Business people

Monday, April 16, 2001 | 11:33 a.m.

Recent appointments and promotions:

William McBeath, president of the Mirage, was elected chairman of the board of Las Vegas Events. Steve Greathouse of Mandalay Resort Group is vice chairman and David Smith, formerly of First Security Bank of Nevada, is secretary-treasurer. Also, Beth Gayler is marketing director and Mary Anne Beaman is programming director.

Holly Lobelson opened the public relations firm impress communications.

John Shields is a project manager and Robert Lewis is a planning group manager with the Las Vegas land development unit of Carter & Burgess. Dennis Appel is a project manager at the Las Vegas Facilities Unit. At C&B Nevada, Dennis Leehan is a project manager.

Melanie Kohatsu is a retirement counselor at the Las Ventanas at Summerlin community.

At the State Bar of Nevada, Elizabeth Whitney was named to the executive council of the Young Lawyers Section, Vernon Leverty was re-appointed to the Client Security Fund Committee and Jeffrey Kump is chair of the rural panel of the Fee Dispute Arbitration Committee.

Steven Mack is legal counsel at Dyson & Dyson Real Estate Associates.

John Dalrymple is general sales manager at KVVU-TV.

Deborah Jayne is an account executive at XO Communications.

Darrin Hansen is a commercial loan officer at the Lake Mead/Tenaya office of Business Bank of Nevada.

Vincent C.J. Eckelkamp is chairman of the board of Nevada Federal Credit Union.

At Nevada State Bank, Constance Marie Haynes is vice president/trust officer, Jane McKelvie is a vice president/corporate relationship manager, Jay Hiner is vice president/CRA & Community development officer and Geraldine Basin is a corporate assistant relationship officer.

Sarah Goitz is a public relations account service leader at Advertising & Marketing Solutions.

Lars Wright is project manager at Parsons Bros. Rock Retaining Walls.

Lou Richards, general manager of WAXIE Sanitary Supply's Las Vegas division, was named corporate vice president.

Mark Caspers is senior vice president of construction operations at Perini Building Co. Dave Agnello is vice president of operations, responsible for Nevada projects.

Jeffrey LaPour started LaPour Partners, a real estate development firm.

Kami Dempsey is director of government affairs at the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.

Steve Bellew, formerly of Korte-Bellew and Associates Construction in Las Vegas, joined Linthicum Constructors in Scottsdale, Ariz., as chief estimator.

David Walker is deputy administrator and Eldon Hardy is the ombudsman for common-interest communities at the Nevada Department of Business & Industry Real Estate Division.

Ronn Anacabe is creative department manager at KPS3 advertising/public relations.

Jody Mack and Clinton Pope are vice presidents of client services at the Nevada Development Authority.

J. David Nite is a regional life consultant at Nationwide Financial.