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Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce hired Joe Grace, a government affairs and communications professional with extensive experience in city affairs, to serve as the chamber's director of public policy. Grace had been executive director of CeaseFirePA, a nonprofit gun violence prevention policy organization, communications director to Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street, and a journalist for the Philadelphia Daily News.
Greater Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce
hired
Joe Grace,
a government affairs and communications professional with extensive experience in city affairs, to serve as the chamber's director of public policy. Grace had been executive director of CeaseFirePA, a nonprofit gun violence prevention policy organization, communications director to Philadelphia Mayor John F. Street, and a journalist for the Philadelphia Daily News.
Martin Banks, a Philadelphia workers' compensation and social security disability law firm, hired Elise L. Bradley as an associate. She was an assistant district attorney at the Delaware County Office of the District Attorney in the trial division where she prosecuted criminal cases.
Esmé Artz was hired as public information coordinator at WHYY, the Philadelphia public broadcaster. She had been a communications associate as the Heritage Conservancy.
Dow Chemical Co. named Neil Carr, Carol Eicher, Pat Gottschalk, and Dominic Yang as business presidents for four of its business units based in Philadelphia. Each will report to Howard Ungerleider, newly appointed executive vice president for Dow with executive oversight of the Advanced Materials business, headquartered in Philadelphia.
Carr is business president for Functional Materials. He had been business group vice president.
Eicher is business president for Dow Coatings & Construction. She had been business group vice president for Dow Building & Construction.
Gottschalk is business president for Monomers, Resins & Intermediates. He had been vice president for Dow Performance Monomers.
Yang is business president for Dow Electronic Materials. He had been business group vice president.
Michael J. Bryan was sworn in as the director of the New Jersey Division of Taxation in Trenton. He had served as acting director of the division since July 2010.
Diversified Search, a Philadelphia executive search firm, hired Anthony J. Frick as vice president and general counsel. Frick had been a lawyer at Dechert L.L.P.
John Fallon was hired as assistant vice president and director of marketing and enrollment management services at the College of Global Studies of Arcadia University, Glenside. He had been vice president, responsible for the Global Marketing Division of Vantage Technologies.
National Disease Research Interchange, a Philadelphia nonprofit, hired Gene C. Kopen as vice president, corporate relations. Kopen had been senior vice president, technology development, for Garnet Biotherapeutics.
Cadient Group, a King of Prussia digital health-care agency, hired Amy Everingham and Colleen Burns as account managers and Kelly Jo Schenck as project manager. Everingham had been interactive-project lead and account executive at M3 Health, Norristown. Schenck had been project manager at Digitas Health, Philadelphia. Burns had been an account executive at inVentiv Health, Newtown.
TMG Health Inc., a King of Prussia firm that handles claims administration and other services for health plans, promoted Deanna Forte Lahey to vice president of professional services from vice president of customer and ancillary services.
PMA Companies, a Blue Bell firm specializing in workers' compensation, promoted Ken Stanley to senior vice president-distribution management and field operations from vice president-distribution and sales.
- Mike Zebe