The Detroiter Online in this column reports key personnel announcements made by Detroit Regional Chamber members. For information on submitting your items, please see the note at the end of the column. This column is updated regularly. Click here to view the previous "On The Job" list.

Architecture/Construction

Randy Paquette to director of business development at Ghafari in Dearborn.

Russ Sykes to managing director, Paul Tonti to director of operations, Terry Guitar to director of architecture, Marie Sayer to accounting manager and Robert Russell to accounting coordinator at SmithGroup in Detroit.

Don Greenwell Jr. to senior vice president, Terry Merritt to group vice president, Peter Darga to vice president of finance and Christine Nowak to assistant vice president, project controls at Walbridge Aldinger in Detroit.

Banking/Finance

Sheri Miles to marketing program manager at Fifth Third Bank in Southfield.

Erin Gillespie to marketing manager at Hennessey Capital LLC in Huntington Woods.

Dave Dornbrook to senior vide president, mortgage sales manager and Romy Gingras to senior investment executive at the Troy office of Independent Bank.

Vicki Damavolitis to business relationship manager at the Southfield office of Peoples State Bank.

James T. Dunn to managing director at The PrivateBank-Michigan in Bloomfield Hills.

Business Services

Jan Martinez to vice president of business development in the Detroit office of Lee Hecht Harrison.

Greg Surmont to account director at McGraw Wentworth in Troy.

Jack Bowen to chief marketing officer at Urban Science in Detroit.

Communications

Ana Gabriel to vice president of Corporate Affairs and Deric Bomer to vice president of Human Resources for the Midwest Division of Comcast, based in Southfield.

Education

Bernice Lopata to associate vice president of advancement services and corporate and foundation relations at Wayne State University's Office of Development.

Environmental

Jeremy Dague to CAD/GIS specialist and Jessica King and Michael Galbraith to technicians at ASTI Environmental in Brighton.

Food

Holly Ryan to director of internal communications and Dana Harville to public relations manager at Domino's Pizza in Ann Arbor.

Legal

David A. Sebastian to senior attorney in the Litigation Group and Joel D. Appelbaum to member of the Bankruptcy Practice Group at Clark Hill PLC in Detroit.

Bryan J. Anderson and Alicia A. Halligan to the Litigation Practice Group, Michael A. Little to the Employment Practice Group and Laura A. Weingartner to the Real Estate Practice Group at the Detroit office of Dykema Gossett PLLC. Also: Stephen R. Estey to the Real Estate Practice Group in the Bloomfield Hills office.

Philip E. Hamilton to the General Litigation Practice Group in the Lansing office and Eleanore Meitz Schroeder to the Commercial Litigation Practice Group in the Farmington Hills office of Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith PC.

Caryn A. Gordon and Nathan Dodson to associates in the Detroit office and Sarah Moss to associate in the Grand Rapids office of Garan Lucow Miller PC.

E. Todd Sable to partner in the Bankruptcy, Reorganization and Commercial Law Department and Alan J. Salle to partner in the Real Estate Department at Detroit-based Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP.

Jeffrey M. Weiss to a member of the Board of Directors, Harry M. Eisenberg to of counsel in the Real Estate and Tax Practice Groups and Eric S. Endelman to an associate in the Real Estate Practice Group at Southfield-based Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss PC.

Alexander Stotland to an associate attorney at Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller PC in Southfield.

Harvey J. Messing, Ronald W. Bloomberg and Sherri Al Wellman to principals; Heather R. Bozimowski and Shimika D. Gaskinsto associates in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group, Lisa M. Berden to associate in the Federal Tax and Employee Benefits Group andGina R. Kwack to associate in the Financial Institutions and Transactions Group at Detroit-based Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone PLC.

Manufacturing

Bob Crumley to executive vice president of Product Planning, Purchasing and Logistics; Colleen Haley to president of the Ford Business Unit; Bryan Jinnett to vice president, Quality and New Yazaki System; Bob McDonald to vice president, Purchasing; Bob Wilson to executive vice president, Transplant Business Unit; Riku Yazaki to president, Component Business Unit; Jim Romine to president, General Motors Business Unit; Barbara Long to president, DaimlerChrysler Business Unit; Myron Trenne to vice president, Alpha Group; and Nigel Thompson to executive vice president of Strategy, Finance and Business Systems at Yazaki North America Inc. in Canton.

Marketing/Public Relations

Todd Krieger, Katie Brown and Casey Frazee to the account services team and Lucia Giacomantonio to the research service team at Airfoil Public Relations in Detroit.

Amber Aguilar to print buyer at Berline in Bloomfield Hills.

Laurie Hix to creative director at Brogan & Partners Convergence Marketing in Birmingham.

Daniel J. Cherrin to vice president at Caponigro Public Relations Inc. in Southfield.

Andy Wright to executive vice president of Sales & Marketing Services, Alex Kim to president/general manager of Carlson Marketing in Korea, Steve Luengo-Jones to managing partner of Peppers & Rogers Group in Europe and Cyril "CB" Wismar to vice president of Event Marketing at Carlson Marketing, based in Minneapolis with local offices in Troy.

Michelle Culver and Amy Wilczynski to vice presidents and Hope Brown and Elizabeth Weigandt to account supervisors at John Bailey & Associates Inc. in Troy.

Elizabeth Mooradian to senior account planner and Michael J. Van Egeren to associate creative director at Publicom Inc. in East Lansing.

Nonprofits

Emily Modak to program associate at Nonprofit Enterprise at Work in Ann Arbor.

Lisa Maxwell to administrator at The Village of Redford, Isha Gaines to administrator at The Village of Woodbridge Manor and Megan Ansbro to administrator at The Village of Gibraltar Manor. All three facilities are operated by Southfield-based Presbyterian Villages of Michigan.

Organizations

Ira Township (Lapeer County) Supervisor John Jones to chairman of the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG).

Real Estate

Tony Yearego to corporate development manager at Atwell-Hicks in Brighton.

Daniel W. Rausch to senior associate on the Detroit Office Specialty team at CB Richard Ellis in Southfield.

Robert Haver to associate broker in the Office Division at Grubb & Ellis Co. in Southfield.

The Detroiter Online accepts all contributions for "On the Job" from Detroit Regional Chamber members at the Business Builder membership level and above. Items may be submitted by mail to: On the Job, Detroiter, Detroit Regional Chamber, One Woodward Ave., Suite 1900, Detroit MI 48226; by fax to (313) 964-0531 or by e-mail to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Selected items will also appear in the print version of the Detroiter magazine, based on space availability. Photos are accepted. For further information, please call Chris Mead, editor, at (313) 596-0373.

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