MARCH 6-12, 2023 SPRINGFIELD BUSINESS JOURNAL · 5 Send your company’s new hires, promotions, awards and achievements to newsmakers@sbj.net or click “Talk to SBJ” on our homepage. Please include job titles and relevant career and educational experiences. We’ll publish high-resolution color photos attached as space permits. LET US KNOW by Eric Olson · eolson@sbj.net Accounting Elliott, Robinson & Co. LLP made five promotions: Matthew J. Solidum to managing partner, Alex Hampton to manager, Katy Link to supervisor, Abigail Davis to senior accountant and Abigail West to senior accountant. Solidum has worked at the firm since 2002 and holds a bachelor’s in accounting from Missouri State University. Starting as an intern in 2016, Hampton holds a master of accountancy and a bachelor’s in accounting from MSU. Link, who joined the firm as a senior accountant in 2017, previously worked in public accounting and holds a bachelor’s in accounting from University of Missouri-Kansas City. An employee since 2019, Davis holds a bachelor’s in accounting from Evangel University. With experience in public and private accounting, West holds an MBA and bachelor’s in accounting from MSU. Banking & Finance Paula Dougherty, a financial adviser with Achieve Private Wealth/Ameriprise Financial Services LLC, qualified for the company’s Circle of Success annual program. She has 27 years of experience with the firm. Education The Republic School District Board of Education hired Erin Wayt as principal of Lyon Elementary and Lindsey Lovekamp as assistant director of special education. Both roles are effective July 1. Wayt has spent her 12-year career in education with Republic, currently as assistant principal at Price Elementary. Lovekamp is assistant director of Project Access, a statewide support program for school districts, focusing on autism and related developmental disabilities. She also taught special education for eight years and worked as an autism resource specialist for three years. Media KSMU Ozarks Public Radio promoted Michele Skalicky to news director from senior news producer. The host of KSMU’s “Morning Edition” was named interim director following the departure of Jennifer Moore, who took a post with WGBH in Boston. Skalicky manages the news department and coordinates local news programs and features. NEWSMAKERS Send announcements to newsmakers@sbj.net Solidum Marsch Douglas Stryker Hedlun Lovekamp Wayt Davis West Link Hampton Nonprofit The Southwest Missouri Chapter of the Public Relations Society of America appointed its 2023 officers and board members: President Erin Hedlun, senior director of marketing and communications for Evangel University; President-elect Drew Douglas, director of communications for the city of Nixa; Secretary Charlotte Marsch, communications specialist for Citizens Memorial Hospital; Treasurer Stevie Stryker, communications coordinator for Jordan Valley Community Health Center; Communications Director Melinda Honey, director of community relations for Skaggs Foundation; Membership Director Michelle Teter, media relations representative for Community Blood Center of the Ozarks; Student Liaison Melinda Booze, associate professor of communication for Evangel University; and Past-president Tamera Heitz-Peek, CMH marketing director. Sculpture Walk Springfield named Bridget Bechtel as executive director, succeeding Avery McQueary. Bechtel has experience as an education fellow with the New York Public Library and as director of programming and events for a senior living community in Austin, Texas. Give yourself a time raise. Stress-free payroll solutions with the fastest support in the world. apluspayroll.com CORRECTION The bankruptcies published in the Feb. 27 On the Record section and the Monday Morning Business Leads e-newsletter were duplicates from the previous week. Two weeks of bankruptcy records are published in this edition on page 30.
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