Accounting/Banking/Finance

Carol O'Keefe to commercial regional manager of Huntington Bank's East Michigan Region, based in Troy.

Neil Warriner to vice president-commercial lending, Randy Birtles to residential loan officer based in Lake Orionand Rich Gowran to branch manager and loan officer based in theTroy-North office of Independent Bank.

Kim Cross to financial advisor in the Detroit office of Merrill Lynch.

Dan Kinne to vice president of technology solutions and Ray Souza to vice president of electronic services at Michigan First Credit Union in Detroit.

Ryan W. Kroge to small business sales manager at Peoples State Bank in Madison Heights. Also:Dennis L. McManus to business relationship manager at the Farmington Hills office.

Jennifer Champion to senior associate, Business Development at Townsend Search Group in Birmingham. She is a former senior account executive in the Marketing Opportunities group at the Detroit Regional Chamber.

Architecture/Construction

Kimberly Whitt to director of business development at Albert Kahn Associates Inc. in Detroit.

Joseph M. Forgue to manager of Education and Safety Services at the Construction Association of Michigan, based in Bloomfield Hills. Also: CAM President Kevin N. Koehler to president of the International Builders Exchange Executives for 2005-06.

Barry C. Johnston, IIDA, to principal and vice president at Ford & Earl Associates in Troy.

Lawrence A. Bechard to director of project management, industrial group at Ghafari in Dearborn.

James Latour to assistant project architect and Cassandra Newman to director of client marketing at Schonsheck Inc. in Wixom.

Richard J. Haller, president and chief operation officer at Walbridge Aldinger Co. in Detroit, to president-elect of the Engineering Society of Detroit, based in Southfield.

Raviprakash Dhyani, AIA, and Thomas Stecker, AIA, ASID, to the architectural design team at Yamasaki Associates Inc. in Troy.

Attractions

John Metz to director of Historical Research and Education at The Henry Ford in Dearborn.

Business Consulting Services

Caroline Sallee to senior analyst and Lisa Asmus to office assistant at Anderson Economic Group in East Lansing.

Dave Silva to project manager/estimator of asbestos and lead-based abatement at Environmental Maintenance Engineers in Inkster.

Julie M. Barrett to account director at McGraw Wentworth in Troy.

Kathleen M. Oswald to president of Right Management Consultants, Great Lakes Region, in Southfield.

Communications

Roland Trombley to vice president, Kathleen Waynick to senior director of human resources, Rick Wolfe to senior director of governmental affairs and Jeff Gibson to senior director of Comcast University for Comcast's Midwest Division, based in Southfield.

Entertainment

Scott A. Rutledge to director of marketing and advertising at Greektown Casino in Detroit.

Government

James Epolito to president and CEO of the Michigan Economic Development Corporation in Lansing.

Legal

Eric M. Mathis, associate attorney at Butzel Long in Detroit, to the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Barristers' Board of Directors. Also: Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Beth S. Gotthelf to chair of Birmingham's Brownfield Redevelopment Authority.

Andre F. Mayes to senior attorney in the School and Municipal Law Group at Clark Hill PLC in Birmingham.

Gary C. Ankers to member in the labor and employment practice group in the Detroit office of Dickinson Wright PLLC. Also: Louis Theros, a member in the Detroit office, to president of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association; andMargaret A. Coughlin, member in the Bloomfield Hills office, to a second term as treasurer for the Board of Directors of the Air And Waste Management Association, East Michigan Chapter.

Nicole G. Nystrom to Michigan lobbying service director and Jody Vanderveen to government relations professional in the Government Policy Department at the Lansing office of Dykema Gossett PLLC.

Larry R. Jensen Jr. to attorney in the Benefits and Employment Relations Practice Group in the Farmington Hills office of Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith PC.

Adam L. Kochenderfer to associate in the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Commercial Department and Stanley H. Pitts to associate in the Labor and Employment Department at Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP in Detroit.

Attorneys Gary Peters and Julia Sutherland to the legal staff at Howard & Howard PC in Bloomfield Hills.

John P. Gonway and L. Jeffrey Zauberman to shareholders at Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller PC in Southfield.

Daniel P. Colling to associate in the Detroit office of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone PLC.

Charles E. Dunn to shareholder in the Bloomfield Hills office and Claudia D. Orr to member in the Labor and Employment Practice Group in the Detroit office of Plunkett & Cooney PC.

Steven L. Treppa to IT director and Linda D. Kennedy and Chris Kuczynski to associates at Rader, Fishman & Grauer PLLC in Bloomfield Hills.

Dennis M. Devaney, a former board member of the National Labor Relations Board and a U.S. International Trade Commissioner, to shareholder at Strobl Cunningham & Sharp PC in Bloomfield Hills.

Manufacturing

Amy Hennes to manager of corporate communications at Guardian Industries Corp. in Auburn Hills. She was formerly senior director of marketing and media relations at the Detroit Regional Chamber.

Marketing/Public Relations

Jennifer Radivoj to account executive and Allen Arnold, Andy Kill, Ashley LaCroix, Brad Marley, Eric Rodriguez and Kristen Stippich to account coordinators at Airfoil Public Relations in Detroit.

Gabriela Camargo to print buyer at Berline in Bloomfield Hills.

R. David Eick to senior account director, Rebecca Toepel to account supervisor, Heather Willson to account executive and Meghan Giersdorf to advertising assistant at Caponigro Marketing Group LLC in Southfield.

Erin Hurst and Kristi Phillips to account executives and Dominique Storm to graphic designer at Eisbrenner Public Relations in Troy.

Jermaine Spight to public relations coordinator at Franco Public Relations Group in Detroit.

Erin Symons to marketing coordinator at Hour Media LLC in Royal Oak.

Terri Herman to senior account executive and Karen LeRoy to account assistant at Marx Layne & Co. in Farmington Hills.

Amanda Deveau to COO and comptroller at Uproar Communications Ltd. in Ann Arbor.

Nonprofits

Deidre Bounds, partner at Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing in Detroit, to the board of ArtServe Michigan, based in Southfield.

Michael J. Ross, president and CEO of Community Bank of Dearborn, to chairman and treasurer of the Board of the Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit Foundation.

Anika Goss-Foster to senior program director of Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) in Detroit.

Rawaa N. Albilal, MSW, to vice president for Knowledge Management and Resource Application at United Way for Southeastern Michigan, based in Detroit.

Publishing

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sheryl James to editor of Metro Parent Magazine, the signature publication of Metro Parent Publishing Group in Southfield.

Real Estate

Edward A. Wujek to senior associate on the Detroit Office Specialty team and April Franquist to transaction coordinator and on-site contact for global real estate properties for Visteon Corp. at CB Richard Ellis Inc. in Southfield.

David W. Hewett, principal for Trammell Crow Co. in Detroit, to chairman and chief elected officer of the Building Owners and Managers Association International for 2005-06.

Technology

Scott Jakey to Citrix solutions specialist at Dynamic Computer Corp. in Farmington Hills.

Beth Baerman to manager, documentation and training at InfoTronics Inc. in Farmington Hills.

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