Business People

Monday, June 4, 2001 | 11:20 a.m.

Recent promotions and appointments:

At Nevada State Bank, Paula Day is special projects officer and Myrna Berends is administrative officer.

Darlene Bates is membership director at Associated Builders and Contractors.

Scott Mann is manager of a Relax the Back store on Rainbow Blvd.

At the Thomas & Mack Center, Rhett Vertrees is associate director of finance and Gary Plumlee is director of luxury seating.

Doyle Beard is a sales engineer at XO Communications.

Mitch Fox and Barbara Giannini were elected to the board of directors of Silver State Schools Credit Union.

Chris Arambula is project planner and Joey DeBlanco is engineer III at Tetra Tech.

Mark Olson is director of human resources at the Las Vegas Convention & Visitors Authority. Tim Callaway is the LVCVA's April employee of the month.

Lori Soren is senior vice president and commercial banking team leader for Southern Nevada at U.S. Bank.

Terry Hiebing and Paul Murtagh are project managers at Wexford Homes.

Laurie Turner is director of medical staff services, employee health/injury program and quality management and Tony Burt is materials management director at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Angela Johnson is director of outside sales in Nevada, Idaho and Utah at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.

Allen Kimbrough is executive director at the State Bar of Nevada.

At Beers Construction, Russ Jewett is senior estimator, David Hayden is project manager, Adrian McKechnie directs accounts payable, Patricia Hartley is a project assistant, Tina Warner is an accounting assistant and Kelly Donaldson is a superintendent.

Rod Gilliland is senior vice president of sales and marketing at Lake Las Vegas Resort.

Chuck Davison of the Stratosphere is chairman of the new executive advisory board for UNLV's marketing department.

Stacy Foley is an account coordinator at Kirvin Communications Group.

Steven Pichette is regional sales executive at Amica Mutual Insurance.

Paula Morrison is an account executive at The Firm Public Relations and Marketing.

Earnest Phillips II is director of marketing and public relations at UNLV.

Marilyn Ash is vice president, loan operations and David Jones is vice president, real estate lending officer at the Summerlin branch of Community Bank of Nevada.

Scott Owens is vice president at Lee & Associates.

Rebecca Johnson-Miller is director of sales and marketing at the Henderson Chamber of Commerce.

David Faircloth is operations manager at Geotechnical & Environmental Services.

At KBA Construction, John Tracy is a superintendent and Amy Fredrickson and Jackie Botsford are project assistants.

Dwayne Ratzell joined Schirmer Engineering.

Steve Slezak is human resources coordinator at ConAm Management.

Dr. Jon Petrick opened the Las Vegas Pain Relief Center.

Linda Stubbs is manager of the escrow asset division and Kathryn Pangus is assistant vice president, manager of escrow operations at Nevada Title Co.

John Harrell is executive vice president, corporate strategy for GES Exposition Services.

Amber Schutz and Wynne Rasmussen are public relations coordinators at MassMedia.

Carrie Trenner joined the Keith Companies in business development.

Fran Inman is senior vice president-corporate development at Majestic Realty.

Cathie Olendorff is corporate/general council at Yellow Checker Star.

Salvador Munoz is a designer, Joel Fitzpatrick is a production artist and Jennifer Hoying is an account executive at Quillin & Co. Advertising and Public Relations.

Richard Cummock is branch manager of Sear-Brown, which purchased the assets of engineering firm AAC&C and hired staff members as Sear-Brown employees.

Andre Perreault will manage the new Las Vegas office of Aquent, a talent agency.

Lori McDonald is a personal trust associate at Northern Trust Bank.

Mike Astringer is executive recruiter at Manpower.

Karmin Garity is an account executive at Idea Center Signs.

Kirk Hendrix, president of Las Vegas Events, is resigning for personal reasons. He and his wife plan to move to California.

Randy Urgola is vice president at Bruce Merrin Public Relations & Advertising.

Carolyn Wheeler is city site manager for Cox Interactive Media's website VegasValley.com