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Brooks-Rolling named executive director of Upstate Minority Economic Alliance
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Upstate Minority Economic Alliance (UMEA) has named Me’Shae Brooks-Rolling as its new executive director. Brooks-Rolling has served as interim executive director

Food Bank of Central New York names Belcher executive director
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Food Bank of Central New York has named Karen Belcher its new executive director. Belcher has been serving as the organization’s

People news: Kocan joins St. Joseph’s Health Cardiovascular Institute in North Country
WATERTOWN, N.Y. — St. Joseph’s Health announced that Sonja Kocan, a family nurse practitioner, has recently joined the St. Joseph’s Health Cardiovascular Institute in Watertown

Griffiss Institute president to retire at end of September
ROME, N.Y. — William Wolf, president of the Griffiss Institute (GI), plans to retire at the end of the month as GI moves into its

OCRRA appoints two to board of directors
SYRACUSE, N.Y. — The Onondaga County Resource Recovery Agency (OCRRA) recently announced it has appointed Corey Driscoll Dunham and Stephanie Pasquale to its board of directors. Driscoll Dunham has more than 10 years of experience, including roles in government and community relations at Syracuse University and Cornell University, as well as positions in public service
TIM GRUMLEY, based in Syracuse, was recently named the new regional director – wealth for market expansion at JPMorgan Chase. He will report to Eric Tepper, head of Chase Wealth Management. Grumley has nearly 17 years of industry experience, and in his most recent role, was a market director of wealth in the New York

Herkimer County Community College has hired STEVEN R. BOUCHER as an assistant professor of business. He has been an adjunct professor at the college since 2018, teaching business management, marketing management, and retail management. Before that, Boucher worked at Transwestern Publishing from 1989 to 2007, beginning his career as an account executive and moving up

SARA SPENCER, clinical assistant professor of pharmacy practice at Binghamton University, has been named the School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences’ director of the Office of Experiential Education. She has been serving as interim director since May 2020, working closely with the experiential team to meet the school’s Introductory Pharmacy Practice Experiences (IPPE) and Advanced

Syracuse Mayor Ben Walsh has appointed NICOLAS DIAZ AMIGO as the chief innovation and data officer (CIDO) in the Office of Accountability, Performance, and Innovation (API). Diaz Amigo, a Bloomberg Harvard Fellow with international experience in government innovation and data, will lead the API team in using data and innovation to find new and efficient

Finger Lakes Health has appointed CHAD HOFFMAN-FRAGALE as VP of human resources. Most recently, he served as chief people officer at Juvo Autism Behavioral Health in Hackensack, New Jersey. During his time there, Hoffman-Fragale reported to the CEO and served as a member of the executive leadership team. His local ties to the Finger Lakes
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