HCR Home Care has added a new employee to its Onondaga County operations. TANASIA SHAW joins the company as a home health aide. 

SCOTT A. SHATRAW, former senior VP and chief financial officer of Utica First Insurance Company in Oriskany became company president and CEO on Jan. 1. He succeeds longtime president and CEO, RICHARD J. ZICK, who will act as executive consultant to the insurer’s board of directors. Shatraw, a graduate of Le Moyne College with a bachelor’s degree in accounting, joined Utica First Insurance in 1990 as controller. He is a CPA and a chartered property casualty underwriter. 

EVAN MOORE has joined the Syracuse branch of AXA Advisors, LLC. He holds a bachelor’s degree in finance from Oswego University and additionally earned his life and health, Series 7 and Series 63 licenses. 

BRYN LOVEJOY-GRINNELL has joined Bousquet Holstein PLLC as of counsel in the firm’s matrimonial and family law practice group. She began her career as a domestic violence advocate at the Advocacy Center in Ithaca. Advocating for victims of domestic violence spurred her to go to law school. For the first eight years of her legal career, Lovejoy-Grinnell represented clients at the Frank H. Hiscock Legal Aid Society in family and matrimonial matters. Since starting her private practice in 2017, she has represented women and men in many different courts in Central New York. Lovejoy-Grinnell is a graduate of Cornell Law School, and earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard University. 

Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central New York has hired EMILY WHALEN as volunteer manager. Prior to joining Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central New York, she gained experience as marketing director at Empire Brewing Co. and as catering manager at Dinosaur Bar-B-Que. Whalen has a bachelor’s degree in communications from SUNY Cortland.