People – November 2016

SOUTHERN VIRGINIA
The Southern Virginia Regional Alliance has named Linda Hutson Green as the new director of economic development. Green was district director for U.S. Rep. Robert Hurt, R-5th. (Work It, SoVa)

Robert B. Burger Jr., a retired funeral services licensee from Franklin County, and Tanya Smith Foreman, education initiatives manager at Kingsport, Tenn.-based Eastman Chemical Co., have been named to the board of Martinsville-based New College Institute. W. Weldon Hill, associate professor of music at Virginia State University, and Janice Fain Wilkins, a self-employed health-care administrator from Patrick County, were renamed to the board. (News release)

Earl B. Reynolds Jr., Danville’s deputy city manager, has been named to the state Board of Housing and Community Development. (News release)

Zeb Talley has been named superintendent of Martinsville City Public Schools. Talley had been serving as interim superintendent since mid-July. Talley most recently was principal of Patrick Henry Elementary School. Before that, he was co-principal of Martinsville Middle School. (Martinsville Bulletin)

SOUTHWEST VIRGINIA
   Michael J. Friedlander    has been named to the Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp.’s board of directors. He is vice president for health sciences and technology at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg and the founding executive director of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute in Roanoke. (News release)

   Mark T. Leonard   , named to the Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority. He is vice president and CEO of Norton Community Hospital. (News release)

The Salem/Roanoke County Bar Association has elected officers for the 2016-17 term:    Peter Lubeck   , president;   Nanda Davis   , first vice president;  Brad Thompson , second vice president;   Adam Moseley , secretary/treasurer;    Paul Dull , judge  advocate; Sarah Jane Newton, immediat e past president; and John Koehler, corresponding secretary.  (The Roanoke Times)

Roanoke-based Advance Auto Parts Inc. has appointed Thomas Okray executive vice president and chief financial officer. Okray previously worked at Amazon, where he served as vice president of finance, global customer fulfillment. He succeeds Mike Norona, who will remain with the company in an advisory role until the end of the year. (News release)

Scott Tate has been promoted to associate director at the Office of Economic Development at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg. He was a senior economic development specialist with the university’s office of economic development. (News release)

SHENANDOAH VALLEY
  Richard Kennedy   has been named CEO of The Top of Virginia Regional Chamber, which serves businesses in Winchester and Clarke and Frederick counties. Kennedy is former CEO of the Fall Brook, Calif., Chamber of Commerc e. He replaces  Christine Kr iz, who left th  e position in May after roughly nine months to become the director of the Small Business Development Center at Lord Fairfax Community College.  (The Northern Virginia Daily)

Strasburg-based First National Corp. announced that Elizabeth H. Cottrell has been elected chairman of the board of directors of the company, as well as of First Bank, its banking subsidiary. Gerald F. “J.J.” Smith Jr. has been elected vice chairman and secretary of each board. Cottrell is the owner of RiverwoodWriter LLC, which offers technical writing and editing, ghostwriting, social media and WordPress consulting services to small business clients.  Smith is the chairman, president and CEO of Valley Proteins Inc., a rendering business based in Winchester. (The Northern Virginia Daily)

Dan Whitten has been named Warren County’s attorney. Whitten had served as the interim county attorney since Blair Mitchell retired in May. Previously, Whitten was the county’s assistant attorney. (The Warren Sentinel)

EASTERN VIRGINIA
 Martin Culbreth , who has recently served as the FBI’s section chief for its strategic information and operations center in Washington, D.C., has been named special-agent-in-charge of the FBI’s Norfolk Field Office. (Daily Press)

Virginia Beach-based Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group has promoted  Chrissy Brown  and Jamie Vanlandingham. Brown was promoted from operations manager to executive vice president of  operations. Vanlandingham was promoted from regional vice president of loan production to president of credit and risk. (Daily Press)

George Fox has been appointed vice president of sales and leasing in the Virginia Beach office of Divaris Real Estate Inc. Before joining Divaris, Fox served as director of leasing for Richmond-based Hackney Real Estate Partners and was a senior vice president of business development and director of leasing for Wheeler Real Estate Investment Trust in Virginia Beach. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Gaylene Kanoyton has been named to the Transportation District Commission of Hampton Roads. She is president of Celebrate Healthcare LLC, Hampton. (News release)
Brad Mason will become president of AMSEC LLC, a subsidiary of Huntington Ingalls Industries, on Nov. 14. He has been the firm’s director of operations for maintenance, modernization and technical services. (News release)

NORTHERN VIRIGNIA    
 Deborah L. Crawford  has been named to Virginia Biosciences Health Research Corp.’s board of directors. She is vice president for research at Fairfax-based George Mason University. (News release)

Fairfax-based MainStreet Bank has promoted  Abdul Hersiburane  to executive vice president and director of business development. Hersiburane joined the bank in 2007 as a relationship manager.  (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Alexandria-based Calibre Systems Inc. has named  Kimberly K. Horn  to its board of directors. Horn is president of Kaiser Foundation Health Plan of the Mid-Atlantic States Inc. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

 Dick Koch  has joined Fairfax-based George Mason Mortgage as managing director, strategic growth & acquisition. Koch was a regional sales executive for Bank of America.  (VirginiaBusiness.com)

 Darla Moon  has been named chief financial officer at Patriot Group International in Warrenton. She was senior vice president of business operations at ManTech for more than six years. (News release)

 Brian Tucke r has joined   JLL’s Northern Virginia agency leasing team as a managing director. Tucker was an executive director at Cushman & Wakefield. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

The Alexandria-based Society for Human Resource Management has named Shonna Waters vice president of research. Waters was a technical leader in human resources in the federal government. (News release)

CENTRAL VIRGINIA
 Brian B urns, CPA,  has been promoted to director at Dixon Hughes Goodman in Richmond. Burns leads the company’s forensics and valuation practice in Virginia. (News release)

Greg Lowe, the former CEO of HCA’s Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute in Fort Pierce, Fla., is the new head of HCA’s Chippenham and Johnston-Willis hospitals. He succeeds Tim McManus, who was named president of the HCA Capital Division in July. (Richmond Times-Dispatch)

Courtney M. Malveaux has joined Jackson Lewis PC’s Richmond office as a principal.  He was a director at Thompson McMullan in Richmond. (News release)

Lynchburg-based BWX Technologies has appointed   Barbara A. Niland  ,  James M. Jaska  and Kenneth J. Krieg to its board of  directors. Niland retired  after being vice president, business management, and CFO of Huntington Ingalls Industries for more than five years. Jaska is president and managing director of Nova Global Services, an operations and advisory firm. Krieg is the founder of Samford Global Strategies, a consulting practice. (VirginiaBusiness.com)

Claire Forcier-Rowe, manager of Long & Foster Real Estate’s Hanover and Bay/River offices, has been elected president of the Virginia Association of Realtors. She will assume her post in November. (VirginiaBusiness.com)