MEGHAN K. BANKOWSKI, CPA has been admitted into the partnership at Fust Charles Chambers LLP, a certified public accounting firm in Syracuse. She is a partner in the firm’s audit department and within the firm’s health-care consulting company, Microscope. Bankowski has more than 15 years of experience providing accounting, audit, and advisory services to many of Fust Charles Chambers’ health care and not-for-profit organizations, closely held manufacturing, distribution, and retail clients. In addition, she leads the financial & operational services department within Microscope. Bankowski received her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Le Moyne College. She joined Fust Charles Chambers in 2006 and was the firm’s first intern.

Microscope, a health-care consultancy headquartered in Syracuse, has hired DONALD J. DRUM, JR., as a director within its reimbursement service line. He has experience in the health care and insurance industries, where he held various positions within reimbursement, analysis & strategy, and contracting & financial analysis. Drum received his bachelor’s degree in business administration with a concentration in finance and applied management analysis from Le Moyne College and his MBA, also from Le Moyne. 

Finger Lakes Health announced that JOSEPH CARR has recently joined the health system as a certified athletic trainer who will be available at local school sporting events in Dundee. In addition to treating students in the athletic training room and attending team practices, he will attend games to monitor for injuries and work with athletes who may be unable to fully participate with the rest of their team due to injury. Carr previously worked as an outreach athletic trainer at Excelsior Orthopaedics in Buffalo. He received his bachelor’s degree in athletic training from Indiana Wesleyan University. 

BRANDI GOUGH has been promoted to chief financial officer at CH Insurance. Having joined the insurance agency as controller in 2021, Gough has had an exemplary track record, and helped to elevate the team, the firm said. A SUNY Delphi graduate, she has spent the past decade managing some of CNY’s top golf country clubs before joining CH Insurance.

ALYSSA CONVERTINO has been promoted to personal lines team leader at CH Insurance. Convertino has been with CH Insurance since she graduated from SUNY Fredonia in 2017. Her prior position was as personal lines customer-service rep, or CSR. She was most recently awarded the Travelers Insurance Star Agent award. 

Barclay Damon recently announced four elevations to the law firm’s partnership. AMY D’AMBROGIO and MARGARET SUROWKA, formerly special counsel, and JON MCSHERRY and BEN WILKINSON, formerly counsel, have become partners, effective Jan. 1. D’Ambrogio is a member of Barclay Damon’s property tax & condemnation and energy practice areas and health & human services providers team. She concentrates her practice on representing energy and utility clients and other businesses in property tax and eminent-domain disputes. She also counsels health care, disability, and other not-for-profits in securing property-tax exemptions and in compliance matters. Surowka is co-leader of Barclay Damon’s health & human services providers team and is also a member of the health care controversies team and labor & employment practice area. She concentrates her practice on representing agencies, facilities, and individual providers in compliance matters, licensure, disciplinary, and ethics proceedings. She also counsels clients facing Medicaid, Medicare, and other governmental investigations and audits, as well as assists with employment and contract matters. McSherry is a member of Barclay Damon’s tax, corporate, and trusts & estates practice areas. He concentrates his practice on estate and Medicaid planning, trusts and estates administration, business succession planning, and tax law. Wilkinson is a member of the law firm’s labor & employment and commercial litigation practice areas. He concentrates his practice on labor and employment matters, representing employers before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the NYS Division of Human Rights, and federal and state courts regarding employment-discrimination claims, wage and hour claims, and breach-of-employment contracts. Wilkinson also represents individuals and businesses in a variety of commercial-litigation matters in federal and state courts.

Bousquet Holstein PLLC recently welcomed attorney JEFFREY B. DAVIS to the law firm’s Real Estate Group. Davis will serve as of counsel to the firm on real estate and estate planning and administration matters. Davis joins the firm after successfully leading his own practice for almost 40 years in Camillus. Davis has predominately represented individuals and businesses for their real estate, estate planning, and administration needs. In addition, he has extensive experience forming LLCs and trusts for the transfer and ownership of real estate. His practice also includes working with easements, surveyors, homeowners’ associations, condominiums, leases, and related business matters. Davis has worked as an agent for Stewart Title Insurance Company for more than 30 years and has worked as examining counsel for numerous title companies. Davis earned his law degree from the Syracuse University College of Law and his bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University. Joining Davis in the move to Bousquet Holstein are paralegals PAMELA J. MARTIN and JENNIFER L. PAGAN, who previously worked with him at his private practice. Martin has more than 25 years of experience with all aspects of real-estate transactions and assists with estate proceedings, probate administration, and small estate filings. She earned her paralegal-studies degree from Le Moyne College. Pagan has more than 35 years of experience in title insurance and examination and assists with title reports, obtaining curative, and other real-estate transaction matters. Pagan holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and economics from SUNY Oswego.