Gossens Bachman Architects has announced that Diantha S. Korzun, AIA LEED AP and Daniel Wheeler have joined our team.

A student team from Norwich College in Northfield, Vt., is among five teams in New England chosen by the US Environmental Protection Agency to receive up to $15,000 to pursue projects that deliver sustainable, alternative methods of addressing environmental challenges.

KSV, a Burlington-based marketing firm, has promoted Cavan Chasan to executive connections director. The promotion reflects leadership restructuring within the digital media team and recognizes Chasan’s contributions to the growth and prosperity of the group.

The Association of Insurance and Reinsurance Run-Off Companies (AIRROC) has named Anna Petropoulos, founder and president of Apetrop USA, Inc., as its Person of the Year.

Apetrop USA is a Brattleboro, Vermont-based company that specializes in consulting and advisory services to insurers, reinsurers and other investors and prospective investors related to the transfer and assumption of closed blocks of insurance and reinsurance business under Vermont’s Legacy Insurance Management Act (LIMA).

Ledyard National Bank is pleased to announce that Victoria Mesropian has joined as Assistant Vice President, Private Banking Relationship Manager.

As a private banker, Torie will manage a portfolio of banking and financial relationships for professional clients and their families. She will utilize a consultative approach in delivering Ledyard’s full array of products while providing service that is tailored to meet each of her clients’ unique needs.

Dr. Bob Arnot will be the keynote speaker at CVAA’s Annual Meeting on October 28 at the Doubletree Hotel and Conference Center in South Burlington. The annual meeting will begin at 3pm, Dr. Arnot will speak at 4pm. Arnot is a TV Emmy Award-winning medical correspondent formally from CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and the Today Show; he is now a regular on the Discovery Channel. As a medical correspondent, he covered groundbreaking epidemics around the world including the AIDS crisis and Ebola.