Business people for December 24, 2001

Monday, Dec. 24, 2001 | 9:49 a.m.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors:

Don Crawford of Camden Development is 2002 president of the Nevada Landscape Association.

Karolina Janik is an industrial marketing specialist at CB Richard Ellis.

Mary Catherine Sexton is vice president and chief legal counsel for GES Exposition Services.

Erik Madsen is a senior consultant at IT Strategies International Corp.

Andrea Rutherford is marketing coordinator at Astoria Homes.

Cheryl Johnston is corporate controller and Geoff Jenkins is senior art director at the Creative Group.

Ronnye Etcitty is director of human resources and Brook Richardson is chief nursing officer at Lake Mead Hospital Medical Center.

At Somers Convention Furniture Rental, Greg Vincent is vice president of sales and marketing, Craig Rodgers is corporate sales manager and Julie Jones is client services manager.

Heather Wilson is a project coordinator at Clark & Sullivan Constructors.

Dr. Joseph Bailey joined Rainbow Medical Centers.

Lisa Mannino is media relations specialist at Purdue, Benjamin & Dunn Public Relations.

Jeffrey Fine, managing member of Las Vegas Coffee Investors, announced the opening of Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf stores at the The Wynn Collection, the Palms hotel-casino and the Green Valley Ranch Station Casino.

Bob Brown is director of advertising for the Las Vegas Sun, the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the View editions and the Review-Journal's associated publications.

Crystal Offord is assistant manager at Desert Birkenstock.

Glenn Gavin is senior member at TriCor Financial Services.

Jeff Kissinger is senior estimator at the PENTA Building Group.

Clyde Spitze is a principal at AMEC Infrastructure.

Kelly Sheehan is a media buyer/planner at Shonkwiler Marcoux Advertising.

Mark Tomlinson of Pacific Properties & Development is 2002 president of the Southern Nevada Home Builders Association.

Richard Cheval is technical services manager at XO Communications.

At Nevada State Bank, David Hernandez is property project manager, Tera Ramage is assistant vice president/marketing officer, Carey Kaplan is vice president/purchasing and facilities manager, Lena Brass is vice president/client service manager at the Bridger branch.

Manual Quinones is drillers' assistant at Eagle Drilling Services.

Russell Siess is assistant vice president and regional manager for corporate security at U.S. Bank.

Kris Watier is executive administrator and Patricia Granados is an administrative assistant at the Equity Group.

Klif Andrews is vice president of community development at Pardee Homes.

Mark Lipford is vice president and general manager and Fritz Hoehne is vice president of sales and marketing at Cox Communications in Las Vegas.

Gene Lazaroff and Lou Lamatrice are project managers for the Management Assistance Partnership, the industrial extension program of the University and Community College System of Nevada.

Mary Ellen Heise is vice president of marketing and business development at Affordable Concepts Inc.