Main Street Landing, an environmentally and socially conscious redevelopment company in Burlington, has promoted Owen Lapierre to director of buildings and grounds. Lapierre, who has worked at Main Street for 12 years, has assumed all property management and construction projects at the company.
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Danaher Attig & Plante, a full-service tax and advisory firm in South Burlington, announced that Sara Gyselinck has been promoted to partner. In this position, Gyselinck provides tax and advisory services to a diversified client base, including high-net-worth individuals; closely held businesses; trusts; and estates.
Vermont Conservation Voters presented this year’s Environmental Rising Star Awards to Representatives Gabrielle Stebbins of Burlington and Dane Whitman of Bennington. The awards are given biannually to first-term legislators who have stepped up and been effective champions of VCV priority issues.
Burlington resident Melissa Davidson, MD, a faculty physician leader at the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine, was invested Feb 7 as the inaugural holder of the Howard Schapiro, MD’80, and Janet Carroll, MSN, MPH, Green & Gold Professorship in Anesthesiology.
Vermont Electric Power Company announced the election of Colin Owyang as senior vice president following a unanimous vote of the company’s board of directors. This is a return engagement for Owyang, who previously served as VELCO’s senior vice president, corporate secretary and general counsel before leaving in 2019 for a position at Franklin Energy.
The University of Vermont Medical Center Board of Trustees has added Shelburne resident and attorney Meg O’Donnell to its board of trustees. O’Donnell is active with several local organizations working to improve the health and well-being of people in the region.
Daniel Jacobs, former investment management associate at Akin Gump in Washington, DC, has joined the northern New England law firm Downs Rachlin Martin.
Vermont Law School has named Beth Locker as its new associate dean for experiential learning, an appointment that adds dean-level leadership to the school’s experiential and clinical programs and recognizes the critical role of experiential learning in legal education.
Comcast has named Saif Malik as vice president of finance for the company’s Western New England region, which serves more than 300 communities across Connecticut, western Massachusetts, Vermont, western New Hampshire and New York.
Travis Thomason, director for the Pacific Islands Area at the US Department of Agriculture's Natural Resources Conservation Service, has been named state conservationist for NRCS-Vermont. He succeeds Vicky Drew, who retired last July after nearly 38 years of service.
Lake Champlain Community Sailing Center welcomed three new members to its board of directors. They are Christy Gallese, Megan Sullivan and Anastasia Surmava.
Max Rooney, former financial consultant for Fidelity Investments, has joined People’s United Advisors in Burlington as senior vice president and senior relationship manager. In his new role, Rooney will be responsible for managing client relationships throughout the state of Vermont.