ITHACA — Ithaca College announced that its board of trustees recently elected Kimberly Zeoli to a four-year term on the board. 

Zeoli, a 1989 Ithaca College School of Business graduate, is a partner in the national risk and financial advisory practice of Deloitte & Touche LLP, based in Boston. She is the leader of Deloitte’s New England industry program and health-care practice. Prior to joining Deloitte in 2000, Zeoli had been with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in upstate New York in its Syracuse and Buffalo offices, the college said in a news release.

As a consultant, Zeoli has more than two decades of experience serving health-care and health-tech companies headquartered in the U.S., Germany, and Netherlands. She advises clients on a wide range of business-management topics and has specialized experience in the areas of corporate governance, finance, mergers and acquisitions, and regulatory compliance, per Ithaca College. Zeoli is a certified public accountant licensed in New York and Massachusetts. She has authored a chapter on responsibilities for audit committee members and executives in the guidebook “Answering the Call: Understanding the Duties, Risks, and Rewards of Corporate Governance.” 

Since 2015, Zeoli has served as a member of Ithaca College’s School of Business advisory council and a volunteer for career service-related activities. “She has also demonstrated her commitment to Ithaca College and its students through annual speaking and networking engagements at the school,” the release stated. Zeoli tries to visit campus at least twice per year to speak on panels and in classes, and she mentors students and young alumni on and off campus throughout the year to offer them career advice and assistance.

Zeoli this year joined the boards of directors of MVP Health Care Inc. and MVP Health Plan Inc., both headquartered in Schenectady, New York. She currently resides in Massachusetts in Needham, and part-time on Nantucket, with her husband Bill Zeoli and daughter Sabrina.

Founded in 1892, Ithaca College currently has about 6,500 students.

SYRACUSE — CNY SHRM, the Syracuse–based chapter of the Society for Human Resources Management, announced that it recently elected and installed a new executive board.

Louise Hand is the new board president, replacing Amanda Cooper, president since 2017. Hand is the HR account manager at Saab Sensis and has more than 25 years of human-resources experience. She has an MBA from Syracuse University.

Iolanda Cooper is the new board VP. She has 19 years of human-resources experience, specializing in talent management. Cooper is a Wegmans employee representative and has a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Le Moyne College.

Jay Jerose continues in the role of CNY SHRM treasurer, a position he has held for the past two years. He is a manager at The Bonadio Group and member of its small business advisory team. A graduate of the University at Buffalo, Jerose, a CPA, has been with Bonadio since 2011. 

James Branche is the new CNY SHRM secretary. He has 12 years of human-resources experience and is currently human-resources manager at United Radio. He is a member of Vera House board of directors, P-TECH steering committee, and MACNY apprenticeship steering committee. 

Real gross domestic product (GDP) fell in 10 of Central New York’s 16 counties in 2018, according to new statistics released by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) on Dec. 12.

The BEA defines GDP by county as the value of goods and services “originating in all the industries in the county.” Real GDP is an inflation-adjusted measure that removes the effects of price changes. 

Only Chemung (1.5 percent), Onondaga (1.4 percent), and Broome (1.3 percent) counties had growth rates higher than the state average of 1.2 percent. The U.S. real GDP average for the period was 2.9 percent.

The negative growth rates in Oswego (-1.2 percent) and St. Lawrence (-1.3 percent) counties ranked them 56th and 57th, respectively, among New York’s 62 counties. 

In terms of total real GDP, Onondaga County had the largest 2018 amount in the region at $28.6 billion. Lewis County had the smallest amount with $926.2 million.

On the nationwide level, the BEA news release reported, “Real gross domestic product (GDP) increased in 2,375 counties, decreased in 717, and was unchanged in 21 in 2018.” The percentage change in real GDP ranged from 86.5 percent in Jackson County, West Virginia, to -44 percent in Grant County, North Dakota.

The New York State Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health recently announced that Maria Cristalli, president and CEO of Hillside Family of Agencies, has been named president of the coalition’s board of directors. 

Cristalli has been a member of the Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health board since 2016. Her leadership of the board is a two-year term.

The Coalition for Children’s Behavioral Health says it is dedicated to the advancement of children’s behavioral health services in New York state. The coalition advocates for nonprofit children’s behavioral health service agencies with policymakers in Albany regarding state legislation, regulations, and reimbursement issues.

Cristalli, who joined the Rochester–based Hillside Family of Agencies in 1991, was named president and CEO of Hillside in December 2018. She is a graduate of the University of Rochester with a master’s degree in Public Health.

Founded in 1837, Hillside Family of Agencies says it is “one of the oldest family and youth nonprofit human-services organizations in the United States.”

The organization provides child welfare, mental and physical health, youth development, juvenile justice, special education, and developmental-disabilities services across Central and Western New York and in Washington, D.C. and Prince George’s County, Maryland. It annually serves about 13,000 youth and adults.

Hillside Family of Agencies includes Hillside Children’s Center; Stillwater Children’s Center in Greene in Chenango County; Snell Farm Children’s Center in Bath in Steuben County; Hillside Work-Scholarship Connection; and Hillside Children’s Foundation.