On the Move
November 15, 2009
NEW FACES
• Jason Harvie of Brunswick is the supervisor of The College Store, Bowdoin College's new retail store at the Maine Street Station complex in downtown Brunswick. He previously worked as sales manager at the Timberland store in Freeport.
• Don Kleiner has taken the role of executive director for the Maine Professional Guides Association. He has been a guide since 1984 and has a long history of working for conservation and the outdoor recreation industry.
• Rick and Diane Piecuch, Leonard Maglioca and Melissa Leonard make up the new management team at The Woods at Canco, a Holiday Retirement community in Portland. The Piecuches previously worked as co-managers of Summer Place in Chelmsford, Mass. Maglioca and Leonard were previously co-managers of White Oaks in Manchester, Conn.
• Benjamin E. Ford, Nathaniel R. Hull, Kyle T. MacDonald and Misti D. Munster have been hired at Verrill Dana, a Portland law firm. Ford recently received his law degree from the Vanderbilt University School of Law, previously working 15 years in the marine industry. Hull, a recent graduate of the University of Maine Law School, previously worked in the tax department at Fairchild Semiconductor International. MacDonald also graduated from the University of Maine School of Law and was a summer associate at the firm in 2008.
• Michele Giggey and Kelly Bocchino have joined Macdonald Page & Co. LLC, a certified public accounting firm. Giggey has been practicing accounting since 2001 and joins the firm as an audit and accounting manager in the South Portland office. Bocchino will work in the Augusta office as a staff accountant, having earned a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master of science degree in business at Husson University.
• Jacqueline Case-Hall of Rockport has joined Legacy Properties Sotheby's International Realty office in Camden. She has been a licensed Maine real estate agent for more than 20 years.
PROMOTIONS
• Timothy Crockett of Brunswick has been named senior vice president at Measured Progress in Dover, N.H. He first joined the educational assessment company in 1993. In his new capacity, he will oversee the company's statewide general and alternate assessment work, which spans 15 states and provides testing services to more than 2 million students each year.
• Greg Strzegowski has been named senior vice president at Wright Express in corporate development. He has more than 20 years of experience, including the previous eight at Wright Express, where he began as the company's controller. He was most recently vice president of international business development at the company.
• Jeannine Lepitre of Kennebunk was named chief executive officer of Counseling Services Inc. of Saco. She has been serving as acting CEO since March when Dr. Sherry Sabo retired, and served as chief financial officer for 13 years previously.
AWARDS and RECOGNITION
• College of the Atlantic received the New England Board of Higher Education's Robert J. McKenna Award for Program Excellence during the board's annual Higher Education Excellence Awards. The college, founded in 1969, goes by the premise that education should go beyond understanding the world as it is, to enabling students to actively shape its future.
• Maine Beverage Co. has been named 2009 Vendor of the Year by the Maine Grocers Association for creating civically responsible promotions, focusing on Maine-based businesses and developing a well-run corporation. Underscoring its commitment to the community, the company has partnered with the association on its annual scholarship program designed for students whose activities and career goals are business- and grocery-industry oriented.
GENERAL
• A Shade Better recently moved to 152 U.S. Route 1 in Scarborough. The new, larger space has allowed owner Kelly A. Brown to complement her 32-year custom window treatment studio with several lines of accent furniture, mirrors, lamps and wall art. Showroom hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturdays.
• Opus Consulting Group is a new business at 2 Market St., Portland, founded by Jacques Santucci to provide corporate renewal and turnaround management services for business owners. The group will help businesses on their path to success by offering financial management and operational restructuring services. Santucci has worked for international groups and held leadership positions in the entertainment, tourism, financial services and technology industries.
• Katie Dumican of West Rockport and Valerie Firth of Jefferson have received their Child Development Associate credentials in recognition of their outstanding work with young children. The credentials were awarded by the Council for Professional Recognition. Dumican and Firth are teachers at the Penobscot Bay Medical Center Creative Learning and Childcare Center.
