Faces&Places

July 2006

Sovernet Communications announced the addition of David Weaver to its business field sales team. Weaver was at Lightship Telecom and CTC Communications. 

Century 21 Jack Associates announced the addition of three individuals to its sales team. Robbi Handy Holmes, Jim Vaillancourt and Lawton Weber. Holmes and her husband own and manage several real estate investments in the area. Vaillancourt recently left a career in health information systems management. Weber runs Pleasant Valley Fly-fishing Guides and has published a book on trout streams. 

Jager Di Paola Kemp Design announced several new hires. Leslie Boyd was appointed account manager. She was with a San Francisco firm. Jeff Price was named office coordinator. He was a rider service representative with Burton Snowboards. Ted Olson and Grant Stewart were hired as designers. Olson was with a Minneapolis firm. Stewart was with a creative group in Winston-Salem, N.C.

The Brattleboro Development Credit Corp. has hired Jeffrey Lewis as executive director. Since relocating to Brattleboro four years ago, Lewis has operated a management/marketing consulting firm called Customer Driven Market Strategy. He teaches information technology strategy and management at the School for International Training and chairman of the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Brattleboro branch of the Service Corps of Retired Executives.

New Breed Marketing announced several staff changes. Brian Mailman, senior art director, was appointed team leader and will oversee a team of graphic designers, street marketing strategists, public relations managers and event planners. Christopher Mathieu was promoted to senior multimedia designer. He has been with the agency for three years. Kate La Riviere was hired as public relations and events manager. She was communications director for the Lake Champlain Chamber of Commerce and Greater Burlington Industrial Corp. 

Tina de la Torre was named director of marketing and community relations for Northfield Savings Bank. She was with the United Way of Chittenden County, and will remain with that organization as a volunteer.

Susan Pollock, CFP, was hired by CUNA Mutual Group as the members financial services representative for North Country Federal Credit Union and Vermont Federal Credit Union. Pollock has more than 20 years’ experience in the financial services industry.

James W. Murdoch and Kurt M. Hughes announced that Frank J. Twarog became a partner with the firm on Jan. 1. The firm will now be known as Murdoch Hughes & Twarog, Attorneys at Law PC.

Windows & Doors by Brownell announced the addition of Tony Jones and Candace Brownell to the company. Jones is part of the installation team. He was in the construction business in Massachusetts. Brownell is a sales associate. She worked in sales with a tile company in Portland, Maine.

LandVest announced that Story Jenks has joined its Burlington sales team. Jenks was an investment banker for Salomon Brothers in New York City; a co-owner of dia knitwear; and in land conservation. •

Congratulations

McFarland-Johnson Inc.

McFarland-Johnson, an engineering, surveying, planning and construction administration firm with headquarters in Binghamton, N.Y., and offices throughout the Northeast, including one in South Burlington, turns 60 this year. The company has been 100 percent employee-owned since January 1993. Some of its early project included work on the Interstate System across eight states, the Long Island Railroad’s Merrick-Baltimore viaducts and stations, and academic buildings on SUNY campuses. Current projects include dormitories and academic buildings at the University of Vermont and Dartmouth College.