Business people: Recent appointments, honors and promotions

Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2001 | 9:17 a.m.

Joe Stella is vice president and general manager of Initiative Media Las Vegas.

Tomika Brown is media director at Vento Marketing Organization.

Max English and Steve Soule are information technology senior consultants at IT Strategies International Corp.

Karen Durkin heads the Successful Pathways consulting division at Houldsworth, Russo & Co.

Joanne Levy is 2002 president of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors.

Geraldine Cosico-Basin is assistant vice president, commercial banking officer and Marie Evely is assistant vice president, loan administration officer at Desert Community Bank.

At Nevada State Bank, Vera Horvath is assistant vice president/branch manager of the Flamingo/Sandhill branch, Mary Ann Brown is a trust officer in the Trust Department and Richard Untalan is vice president/branch manager at the Tropicana/Nellis branch.

At URS Corp., Gary Carlson is architectural services division manager, Seth Shanahan is a biologist, Dana Harper and Tracy Henderson are archaeologists, Albert Ridley is an environmental services manager, George High and Peggy Roberts are NEPA specialists and Krystal Pruzinsky is a mechanical engineer.

Former Gov. Bob Miller joined the board of directors of SSP Solutions Inc., a security company.

Fred Snyder manages the new branch of A.G. Edwards on Howard Hughes Parkway.

Jason Neiberger is chief technical officer at LANwaves Inc.

Vic Donovan is vice president of management services at Colliers International in Las Vegas.

Jeffrey Hines is a financial consultant and director of insurance services at Futrell Financial Management.

Dr. Alan Weissman is director of positron emission tomography at Desert Radiologists.

Dan Cadden is facilities manager at Stoltz Management.

Carla Gomez is director of client services at the Creative Group.

Richard Dreitzer of the Cooper Christensen law firm was admitted to the Commercial Law League of America.

Dale Puhl, owner of Southwest Escrow Co., announced the opening of a Green Valley office and the appointment of Edward Angelica to the position of vice president.

Catherine Levy is public relations manager of the Las Vegas Chamber of Commerce.

Travis Nelson is vice president of economic development focusing on the automotive industry at the Nevada Development Authority.

Dick Hollister is general sales manager, Michelle Gallagher is promotions and programming director, Warren Holybee is chief engineer and Lugina Jason is traffic manager at the UPN network TV station KTUD.

Kyle Thomas is a driller's assistant at Eagle Drilling Services.

Loyd Mead is senior engineering technician at Geotechnical & Environmental Services.

Richard Dooling is director of asset services, Brian Bennett is a senior associate and Melanie Braud is a leasing specialist at CB Richard Ellis.

Dana Pretner is director of public relations at Brown & Partners.

Sue Weibel is executive director of Villa Di Tuscany, an assisted living and memory care center.

Cindy Dreibelbis is vice president of operations and Jill Blanchette is director of corporate promotions at R&R Partners.

Mark Jolley is an account supervisor, Monica Gudino is an account coordinator, Scott Robertson is vice president/creative director and Troy O'Brien is associate creative director at the Merica Agency.

Jeffrey Wesselman is vice president of financial services at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Community Bank of Nevada real estate lenders David Jones, Rachel Kanter and Brenda Olsen relocated to the Green Valley branch.

Rachel Moya is an account coordinator at Tribeca Media.

George McCabe is vice president of Starr Seigle Communications.

At Hall Communications, Michelle Conway is an account executive, Nadia Khan is an assistant account executive, Scottie Patterson is an account executive, Randy Rabago is technical supervisor, Alex Bruni is a production artist and Melissa Landsman is an account executive.

William Kirk III joined the law firm of Harmon & Shinn.

Marketing secretary Karen Choflet is employee of the month for October at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Gary Roepke is vice president and manager of the water/wastewater division at Willdan.

New lawyers at Lionel Sawyer & Collins are Linda Bullen, Paul Powell, Daniel McNutt, Kyle Stephens, Alan Freer, Ljubisa Kostic, Maximiliano Couvillier III, Josh Reid, Steven Hollingworth and Evelyn Castillo.

Glenn Larsen is art director at MassMedia/Vanguard.

Officers of the Nevada Alliance for Defense, Energy and Business are Troy Wade II, chairman; Don Black, secretary and Bob Smith, treasurer.

Karl Harrison is an account executive at LASON.

Christopher Laurance joined the board of directors of Media and Entertainment.com.

Frank Kostelac is a data sales specialist at XO Communications.

Grace Devitt is director of fundraising for Nevada at Krispy Kreme Doughnuts.

Cindy Burgie is options consultant for Pardee Homes' Nevada Trails community.

Delon Bradley, Joe Manos and Rebecca Saxton formed the Paladin Wealth Management Group of First Union Securities.

Fred Carney is marketing coordinator at Consultants in Marketing.

Patrick Downey is vice president of sales and marketing at Palm Mortuary.

Darrell Luery and Gerry Alesia formed the consulting group Luery, Alesia & Co.

Drs. Javaid Anwar and Ikram Khan are medical directors for Care Network, a subsidiary of Employers Insurance Company of Nevada.