Rebecca Bishop Ware has been named to succeed Betsy Rathbun-Gunn as director of early-childhood services for the Head Start/Early Head Start program at United Counseling Service, a private, nonprofit community mental health center in Bennington County. Bishop Ware has served the last seven years as assistant director of the program.
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1% for the Planet, a global network with thousands of businesses and environmental organizations working together to support people and the planet, has appointed Annika Berman, Madelyn Postman and Marcius Extavour to its board of directors.
Attorney Heather Southwell, former senior counsel for the IRS Office of Chief Counsel at the U.S. Department of Treasury, has joined the labor and employment team at Downs Rachlin Martin in Burlington.
E4H (Environments for Health Architecture), a national health care architecture firm with offices in Williston, has appointed Jeremy Bartz as its next president. Bartz, who has over 22 years of experience in the health care and health science industry, previously served as regional lead for E4H’s mid-Atlantic region.
The Governor’s Institutes of Vermont recently welcomed new trustees Sue Bentlage, senior director at Marvell Technology in Burlington; Gary Marini, president of New England Woodcraft; and Dan Mullen, corporate counsel for the environmental and sustainability services firm SCS Global Services.
The Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies, a Burlington-based nonprofit organization that offers programs and capital funds to select early-stage firms, has promoted Nicole Eaton to marketing and communications manager.
Bar Harbor Bank & Trust has promoted Cristy Harding to branch relationship manager for the bank's Brandon and Rochester offices.
Audrey Macie, director of operations at Noyle Johnson Insurance in Montpelier, has been named Vermont Member of the Year and awarded the inaugural Pat Murray Education Scholarship by the Vermont chapters of the International Association of Insurance Professionals.
National Life Group Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer Nimesh Mehta has been named to the Parkland Health Foundation Board of Directors.
Lincoln White, former president of the Burlington information technology services firm Pyrabyte, has been named chief information officer at Vermont Federal Credit Union.
Sarah Buxton, former state director of workforce development at the Vermont Department of Labor, and David Mears, former executive director of Audubon Vermont, have joined the Montpelier law firm Tarrant, Gillies & Shems.
Clarice Cutler of East Montpelier, Evan Foster of Burlington, Maria Brosseau of Burlington and Mead Binhammer of Brookfield have joined the Vermont Land Trust to advance conservation across the state.