Maurizio Bonivento, former area managing director at the Row NYC Hotel in New York City, has been appointed general manager of the Equinox Golf Resort & Spa in Manchester Village.
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Vermont Adult Learning recently welcomed Kim Rupe Lennox as director of workforce development and Haley Lebel-Stephen as community and workforce engagement manager. Both roles are focused on expanding Energy Works, VAL’s training program designed to meet Vermont’s green energy workforce needs.
Addie Lentzner, founder and co-executive director of the Vermont Student Anti-Racism Network, and Chris Alfano, founder of the smartphone app Civicly, have been named 2023 recipients of the John Lewis Youth Leadership Award by Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas in partnership with the National Association of Secretaries of State.
Justin Huizenga, an 18-year veteran of the Winooski Police Department, has been appointed as the city's next police chief. Huizenga had been serving as interim chief since former chief Richard Herbert retired in December.
The Champlain Housing Trust, a membership-based nonprofit organization that creates and preserves affordable housing in northwest Vermont, recently elected two new members to its board of directors and presented leadership awards to three individuals and two organizations.
Norwich University has appointed alumni Alfred J. Gobeille and Vincent T. McDermott to five-year terms on its 33-member board of trustees. Both will serve on the board's budget and finance committee, among others.
Laurie Kozar has been appointed director of allocations for the Vermont Disaster Recovery Fund as it gears up to provide grants to people affected by the 2023 floods. The fund helps individuals affected by disasters after they have exhausted all other sources of assistance.
Community Bank has promoted John Keshavan to senior vice president and chief credit officer, and Bruce Bernier to regional credit officer.
Dr. Michael Hehir, a nationally recognized leader in neuromuscular disease education, was invested in January as the inaugural holder of the James F. Howard Jr. Professorship in Neuromuscular Disorders at UVM's Larner College of Medicine.
The Howard Center Board of Trustees has elected Kelly Deforge, senior mortgage loan originator at Union Bank, as its new president, and Yves Bradley, a partner at V/T Commercial, as vice president. They will serve alongside fellow officers George Philbert, who continues as treasurer, and Cyndee Surtevant, who remains as secretary.
Immigration attorney Jill Martin Diaz, former professor and director of the Center for Justice Reform at Vermont Law and Graduate School, has joined the Vermont Asylum Assistance Project as its first executive director.
Vermont Mutual Insurance Group, a property and casualty insurer based in Montpelier, has hired Samuel Hopkins (pictured) as vice president and chief information officer and promoted Director of Research and Development Joshua Wykle to the newly created position of vice president of strategy and innovation.