People – September 2016

EASTERN VIRGINIA
Andre Fischbach has been appointed president and CEO of Yupo Corp. America, Chesapeake. Fischbach held the same role at Quadrant Polypenco Korea. (News release)

Betsy Francis has been named vice president and general manager for the mid-Atlantic market at AT&T. She was vice president of AT&T Ohio. She will oversee sales and operations of more than 85 stores in Virginia, North Carolina and West Virginia. (Inside Business)

Scott Kennedy, headmaster of Norfolk Collegiate, has begun a two-year term as president of the Virginia Association of Independent Schools. (Inside Business)

Norfolk Councilwoman Andria P. McClellan, named to the local Government Advisory Committee to the Chesapeake Bay Executive Council. (News release)

C. Evans Poston Jr., appointed to the Board of the Virginia College Building Authority. He is commissioner of the revenue in Norfolk. (News release)

Blythe Ann Scott has been named chair of the Norfolk Airport Authority Board of Commissioners. The board’s former vice chair, she is general counsel at Norfolk-based PRA Group. She succeeds Gus J. James II who is of counsel at Kaufman & Canoles in Norfolk. (SouthsideDaily.com)

Andrea Sykora has joined the Norfolk-based law firm Vandeventer Black LLP as chief information officer and assistant executive director. Before joining Vandeventer Black, Sykora was the senior director of information technology for Norfolk Public Schools. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Katrice Hardy, managing editor of The Virginian-Pilot, is leaving the newspaper after 21 years for a position with Gannett Co. in South Carolina. Hardy will be executive editor of The Greenville News. She also will be one of Gannett’s 15 regional editors, leading the southeast and overseeing three other newspapers in Asheville, N.C.; Anderson, S.C.; and Staunton, Va. (The Virginian-Pilot)

SHENANDOAH VALLEY
Dr. Shadi Ayyas has joined Medics USA Primary and Urgent Care Center in Winchester. He has 17 years of medical experience around the world. (The Northern Virginia Daily)

Strasburg has hired  New Market native Michelle Bixler as its new economic development and marketing manager. She has returned to the Shenandoah Valley after a career in public relations. (The Northern Virginia Daily)

Carrie Hileman Chenery was reappointed to the Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Authority. She is executive director of the Shenandoah Valley Partnership. (News release)

Steve F. Elkins has been named president and CEO, DuPont Community Credit Union, Waynesboro, effective March 2017. Elkins, DuPont’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, will succeed Gerald B. Hershey. (News release)

Melissa Hensley, principal of Central High School in Woodstock, is one of three people nominated for the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Principal of the Year award. The Reston-based group will announce its winner in October. (The Shenandoah Valley-Herald)

Leigh Ann Schultz has been elected to the board of directors of Shenandoah Telecommunications Co., Edinburg. She is managing director for MorganFranklin Consulting. (News release)

Bo Wilson has been reappointed to the state Litter Control and Recycling Fund Advisory Board. Wilson is vice president of Dr Pepper of Staunton. (News release)

SOUTHERN VIRGINIA
Westover Christian Academy in Danville has named Terry Moffitt as its new administrator, succeeding Shawn Weeks.  Moffitt has been in his position since July 1. He brings 25 years of Christian education experience to the job. (Danville Register & Bee)

South Hill-based CCB Bankshares Inc. has named Christy F. Quesenbery executive vice president and chief operating officer. Quesenbery has more than 30 years of experience in banking and other industries. She joined the bank as enterprise risk manager. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Bruce R. Scism has been reappointed to the A.L. Philpott Manufacturing Extension Partnership Board of Trustees. He is president of Danville Community College. (News release)

Litz H. Van Dyke has joined Martinsville-based Carter Bank & Trust as executive vice president. Van Dyke was a practice manager for CCG Catalyst Consulting Group in Phoenix. (Danville Register & Bee)

Former Chatham Star-Tribune Editor Tim Davis was honored for his 25 years of service to county residents with a General Assembly resolution presented to him July 28 by Del. Les Adams. Adams, of the 16th House District, offered House Joint Resolution No. 106 in January commending Davis for his decades of service as editor of the Star-Tribune. (Chatham Star-Tribune)

SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
Vance W. Adkins has been named chief financial officer of HomeTown Bankshares Corp., the parent company for Roanoke-based HomeTown Bank. He joined the company in 2010 as the senior risk officer. Adkins succeeds Charles W. Maness Jr., who retired from the company Aug. 5. (News release)

Nancy Howell Agee, CEO of Roanoke-based Carilion Clinic, will lead the American Hospital Association’s board of trustees in 2018. About 5,000 hospitals and health-care systems and 43,000 individuals belong to the association. (The Roanoke Times)

Nathaniel Bishop has been appointed to the State Board for Community Colleges. He is president of Jefferson College of Health Sciences in Roanoke. (The Roanoke Times)

George Sherman stepped down Aug. 13 as president of Advance Auto Parts Inc. He will remain with the Roanoke-based company through the end of the year to help with the transition, the company said. Sherman came to Advance in April 2013 from Best Buy, where he was a senior vice president. He served as interim CEO from January to April. (The Roanoke Times)

Nathaniel Varano has been promoted to chief operations officer, Aeroprobe Corp., Christiansburg. He was the company’s technology director for measurement solutions. (News release)

NORTHERN VIRGINIA
Sterling-based information services provider Neustar has named   Venkat Achanta   chief data and analytics officer. He was Wal-Mart’s chief data officer. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

  Joseph L. Boling   has retired as chairman of Middleburg Financial Corp., the parent company of Middleburg Bank. The board of directors appointed John C. Lee IV, a director since 2006, to succeed Boling, who was named chairman emeritus. Boling had served as chairman since 1997. Lee founded Lee Technologies in 1983 and sold the company in 2011 to Schneider Electric. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

  Kent Carstater   and  Lori Childers  have been name d senior executives at Reston-based John Marshall Bank. Carstater is senior vice president/market risk management, and Childers is senior vice president/consumer lending manager.  This year marks the bank’s tenth anniversary. (News release)

 C. Daniel Clemente  has been named chair of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP). Clemente, chairman and CEO of Tysons-based Clemente Development Co. Inc., succeeds Chris Lumsden, CEO of Halifax Regional Health System in South Boston. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Arlington-based Interstate Hotels & Resorts has promoted  Emily Lynn  and Sherry Serio from vice president to senior vice president. Patrick Beron has joi ned the company as senior vice president, sales and marketing. He was vice president of sales and marketing for Millennium Hotels in New York. (News release)

CENTRAL VIRGINIA
  John G. Dane  , reappointed to the board of the Virginia College Building Authority. He is vice president, regional manager, Community Bankers’ Bank, Midlothian. (News release)

  Michael J. Early   has joined the Capital Markets Group at Richmond-based Cushman & Wakefield|Thalhimer as first vice president. He is an industry veteran specializing in the representation of investment properties. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

  Richard G. Johnstone    Jr.  has been named pres ident and CEO of the Glen Allen-based Virginia, Maryland & Delaware Association of Electric Cooperatives.  He had been executive vice president since 1999. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

 John E. Mason  has been promoted to managing director of Richmond-based StreamCo LLC.  He was senior vice president and asset manager. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

 William Murray  has been named chair of the Virginia Center for Health Innovation board of directors. Murray, managing director of public policy and senior adviser for regulatory and state and local affairs for Dominion Resources Services Inc. in Richmond, was the board’s vice chair. (News release)

 Carrie Roth , reappointed to the Virginia Board of Workforce Development. She is executive director of the Virginia Biotechnology Research Partnership Authority and president and CEO of the  Virginia Biotechnology Research Park Corp., Richmond. (News release)

The board of directors of the Greater Richmond Partnership reappointed  Bobby Ukrop , of Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods, and Angela Kelly-Wiecek, a member of the Hanover County Board of Supervisors, as chair and vice chair. (N ews release)

Anne Holton stepped down in July as secretary of education after the selection of her husband, U.S. Sen. Tim Kaine, as Hillary Clinton’s vice presidential running mate. Gov. Terry McAuliffe appointed former Deputy Secretary of Education Dietra Trent to serve as Virginia’s new secretary of education. (VirginiaBusiness.com)