PEOPLE IN BUSINESS
Here’s a look at promotions, hirings, movers and newsmakers in the Memphis area:
Crye-leike Real Estate Services announced Tia Veazey is affiliated with its Southaven office as a licensed Realtor. She serves the residential real estate needs of buyers and sellers throughout Desoto and surrounding counties. The office is located at 1320 Goodman Road.
The accounting and consulting firm Reynolds, Bone & Griesbeck recently added Austin Arrington, Claire Cornelius and Jess Morris to its ranks. All three served as RBG interns in 2019 and now join the tax staff. Each graduated from the University of Mississippi. Arrington holds a master’s degree in accountancy, Cornelius earned a master’s degree in taxation, and Morris also earned a master’s degree in taxation.
Averitt Express freight transportation and supply chain management compa
ny honored associate Benjamin Presley of Bartlett for 20 years of safe driving. Averitt’s Memphis-area facility is at 4250 Air Trans Road.
VMLY&R promoted Teresa Barnhill to lead the agency’s Memphis office, which primarily serves the United States Navy Recruiting Command, Amtrak, Fedex and St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital. Barnhill will continue to lead strategy and insights for the United States Navy Recruiting Command client partnership. In her expanded role, she’ll focus on workplace, workforce, marketplace and community development for the Memphis team. Her priorities will include pipeline development and mentorship partnerships with local universities like LeMoyne-owen College and local charter schools.
Leon Dickson, a past Memphis Area Association of REALTORS president, has been named Tennessee REALTOR of the Year by the Tennessee REALTORS, of which he also served as president in 2018. During his previous term, he started a scholarship fund for high school seniors, advanced a real estate leadership academy and worked with other association executive committee members to help prepare them for new leadership roles.
Frederick M. Azar, chief of staff of Campbell Clinic Orthopaedics and professor at the University of TennesseeCampbell Clinic Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Biomedical Engineering, has been re-elected to a oneyear term as treasurer of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery (ABOS).
The ABOS board of directors consists of 21 members, which includes 12 active directors, six senior directors, two directors-elect and a public member director. Nominations to the ABOS of directors come from the American Orthopaedic Association, the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, and the American Medical Association. Azar was elected to the ABOS Board of Directors in 2016 and serves as chair of the ABOS Oral Examinations Committee. He specializes in orthopaedic sports medicine and serves as the team physician for the Memphis Grizzlies and local Memphis colleges and high schools.
LRK associate Krissy Buck Flickinger has been named a 2020 LEED Fellow by Green Business Certification Inc. Flickinger is among 25 professionals who represent exceptional practitioners and leaders within the green building community and have demonstrated mastery of the technical application of LEED, the world’s most widely used green building rating system. Flickinger has practiced architecture for more than 13 years and serves as LRK’S director of sustainability. LEED Fellows are nominated by their peers and must have made at least 10 years’ worth of exceptional impact on LEED and hold an active LEED AP with specialty credential, among other requirements.
Jenny Vergos has joined Marx-bensdorf REALTORS as an affiliate broker. She brings to the firm a wealth of expertise including nearly three decades of sales experience in the outdoor advertising market.
The law firm of Glankler Brown announced that Dakota Beasley has joined the firm as an associate. She concentrates her practice in the area of real estate. Beasley this year received her juris doctor from the University of Memphis where she served as president of the Student Bar Association. She simultaneously received her Master of Business Administration from the University of Memphis. While in law school, she was a judicial extern for Judge Sheryl Lipman in the United States District Court for the Western District of Tennessee.
NOTEWORTHY
Trezevant resident Jack Moran was honored at this year’s 901 Parkinson’s Fighters Annual Golf Tournament in September, held at The Links at Overton Park. Proceeds from the golf tournament and fundraiser benefited those who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s. 901 Parkinson’s Fighters is a local nonprofit in which individuals with Parkinson’s gather and share their hope with others who are fighting the disease through various exercise classes such as Trezevant’s Rock Steady Boxing program. For 50 years Moran was track coach at Christian Brothers High School, where the track was dedicated in his honor in 2018 to commemorate his long-term leadership and service.
Paragon Bank and Make-a-wish MidSouth joined forces to grant 4-year-old Reniya her wish of a shopping spree. This is the 15th consecutive year Paragon has partnered with Make-a-wish Mid-south to grant the wish of a local child or teen. The event took place
Oct. 21 at the bank’s Saddle Creek Banking Center, 7600 Poplar Ave. Paragon team members put together a drive-thru fall festival for Reniya — including a pumpkin carving and decorating contest, flash mob dance party, team members dressed in fall costumes, concluding in her wish being fulfilled. Additional gift baskets were prepared by bank staff and provided to Reniya’s siblings.