ABC Creative recently hired RACHEL KELLY as a project manager. As an MBA graduate of Le Moyne College, Kelly has years of experience within the marketing industry. Some of her previous positions were director of sales and marketing, marketing manager, marketing coordinator, and account executive at other companies. In her role as project manager, she will manage and keep track of all the projects that come into ABC and also work closely with the agency’s creative director and account managers.

Five Star Bank, a unit of Financial Institutions, Inc., has hired KEVIN QUINN as senior VP and commercial banking executive, reporting to President and CEO Martin K. Birmingham. Quinn assumes responsibility for commercial and industrial lending, business banking, cash management, community development, and merchant services as well as leadership of Five Star Bank’s referral program, promoting relationship-building and business development between the bank and its insurance and wealth-management subsidiaries. Quinn has extensive experience leading commercial banking teams in upstate New York. He worked at HSBC Bank USA, NA in Buffalo for 15 years, most recently as head of commercial banking. Quinn began his career as an attorney with Jones Day in Cleveland, Ohio, and subsequently spent 10 years in commercial banking at M&T Bank. He is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and earned a juris doctorate in law and an MBA in corporate finance from the University at Buffalo. Quinn will succeed Edward (Ted) Oexle, who retired from Five Star Bank as commercial and industrial lending executive and Buffalo regional president on Aug. 4

CenterState CEO has promoted JUHANNA ROGERS to its leadership team as its new VP for racial equity and social impact. In this new role, she will lead the newly formed racial equity and social impact portfolio within the regional economic-development organization. Rogers previously served as CenterState CEO’s director of community engagement and empowerment within its economic inclusion portfolio, developing communication and engagement activities and strategies that drive change in Syracuse. Specifically, Rogers will deliver diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training for CenterState CEO staff and will develop DEI organizational metrics and processes to ensure its DEI goals are being met. She will also lead the development and implementation of CenterState CEO’s DEI services, including “enhanced” partner/vendor engagement, sales, delivery and evaluation, and the development and deployment of new DEI training and consulting services to be offered by the organization to the business community. While this emerges, Rogers will continue to lead the community engagement and empowerment work associated with the organization’s JPMorgan Chase (JPMC) AdvancingCities grant, as well as CenterState CEO’s participation in the “Syracuse Surge” program, including planning and executing Surge tech and culture summits, and managing the Surge fellow program. Additionally, Rogers will lead CenterState CEO’s “Generation Next” and “Tech and Culture” initiatives. Her work to date includes spearheading the “Generation Next” initiative, co-leading the JPMC AdvancingCities application process, and supporting internal talent attraction and recruitment efforts at CenterState CEO to yield a more diverse organization. Prior to working at CenterState CEO, Rogers was director for health services at Syracuse Community Connections. She earned her undergraduate degree in integrative arts from Penn State University, a master’s degree in higher education student affairs from Indiana University, and a doctoral degree from Indiana as well. 

Herkimer County Community College has appointed HANNAH R. STUBLEY as a technical assistant for international programs. She graduated from Herkimer College with an associate degree in social science and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in women’s studies from Hamilton College, in 2012, and a master’s degree in women’s, gender, & sexuality studies from the University at Albany in 2015. Stubley previously worked in the college’s academic support center as a career and technical education (CTE) success coach, where she was responsible for enhancing the academic success of CTE students by providing individual and group support to students. As a technical assistant, she will assist Dr. Robin Riecker, the college’s associate dean of academic affairs for humanities/social science and the coordinator of international programming, with processing applications for international students and serving as a designated school official. Stubley will be responsible for advising F-1 students in areas pertaining to the acquisition and maintenance of their non-immigrant student status in the U.S., and she will maintain records, databases, and reports necessary for compliance with immigration regulations, including the Student & Exchange Visitor Information System and all compliance records. 

MELISSA SHERMAN, a certified family nurse practitioner, has joined the medical staff of Finger Lakes Health’s Geneva General Hospital in its hospitalist department. Sherman received her master’s degree in nursing from Upstate Medical University. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Keuka College and her associate degree in nursing from Finger Lakes Community College. Sherman received the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) Scholarship, with the mission to practice in rural and underserved communities, from Upstate Medical University.

TAEWAN KIM, M.D., an experienced bariatric surgeon, has joined Oswego Health at the Center for Weight Loss & Surgery. Board-certified by the American Board of Surgery, he earned his medical degree and completed his general-surgery residency from SUNY Upstate Medical University. In addition, Kim completed his fellowship of minimally invasive surgery Upstate Medical. He has extensive surgical experience throughout Central New York, including serving as an attending surgeon as well as an assistant professor of surgery at Upstate Medical University. In addition, he was an attending surgeon at Veteran’s Administration Hospital as well as at Crouse Hospital. Kim has performed more than 2,000 weight-loss procedures. 

JOSEPH G. FARRELL has joined Mackenzie Hughes LLP as a partner in the firm’s litigation department and will concentrate his legal practice on medical malpractice defense. Farrell has been practicing law for more than 10 years, defending physicians, midlevel providers, and facilities in medical malpractice actions. He has represented medical providers in matters involving the New York State Office of Professional Medical Conduct and the New York State Office of Professional Development. Farrell holds a juris doctorate from the Syracuse University College of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University.

BRANDAN RAY has also been hired by Mackenzie Hughes as an associate attorney in the business department with his practice focused on business formation and governance, private investment transactions, and intellectual property. Admitted in the New York State Bar and Massachusetts Bar Associations, Ray has experience consulting with clients in business formations and governance along with private investment transactions and intellectual property. He holds a juris doctorate from the Boston University School of Law and a bachelor’s degree from Boston College.