TERACAI has promoted members to its Cisco product management team. CHRIS SPAULDING has been promoted to senior product manager. SHANNON TREACY will take on additional responsibilities in the Cisco business and is being promoted to Cisco product manager. Spaulding has been with TERACAI since its inception in 2009 as a regional sales manager. Before that, he served as an account executive and team leader at CXtec, TERACAI’s sister company, since 2000. Treacy has been with TERACAI since 2014, most recently as a product manager. Before that, she served as a sales-support coordinator.

The Central New York Labor Council said it has elected its first female president in more than 150 years, SAMANTHA DERISO. She was elected following the retirement of outgoing President Patrick Costello. DeRiso is currently employed by the United Food and Commercial Workers Union and has been a member of the labor movement for over 30 years. Her background includes organizing more than 600 people employed by the Mohawk Valley Health System to fight for higher wages and safer working conditions, participating in numerous strikes, and traveling the country to work with various labor unions in their grassroots-organizing campaigns.