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Seamon Whiteside & Associates has hired Meredith Beardon for its Mount Pleasant Landscape Architecture department. Beardon formerly worked for DesignWork.
Historic Charleston Foundation has hired April J. Wood as manager of easements and technical outreach. Wood has more than 10 years of experience in the field of preservation, including work as an architectural conservator at Building Conservation Associates Inc. and
Jablonski Berkowitz Conservation Inc. in New York. Locally, she owns Charleston Conservation LLC.
CRG Engineering Inc. of North Charleston has hired Alicia Kennedy as a marketing assistant and Stephanie van der Horst as a civil engineering technician.
Derek Abney has accepted an engineer/technical designer position at Woolpert Inc. in the site/civil design department at its Charleston office. Abney is working with the office’s developer clients to prepare quality construction documents.
Sally Eyre has joined Stephen Herlong & Associates Architects as an intern architect. Before joining the firm as a full time employee, Eyre worked as a summer intern for Herlong & Associates.
Laura Kate Whitney has been hired as the director of national sales and marketing at The Lettered Olive. Most recently, she led the design efforts for Stephen Duvall Décor as well as for Hartmann Studios Inc., an event production company in Atlanta, Ga.
Samantha Dupuis has joined JMC Charleston as a summer intern.
Clifford F. Schneider has been named vice president of Stewardship and Sustainability, MeadWestvaco’s newly formed group. Schneider is a longtime forester who joined the company in 1976 and has worked on issues related to forestry, climate change, supply chain analysis, certification and industry policy.
JW Aluminum Co. has hired Craig Eddy as vice president of business development. Eddy reports to Don Kassing, president and CEO. Before joining JWA, Eddy was president and CEO of Coastal Aluminum Rolling Mills Inc.
Jennifer DeWitt has been named executive director of the Lowcountry Manufacturers Council. DeWitt is responsible for managing the organization, overseeing all programs and events, growing the membership and developing relationships with community partners. Prior to accepting this position, DeWitt was the business development manager for the Charleston Metro Chamber of Commerce.
Dixon Hughes PLLC has promoted Marie Parnell to senior tax associate and Jeremy Gilbert to senior associate in the audit department.
Steve Ballard and Kristen Magurno have joined Carolina Capital Management as financial representatives and work in the Daniel Island office.
Carolina First has promoted Jerry Jenerette to executive vice president. Jenerette joined Carolina First in January 1997 and most recently served as regional group president of the South Carolina Costal Region.
Mark Fell has joined Carolina Capital Management as a financial representative and will be working in our Daniel Island office. Fell has 10 years of experience on the NYSE trading floor.
Bob Pilcher has been hired as vice president of development for the IBG Partners LLC’s Charleston projects. Pilcher brings nearly 30 years of experience in waterfront development design and construction to his new role. Mandy Coleman has been hired as a sales representative for the St. John’s Yacht Harbor project, which is being developed by IBG Partners. Prior to joining IBG, Coleman was the marketing and leasing coordinator for Twin Rivers Capital LLC.
The Noisette Co. LLC has hired Anne S. Lawless and Bess B. Du Bois. Lawless, a veteran executive of the Atlanta real estate industry, is director of asset management while Du Bois is receptionist and office assistant.
Lori Ridgeway has joined Century 21 Properties Plus Inc. as a real estate agent and works out of the Metro North office in North Charleston. Frankie Liady has joined as a real estate agent and works out of the Summerville office.
Beach Commercial has hired Jessica Hall as a commercial broker, specializing in the
suburban office market. Prior to joining The Beach Co., she was a junior broker in Washington, D.C.
Deb Albritton has joined Prudential Carolina Real Estate as a real estate agent in the Metro North office in Goose Creek.
Century 21 Properties Plus Inc. has hired eight new real estate agents: Andrea Stevenson, Chris Jamison, Darrell Haselden and Robin Christie joined the Metro North office located on Rivers Avenue; Karen Koerner, Chris Goodson and Catharine Holland joined the Mount Pleasant office located on Two Island Court; and William P. Milo joined the Summerville office located on West Richardson Avenue.
Helen Hiser has joined McAngus Goudelock & Courie LLC’s Charleston office. Hiser practices utilities law, energy regulation and insurance law. She is a member of the Maryland bar, the District of Columbia bar and the South Carolina bar.
Benjamin A. Traywick has joined Young Clement Rivers LLP as an associate in the Charleston office.
Eric Hacker has returned to the Charleston RiverDogs after spending seven weeks with the Class A Advanced Tampa Yankees.
Joseph DuBois has joined Buist Byars & Taylor LLC as an associate attorney in the firm’s Mount Pleasant office. Prior to joining the firm, DuBois practiced law with the Harrell Law Firm in Charleston
Pat Vedra has been named director of active adult housing with David Weekley Homes. Vedra most recently led the development of Del Webb Active Adult Communities with Pulte Homes in Dallas/Fort Worth.
Ryland Homes has promoted O.R. Nasseri from purchasing assistant to land assistant. Previously, Nasseri worked for Ryland Homes as a building superintendent.
Setcom Media Inc., owner of the Charleston Regional Business Journal and SCBIZ magazine, has hired Molly Parker as staff writer, Karen Kaplan as editor, Mark Wright as business developer and Jennifer Moran as graphic assistant. Previously, Parker worked for the Peoria Journal Star in Illinois as a staff writer; Kaplan was an associate editor and industry reporter at Physics Today, a Washington, D.C.-based monthly magazine; Wright sold print advertising throughout the Southeast for Atlantic Publication Group; and Moran worked for Minuteman Press in Charleston as a graphic designer and store manager.
Heather Woolwine has been promoted to media relations director at Medical University of South Carolina after working in the public relations office for five years. Megan Fink has been hired to work in the public relations office at MUSC.
Grand Ideas Inc. has hired Autumn Carter as payables and receivables clerk. Previously, Carter served as accounts receivable and payable clerk at Carolina Muffler & Brake and as store manager at Sweet Repeats Consignments.
Mary Frash has joined Obviouslee Marketing as an account executive. She previously worked at Chicago-based public relations firm Wagstaff Worldwide Inc.
Arcadia Publishing has hired Monica Pelletier as backlist marketing manager. Pelletier’s duties include marketing, promotions and public relations efforts to boost book sales.
Fish restaurant has hired general manager Caroline Jackson, who brings more than 10 years of culinary experience; restaurant manager Jodie Battles, who most recently completed an internship at Summit 111 in Mount Pleasant; sous chef Richard Jones, who was previously a sous chef at B.E.D. Restaurant in the Glenn Hotel in Atlanta, Ga.; sous chef Charron Henry, who was also a sous chef at B.E.D. Restaurant.
Jeremy Tunstill and Fitz Coker have opened their second Quiznos location with the purchase of an existing Quiznos at 3515 Mary Ader Ave. in Charleston.
CoolPeopleCare.org, a philanthropic Web site based in Nashville, Tenn., has expanded the site into Charleston as part of an initiative to move into 30 new cities in June.
Specialty retailer J. Jill has opened its first store in Mount Pleasant at Mount Pleasant Towne Centre. The 2,794 square-foot store is the company’s 241st site and its second in South Carolina.
John Springer, a licensed residential home builder with more than 21 years of construction experience, has opened Mainsail Construction Co. Inc. of Johns Island. Karen Mobley has joined the company as project manager.
Assistant professor Kristin B. Gutting joined the faculty of the Charleston School of Law in June to teach tax issue and policy.
Karen Forman has joined Lutheran Hospice as admissions social worker for the organization’s Mount Pleasant and Ladson offices. Prior to joining Lutheran Hospice, Forman was a social worker for Southern Care Hospice.
Trident Health System has hired Laura Perdue as director of emergency services at Summerville Medical Center, Jennifer Schlette as manager of emergency services at Moncks Corner Medical Center, Malissa Flynt as director of the fourth floor ortho/neuro unit at Trident Medical Center, Leasonia McAuley as director of environmental services at Summerville Medical Center and Patricia “PJ” Johnson as CEO at Summerville Medical Center.
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