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NBT Bank has announced promotions and expanded responsibilities for members of its Mohawk Valley leadership team. TRICIA BUSHEE has been promoted to senior regional territory manager. She has played an expanding role in leading NBT’s retail-banking efforts in the Mohawk Valley since joining the bank in 2017. In 2019, Bushee advanced to the role of […]
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NBT Bank has announced promotions and expanded responsibilities for members of its Mohawk Valley leadership team. TRICIA BUSHEE has been promoted to senior regional territory manager. She has played an expanding role in leading NBT’s retail-banking efforts in the Mohawk Valley since joining the bank in 2017. In 2019, Bushee advanced to the role of territory manager. She oversees all NBT Bank branch locations across the Mohawk Valley. Bushee studied business at SUNY Morrisville and is a 2015 graduate of the Leadership Mohawk Valley civic-leadership training program. She serves as the president of the Maria A. Russo Neighborhood Center Institute board.
ALICIA BROCKWAY has been promoted to business banking regional manager. In this role, she is responsible for management of the local business-banking team, including mentoring, coaching, and strategic insight to aid in growth. Brockway joined NBT in 2018 and has nearly 30 years of experience in the financial-services industry, including positions in commercial and business-banking leadership. Brockway received her bachelor’s degree in organizational management from Keuka College. She currently serves as a board member and executive committee member of the Herkimer College Foundation; a board member, treasurer, and executive-committee member of Arc Herkimer; and a board member, officer, and executive committee member of the Cedar Lake Golf Club.
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n addition, Senior Commercial Banking Relationship Manager KAREN WILLIAMS and Senior Commercial Portfolio Manager MARY ANN HALLAK-SERWATKA recently took on expanded roles in commercial-banking management. Williams is now charged with leading the business-development activities of NBT’s Mohawk Valley commercial-banking team. She has more than 35 years of experience in banking in the Mohawk Valley. A graduate of Syracuse University, Williams resides in Rome and has remained active in the communities she serves throughout her tenure in banking. Hallak-Serwatka has worked at NBT Bank for 1
7 years and is now responsible for managing its Mohawk Valley commercial-loan portfolio, including coordinating all related administrative activities and special projects. A resident of Utica, Hallak-Serwatka holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Le Moyne College and an MBA in finance and accounting from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. She was recognized as the 2016 Lender of the Year by Pursuit, formerly the New York Business Development Corporation.

JOHN CAMP has been promoted to VP at C&S Cos., managing its infrastructure, environmental, and site/civil practice. He has been with C&S for more than 20 years, managing a wide variety of municipal, environmental, water, wastewater, and other projects for both public and private clients. Camp is a licensed professional engineer in numerous states, a
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JOHN CAMP has been promoted to VP at C&S Cos., managing its infrastructure, environmental, and site/civil practice. He has been with C&S for more than 20 years, managing a wide variety of municipal, environmental, water, wastewater, and other projects for both public and private clients. Camp is a licensed professional engineer in numerous states, a certified floodplain manager, a certified professional in stormwater quality, and a certified professional in erosion and sediment control. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
AILEEN MAGUIRE MEYER has also been elevated to VP at C&S. She provides project leadership on strategic projects to deliver a range of architecture, engineering, and planning services. Her responsibilities include corporate initiatives to optimize operational efficiency, promote standards and best practices, and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Meyer has technical expertise in traffic engineering and facility, transportation, and sustainability planning. She is a graduate of Boston University and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is a licensed professional engineer, a certified planner, and an Envision Sustainability Professional.
NICHOLAS CERRO has been promoted to VP, overseeing marketing and business development at the company. In this role, he leads teams engaged in market research and analysis, strategic planning and development, market position and promotion, new business development, customer relationship management, and related activities across diverse market and service sectors. Cerro has been with C&S for more than 25 years and holds a master’s degree in corporate communication from Ithaca College and a bachelor’s in English from Le Moyne College.

Hancock Estabrook, LLP has added S. ALEXANDER BERLUCCHI as an associate in the firm’s health care practice area. He focuses on assisting clients with matters related to health-care law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and labor-law issues. Berlucchi assists a variety of health-care clients with compliance issues, including providing regulatory compliance advice on the federal
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Hancock Estabrook, LLP has added S. ALEXANDER BERLUCCHI as an associate in the firm’s health care practice area. He focuses on assisting clients with matters related to health-care law, corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and labor-law issues. Berlucchi assists a variety of health-care clients with compliance issues, including providing regulatory compliance advice on the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, the Civil Monetary Penalties Law, and HIPAA. Berlucchi prepares formation and operating-structure agreements for health-care organizations and physicians. He also provides guidance on fiduciary duties, health-care compliance, and corporate-governance matters. Berlucchi is a graduate of the University of Scranton and Syracuse University College of Law, where he served as editor-in-chief for the Syracuse Law Review. He also received a master’s degree in health administration from Penn State University, Harrisburg Campus. He is admitted to practice in New York state.

SARAH ALLIS and KILEY JOLICOEUR recently joined Syracuse University Libraries’ new Department of Digital Stewardship. Allis accepted the newly created role of content coordinator, where she will maintain digital content in the libraries’ various digital repositories, including SURFACE and Digital Collections. She transitioned to her new role after working for more than 10 years in
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SARAH ALLIS and KILEY JOLICOEUR recently joined Syracuse University Libraries’ new Department of Digital Stewardship.
Allis accepted the newly created role of content coordinator, where she will maintain digital content in the libraries’ various digital repositories, including SURFACE and Digital Collections. She transitioned to her new role after working for more than 10 years in the Department of Learning and Academic Engagement. Prior to that, Allis spent six years working on the digital library at Penn State University Libraries. She has a bachelor’s degree in architecture and a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Jolicoeur accepted the position of metadata-strategies librarian, where she will steward the metadata for digital collections, including the creation of new metadata, remediation of legacy metadata, and the designing of application profiles across collections and platforms. Prior to this role, she worked as a graduate assistant for Syracuse University Libraries’ Department of Digital Stewardship, building skills and a deep understanding of the metadata used with its existing digital collections. As a graduate assistant, Jolicoeur was instrumental in the early phase of the libraries’ migration to a new digital-object management system and has experience with SURFACE, the Libraries’ institutional repository. Jolicoeur received her master’s degree in library and information science degree from Syracuse University and her dual bachelor’s degrees in philosophy and classics from Sweet Briar College in Virginia.

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