Ryan Biggs/Clark Davis Engineering & Surveying, D.P.C. has promoted CHRIS LATREILLE to principal, and JOHN PILLAR to senior engineer. Latreille has been with the firm since 2001. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). Latreille served as project manager of structural design of the Smart Energy Research and Development Facility at Binghamton University, the Peggy Ryan Williams Center at Ithaca College, and structural designs of several additions. He holds professional engineering licenses in New York, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and works in the Skaneateles Falls office.

Pillar joined the firm in 2012. He earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Pennsylvania State University. He provided the structural design of the new Health & Wellness Center on the Alfred University campus and the Natural Science Center at Broome Community College, in addition to several design and renovation projects. Pillar works in the Skaneateles Falls office and services many clients in the Ithaca region. He holds professional engineering licenses in New York and Virginia and a structural engineer license in Illinois. 

Key Equipment Finance, an affiliate of KeyCorp, has named JEFFREY EADES VP of Key4Green. He completed the Key Equipment Finance management training program in 1987 and then moved through the ranks before leaving the company to pursue leadership roles. Prior to rejoining Key Equipment Finance in 2003, Eades was VP of business banking with Bank of America. He also held positions of increasing responsibility with Riviera Finance and Chase Manhattan Bank. Eades holds a bachelor’s degree in American studies from Syracuse University. He will continue to be based in Central New York.

HCR Home Care has hired JAMIE WATERMAN as a home health aide for its Onondaga County operations.

JENNIFER HURD has been named stroke outreach nurse for the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS). She has worked for Faxton St. Luke’s Healthcare and MVHS for more than 19 years and has held positions as a staff nurse, clinician on AC 3 (the stroke unit), and general education clinician. Hurd earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from SUNY Institute of Technology at Utica-Rome and her associate degree in nursing from the St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing in Syracuse.

Breast Surgeon LISA LAI, M.D. has joined Oswego Health to provide community members with a range of services to its General Surgery Associates practice. She will provide care to patients needing breast care in Suite 1700 of the Fulton Medical Office Building and surgical care in Oswego Hospital’s advanced surgery center. Lai is affiliated with the Cancer Center at Upstate Medical Center and serves as the medical director for the breast cancer program. She received her medical degree and undergraduate degrees from SUNY Buffalo and completed her surgery residency at Upstate Medical University and a fellowship in breast surgical oncology at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Masonic Medical Research Laboratory (MMRL) has hired TERRI A. CRONIN as executive assistant to Dr. Maria Kontaridis, director of research. She brings decades of experience to MMRL. Cronin most recently worked in senior administrative positions at Lockheed Martin Corporation in Syracuse and Atlanta. She also held positions at the Cobb County School District in Georgia. Cronin was part of the support team for the first female president of Hamilton College and now has another opportunity to make history by supporting Kontaridis, MMRL says.

Massage Envy of Rochester / Syracuse has hired SAMANTHA WHITE as a wellness consultant in the Clay location. KELLY LINDERMANN has been hired as a wellness consultant and MICHAEL JOYCE has been hired as a licensed massage therapist in the Fayetteville location.