Newsworthy people and performances for April 5, 2021
New hires
Sea Bags, a designer and manufacturer of bags, totes and accessories made from recycled sail cloth, hired Ashley Rochus as retail store manager in Portland.
Skowhegan Savings hired Greg Legier as vice president and commercial lender in Portland. Legier most recently served as a regional vice president and commercial loan officer for Franklin Savings Bank in New Hampshire.
Dentons Bingham Greenebaum, a law firm in Portland, hired Andrew Helman as a partner in its restructuring, insolvency and bankruptcy practice and distressed health care group. Helman, who is based in Portland and Boston, has experience with a variety of businesses, including those in the health care industry, to help them restructure and protect their assets.
Gawron Turgeon Architects PC in Scarborough hired Eric Rasmussen as a project manager and Hilary Ward as a project architect. Rasmussen and Ward each have two decades of industry experience.
Preti Flaherty, a law firm in Portland, hired Patricia Ballard, Arianna Caldwell and Spencer Hoffman as attorneys in the firm’s business law group. Caldwell and Hoffman joined the firm as associates while Ballard joined as of counsel in the firm’s Concord, N.H. office.
Maine Academy of Modern Music in Portland hired Luke Madden as marketing manager.
Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center in Bangor hired Claire Faggons as a provider at Northern Light Women’s Health. Faggons specializes in obstetric and gynecologic care, routine and high-risk obstetric care, gynecological surgery, infertility, menopausal management, non-stress test, Pap smears, pre-conceptual counseling and women’s wellness.
Maine Medical Partners in Portland hired Jennifer Baldwin at Maine Medical Partners in hospital medicine, Edward Bender as collaborative care child and adolescent psychiatrist at Maine Medical Partners in pediatrics, John Ogorek at Maine Medical Partners in women’s health in the division of urogynecology and Hadi Anwar at Maine Medical Center in pediatric hospital medicine.
Acadia Insurance, a Berkley Co. in Westbrook, hired Simone Grimes as CFO. Grimes most recently served as deputy COO and senior strategy executive at the Federal Housing Finance Agency in Washington, D.C.
Saint Andre Home in Biddeford hired Kate Stearns-Luce as director of its CourageLIVES program. Stearns-Luce has 15 years of experience working with diverse populations throughout the state of Maine.
Yokogawa Fluid Imaging Technologies Inc. in Scarborough hired David Janse as director of finance and Scott Harding as software engineer. Janse previously worked in management consulting at RGP while Harding worked at the University of Southern Maine.
RE/MAX Shoreline hired Annika Batista as an agent in its Portland office.
The city of Auburn hired John Blais as urban development specialist. Blais is assigned to the city’s Planning and Permitting Department.
Promotions
Spurwink, a nonprofit in Portland that provides a broad range of mental health, education, and residential services for children, adolescents, adults and families, promoted Sue Murphy to vice president of adult intellectual and developmental disabilities services and Misty Marston to vice president of children’s residential and education services. Murphy was senior program director while Marston was program director for the Greater Portland Program.
Appointments
Northern Light Mercy Hospital in Portland announced that Deqa Dhalac, Sister Judith Carey, Jen Palminteri and Victoria Morales joined its board of trustees. Dhalac is the family engagement and cultural responsiveness specialist for Maine Department of Education and is co-founder of Cross-Cultural Community Services; Morales is executive director of Quality Housing Coalition; Palminteri is vice president of the Mercy medical staff, medical director of critical care services at Mercy Hospital and the leader of the hospital’s critical care committee; and Carey is a member of the Sisters of Mercy and is a facilitator and organizational consultant.
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