Business people for March 19, 2001

Monday, March 19, 2001 | 11:38 a.m.

Recent appointments, promotions and honors:

Julie Gilday-Shaffer is vice president of R&R Live, a new R&R Partners unit specializing in producing live marketing communications multi-media productions.

Mark Harmonay is senior manager of operations, Teri Baker is provisioning manager, Cindy Nickels is senior manager of service delivery, Jason Nicol is an account executive and Michael Wiley is circuit design manager at XO Communications.

Ed Hill is director of imaging and format development and Mary Beth Hartleb is director of human resources at Citadel Communications.

Amy Rifakes and Gary Radil are project managers at SR Construction.

Marty Harpster is senior estimator, Brian Vanderburgh is project manager, Jeff Asselin is project manager, Cindy Dear is accounts payable supervisor and Michele Cline is the project engineer for the Neiman Marcus project at Martin Harris Construction.

At Nevada State Bank, Elizabeth Hinrichs is corporate secretary, Craig Goldstein is assistant vice president/real estate loan officer, Donna Sebastian is employment recruiter, Connie Decker is manager of the Silverado Ranch branch, Patricia Davis is manager of the Lake Mead office, Donna Nelson is vice president/training officer, David Heraty is corporate sales officer, Barbara Pascoe is assistant vice president/regional operations manager, Sue Watson is assistant vice president/service staff manager and Joanne Lopez is vice president/central operations manager. Marcia Weeks is client service manager at the Green Valley/Pebble branch. Assistant vice president/client service managers are Lena Brass, Terri Duncan, Sally Marcus, Elizabeth Ortega, Saundra Pollock, Kay Powell, Laura Taccone and Debby Valdez.

Jeff Hershey is director of corporate marketing at Captivads.

Virginia Thompson and Pamela Benjamin opened BRAND, a graphic design, advertising and public relations studio.

Paula Robertson is a principal and vice president of marketing at Spotlight Creative Inc., formerly known as AliKat Creative Services.

Christopher Pallan is information systems manager, Krysti Hawkins is customer service manager for the Maryland Parkway branch and Marian Beeler manages the Homeowners Association Department at Business Bank of Nevada.

Michelle Danks and Melisa Glasberg are account executives at MassMedia.

Robert Zeller is treasury management sales representative and Patricia Tinman is vice president and account executive in the Southern Nevada private financial services department at U.S. Bank.

Robert Blair is a superintendent at Roel Construction.

Larry Oberly is regional director of the RE/MAX Southwest region.

Former Station Casinos and Howard Hughes executive Mark Brown opened Brown & Partners, an advertising, public relations and public affairs firm. Chuck Johnston is managing partner of the firm. Co-creative directors are Angelo Ramirez and Rob Catalano.

Tim Sands is an elder care specialist at Scutter Newton & Associates.

Andrea Brunner opened the marketing firm AB & Associates.

Larry Linville is the superintendent for the Brinley Middle School Addition project and Kimberlee Kurtz is the project engineer for an American Nevada Corp. office building for Korte-Bellew & Associates.

Sherri O'Boyle is director of sales and marketing and Julie Chapman is marketing coordinator for MonteLago Village at Lake Las Vegas Resort.

Tim Colbert is regional controller for Del Webb Corp.'s Sun Cities and Mollie Gibson is head golf professional at Anthem Country Club.

Mark Adams is vice president at Derse Exhibits.

Wendy Piodela is customer account manager and Teresa Mojado is employee of the month at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Jeff Boyce is Wells Fargo Private Client Services Regional Trust Manager for Las Vegas.

Doug Puppel is managing editor of Las Vegas CityLife.

Vince Leist is assistant vice president at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Attorneys Joanna Kishner and Jay Sterne were named Of Counsel at the law firm Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand.

Ray Jones is director of business development at McCarthy in Las Vegas and Robert "Bo" Calbert is division president in Phoenix while current division President Gerald Murphy becomes president emeritus.

Lynne Lynch is vice president/SBA loan underwriter and Vince Telles is vice president/commercial loan officer at Nevada First Bank.

Michael Trimble is mechanical discipline leader at the Las Vegas facilities unit of Carter & Burgess.

Interior designers Erin Newton and Barbara Harlan Aaronson created newton aaronson studios.

Mark Moody is vice president, business development officer at Community Bank of Nevada.

Jerry Mellinger is chief operating officer and chief financial officer at Advanced Information Systems.

Jill Labandz is controller at Consultants in Marketing.

Chiropractic physician Dr. Jon Petrick opened a clinic, the Las Vegas Pain Relief Center at 4161 S. Eastern Ave.

Cary Duckworth is an account executive at the Idea Factory.

Vice presidents at Nevada Federal Credit Union are Haigohe Miller, Ben Morales, Mary Ann Nickels, Toni Rebbeck and Lee Torres.

Mark Mason joined the pre-construction services operation at Clark & Sullivan Constructors.

Andrea Tomich and Jason Baratta are sales executives at Madison Towers.

Klaus Schulz is the chief wireless officer of helloNetwork, a Las Vegas technology firm.