People on the Move

BRIAN KIRKPATRICK has been appointed by GZA GeoEnvironmental Inc. as a senior project manager in its ecology group, based in GZA’s Syracuse office. He is a certified wildlife biologist with more than 30 years of experience as a consultant serving a broad range of clients in New Jersey, New York, and other states. His work […]

SAMANTHA WARNE has joined the MVHS Sister Rose Vincent Family Medicine Center (SRVFMC) as a family nurse practitioner, where she will provide outpatient care to patients of all ages. Prior to joining SRVFMC, she was employed as a registered nurse in the Cardiovascular Stepdown Unit at Mission-St. Joseph’s Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina. Warne earned

BRITTANY GANDY, M.D., has joined St. Joseph’s Health Family Medicine in Liverpool. She began her residency at St. Joseph’s family medicine practice in 2017 and was promoted to chief resident in 2019. Prior to joining St. Joseph’s Health, she earned her doctorate of medicine from Ross University in Portsmouth, Dominica and her bachelor’s degree in

Cortland Area Audiology Clinic has hired health-care executive CLIFF CAREY. He brings nearly two decades of experience in team development and audiology operations leadership to his new position. Carey brings the team up to 12 clinical and administrative professionals in three locations, serving patients from 12 counties in Central New York and four more in

MICHELLE L. WISNER has joined Security Mutual Life as second VP, reinsurance, with responsibility for the company’s reinsurance operations. She brings more than 30 years of experience in the life-insurance industry, including 13 years in reinsurance management. Wisner previously worked for Equitable, Upstate Administrative Services, Inc., and Lincoln Life & Annuity Company of New York.

MATTHEW (MATT) HUDNALL has joined Preferred Mutual Insurance Company as senior VP, underwriting. He will be responsible for providing leadership and strategic vision to the underwriting function, to product-development initiatives, as well as agency-partnership development. Hudnall brings more than 20 years of underwriting-service experience, and operational and leadership knowledge with considerable time in commercial-lines underwriting.

Bousquet Holstein PLLC announced that JEFFREY C. FASOLDT, JR. has been admitted to practice law in New York state and is now an associate attorney in the firm’s real estate practice group. Prior to joining the firm, he participated in the firm’s summer associate program, following his second year of law school, where he assisted

Drive Research, a market-research firm based in the Syracuse area, has promoted EMILY TAYLOR to project manager. In this role, she will manage research projects for the company, assist with the design and development of methodologies, create research instruments, oversee fieldwork, and play a major role in analyzing data to develop actionable research reports. Taylor

The Central New York Community Foundation has promoted DANIELLE JOHNSON to senior director of grants and programs. She joined the Community Foundation in 2007 as a program associate. In her new role, Johnson oversees and manages the Community Foundation’s $1.7 million community grant program as well as its nonprofit leadership development and capacity building programs.

Assured Information Security (AIS) has promoted RICHARD HUGHES to operations manager. In this position, he is responsible for the Strategic Accounts Office (SAO), Signals Intelligence Exploitation & Analysis (SEA), and Operational Concepts teams. Prior to becoming operations manager, Hughes was a program manager in the SAO. He is a retired Air Force acquisition program manager