People on the Move

MICHELE DICKEY recently joined Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC as a principal in the tax department. She is a CPA with more than 30 years of experience in tax accounting, consulting, financial- statement preparation, and compliance services. Dickey works with closely held businesses within a wide range of industries. She has experience as a […]

JAMES HAYWOOD ROLLING, JR. was recently appointed co-director of the Lender Center for Social Justice at Syracuse University. He replaces Marcelle Haddix, whose three-year term is ending, and will begin his three-year term at the start of the fall semester. Rolling, a dual professor of arts education in the College of Visual and Performing Arts

Strategic Financial Services, Inc., an independent, Central New York–based wealth-management firm, has added KATY HEINTZ to its staff as business-development manager. In this newly created role, she will help lead firm growth through the development of all marketing and sales initiatives. Heintz comes to Strategic from PAR Technology, where she served as the company’s director

General surgeon MARK WILLIAMS, M.D. has joined Rome Health Surgical Specialists, located at the Griffiss Business & Technology Park in Rome. With more than 20 years of experience in the Mohawk Valley, Williams is skilled in advanced surgical techniques, including laparoscopic and robotic surgery. In addition, his expertise in breast surgery will complement Rome Health’s

Finger Lakes Health has appointed AUDREY TORIO as director of nursing at Huntington Living Center in Waterloo. She has more than 17 years of progressive nursing-leadership experience within the long-term-care community in Central New York and has experience in various settings with a concentration in geriatrics, including skilled nursing, short-term rehabilitation, and managed long-term care.

ANNA BROOKS THOMAS has been named director of football operations at Colgate University. She began her post on March 1, becoming just the second woman to hold the football operations’ position in Colgate’s conference, the Patriot League, and one of fewer than 30 women in this position in all of Division I football, Colgate says.

RITA ROMANO has been appointed president of the newly created Quadrant Laboratories LLC division at Quadrant Biosciences Inc., a molecular-diagnostics company. She will primarily be responsible for spearheading the growth of Quadrant’s growing laboratory diagnostics business, which includes the opening of a new lab in partnership with SUNY and Upstate Medical University. The company’s Clarifi

LeChase Construction Services, LLC has promoted JUSTIN BROWN to regional safety manager in Syracuse. Brown will ensure the company’s safety program across all job sites in Central New York. Specifically, he will lead efforts around safety training, tracking, and reporting. Brown will also ensure operations across the area comply with site-safety plans and applicable regulatory