KAITLYN A. HENSLER has been promoted to senior audit manager at Dannible & McKee, LLP. Hensler, CPA/CFF, CFE, joined the accounting firm in 2013 and in her current role, she is responsible for the planning and management of multiple engagement teams through the performance of audits, reviews, and compilations for the firm’s clients. Her areas of focus are construction, manufacturing, employee-benefit plans, forensic accounting, and fraud detection and prevention services. Hensler graduated from SUNY Oneonta, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in professional accounting.

JAMES LAUBENSTEIN has been promoted to senior audit manager at Dannible & McKee. Laubenstein, CPA, joined the firm in 2011 after interning the year before. He provides auditing, accounting and consulting services to a variety of clients, including manufacturers, dealerships, broker dealers, insurance agencies, professional-service firms, and the health-care industry. He also specializes in providing auditing services to a variety of employee-benefit plans. Laubenstein earned his MBA degree in 2011, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 2010 from St. John Fisher College.

ROBERT REEVES has been promoted to audit manager at Dannible & McKee. Reeves, CPA, joined the accounting firm in 2017 and is responsible for providing audits, reviews, and compilations in various industries. He also works with clients to help identify and resolve accounting and audit issues. Prior to joining Dannible, Reeves worked as a senior accountant for a private, commercial real-estate company. He earned his MBA from SUNY Oswego and a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Niagara University.

JOSHUA T. JASEWICZ has been promoted to tax senior at Dannible & McKee. Jasewicz, CPA, joined the firm’s tax department in 2019, after interning for two years. He has experience in income-tax planning and compliance services to individuals and closely held companies. He specializes in the architecture and engineering (A/E), professional services and manufacturing industries, including multi-state corporations and high-net-worth individuals. Jasewicz is also involved in the accounting firm’s business valuation and succession-planning services. He earned his MBA with a concentration in accounting in 2019, and a bachelor’s degree in accounting in 2017, from SUNY Oswego. 

CHRISTOPHER J. APKER was promoted from controller to chief financial officer (CFO) at HOLT Architects. Apker has worked for HOLT Architects, which has offices in Ithaca and Syracuse, since 2002. During his tenure as controller and now CFO, he provides strategic leadership on the firm’s financial affairs, plays an essential role in operations with planning, forecasting, and benchmarking, and oversees the firm’s business team and functions. Apker received his bachelor’s degree from St. Bonaventure University and his MBA from Le Moyne College. 

RENEE MADISON has been appointed VP for equity and inclusion at Colgate University. Madison — who is currently director of human resources for the City of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana — has experience promoting inclusion and equity in higher education and government. She will start her new job at Colgate on Oct. 4. Madison will report to the Colgate president and serve as a member of the president’s cabinet. Before joining the mayor’s cabinet in Indianapolis, Madison was chief human-resources officer, senior advisor to the president for diversity and compliance, and Title IX coordinator at DePauw University. She also served as a deputy prosecuting attorney in the Domestic Violence Division of the Marion County Prosecutor’s Office and an associate director of enforcement for the NCAA. Madison holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from DePauw and earned her law degree at Indiana University’s Robert H. McKinney School of Law. Madison will serve as a core member of Colgate’s senior leadership team, providing oversight and strategic vision for policies and initiatives that promote an inclusive and equitable learning and working environment for students as well as faculty and staff members. With a staff of four, she will oversee the Office of Equity and Diversity, which currently guides hiring practices, Title IX cases, ADA concerns, affirmative action/equal opportunity, and the university’s nondiscrimination and anti-harassment processes. 

DENISE MOORE has been appointed the new cityline coordinator for the City of Syracuse. In her new role, Moore is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of SYRCityline’s customer-service call center. Her work will include oversight of the hiring, training, and monitoring of the SYRCityline team, in addition to providing constituents with timely responses submitted through the mobile app and web portal. Moore reports directly to Corey Driscoll Dunham, the city’s chief operating officer. For more than 15 years, Moore has worked with youth and their family members in her previous role as director of the Seals Community Center at Kirk Park. Her work involved supervision of center staff, implementation of program activities, acquisition of grants, interfacing with community agencies, and gathering support from local businesses. Before working for the Department of Parks, Recreation & Youth Programs, Moore worked with youth for 11 years as the substance-abuse prevention educator for Syracuse Model Neighborhood Facility, Inc., facilitating group meetings and programming for participants.

ROSE ANTILUS, M.D. has joined the Mohawk Valley Health System (MVHS) Medical Group as an obstetrician/gynecologist (OB/GYN) at the Women’s Health Center, where she will provide outpatient care to women of all ages. Dr. Antilus has more than 15 years of experience in the OB/GYN specialty and joins MVHS from Northwell Health, Southside Hospital in Bayshore, New York, where she worked in the OB/GYN department and served as associate director of quality. Antilus earned her medical degree and performed her OB/GYN residency at SUNY Health Science Center at Brooklyn College of Medicine in Brooklyn, New York. She was administrative chief resident in her last year of residency. Dr. Antilus’ office is located at the Women’s Health Center at 2212 Genesee St. in Utica

RENEE TUGGLE was recently named the next fiscal director of the Mohawk Valley Community Action Agency (MVCAA). She had been serving as the organization’s executive assistant and head of the MVCAA Angels program. Tuggle succeeds interim fiscal director, Valerie Bostwick, who left the nonprofit agency in late June. Tuggle first joined MVCAA — which says it is the frontline resource for people living in poverty in Oneida and Herkimer Counties — in 2003 as a cook for the Early Head Start and Head Start programs. After working as a cook in her first five years at MVCAA, Tuggle then was an administrative assistant for four years, before serving as executive assistant for the past nine years. She worked hard and was able to earn both her associate degree and bachelor’s degree while working full-time at the agency.

DANIEL TREBENDIS has joined the leadership team at ARISE as its director of quality improvement and corporate compliance. He comes to ARISE after working for 12 years at Hillside Children’s Center. He has worked in not-for-profit services for more than 20 years, with much of that time spent in quality, compliance, and risk management. Trebendis received his bachelor’s degree from Le Moyne College and his master’s degree at the University at Albany. ARISE says it is an independent-living center serving people of any age and with any kind of disability, including a mental-health diagnosis. 

TRISTA ROSEN, who previously worked at Raymour & Flanigan for more than 12 years, has returned after a short stint with Starbucks to serve as VP of human resources and talent acquisition. Before returning to Raymour & Flanigan, Rosen served as a partner resource manager at Starbucks from 2019-2021. Her first stint at Raymour & Flanigan was from 2007-2019. She started as a human-resource field specialist and worked her way up to regional VP of human resources. Before that, Rosen was an HR executive at Target (2006-2007) and corporate trainer at Applebee’s Neighborhood Bar & Grill (1998-2005). Rosen will be based in the Raymour & Flanigan field-support center (corporate office) on Morgan Road in Clay. She will also be traveling in the field, working with the HR/talent-acquisition team, as well as Raymour & Flanigan leaders and associates.