Business people: Recent appointments, promotions and honors

Monday, Dec. 10, 2001 | 9:43 a.m.

Crystal Offord is assistant manager at Desert Birkenstock.

Guy Amato, vice president of sales and marketing at Nevada Title Co., was named to the company's board of directors.

James Werle, principal at Converse Consultants, received his Nevada Professional Engineer's license.

At URS Corp., Howard Culbreth is a senior designer, Paul Hains is director of facilities engineering, Patrick Molohon is a geotechnical project manager, Gregory Rice is an assistant survey director, Deborah Sitarek is a biologist, Lauren Barnes is a geologist, Richard Steubing is the director of the survey and right-of-way division, Carol-Ann Suda is senior graphics designer and Gina Venglass is a civil engineer.

Scott Webb is senior consultant for the Las Vegas regional office of Schirmer Engineering Corp.

Duane Ellis is financial controller for American Nevada Corp.

Dale Shank, technical support manager for Springer Miller, is the new president of the Association of Information Technology Professionals.

Skilled craftsman Jerry Weatherbee is the November employee of the month at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Kristi Becker is area marketing manager at XO Communications.

Andrew Bowman is operations manager in Las Vegas for Terracon.

R. Brent Hanno is a commercial loan officer at Business Bank of Nevada.

Perry Lowe is service operations manager, Robin Tait is a senior account executive and Pamela Bonanno is an account executive at Motivational Systems.

Berna Rhodes-Ford joined the labor law firm Hicks & Walt, a partnership with Littler Mendelson.

Mike Gibbons is senior vice president of pharmacy operations at Kronos Compounding Pharmacy.

Ron Vollmond is director of project development at Clark & Sullivan Constructors.

Jim Tueller is human resources manager at United Blood Services.

Lisa Lamm is real estate loan administration officer and Nicole Smith is vice president, compliance officer at Community Bank of Nevada.

Darren Wendell is senior engineering technician/special inspector at GES, and Earl Reed is driller's assistant at GES subsidiary Eagle Drilling Services.

Mark Dreschler opened Premier Trust of Nevada, a trust company providing wealth management and administrative services.

Toni Reiser is vice president of marketing and community relations at the Jewelry Salon at the Four Seasons Hotel.

Kyle Eigenman is an associate at CB Richard Ellis.

Donald Knuckles is branch sales manager for e.spire Communications.

Michael Nordwig is superintendent at Roel Construction.

David Dornak is an associate with the Ricciardi Law Group.

Amber Schutz is an assistant account executive at MassMedia/Vanguard public relations and advertising.

Joe Silva is director of client development for Chavez & Koch Business Consultants & CPAs.