United Radio has named HEATHER REED general manager of the company’s communications division. She comes to United Radio after serving several years as a commercial manager at M&T Bank. Reed plans to utilize her experience in leadership, relationship management, and communications as well as her business-development skills to grow the communications division.

S.E.E.D. Planning Group has hired DAVE NIRCHI as VP of strategic planning and operations. In his role, he coordinates the day-to-day operations across the organization and implements strategic-planning initiatives. Nirchi previously spent more than five years working as a senior consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), providing operational and managerial analysis for asset and wealth-management firms. He earned his associate degree in business administration from Broome Community College and his bachelor’s degree in finance and accounting from Iona College. 

JOSEPH LORENZETTI, M.D. and SUSAN RANDALL-MANTELLA have moved to Seneca Family Health Center in Waterloo after previously caring for the Seneca County community at 28 Cayuga St. in Seneca Falls for more than 33 years. They have joined the provider team of Sixto Medina, M.D.; Eric Shives, M.D.; Christina Gray, MSN, ANP, CNS; Roberta Korich, FNP-C, RNFA; and Elizabeth Smith, MSN, FNP.

Lorenzetti is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine. He completed his family practice residency at St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center in Syracuse and earned his medical degree from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Randall-Mantella received her nursing degree from Crouse Hospital in Syracuse and completed her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in health-care administration from the New School for Social Research in New York City. Randall-Mantella completed her nurse-practitioner certification in family medicine at Community General Hospital in Syracuse. 

Longview, an Ithacare Community, announced that its board of directors has named PAUL PHILLIPS as its new CEO, effective Jan. 11. He succeeds Mark Macera, Longview’s longtime executive director, who is retiring after 30 years. Phillips brings more than 30 years of expertise in nonprofit aging services to Longview. He began his career at Friendly Senior Living in Rochester. His responsibilities included nursing-home administration; managing moderate-income senior housing; and developing, opening, managing, and expanding an entire startup senior living campus. Phillips also served as CEO for the Lathrop Communities, a Kendal affiliate, in Northampton and Easthampton, Massachusetts, and served on the Kendal Corporation’s leadership team. Most recently, Phillips served as senior-living specialist at LECESSE Construction Services, where he performed client consulting and business development for senior-living campuses across the eastern United States. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in gerontology, the latter with an emphasis in long-term care administration and is licensed as a nursing-home administrator in both New York and Ohio.

YOGESH DESHMUKH has joined Preferred Mutual Insurance Company as VP of finance. He will be responsible for providing leadership to the finance function and building an enterprise capability around financial planning and analysis. Deshmukh’s role will be to foster business strategies to improve profitability by leveraging data, analytics, and actuary intelligence. He brings to Preferred Mutual more than 25 years of financial services, operational, and leadership knowledge, with considerable time within the property and casualty insurance industry. Most recently, Deshmukh was VP of finance and administration at Plymouth Rock Assurance Company, and the chief financial officer of General Insurance IT at American International Group (AIG). 

ANGELO CATALANO accepted a partner position with Coughlin & Gerhart, LLP effective Jan. 1. Graduating from the University at Buffalo Law School in 2013, he began his legal career in the Binghamton area, when he served as a law clerk with the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York while in law school. Catalano later served as a law clerk in the Buffalo regional office of the New York State Attorney General’s Office, served as student judicial law clerk to the Honorable John F. O’Donnell (S.J.C., 8th District), and served as a law clerk, and later as an associate, with another local law firm. Catalano became an associate with Coughlin & Gerhart in 2014. His practice is concentrated in the areas of labor and employment, litigation, and public law. Catalano represents employers in drafting employment agreements, counseling employers on wage and hour issues, and Department of Labor regulatory compliance. He also represents employers in litigation matters, such as contract grievance and arbitration, General Municipal Law 207 matters, contract negotiation, and interest arbitration.

Barclay Damon has elected MICHAEL NICHOLSON previously a counsel, to the law firm’s partnership. His promotion was effective Jan. 1. He is a member of the labor and employment and commercial litigation practice areas and the hotels, hospitality & food service team. Nicholson is based in the firm’s Syracuse office.