The Syracuse Crunch has hired FRANCESCA RANIERI as foundation & merchandise manager / account executive and BRIGID HESLIN as marketing manager. Ranieri joined the Crunch for the 2015-16 season as a game-day operations intern. After continuing her internship over the summer and working part time through the 2016-17 campaign, she now joins the staff as a full-time employee. Ranieri received her associate degree at Palm Beach State College before transferring to Syracuse University, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in sport management in May 2017. Heslin is a full-time staff member after serving as a public & media relations intern and part-time account executive since the 2015-16 season. She graduated from Le Moyne College with a degree in communications with concentrations in public relations and media studies. The Syracuse Crunch has promoted ANDREA MARINO to senior manager of corporate activation & marketing, MEGAN CAHILL to senior manager of public relations & digital media, and KRISTEN DENICK to senior manager of retention. Marino joined the Crunch full time for the 2014-15 season as sponsorship services manager before being named corporate activation & marketing manager. She spent the 2012-13 campaign with the team as an intern. Cahill rejoined the Crunch for the 2015 Calder Cup Playoffs after spending the 2013-14 season as a public & media relations intern. Denick joined the Crunch at the start of the 2015-16 season as an account executive after serving as a sponsorship-services intern. For the past year, she served as the team’s Crunch Foundation and retention manager. 

Annese & Associates, Inc. has hired ALI SCHILLINGER as staff accountant. Most recently, she worked at a regional public accounting firm, Insero & Coin, based in Rochester. Schillinger holds an undergraduate degree from St. John Fisher College, with a major in accounting, and an MBA, with a concentration in accounting, from St. John Fisher College, completed in 2014.