BANKING
Andrew Varga has joined Republic Bank in Louisville as chief innovation and strategy officer.
Houston Hall has joined Forcht Bank as Lexington marketing president.
Joan Strafer has joined Central Bank as vice president–commercial lending. Shane Anderson has been promoted to assistant vice president–commercial lending for the bank.
EDUCATION
Amy Wagner has been named director of communications and public relations for Thomas More College.
Emmanuel “Manny” Caulk has been named superintendent of the Fayette County public school system. Caulk comes to the position from Portland, Maine, where he has been superintendent since 2012.
Cindy Meyers Gnadinger has been named president of St. Catharine College. Gnadinger previously served as the college’s provost.
Jeff Briggs has been appointed vice president of finance and operations for Thomas More College.
Cory Curl has been named associate executive director of the Prichard Committee for Academic Excellence.
FOOD/SPIRITS/HOSPITALITY
Elaine Gravatte has been promoted to president and chief executive officer of Louisville-based DDW and has been named to the DDW board of directors.
GOVERNMENT
The Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs has appointed LuWanda Knuckles to the newly created position of women veterans coordinator, focusing on the specific needs of Kentucky’s 33,000 women veterans.
Monica Conrad has been named director of parks and recreation for the Lexington Fayette Urban County Government.
Gov. Steve Beshear has appointed Terry Sebastian to lead his communications team. Sebastian succeeds Kerri Richardson, who has left to accept a public relations position in Louisville.
John Fischer has been named director of community development for the Kentucky Cabinet for Economic Development.
HEALTHCARE
Dr. Gerhard Hildebrandt has been named division chief of hematology and blood and marrow transplantation at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center.
John Fowlkes has returned to the University of Kentucky as director of the Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Center. Fowlkes previously held the Barnstable Brown Gala Professorship in Diabetes Research at UK in 2000-2001 and was part of the UK Department of Pediatrics from 1996 until 2001.
Dorothy Lockhart has been named regional director for the KentuckyOne Health Partners Lexington market.
Kaitlin Gilbert has been promoted to regional director of Lifeline Homecare’s Bluegrass region.
The University of Kentucky HealthCare’s Gill Heart Institute has named Gretchen Wells director of women’s heart health.
Garren Colvin has been named president and chief executive officer of Northern Kentucky-based St. Elizabeth Healthcare.
Jeffrey Bumpous has been named chair of the department of otolaryngology – head and neck surgery and communicative disorders at the University of Louisville School of Medicine.
INSURANCE
Steven Huff has joined Assured Neace Lukens’ Lexington office as senior account executive.
LEGAL
Greg Ehrhard has been named chair of Stites & Harbison’s real estate and banking service group.
Martin B. Tucker has joined Dinsmore & Shohl’s Lexington office. Tucker will be a partner in the corporate department and a member of the bankruptcy and restructuring practice group.
H. Derek Hall has joined the Lexington law office of Dinsmore & Shohl. Hall will practice out of the corporate department with the business restructuring group.
MANUFACTURING
Ed Tackett has been named director of educational programs for the new UL Additive Manufacturing Competency Center, a partnership between the University of Louisville and UL LLC.
Rob Orlowski has joined Lexington-based LBX Co. as director of marketing and communication.
TECHNOLOGY
Lexington IT security firm SDGblue Inc. has named Gui Cozzi as director of security and consulting group and chief information security officer.
TOURISM
Gathan Borden has been named vice president of marketing for VisitLEX, a destination, sales, marketing and service organization that promotes the Lexington region. Borden comes to the position from the Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau, where he was director of brand marketing and advertising.
UTILITIES
Ellen Williams has joined Kentucky American Water Co. as major accounts/external affairs specialist at the company’s offices in Lexington.
James Cooper has been promoted to operations center manager for Columbia Gas of Kentucky.
OTHER
General Cable Corp. has named Michael T. McDonnell president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors. McDonnell succeeds Gregory B. Kenny, who retired effective July 1, 2015.
Jason Lee has been named president of housing for Lexington-based Community Ventures. Dan Heffernan has been named vice president of business development.
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