WestView Investment Advisors, an independently owned Burlington investment firm, has been recognized as one of the nation's top registered investment advisors by Financial Advisor Magazine for 2022. The company was the only Vermont-based firm to earn a spot in the magazine's annual RIA Survey and Ranking report.
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Steve Parren (right), former coordinator of the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources' Wildlife Diversity Program, was honored Oct 1 as 2022 winner of the Sally Laughlin Award for the Conservation of Endangered and Threatened Species.
Bee’s Wrap in Middlebury, a manufacturer of reusable, all-natural food-storage wraps, has hired Brendan Taylor of Shelburne as CEO. Taylor comes to Bee’s Wrap following two years as CEO of the luxury laundry detergent brand The Laundress. He holds an MBA in marketing from the University of North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School.
Ledyard Financial Group, the holding company for Ledyard National Bank, announced that Peter Sprudzs has joined the company as senior vice president and chief financial officer. He succeeds Greg Steverson, who will be retiring from Ledyard in December after 20 years with the company.
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.
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.