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Virginia Business// January 28, 2016//
Steven L. Brinker, joined the law firm Crenshaw, Ware & Martin PLC in Norfolk as partner. He will chair the firm’s Business Law Practice Group. (News release)
Lloyd DeWitt, named chief curator and Irene Leache Curator of European Art of the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk. DeWitt has been curator of European art at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto since 2011. He will begin his new role this spring. (News release)
Newport News-based PBMares LLP has named three new partners: Jennifer French, a tax manager in the Williamsburg office; Todd Swisher, a senior assurance manager in the firm’s Richmond office; and Dan Chenoweth, a tax manager in the Newport News office. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
Wilkes Graham, named chief financial officer, Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust, Virginia Beach. He succeeds Steven Belote, who will remain with the company as its chief operating officer. Graham was director of research and senior sell-side equity research analyst with Compass Point Research & Trading LLC in Washington, D.C. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
J.D. Myers II, named senior vice president and region manager of Cox Virginia, Chesapeake, after serving in the role on an interim basis. Myers succeeds Gary McCollum, who resigned to run for state Senate. (Daily Press)
Susan S. Pittman, named chief lending officer, Bank of Lancaster, Kilmarnock. She joined the bank in 2002 and has held several roles since then, including senior vice president and commercial lending officer. (SBFI.org)
Robert “J” Stinnette, named legal technology manager at Norfolk-based Vandeventer Black LLP. Stinnette
has 20 years of experience in IT consulting. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
Todd Starr, senior mortgage banker at Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group in Virginia Beach, installed as the new president of the Tidewater Mortgage Bankers Association board of directors. (Daily Press)
Carolyn Bragg, chosen Augusta County Board of Supervisors chairwoman in January. Bragg is the third woman to serve as chair of the board. (News Leader)
John H. H. Graves, reappointed to the Virginia Cave Board. He is president of Luray Caverns Corp. in Luray. (News release)
Maya Hawthorn and Ami Keatts, named to the Virginia Advisory Board on Midwifery. Hawthorn is a licensed midwife at Brookhaven Birth Center in Harrisonburg, and Keatts is a physician at Augusta Health Care for Women, which has offices in Fishersville and Lexington. (News release)
Everence Financial in Harrisonburg has announced Jacqueline Painter is now an investment adviser representative for Everence Trust Co. (The Northern Virginia Daily)
Tony Wininger has joined the Bank of Clarke County as a vice president and commercial lender at the Leesburg branch. He was vice president and commercial lender at Reston-based John Marshall Bank. (The Northern Virginia Daily)
Jessie Barksdale, elected chairman of the Pittsylvania County Board of Supervisors. Barksdale also was chairman in 2014. He succeeds Brenda Bowman, who was chairwoman for one year. (Danville Register & Bee)
Named to the Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission: Gayle F. Barts, a legislative assistant; John Sherrard Holland, owner, Holland Lumber Services LLC and Holland Hunting Preserve LLC; Cathy Lowe, Abingdon vice mayor and executive director, Virginia Highlands Small Business Incubator; and Robert Mills, Jr., owner/operator, Briar View Farms. Robert Spiers, owner/operator, Spiers Farm LLC and member of the Virginia Farm Bureau, was renamed to the commission. (News release)
Alan Howard, named acting president, First State Bank, Danville. He replaces Kelvin Perry, who has left the bank to pursue other opportunities. Howard has served as executive vice president and chief operating officer at First State since 2009. (Work It, SoVa)
U.S. Rep. Robert Hurt, R-5th, confirmed his plans to retire from Congress when his term expires. Hurt, who lives in Chatham, was first elected in 2010. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Barbara Seamster, hired to handle marketing and communications for Kare Pharmacy, Danville. Seamster will be responsible for communicating with doctors, dentists, veterinarians and other health care providers in the region about the pharmacy’s compounding products. (Work It, SoVa)
Brian O. Hemphill, named Radford University’s seventh president, effective July 1. Currently the president of West Virginia State University, Hemphill will succeed Penelope W. Kyle, who is retiring after 11 years at Radford’s helm. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
Rachel Hopkins, named executive director, Science Museum of Western Virginia. She was vice president of development for Roanoke’s Center in the Square. (News release)
The Roanoke Regional Chamber has elected officers for 2016, including Ken Randolph, chair, and Nathan Kerr, chair-elect. (The Roanoke Times)
Timothy K. Schools, named president and CEO, Highlands Bankshares Inc. and Highlands Union Bank, Abingdon. He also was named to the board of both organizations. Schools succeeds Samuel L. Neese, who retired in November. (News release)
Arevo Group, a North Carolina-based professional service recruiting firm, recently located to Roanoke and has named Donna Tatum executive recruiter, Randy Lowman director of contract services and Coy Renick director of business development in the Professional Services Division. (The Roanoke Times)
Valerie Thomas, associate professor of forest remote sensing, and Yang Shao, assistant professor of geography, were named co-directors of the Center for Environmental Applications of Remote Sensing in Virginia Tech’s College of Natural Resources and Environment. (The Roanoke Times)
Former Virginia Tech President Charles Steger, named chairman, Virginia Western Community College Educational Foundation. (The Roanoke Times)
John F. Clark, former director of the United States Marshals Service, appointed president and CEO of the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Alexandria. (News release)
Chris Conklin, named managing director of the Tysons office of VHB, an engineering, science, planning and design firm. Conklin also will continue to be director of transportation systems for VHB’s six offices in North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia. (News release)
Kate W. Hardey, joined McGuire Woods as a partner in its Tysons Corner office. She was senior counsel at GE Capital, Healthcare Financial Services, Bethesda, Md. (News release)
Falls Church-based CSC has named President and CEO Mike Lawrie chairman of the company and added two directors: Mukesh Aghi, president of the U.S.-India Business Council, and Herman E. Bulls, an executive at commercial real estate firm JLL. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
Joanne Lipman, principal of Surrey Lane Media and former editor-in-chief of Conde Nast Portfolio and Portfolio.com, named chief content officer at McLean-based Gannett Co. Inc. Daniel Bernard, former head of product for Time Inc., is now chief product officer at Gannett. (News release)
Gary L. Armstrong, named Richmond regional president, Park Sterling Bank. Armstrong was executive vice president and commercial banking group leader at Glen Allen-based First Capital Bank, which was bought by Charlotte-based Park Sterling earlier this year. (RichmondBizSense.com)
Daniel A. Gecker named to the Virginia Board of Education. He is a partner at Richmond-based Urban Development Associates LLC and a former chairman of the Chesterfield County Board of Supervisors. (News release)
Michael Heaton, named president of Markel Ventures, the investment arm of Henrico County-based Markel Corp. Heaton will retain his title as chief operating officer. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
Edward A. Mullen, named partner at the law firm Reed Smith in Richmond. He is a member of the firm’s Global Regulatory Enforcement Group. (News release)
Stephen C. Piegrass, named partner at the law firm Troutman Sanders in Richmond. His practice focuses on representing clients involved in regulatory enforcement actions and investigations. (News release)
Kevin D. Schneider, promoted to chief operating officer of Henrico County-based Genworth Financial Inc. Schneider was executive vice president-global mortgage insurance. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
Lee Warfield, named president, Cushman & Wakefield | Thalhimer, Richmond. He succeeds Paul F. Silver, who will continue to be the firm’s chairman. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
Alexander Hamilton IV, a broker and executive in Richmond’s real estate community for more than four decades, has retired from the Richmond office of CBRE. Hamilton was CBRE’s senior vice president of global corporate services. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
Jeff Swartz, named director of information technology, Marsh & McLennan Agency (MMA), Mid-Atlantic Region. Before joining MMA, Swartz was the office technology manager for MGTI’s Baltimore and Washington, D.C. market. (VirginiaBusiness.com)
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