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CORPORATE MOVES - March '98

Meridian Announces New President, Promotions

Meridian Communications, a Lexington-based marketing, advertising and public relations firm, has named Joel Rapp as its new president and chief operating officer. In his previous position of senior vice president and director of media services, Rapp ran the agency's media planning and buying operations for six years.

In addition to the announcement of Rapp's promotion, Meridian also announced that current president Don Van Erden has been promoted to the newly-created post of agency vice chairman. Ave Lawyer, executive vice president for creative services, has been assigned the responsibility of strategic planning for all Meridian clients.

Other promotions at Meridian include:

John Hickman, senior vice president
John Myers, senior vice president
Kenny Weaver, vice president - creative services
Mary Hemlepp, director of public relations
Laura Newsome, director of special events
Shane Hall, manager of marketing services

Mary Ellen Slone, founder of the agency, will continue as agency chairman and CEO.

 

ACCOUNTING

Tricia R. Carpenter, Susan Keffer, Mary (Mollie) Schnettler and Stephen Schnettler have become associated with the firm of Dean, Dorton & Ford, P.S.C.

 

ADVERTISING

LeAnn True Norton has been named account coordinator for AD-SUCCESS.

 

CONSTRUCTION

Stanley Gross has been appointed president of HH General Contractor Inc., replacing Jon G. Hall, who has been elected chief executive officer and chairman of the board.

 

CONSULTING

Alvin A. Rhoney, C.P.A., has been named senior consultant for Profit Management Consulting, Inc.

Ken Kimmel has joined Millennial Enterprises, an international business consulting and development firm.

 

FINANCE

Greg Mullins has been named as a commercial lending officer with the commercial lending group of Central Bank. David Denson has been named as a mortgage lending officer with the bank.

Robert Feenick has been hired as a vice president and equine lender for Bank One's Lexington Commercial Banking Group.

 

FOOD SERVICE

Long John Silver's has announced the following appointments:

Joe Kendra vice president -- brand marketing
Tom Jump vice president -- marketing services.

 

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Wayne Ebersohl has been promoted to director of sales with Bitwise Technology.

John Atterbury, Sherrie Hurley, Robert Raymond and Ted Vittos have been named account managers with Systems Design Group, Inc.

 

REAL ESTATE/PROPERTY MANAGEMENT

Isaac Commercial Properties, Inc. has promoted Paul Ray Smith, Jr. to the position of executive vice president and appointed Bruce R. Isaac vice president of the company.

 

OTHER

Wendy Haney has been named director of membership for Greenbrier Golf & Country Club. Mark Tassone has been named the club's golf course superintendent.

Susan Martin has been promoted to assistant vice president of sales and marketing at The Jockey Club Information Systems, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Jockey Club.

Thomas Tessar has been named vice president of sales for G & M Moving and Storage of Kentucky, an Atlas Van Lines agent in Lexington.

Wallace's Bookstores has announced the following promotions:

V. Patricia Dunn - vice president/ director of management information services
J. Steven Zalewski - vice president-retail division

Chris Dykes has joined Speedway SuperAmerica LLC's planning and analysis team in Lexington.

Shield Environmental Associates, Inc., a Charlotte-based environmental consulting firm with offices in Atlanta, Pittsburgh and Lexington, has named James D. Knauss of Lexington as chief executive officer of the company.

Genesis Viatical, L.L.C., a company that provides financial assistance to individuals with life-threatening illnesses, has named Trish Sills as president.

 

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