People on the Move

SAM FARCHIONE has joined Pinckney Hugo Group as an assistant account manager. He previously worked in business development at FloQast in Los Angeles. Farchinoe has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the Max M. Fisher College of Business at Ohio State University.

Digital Hyve has added five new employees to its Syracuse office. KELLY FALCONER has joined the Syracuse account services team as account manager. She graduated from Le Moyne College with a bachelor’s degree in communications and an MBA. Falconer previously was an assistant account manager at Pinckney Hugo Group and a marketing coordinator at the

LORI TEIFKE has been promoted to Central New York territory manager at NBT Bank. She was previously a retail market manager and has been with NBT Bank since 2008 when she joined as a result of the Alliance Bank merger. Teifke has nearly 20 years of banking experience. 

MELISSA KELLER has been promoted to senior VP finance/chief information security officer at Fulton Savings Bank. She joined the bank in 2017 as VP/controller. Keller is a CPA with an extensive background in accounting, finance, auditing, and cybersecurity. She has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Columbia College and holds a certificate in cybersecurity issued

RUTH DARRETTA has joined KeyBank as a business banking relationship manager in New Hartford. Darretta previously was a commercial banker with Synovus Bank in Palm Harbor, Florida.

GWEN EICHORN has been promoted to chief financial officer at CBD Companies. Eichorn will oversee all financial/accounting matters for CBD’s brokerage, construction, and management divisions. She recently earned an MBA degree from SUNY Empire State College, with a focus in management, and also received a certificate in health care management. 

CASEY ARTHUR has joined Capital Collection Management (CCM), a third-party debt collection agency and debt buyer based in Syracuse, as VP of business development. An ACA-certified collections specialist with more than a decade of industry experience, he previously was regional director of business development at ConServe, an accounts-receivable management company, where he also served in

MELANIE STEIN has been named the new dean of Ithaca College’s School of Humanities and Sciences. Since 2016, she has served as dean of academic affairs at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. Stein will begin her new position at Ithaca College on July 1.She has been a faculty member in the Department of Mathematics at