The Bonadio Group, an accounting, consulting, and financial services firm, promoted Ted J. Woronowicz III to principal. Woronowicz, a CPA, joined the firm in 2008 after 11 years with a Big 4 firm.

First Niagara Financial Group named John Petrey senior vice president, chief information officer. Petrey has more than 20 years experience as a senior IT and business leader, both as a bank CIOand an executive for a major banking software and services firm. More recently he was executive vice president and CIO at TD Banknorth. He earned his undergraduate degree from Arizona State University and his masters degree in managementof technology from Georgia Institute of Technology.

The Graycliff Conservancy elected Patrick Mahoney president of the board of directors. Mahoney, a founding member of the Conservancy, is a licensed architect and associate in the Amherst-based firm of Lauer-Manguso& Associates. He holds a master of architecture degree from the University at Buffalo. Other officers: First vice president, Russell Maxwell; second vice president, Stanton Hudson and treasurer, Chuck Wilson. Board members: Gregory Bernas, Joseph A. Blatz, Sandra L. Brant, John Bry, Thomas J. Carleton, Harvey Garrett, Barbara M. Harder, Jessica Hearst, Charles A. Le Fevre, Richard E. Minekime, Steve Musso, Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Sharon Osgood, Lester Rickard, Diane Schrenk, Catherine F. Schweitzer, Clifford E. Whitman, and William A. Wisniewski.

Evans Bank promoted Vincent Cutrona, Kari Guagenti and Joseph Jansen to assistant vicepresident. Cutrona, commercial lending officer, has been with the bank for nearly four years, concentrating primarily on SBA lending. He holds a business administration degree from Buffalo State College. Guagenti, Amherst branch manager, joined the bank in 2006. She graduated from Denison University with a bachelor’s degree in psychology, and the University at Buffalo with a masters degree in social work. Jansen, the bank’s product manager since 2008, holds a degree in business administration from the University at Buffalo.

SBLI USA Mutual Life Insurance Co. President and CEO Vikki L. Pryor presented the eighth annual Marie Nesbitt Promise Prize award to Miles Gresham, a second-year law student at the University at Buffalo School of Law, at the Minority Bar Association of Western New York’s 27th Annual Awards and Scholarship Dinner. Gresham received the award in recognition of his exceptional academic achievement and professional promise. Pryor created the award in 2002 in memory of her grandmother, Marie Nesbitt, a great-granddaughter of slaves whose formal education stopped at the third grade. Pryor is an alumna of UB School of Law.

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society recognized Norm Orlowski Jr. with its Volunteer of the Year Award. Orlowski, who is vice president/ treasurer of Erie Niagara Insurance Association, has served on the board since 2004, is past president and currently serves as treasurer of the society’s local chapter.

Lougen, Valenti, Bookbinder and Weintraub, an Amherst accounting firm, named Bryan Michael McShane senior accountant and Kara Hegarty staff accountant. McShane, a CPA, is a graduate of Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Mich. He has more than four years of public accounting experience, three of which were with the national accounting firm BDO Seidman. Hegarty is a graduate of Niagara University. She previously interned with the firm.

Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute named Dr. Walter F. Stafford III, senior scientist, director of the Analytical Ultracentrifugation Research Laboratory and director of Computer Sciences at the Boston Biomedical Research Institute, to its Scientific Advisory Council. Stafford served on the HWI board of directors for more than 15 years.

Gross Shuman Brizdle and Gilfillan attorney Leslie Mark Greenbaum presented a “Contract Problems of Visual Artists” seminar at the University of Buffalo School of Law. Business arrangements and contracts pertaining to motion pictures, music videos, fine art, television, photography and jewelry design were among the topics discussed.

Building Control and Services, an energy services company, named Randy Traner to its Smartware Technologies Division in the Tonawanda Office. Traner, a California State University graduate, previously was lead programmer at RidgeLogic Development.

Knichel Logistics, a third-party logistics provider located in Gibsonia, Pa., named Shawn Darlington business development manager of national accounts. Darlington will be based in Buffalo. He has more than 14 years experience in the logistics industry. Most recently, Darlington worked in a sales management and account management capacity for a multi-million dollar intermodal, truckload, and reefer transportation company.

Read to Succeed Buffalo, a collaborative literacy organization dedicated to improving literacy in Buffalo, appointed Gordon Gross a board member. Gross is a founder of Gross Shuman Brizdle and Gilfillan, a Buffalo law firm.

The Women Lawyers of Western New York named Candace Vogel, Erie County assistant district attorney, its Woman Lawyer of the Year awardee. Vogel, a University at Buffalo School of Law graduate, joined the Erie County District Attorneys’ Office in 1986. This award will be presented at the organization’s Annual Holiday luncheon on December 15 at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo.