PEOPLE ON THE MOVE

Finance

Grant Thornton LLP named Mark Margulies as its managing partner for South Florida, including the firm’s offices in Miami and Fort Lauderdale. He was most recently a senior partner in Grant Thornton’s corporate tax reporting and advisory practice.

Humana Inc. announced that Caraline Coats will lead its South Florida Medicare market, responsible for an 11-county South Florida region, which includes Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties. Coats also is interim-chief executive officer of The Humana Foundation.

Law

Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin added Dawn Marshall as special counsel in the firm’s Fort Lauderdale office.

Sara Mancini joined

Miami-based The Downs Law Group as an attorney.

Education

University of Miami Law School’s Master of Laws in Real Property Development LL.M. Program expanded its advisory board with the addition of three new members: Joseph Hernandez, Jessica Melendez,

and Oscar Seikaly. Hernandez is a partner and chair of Weiss, Serota, Helfman, Cole, & Bierman, P.L.’s

Real Estate practice group. Melendez is vice president of development of the Related Group. Seikaly is chief executive officer and owner of NSI Insurance Group LLC.

Florida Atlantic University’s Arthur and Emalie Gutterman Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education annual Educator Appreciation Dinner at the Renaissance Boca Raton Hotel featured recognitions that celebrated the work of K-12 teachers supported by FAU’s CHHRE and honored the 2021 Gutterman Family Outstanding Holocaust Educators. This year’s award recipients are: Dr. Louise Ball, Social

Studies curriculum supervisor, Broward County Public Schools; Amanda Ladd,

Park Vista High School; and

Susan Prieto, Eagles Landing Middle School, School District of Palm Beach County

Florida Atlantic University named Julie G. Pilitsis,

M.D., Ph.D., as the new dean of the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, beginning in February 2022. Pilitsis is currently division chief of functional neurosurgery and chair and professor of the basic neuroscience department at Albany Medical College in New York.

The Broward County School Board elected Laurie

Rich Levinson as chair and Patricia Good as vice chair.

Levinson and Good were first elected to the School Board in 2010.

Nine Miami Dade

College faculty were named 2021 Endowed Teaching Chairs. They are: George W. Jenkins/Publix Super Markets Charities Endowed Teaching Chair to Dr. Diego

Tibaquirá, professor of computer science with a cybersecurity concentration, at the Padrón campus; The Esther T. Colliflower, R.N. Endowed Teaching Chair: Sharon Plotkin, assistant professor, at the North campus; The Northern Trust Bank of Florida Endowed Teaching Chair: Dr. Elodie Billionniere, senior associate professor in programming, databases, information systems management, system design, and analysis, Padrón Campus; The Mardee Jenrette Endowed Teaching Chair of Excellence: Dr.

Leon Palombo, Professor in the department of World Languages, North campus; Demie Mainieri/Miami Jai-Alai Endowed Teaching Chair: Dr. Stephen John

son, senior associate professor, senior in the World Languages department and Honors College, Kendall Campus; Congresswoman Carrie Meek Endowed Teaching Chair: Dr. Simeon

Richardson, an associate professor, senior of English and developmental reading, Homestead Campus; The J. Harvey Watson Endowed

Teaching Chair in Aviation: Dr. Soumia Mass

aoudi Souchak, associate professor, who originally joined as an adjunct faculty to teach Physics, in 2013, Kendall Campus; The Joan K. Stout, R.N. Endowed Teaching Chair in Nursing: Dr. Roxana Orta, senior associate professor at the Benjamín León School of Nursing RN to BSN program, Medical campus; The Frances Louise Wolfson Endowed Teaching Chair of Excellence in Arts: Agustin

Gonzalez, assistant professor, who joined MDC’s School of Entertainment & Design Technology as a faculty member in 2013. He also serves as producer of MDC’s annual student film festival, North campus.

Gov. Ron DeSantis appointed Carlos Duart to the Florida International University Board of Trustees. Duart is the founder and chief executive officer of CDR Enterprises Inc. and its subsidiaries CDR Health Care Inc., CDR Maguire Inc. and CDR Financial Services, Inc.

Hospitality

The Boca Raton appointed general managers for its five hotels: Anthony Rico,

Beach Club; Brice Kemper,

Tower; Corinne Heyl, Yacht

Club; and James Carmody, of both the Cloister and the Bungalows. Also, Antonia Korosec will oversee resort operations across the property.

Cultural

Friends of the Mounts Botanical Garden announced three new members to its board of directors: Anne Gannon,

Palm Beach County’s Constitutional Tax Collector since 2006; Claudia Mendoza, chief executive officer of

I.Q. Constructions in Delray Beach; and Tim Whelan, owner of Art by Nature Garden Center in Palm Beach Gardens.

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