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KEVIN FALKENBERG has joined Valicenti Advisory Services, Inc. — an Elmira–based registered investment advisor and provider of tax and business services — as data manager. He posts and reconciles daily account transactions and monitors system information, ensuring the accuracy of all data. Falkenberg opens and closes accounts on the system and provides daily updates to […]
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KEVIN FALKENBERG has joined Valicenti Advisory Services, Inc. — an Elmira–based registered investment advisor and provider of tax and business services — as data manager. He posts and reconciles daily account transactions and monitors system information, ensuring the accuracy of all data. Falkenberg opens and closes accounts on the system and provides daily updates to the website. He brings 13 years of experience. Falkenberg previously worked as a financial-services representative, managing client assets and achieving record production levels. Currently, he is an owner and partner in an event-planning business part-time. Falkenberg graduated from Ithaca College with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts.
SAMSON LIN has joined Valicenti Advisory Services as an investment analyst. In this position, he will be working closely with the investment team and will provide critical support to the lead analyst and portfolio managers in the areas of research, position and risk monitoring, performance attribution, and trade execution. Samson graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and a minor in finance and psychology. During his college career, he was a facilities supervisor at the Barnes Center and served as an intramural referee for college students at Syracuse University Recreation Services and was the treasurer of the Chess Club.

AVNEET SINGH, MD has joined the Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) health-care system as its new cardiologist. Singh studied medicine at Maulana Azad Medical College, earning degrees in medicine and surgery in New Delhi, India. Singh also completed education around internal medicine before completing his residency and fellowship in cardiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. As
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AVNEET SINGH, MD has joined the Community Memorial Hospital (CMH) health-care system as its new cardiologist. Singh studied medicine at Maulana Azad Medical College, earning degrees in medicine and surgery in New Delhi, India. Singh also completed education around internal medicine before completing his residency and fellowship in cardiology at SUNY Upstate Medical University. As the previous director of echocardiography at Upstate, Singh received his certifications in both cardiovascular computed tomography and cardiovascular disease. Dr. Singh comes to the CMH medical staff as longtime cardiologist, Dr. Raymond Carlson retires. Practicing in Hamilton since 2010, Dr. Carlson built a strong reputation for providing quality cardiology care. He served as an integral part of the selection process for the new cardiologist. CMH also has an agreement with Dr. Joseph Battaglia at Crouse Medical Cardiology to collaborate with Dr. Singh, the hospital’s Emergency Department, and hospital physicians, for extensive patient care. Dr. Singh holds professional memberships within the Fellowship of the American College of Cardiology, the National Board of Echocardiography, along with the American Heart Association and the American College of Physicians. He will be seeing patients out of the Hamilton Family Health Center location.

JESSICA YEARBY has joined the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Surgical Group in Utica as a certified family nurse practitioner, where she will provide pre- and post-operative care to patients. Yearby has more than 13 years of nursing experience at MVHS in the Intensive Care and Neuro/Trauma Intensive Care Units. Yearby earned her family nurse
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JESSICA YEARBY has joined the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Surgical Group in Utica as a certified family nurse practitioner, where she will provide pre- and post-operative care to patients. Yearby has more than 13 years of nursing experience at MVHS in the Intensive Care and Neuro/Trauma Intensive Care Units. Yearby earned her family nurse practitioner master’s degree from SUNY Polytechnic University in Marcy. She earned her bachelor’s degree in nursing from Utica College.
MUZEYYEN ERCANLI, MD, has joined the MVHS Medical Group as an obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) at the MVHS Women’s Health Center and MVHS OB Care Center, where she will provide inpatient and outpatient care. Dr. Ercanli has more than 15 years of experience in the OB/GYN specialty and joins MVHS from Heights Medical, a private practice in Brooklyn. She specializes in providing care to women across the continuum of care, including prenatal, antepartum and postpartum gynecological care. She also provides support and care to women through the perimenopause and menopausal processes. Ercanli earned her medical degree from Uludag University in Bursa, Turkey. She performed her OB/GYN residency at Suleymaniye Maternity and Women’s Hospital in Istanbul, Turkey. She completed an additional OB/GYN residency at Saint Peter’s University Hospital in New Jersey. She is board certified by the American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology and is a fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.

CATHERINE A. RAY has joined Bousquet Holstein as an associate attorney in the firm’s Trust & Estates and Elder Care Practice Group and will work in the firm’s Syracuse and Ithaca offices. Prior to joining Bousquet Holstein, Ray worked with clients at a private law practice preparing estate-planning documents, including last wills and testaments and
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CATHERINE A. RAY has joined Bousquet Holstein as an associate attorney in the firm’s Trust & Estates and Elder Care Practice Group and will work in the firm’s Syracuse and Ithaca offices. Prior to joining Bousquet Holstein, Ray worked with clients at a private law practice preparing estate-planning documents, including last wills and testaments and revocable and irrevocable trusts. In addition, she advised and represented small-business owners on various employee benefits/ERISA matters affecting compliance of their qualified retirement plans, including identifying qualification failures and working with clients to ensure their qualified plans were appropriately corrected. Ray also worked with clients to ensure they had policies in place to avoid future qualification failures. Originally from northern Virginia, she is a graduate of Syracuse University College of Law. Ray earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Virginia Tech. While in law school, she focused her studies on estate planning and administration, and federal tax law, graduating with an estate-planning certificate. Her experiences also include externing at a policy think-tank in Washington D.C.; providing services to indigent clients as a student attorney in the law school’s Bankruptcy Clinic; and externing at the Surrogate’s Court in Manhattan.

JULIANNE RAMSEY has been appointed to assistant VP of information-technology solutions and services for SRC, Inc.’s electronic warfare and services division. In this role, Ramsey will serve as a senior leader, managing a large team that spans across the United States. She will direct and grow the ITSS business unit that provides engineering and integration
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JULIANNE RAMSEY has been appointed to assistant VP of information-technology solutions and services for SRC, Inc.’s electronic warfare and services division. In this role, Ramsey will serve as a senior leader, managing a large team that spans across the United States. She will direct and grow the ITSS business unit that provides engineering and integration services, environmental analysis, CBRN solutions, and cybersecurity Ramsey brings more than 35 years of military and professional experience in operations, strategic planning, and business capture. Ramsey has been with SRC for 15 years, most recently as director of technical services, providing professional, technical, and analytical support services for operations and intelligence-relevant activities in the defense industry. Ramsey has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from University of Virginia and a master’s degree in computer resources and information management from Webster University in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

BCA Architects & Engineers names Overton CEO
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Pinnacle Investments names Nardella president
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Cazenovia College President Chesbrough to retire in January; school appoints interim president
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Aldi’s Clay store set to reopen Thursday morning following renovation work
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Utica Gas & Electric FCU names Brown president and CEO
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