Stephanie Yu, deputy director of the Public Assets Institute in Montpelier, has been named the organization’s next president and executive director. She replaces founder Paul Cillo, who will step down at the end of this year.
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David Baczewski, an independent leadership and defense consultant, has been named senior business development specialist — military for the Fairfax-based aerospace firm Liquid Measurement Systems.
Eric Hauser, director of finance and operations at the energy engineering consulting firm Cx Associates, has been promoted to chief finance and people officer.
Geri Reilly Real Estate has hired Reilly Simoneau, former talent acquisition operations specialist at the pharmaceutical manufacturer Takeda, as its new marketing coordinator. After graduating from the University of Vermont, Simoneau moved to Boston, where she spent six years working in both the nonprofit sector and the corporate world.
Ric Cengeri, former host of the WDEV Radio talk show "Vermont Viewpoint," has been named communications and outreach specialist at HomeShare Vermont in South Burlington.
Vermont Federal Credit Union has promoted Tim Daniska from director of credit and loan production to the newly created role of chief lending officer. Prior to joining Vermont Federal six years ago, Daniska was a product manager at GTE Financial in Tampa, FL. He is a 2011 graduate of the University of Vermont.
KeyBank welcomed two new branch managers, Orhan Smailhodzic and Paul Vallerand, to its Vermont retail banking team and promoted former branch manager Edward Sheldon to business banking relationship manager for the Vermont market.
Caryn Packard, founder and principal consultant at Packard Healthcare Consulting in New York City, has been appointed director of development at the Southwestern Vermont Health Care Foundation.
The Flynn, a member-supported nonprofit in Burlington that engages, entertains and enriches Vermont through the performing arts, announced it has hired Matt Rogers and Kevin Sweeney to be its directors of programming and marketing, respectively.
Whitney Coombs Bowden, former director of business development at Greater Burlington Industrial Corporation, has joined the Charlotte-based public relations firm Junapr as associate director. In her new position, Bowden will focus on some of Junapr’s key Vermont-based clients, including Vermont Law and Graduate School.
The Vermont Agency of Education has named Robyn Newton, a physical education teacher at Vergennes Union Elementary School, as its 2023 Vermont Teacher of the Year.
Shirley A Jefferson, vice president for community engagement and government affairs at Vermont Law and Graduate School, was honored with an HBCU Pre-Law Lifetime Advocacy Award at the National HBCU Pre-Law Summit. She also moderated a panel during the summit, held Sept 16-17 in Washington, DC.