Here’s a look at promotions, hires, moves, and newsmakers in the Memphis business area:
Children’s mental health and behavioral nonprofit Youth Villages announced two new officers for its national board of directors. Mike Bruns was named chairman and Mark Allen was named vice chairman. Bruns took the reins from Jimmy Lackie, who served as chairman for the past four years. Bruns is a former chairman of the Youth Villages’ Board of Directors from 1997-2001 and 2005-2013. He served as chairman emeritus from 2014 until his most recent appointment as chairman. Allen replaces board Vice Chairman Bill Giles. Allen has served on the board of directors as the risk committee chair for Youth Villages since joining in 2018. He is also the executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for FedEx Corporation and manages international and domestic legal, security and government affairs for to the company.
For the second consecutive year, CanopyNation earned the Top Employee Benefits Consultant Award from Mployer Advisor, a leading independent platform for employers to research, review and evaluate insurance advisors. The award recognizes esteemed brokers who demonstrate market-leading capabilities and a proven track record of success with employers, insurance providers and peers. Mployer’s Advisor determined the winners by evaluating each brokerage based on historical data, online reviews, their “M Score” rating and demonstrated business experience.
Susan Cooperchief integration officer and senior vice president of Regional One Health, has been selected to serve as chair-elect and secretary for Important Hospital Institute Board of Directors. The Essential Hospitals Institute is the research, education, dissemination and leadership development arm of America’s Essential Hospitals. The institute supports the nation’s vital hospitals as they provide high-quality, equitable and affordable care. Cooper was the first nurse to serve as Health Commissioner for the state of Tennessee and one of the few nurses to serve in the role nationwide. He has led initiatives to promote prevention for people at risk for diabetes and obesity. He also leads the ONE Health complex care program at Regional One Health. The program identifies vulnerable patients with frequent ER visits or multiple inpatient stays and addresses their medical needs as well as their social needs such as housing, food, and transportation to elevate their lives.
Jonathan Fraseowner of Phrase Protection in Memphis, which was recently established ArcEye Property Defense to help large sites and businesses stay protected, especially outside of operating hours when assets are most vulnerable. ArcEye works to prevent break-ins and criminal activity rather than responding to a crime after it occurs.
In June, Sherman Greer join Service Today as head of US State and Local Government Relations. He has more than 25 years of experience in federal, state, regional and local government having served as a senior congressional staffer for former Congressman Harold Ford Jr. and current Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen. He is also a member of the Memphis City Council and most recently served as Associate Vice President of Government Relations and Advancement at Southwest Tennessee Community College. At ServiceNow, he will manage state government relations consultants to create new opportunities in the NNACV pipeline and work closely with government officials to help shape policies to modernize the technology. He is pursuing his master’s in strategic leadership at the University of Memphis.
Attorney Sabrina Ball has joined the law firm of Moskovitz, McGhee, Brown, Cohen and Moore. He earned his juris doctor from the University of Memphis. Ball practiced law at several firms including Long Umstead and Jones, Schuerman, Smith & Associates and The Ball Law Firm. She is a member of the Association of Women Attorneys, the Memphis Bar Association and the Tennessee Bar Association. He also serves on the Foster Care Review Board for the Shelby County Juvenile Court and has served as a guardian ad litem. In addition, she serves on the board of Roots Recovery, an organization dedicated to women’s recovery from substance abuse.
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Rhodes College in July was awarded a National Science Foundation (NSF) Research grant of $639,165 to continue research conducted by the Professor of Chemistry Loretta Jackson-Hayes and Professor of Biology Terry Hill with students in their labs. The research explores the cell growth and division of fungi and has the potential to find more effective antifungal drugs. The award for the project titled “RUI: Protein-Protein Interactions of Protein Kinase C During Polarized Growth in Filamentous Fungi” will be distributed over three years, with an expected start date of January 1. This is the program’s fourth NSF grant of Rhodes for work on cell growth and fungal development, beginning with initial support in 2003. Hill, who is a senior faculty member at Rhodes, has taught and conducted research at Rhodes for more than 40 years. Jackson-Hayes joined the faculty in 2003. In addition to supporting research by Rhodes students and faculty, the NSF grant will also include money to support summer undergraduate researchers from historically Black colleges and universities including the LeMoyne-Owen College, Rust College, Lane College, and Tougaloo College.
— Compiled by Daniel Ginsburg
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