New Hires & Promotions
Tom Klebeck has been added to the Three Chimneys team as chief financial officer.
The Lexington Medical Society has announced the appointment of Christopher M. Hickey as executive vice president/CEO, effective Dec. 1.
John Hubbard has joined Air Hydro Power as its newest electrical engineer in the company’s Lexington branch. Prior to joining the AHP team, Hubbard was a controls/electrical designer for Trane.
Sam Meroney has been named district manager of the northeastern United States and eastern Canada for Link-Belt Construction Equipment. Glenn Hatton has been named parts shipping supervisor, Bill Curry has been promoted to global supply chain specialist, and Diann Karrick has been promoted to import machine scheduler. Raul Ureña has been named district service representative for Latin America in the Link-Belt service department.
Dustin G. Kostalek has been promoted to the position of financial advisor at UBS Financial Services.
Carmen Hemesath has joined the Smiley Pete Publishing sales team, starting in January. Hemesath has sales experience at both WLEX and WDKY TV stations and has also worked for local agencies RPM and Meridian Communications.
Professional Certification
Kyle Benningfield, Matt Wagers and Dwayne Adams have become VMWare Certified Associates for Data Center Virtualization. Benningfield and Adams are field engineers and Wagers is a service desk technician with Integrity IT.
Board Announcements
Dr. Russell Carpenter, director of the Noel Studio for Academic Creativity at Eastern Kentucky University, was recently elected to a one-year term as chair of the National Association of Communication Centers (NACC) and a two-year term as president of the Southeastern Writing Center Association (SWCA).