Broadcast

Development

MANA Group announced new executives. Albert Maloof Berdellans III joined the company as vice president of marketing and communications, from event company SWARM where he was vice president of marketing. Before that, he was a head marketing executive at Ultra Music Festival. Pauldine France joined MANA as vice president of leasing. France brings more than 15 years of commercial real estate leasing experience, including the development of the Virgin Trains Miami Central Terminal, as well as transformative projects in Wynwood, Aventura and Surfside. Michelle Abbs joined MANA as director of Mana Tech. Previously, Abbs was director of Babson College’s WIN Lab where she led the program’s goals to develop South Florida’s tech entrepreneurship and innovation landscape.

Gilbane Development Co. announced the addition of Chandler Aden as vice president/development director multifamily, based in Boca Raton.

Community

The Arc of Palm Beach County named Anthony J. Robinson as the new chief development and human resources officer, in Riviera Beach. Most recently, he was a major gifts officer with the Cleveland Clinic of Florida. Robinson also has worked with TBC Corp. and the American Cancer Society.

The Southeast Florida chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association named Tracey Wekar-Paige of Pompano Beach as its new executive director. Previously, Wekar-Paige worked as market director for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation since 2016. Prior to that, she spent five years at the American Cancer Society in hospital systems and other leadership roles. WekarPaige also worked as a group manager at Bloomingdale’s and as a marketing director for Fortunoff.

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Broward County board of directors announced the appointment of Co-Chief Executive Officers, Matt Organ and Chris Gentile.

KidSafe Foundation, the Boca Ratonbased nonprofit that teaches personal safety to children, has elected Len Keilin as chairman of the board.

its 2020-2021 board of governors and incoming Board President Victoria Chouris, graduate of the Leadership Engage Class of 2010. Chouris, is president and chief executive officer for the South Florida Fair & Palm Beach County Expositions Inc. Other Leadership Palm Beach County Officers include: Thomas Bean

(2013), vice president, Florida Power and Light, director of public & community engagement; Mike Bauer (2015), vice president, Roger Dean Chevrolet Stadium, general manager; Mark Parks (2017), treasurer, City of West Palm Beach, chief financial officer; Roberta Jurney (2010), Immediate Past President, Quantum House, chief executive officer. The Board of Governors are: Gurbir Aulakh (2015), Palm Beach County Board of County Commissioners, senior manager, IT; Rikki Bagatell (2014), Shutts & Bowen, partner; Toby Basore (2005), TKM Bengard Farms, president; Jessica Cecere (2000), Nonprofits First, chief executive officer; Linda Culbertson (2005), Foresight Communication & Consulting, president; Antonio Duboy (2008), Wells Fargo Bank, senior vice president, commercial banking team lead; Keely Gideon-Taylor (2014), The Palm Beach Post, community relations & special events supervisor; Faye Johnson

(1997), City of West Palm Beach, city administrator; Kimberly Lea (2016), Keiser University, campus president; Barbara LeBrun (2015), NAI Merin Hunter Codman, managing director; Denise Mariani

(2017), Susan G. Komen Florida, director of development; Deana Pizzo (2014), I.T. Solutions of South Florida, chief executive officer; Elisha D. Roy (2017), Sasser Cestero & Sasser, P.A., partner; Eric Royal

(2017), Royal’s Inc., vice president of real estate operations; Ofelia Utset, M.D.

(2013), Deluge Biotechnologies, Inc., president; Caroline Villanueva (2014), Florida Crystals Corp., South Florida external affairs manager; Jessica Clasby (2020), Class of 2020 Liaison, Florida Sugar Cane League, senior director of public relations.

Mollas

Beau Ferrari has been promoted to Chairman of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises. He was executive vice president of NBCUniversal Telemundo Enterprises since 2017. Ferrari succeeds Cesar Conde, who was named chairman, NBCUniversal News Group.

South Florida PBS announced that Jose J Jimenez, technical maintenance supervisor, South Florida PBS, received the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Silver Circle Award, which recognizes individuals who have worked with distinction in the television industry within the Suncoast Region of the State of Florida, the State of Louisiana, the Mobile, Alabama-Pensacola, Florida television market as well as Puerto Rico for a quarter of a century or more. Jimenez began his career in broadcast engineering after completing his training as an Electronic Engineer at the Universidad Distrital Francisco Jose de Caldas in Bogota, Colombia. Prior to moving to the United States, he worked at the National Institute of Radio and TV in Bogota. In 1989, Jimenez joined the staff at WPBT2 in Miami as a maintenance engineer and later he was promoted to supervisor of technical maintenance.

Jimenez

Cultural

Matt Stabile, producing artistic director of Florida Atlantic University’s Theatre Lab in the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, received the South Florida Theatre League’s 2020 Remy Pioneer Award, bestowed upon individuals who have, over the years, taken the lead and contributed substantially to the health, growth and development of the South Florida theater community. Stabile received multiple nominations for this year’s award — many

Stabile of which specifically reference the work Theatre Lab did to assist local artists with the Original Online Monologue Festivals (#OOMF) in March and April. These two festivals were organized to encourage donations to local performers and supporting workers.

Chambers

The Delray Chamber of Commerce named Carolina Rush as Membership Director. Previously, Rush worked for the Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce.

Education

Miami Dade College Hialeah Campus Professor Dr. Kelly Kennedy-Everett was appointed to the Phi Theta Kappa’s Honors Program Council. She is one of four college faculty in the country selected to help PTK direct its activities for the next four years representing specific learning areas. Kennedy-Everett has been with MDC since 1993.

Real estate

Lee & Associates Commercial Real Estate Services announces the addition of Kevin McCarthy as principal specializing in Investment Sales throughout Palm Beach County and the Treasure Coast.

Magnus Jennemyr has opened Engel & Völkers Miami Coconut Grove with the following agents and staff: Lourdes Alatriste and Mariana Martinez, personal assistant; Marianna Dubinsky, Shawn Frechette, Dana Lund, Ania Montwill, Kristen Clark, Ricardo Escobar, Magdalena Tomasino, Stephan Hermida, Amy Lawrence, Sandra Savini, Alicia Schimmel,Nadia Bouzid and staff: Felix Mendoza and Monique Fiscella.

The Keyes Company announces the addition of Alberto Carrillo as district sales manager of the firm’s Miami Beach office.

Lee & Associates South Florida added Elias Porras, SIOR, as principal specializing in office, healthcare and industrial sales and leasing.

Colliers International Florida announced that Christopher Twist has joined the firm as senior director in Miami.