Dermody, Burke & Brown, CPAs, LLC recently hired UYEN NGUYEN and BRITTANY BECKER in its Syracuse office.

Nguyen joined the firm as a manager in the Auditing & Accounting department. She received both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in accounting from Syracuse University and is a CPA. Nguyen previously worked in public accounting as a senior auditor at Ernst & Young, LLP.

Becker was hired as an associate in the Auditing & Accounting department. She received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from SUNY Potsdam and an MBA in professional accountancy from Utica College. Becker comes to the firm with experience as a bookkeeper/accountant from her family’s business. She is working to complete the certification process to earn her designation as a certified public accountant (CPA). 

KENNETH WILLIAMS, regional sales manager at Wilmington Trust, has been promoted to group VP. Based in the company’s Syracuse office, he is responsible for managing Wilmington Trust’s Central and Capital regions in New York state. Williams has two decades of experience in the financial-services industry. Before joining M&T Bank in 2008, which acquired Wilmington Trust in 2011, he served as a manager and financial advisor at American Express and HSBC. Williams received a bachelor’s degree in business administration from SUNY Oswego. 

NBT Bank has hired JOHN ROTT as branch manager of the bank’s DeWitt office. He brings almost 20 years of management experience, including the past decade in the financial services, to his new position. Rott comes to NBT Bank from KeyCorp, where he served as a licensed relationship manager and branch manager. Before that, he served as a licensed banker for both HSBC and First Niagara Financial Group, Inc. as well as a financial representative for Northwestern Mutual Life. Rott received his bachelor’s degree in business administration from Columbia College of Missouri in Syracuse.

KAREN BROGNANO has joined NBT as VP and senior commercial banking relationship manager based at the bank’s Utica Financial Center. She has more than 25 years of experience in banking in the Mohawk Valley, including positions with Savings Bank of Utica and M&T Bank. Brognano was previously VP of commercial lending with Key Bank. She is a graduate of Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in business administration

ARTHUR B. MUCITELLI has joined the Utica office of Cushman Wakefield/Pyramid Brokerage Company as a commercial real-estate agent. He was previously a licensed real-estate salesperson with RM Realty Results and is currently attending Mohawk Valley Community College, working toward his degree in business management.

Hayner Hoyt Corporation has hired recent SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry graduate MYUNGJOO PARK as a project engineer. With a degree in construction management, she previously interned at Housing Visions and the Syracuse University Steam Station.

KYLE ROBINSON joins the Hayner Hoyt team as a project engineer. Also a recent graduate of SUNY ESF, he graduated with a degree in construction management. He previously worked at S.J. Thomas Co., Inc. as an assistant project manager and has experience in estimating and carpentry.

JUSTIN HAYWARD joins the company as a project engineer. He recently moved back from Oakmont, Pennsylvania, where he was the senior agronomist at Oakmont Country Club. Hayward holds a bachelor’s degree from SUNY Delhi.

JOHN M. DAVIS has joined Pinnacle Human Resources, LLC as its business development manager, focused on growth in the Central New York and Western New York markets, while also overseeing business development for the organization (including the Capital Region and beyond). He holds a bachelor’s degree and an MBA from Clarkson University with extensive experience working with small, medium, and large private organizations, not-for-profits, and municipal/government clients.

The Ulysses Philomathic Library (UPL) board of trustees has named KSANA BROADWELL the next director of the library. She received her master’s degree in library science from the University at Buffalo in 2010. Broadwell served as librarian at the Ford Memorial Library in Ovid for three years before assuming becoming librarian at the Ulysses Philomathic Library in 2014. Her history with UPL dates back much further however; as a child growing up in Trumansburg, she was a library patron almost from birth, and she spent her high school and early college years volunteering at the circulation desk.