CHAD ZITTROUER
New job title: President
Company:
Kern & Co. LLC
Related experience: Zittrouer has been with the company for 12 years serving as a project manager in the civil engineering department after completing his civil engineering degree at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
CARMEN CRIBBS
New job title: Sales Team in Pooler
Company: Coldwell Banker Platinum Partners
Duties: Cribbs specializes in acreage, country property, custom homes, dream homes, executive homes, existing homes, farm and ranches, first-time buyers, historic homes, investment, land, luxury homes, move-up homes, new construction, new home, relocation, residential, and retirement in the West Chatham and Effingham areas.
Related experience: Cribbs was the owner and broker of Southern Homes and Land Real Estate (from 2002-2009) and broker for Heidt Burns Real Estate Consultants.
Education: She holds her GRI designation and her broker’s license.
DAVID SPRINGER
New job title: Director of Food Service
Company: Parker’s
Duties:
Springer will oversee the company’s multi-million dollar self-serve food offerings in all 36 stores in Georgia and the South Carolina Low Country.
Related experience: Springer served as vice president of operations of IDC Ohio Management, operators of Dairy Queen locations throughout Ohio and Pennsylvania, where he guided that company through the implementation of the DQ new Grill and Chill concept.
Education: He is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps with the rank of 1st Lieutenant, and was awarded a Silver Star, Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
NICK NAPPI
New job title: Air Export Manager
Company: Page International
Duties: Nappi is responsible for leading all operations for Page International’s air export services.
Related experience: Nappi spent several years working on Wall Street before joining a global international logistics company as an air export associate. He has been DG certified for more than 20 years and has earned several customer and sales achievement awards.
Education: He has a degree in computer technology.
PADGETT MIXON
New job title: Commercial Lead
Company:
Sea Island Bank
Duties:
Mixon will oversee management responsibilities for Savannah’s Commercial Banking Team with additional risk management oversight for the market. He will also continue to manage a commercial portfolio that specializes in residential construction and manufacturing.
Related experience: Mixon, who joined Sea Island Bank in 2007, began his banking career in 2003 after previously working in the manufacturing industry for five years. He has worked in a variety of roles including as a Wealth Management and Commercial Relationship Manager.
Education:
He is a graduate of the Georgia Institute of Technology with a degree in industrial and systems engineering.
JESSICA COONE
New job title: Employee of The Month
Company:
Savannah Commons retirement community
Duties:
Coone is a dining room server for Independent and Assisted Living. She was voted one of the residents’ favorite employees.
Related experience: She has been with Savannah Commons since August 2012.
HunterMaclean partner speaks IFCLA in Belgium
Diana McKenzie, a partner at HunterMaclean, spoke at the 2014 International Federation of Computer Law Associations (IFCLA) in Antwerp, Belgium, on June 5, where she was introduced as the “mother of IT law.” McKenzie’s presentation was titled “IT and Contracts: Outsourcing,” and focused on what her group has learned about drafting outsourcing contracts with an emphasis on practical strategies, improving vendor performance, and decreasing unexpected scope creep.
Lasky named ‘Legal Elite’
Jeffrey W. Lasky, the senior litigation partner with Lasky Cooper Law, has been selected for inclusion by Georgia Trend magazine as a “Georgia Trend’s 2013 Legal Elite.” The selection was made after Georgia Trend magazine sent questionnaires to several thousand Georgia lawyers and invited participation by all Georgia lawyers via their website asking them to nominate the attorneys they considered best in 10 different practice categories.
Bar association elects officers
The Savannah Bar Association has elected the following officers for 2014-2015: President Catherine Bowman (The Bowman Law Office); President-Elect Colin McRae (Hunter
Maclean); Treasurer Mat McCoy (McCorkle & Johnson); and Secretary Maggie Puccini (Bouhan Falligant).
Jones receives NAIFA award
On June 7, at the NAIFA-Georgia annual meeting and convention in Stone Mountain, Maurice Jones, RHU LUTCF, NAIFA-Savannah Association Executive and Treasurer, was presented The George M. Connor-Linda S. Vice Award for 2014. This award has been presented annually since 1966. The award is the highest recognition NAIFA-GA can pay to one member who possesses such attributes as service to industry, association, community, and as well as family.