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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

Security Mutual Life’s board of directors recently announced the promotion of three officers. MARY C. WARD was elevated to senior VP and controller. She is responsible for overseeing the company’s fiscal functions, including financial reporting, financial operations, payroll reporting, tax reporting, agent commission reporting, and supporting the company’s financial initiatives. Ward began her career with

Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency, Inc. (MVCAA) has named DARLENE MACK-BROWN the agency’s community engagement director. She replaces Venice Ervin who recently retired from the agency. Mack-Brown has been active with the anti-poverty agency for many years, serving as the board chair from 2010-2013. The past VP of the Utica/Oneida County Branch NAACP, she currently

The YMCA of Central New York has named BERTRAM L. LAWSON, II the organization’s next president and CEO. He stepped into this role on Feb. 8. Lawson previously served as the chief operating officer for Mastery Charter Schools Network (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Camden, New Jersey), a $250 million nonprofit organization, overseeing all aspects of non-instructional