Okemo Mountain Resort welcomes Ashley Elicker as its new director of culinary services. She will oversee all aspects of the resort’s culinary operations on a year-round basis. Originally from New Canaan, Conn, Elicker graduated from Middlebury College, in Vermont. She earned her MBA from the University of Virginia and completed the French Culinary Institute’s Classic Culinary Arts Program.

Vermont Farmers Food Center added two members to its Board of Directors: Jody Condon serves as Controller for Castleton University and Joshua MacDuff is a small-diversified farm advocate that uses this drive daily in his Farm Insurance Producer role with local agency, Kinney Pike Insurance. “Food connects all of us and creates a space that fosters learning about food and agriculture and fills my aspirations to help farmers and educate our neighbors about food.

Inntopia is proud to announce the recent hiring of Terry Trail as Product Manager. Originally from New Hampshire, Terry has lived in Boston for the past decade where she worked at various software companies, including Runkeeper, LevelUp, and Bullhorn, Inc. “A lot of my experience is in program and project management, as well as Agile methodology, and I am looking forward to putting those skills to use in driving product decisions for Inntopia,” said Terry.

Michael Ly has been named to Intuit Inc’s (Nasdaq: INTU) Accountant and Advisor Customer Council. Intuit creates business and financial management solutions that simplify the business of life for small businesses, consumers and accounting professionals. The founder of Reconciled It, Ly is one of 17 council members who will share their insights, experience and expertise to help Intuit develop new products and services for accounting professionals and small businesses. He has more than 15 years’ experience in financial leadership.

A student who is passionate about cleaning up St Albans Bay, Vermont, and restoring it to a place of beauty will get a head start on her dream—with an all expense paid scholarship to the nation's number-one college for sustainability-based education, Green Mountain College. The First in Sustainability Scholarship Award was the brain child of Warner Communications, a world-class boutique public relations and communications firm, and its client, Green Mountain College (GMC).

Christopher C Shaddock Jr has been named the Director of Business Development for the Rutland Region Chamber of Commerce. Shaddock comes with over forty years of experience in service, sales and marketing in the health and fitness industry along with a decade of sales leadership in resort development including the Killington Grand Hotel project and the Okemo Mountain, Jackson Gore Inn and Golf expansion.