Tioga State Bank has promoted JENNIFER BROCKNER to chief financial officer and senior VP. She joined Tioga State Bank in 2002 as a customer service representative and transferred to the finance department as an accountant II after completion of her bachelor’s degree in accounting. Brockner was then promoted to senior accountant/supervisor, finance manager, and VP of finance. She graduated from Binghamton University. 

GEORGE SHIELDS is now manager of Johnstone Supply’s Syracuse branch on Canal Street. He had previously managed the Rochester branch since 2013. Before joining Johnstone, Shields managed a Goodman-owned wholesale distribution center in Maryland. Goodman is Johnstone’s major furnace and air conditioning brand. Before turning to wholesaling, Shields spent 20 years in retail management with a number of leading national big box chains. He also owned his own flooring company for five years. Shields began transitioning to his new position when longtime manager Bob Spanfelner, who had managed the branch since it opened in 2002, announced his retirement. Shields notes that Spanfelner found out quickly that full-time retirement wasn’t for him and he now works for the branch a few days a week as an outside sales representative. Shields earned an associate degree from American International University and is completing his bachelor’s degree.

CHA Consulting, Inc. announced that ANTHONY RUSSO has joined the firm to assist with environmental compliance and hazardous building materials consulting from its Syracuse office. He has a strong background in environmental science, with a focus on water-quality monitoring research. Russo earned his master’s degree in basic science with a specialization in biology from Clarkson University in Potsdam, and he received his bachelor’s degree in environmental science from SUNY Plattsburgh. 

Bankers Healthcare Group (BHG) has promoted DWAYNE MAYE to marketing technology and development manager. He previously was a senior web developer with the company. Maye has been with BHG for three years.

JENNIFER GIACCIO has joined Gilroy Kernan & Gilroy Inc. as senior account manager for the firm’s commercial lines division. She is a graduate of Binghamton University. Giaccio has more than 20 years of diverse property and casualty insurance experience. She has held underwriting positions at Utica National Insurance Group, Zurich North America, and The Hartford. Giaccio is a graduate of Binghamton University.

SHARON WOLLABER has joined Gilroy Kernan & Gilroy as the manager of first impressions. She brings more than 15 years of local office management experience. Wollaber is a graduate of the Utica School of Commerce and has worked in the Utica area since 2002, most recently with North Country Eye Associates

MARLA E. RAUS has joined Smith Sovik Kendrick & Sugnet PC as an associate attorney. She is a Syracuse native who graduated from Syracuse University and returned to practice here after attending Wake Forest University School of Law. While in law school, Raus interned for the New York Attorney General’s office and a local personal injury law firm. Prior to joining Smith Sovik, she worked at a general practice law firm focusing on commercial and other civil litigation.

CoveyCS announced the permanent hire of an intern from its spring internship program to a full-time employee. JARED WRATE has been hired as a full-time software developer. He entered the CoveyCS internship program in January 2018 during his final year at SUNY Polytechnic Institute. Wrate is a May 2018 graduate of the computer and electrical engineering technology program with a minor in computer science. He will be joining the CoveyCS development team stationed at AIS in Rome.