky announced that Jonathan Krassenstein joined as partner, business law and litigation.
Burns White LLC said Joseph J. Peluso Jr. joined as an associate in its health care group, focusing his practice on representing hospitals, physicians and other health care professionals and entities with medical malpractice claims.
Nonprofit
The Jewish Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh named Hindy Finman as senior director of Jewish Life.
Awards and Honors
PPG received its second consecutive Gallup Exceptional Workplace Award for its high employee engagement and notable workplace experience. The award recognizes companies that align their business strategies around employees.
Banking industry analytics company S&P Global Market Intelligence named First Commonwealth Financial Corp. to its Top 100 S&P Global Market listing of financial performance by U.S. public banks with total assets exceeding $10 billion and trading on the Nasdaq or NYSE as of March 6. First Commonwealth ranked 21st on the list, using 2023 calendaryear data based on three major categories — growth, profitability, and safety and soundness.
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