Business people / Hires, Promotions & Honors
The Cantalician Center for Learning, an educational, rehabilitative and occupational agency for the developmentally and physically disabled, named Terese M. Scofidio executive director. Scofidio, who holds bachelor’s and MBA degrees from the University at Buffalo, served as chief administrative officer of Summit Educational Resources in Getzville for 10 years. Prior to that, she served as chief fiscal officer for the Veterans Administration’s Western New York Healthcare System.
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The Buffalo Niagara Travel Professionals group elected Terri McDonald of the Holiday Inn-Lockport, president for a two-year term. Other officers: Co-vice president programs, Kathy Hall-Zientek, Moog Travel; co-vice president, meeting sites, Cynthia Greenfield, Days Hotel; recording secretary, Shanell Kiersz, Wingate Inn Ellicottville; corresponding secretary and community calendar, Krista Tortorice, Moog Travel; treasurer, Marydel Gaiser, Independent Meeting Planner; membership, Sue Pearson, Cruises Inc.; public relations, Yvonne McPhail Osterman, Buffalo Lodging Associates; sunshine, Kathy Milo, Discover Travel; education, Joann Gilmour, Travel Outlet; historian and by-laws, Gerti Jost, retired; and ex-president, Judy Holbok, Hotel Niagara.
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The Orchard Park Chamber of Commerce elected Joe Wales president. Wales is vice president of W. G. Arthur Co. Other officers: President-elect, Rick Hamister, First Niagara Bank; vice presidents, Kris Buchband, Morgan Stanley, and Bill Even, The Coming Wave, and treasurer, Susan Bevilacqua, Bevilacqua and Co. CPAs. Directors for a three-year term: Michael McRae, Father Baker Manor; Anthony Amigone Jr., Quinn-Amigone Funeral Home and Cremation Service; Michael Borowiak, Nussbaumer and Clarke and Christopher Repp, Repp Construction Co.
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Reid Petroleum Corp. of Lockport named Michael McCarthy vice president of operations. McCarthy, with the company since 1987, has served as marketing services sales manager since 2001. The Reid Group, parent of Reid Petroleum, is a full-service independent motor fuel marketer that supplies filling stations with gasoline.
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McGuire Development Co., a Buffalo development and brokerage firm, appointed Christopher J. Jerzewski director of development. Jerzewski, who has 17 years of industry experience, previously worked for HSBC Bak USA. He is a graduate of Potsdam State College and holds an MBA from Northwestern University.
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Raymond E. Kelley Inc., a Buffalo contractor specializing in commercial masonry restoration, recently appointed Steven Sandroni vice president. He has been in the corporate sales department since 1994. Also, the company appointed Lydia Pikul controller. She is a graduate of Houghton College and has been with the company since 1995.
••• Five Star Bank appointed Scott Bader vice president and technology services manager, working out of the bank’s corporate headquarters in Warsaw. Bader previously worked for 10 years for Chico’s FAS in Florida. He is a graduate of Florida Gulf Coast University.
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United Healthcare, a Pittsburghbased health benefits service provider, appointed Michael P. Spagnola director of Upstate Network Management. Spagnola, with 20 years of health care benefits experience, most recently was with Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield.
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Phillips Lytle partner Kenneth A. Manning was appointed by Sheldon Silver, speaker of the New York State Assembly, to Roswell Park Cancer Institute’s board of directors for a three-year term.
