People on the Move

KATE SWIFT has joined Digital Hyve’s account services team. A Syracuse University graduate, she is the digital-marketing firm’s newest account coordinator. 

NBT Bank recently promoted four employees based in the Mohawk Valley. Retail Territory Manager TRICIA BUSHEE, Senior Business Banking Officer ALICIA JOHNSON, and Channel and Customer Engagement Manager GINA ROSSI were promoted to VP. Fair Lending Compliance Officer HASAN BAJREKTAREVIC was promoted to assistant VP. Bushee joined NBT in 2017 and has more than 13

Herkimer County Community College has hired MATTHEW JODWAY as a campus safety officer. He is a recent Herkimer College graduate, having earned an associate degree in liberal arts & sciences in May 2019. Jodway has worked for the City of Little Falls as both a general municipal worker and as a municipal sanitation worker.

Bankers Healthcare Group has added eight new employees to its Syracuse staff. KACI ASPER joins as a placements document specialist. She previously worked at Medical Management Resources as a reimbursement specialist, where she focused on medical billing for downstate New York customers. TAYLOR MICHAEL joins as an account executive. Most recently, he worked in business

AMBER MEZA has been named human resource information systems (HRIS) specialist at Mohawk Valley Health System. Most recently, she was an IT business analyst at PAR Technology Corporation in New Hartford, where she provided change management support for the implementation of a new ERP system. Prior to that, Meza worked in human resources at the

DAMON A. TOHTZ, M.D., a psychiatrist, has joined Oswego Health in its Behavioral Health Services Department. He has extensive experience working with adult and geriatric patients in both outpatient and inpatient settings including spending 10 years at the Syracuse VA and most recently he was a staff psychiatrist at Helio Health System. Tohtz completed his

Smith Sovik Kendrick & Sugnet, PC has elected VICTOR L. PRIAL a partner at the firm. He is a trial lawyer who concentrates his practice in personal injury and civil litigation. Prial handles all types of lawsuits including products liability, professional malpractice, contract disputes, premises liability, labor law, personal injury, construction matters, and employment law.

Harris Beach PLLC has elected JULIAN B. MODESTI a partner of the firm. He is a commercial litigator whose practice encompasses shareholder disputes, leases, land-use matters, finance agreements, unfair competition, trade secrets and business torts. Modesti is also the firm’s head litigator for trust and estate disputes in surrogate’s courts. He handles appeals in state

CALEB C. SLATER has joined BellCornerstone Commercial Real Estate as a business development associate and co-producer for “The Faces of Syracuse.” He has experience in both video production and business development. Slater has an undergraduate degree in television-radio production from the Park School of Communications at Ithaca College and more than five years of video-production