Advertising
Triad Communications Inc. has promoted John Moulagiannis to director of interactive and digital marketing and Nicholas Peters to senior designer of interactive and digital marketing. Moulagiannis and Peters are graduates of Cuyahoga Community College.

Benefits Management
Trinity Pension Consultants has hired Gary Geiger as a defined contribution relationship manager. Geiger, a Kent State University graduate, previously worked at Noble-Davis Consulting in Solon.

Education
John W. Marr Jr. has joined Cuyahoga Community College Eastern Campus as dean of academic affairs. Marr, who holds a doctorate in higher education administration from The Ohio State University, was director of admissions at Clark State Community College.

Electrical Contracting
Tim Fowler has been named vice president for Atlas Electric Co. Fowler previously worked for Minority Electric Co.

Energy
Dan Reynolds has been named CFO of Utility Choice International. Reynolds brings more than 40 years of experience in the steel, automotive supplier and chemical industries.

Hospitality
Embassy Suites Hotels has hired Alan Feuerman as director of sales and marketing of Embassy Suites Cleveland Downtown. Feuerman comes to Hilton Worldwide with more than a decade of managerial experience at large and midsize properties across the Midwest.

Law
Harrington, Hoppe & Mitchell attorney J. Bradley Allison has left the firm to become a full-time magistrate in the Columbiana County common pleas court. Allison had been with HHM for nearly two years.

Thompson Hine appointed James B. Aronoff to the newly created management role of administrative partner in the firm’s Cleveland office. Aronoff is a member of the firm’s real estate practice group and leader of the group’s real estate capital markets practice.

Manufacturing
GrafTech International has appointed Quinn Coburn to vice president, corporate treasury. Coburn recently served as vice president and treasurer at NCR Corp.

The Lubrizol Corp. has named Suzanne F. Day as corporate vice president and general counsel. Day, who holds a law degree from Case Western Reserve University, joined Lubrizol’s global legal division in 1998.

Tim Viancourt has been named national sales manager of Fire-Dex. Viancourt, a Cleveland State University graduate, comes from a family with a 50-year history in the fire service.

Media
The Plain Dealer has named Debra Adams Simmons as editor. Adams Simmons, PD managing editor since September 2007, previously served as editor of the Akron Beacon Journal for four years.

Nonprofits
Karen A. Bozzelli has been appointed president of the Akron General Development Foundation. Bozzelli received her law degree from the University of Akron and her undergraduate degree from Miami University.

The Home Builders Association of Greater Cleveland has hired Brenda Callaghan as executive director. Callaghan served as executive director for the Greater Cleveland Chapter of the National Association of the Remodeling Industry and the Professional Remodelers of Ohio from 1997 to 2007.

Cheryl A. Carter has been hired as executive director of Arts Collinwood. Carter, a Hiram College graduate, most recently worked at the Arthritis Foundation, Northeastern Ohio Chapter.

Dennis Cocco has assumed the role of operational manager of the JumpStart Entrepreneurial Network. Cocco will remain the associate director of the Great Lakes Innovation and Development Enterprise and a manager of the Innovation Fund.

Neighborhood Progress Inc. has named Joel Ratner president and CEO. Ratner, a graduate of Yale University and Case Western Reserve University School of Law, previously led the Warren-based Raymond John Wean Foundation since 2007.

Sports
The Cleveland Gladiators have named Cory Howerton as COO and general manager. Howerton previously served as vice president of sales of the Major Indoor Soccer League’s Milwaukee Wave and group sales director with the NBA’s Seattle Supersonics and WNBA’s Seattle Storm.

Jack J. Lesyk, adjunct assistant professor of psychology at Cleveland State University, has been elected president-elect of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology. Lesyk has worked with athletes from more than 25 different sports at competitive levels ranging from scholastic to professional.

Veterinary Medicine
The Sarah Allison Steffee Center for Zoological Medicine has named Mike Selig as full-time veterinarian at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. He comes from the Barberton Veterinary Clinic in Summit County

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