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Gonzalez Parrilla named senior vice president at Good Shepherd Rehabilitation
Astrid Gonzalez Parrilla has joined Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network as senior vice president, Clinical Operations. An occupational therapist by training, Gonzalez Parrilla oversees Good Shepherd’s adult and pediatric inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in Allentown and Bethlehem, which include a long-term acute-care hospital in Bethlehem, home health and long-term care facilities for[...]
Laura McHugh to receive 2021 Athena Award
Laura McHugh, associate vice president of marketing & communications for the United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley, will be this year’s recipient of the Athena Award from the Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce Women’s Business Council. The award, which has been given out each year since 1981, recognizes women leaders in the[...]
Former nurse practitioner, Kristin Keenan, joins family business
Keenan-Nagle Advertising Inc. of Allentown has named Kristin M. Keenan as vice president of client engagement & integration. She is the daughter of Michael Keenan, president and CEO of the firm. While Keenan grew up in the family business, it wasn’t actually her first career. Keenan spent the past 21 years she has[...]
CBRE names Beares to lead regional market
CBRE has named Rija Beares to lead its Greater Philadelphia Region, which includes both the Lehigh Valley and Central Pennsylvania in addition to downtown and suburban Philadelphia, Delaware and Southern New Jersey. In her new role as advisory services market leader, Beares will be responsible for driving the company’s growth[...]
New wedding planner finds pent up demand for her services
A Center Valley woman has found success in a new career thanks to a little good timing and help from SCORE Bucks County. Samantha O’Donnell had been working as an interior designer for the past decade, but had long toyed with going back to her first love, event planning, and[...]
PICPA names Jennifer Cryder as first female CEO
For the first time in its 125-year history, the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants has named a woman as its CEO and executive director. PICPA’s board of directors has named Jennifer Cryder to the post. She will replace Michael Colgan who is retiring. “I’m incredibly honored to assume the[...]
Career coach launches consulting firm to serve ‘the great resignation’
With so many people changing careers after the COVID-19 pandemic, Shelley Maley of Macungie, said it was the perfect time to start her new career coaching firm, Dreamcatcher. “People are calling it ‘the great resignation,’” she said. According to a recent report by Monster, 95% of employees are currently considering[...]
Berks County CPA elected president of statewide body
Frances A. Aitken, a certified public accountant from Reading, has been named president of the Pennsylvania Institute of Certified Public Accountants (PICPA) for the 2021-2022 year. Aitken, who was elected June 11, is chief operating officer for Berks County Community Foundation in Reading, overseeing the management of the foundation’s assets[...]
Customers Bank promotes Frost to executive vice president, CAO
West Reading-based Customers Bank announced that Jennifer Frost has been promoted to executive vice president and chief administrative officer. She was previously senior vice president, deputy chief administrative officer at the bank, where she promoted efforts to digitize operations, processes, products and services. Frost will also be joining the[...]
Lehigh Valley Health Network names new COO and chief philanthropy officer
Lehigh Valley Health Network has hired two people to prominent executive positions. LVHN has named John Pierro as its new executive vice president and COO and Liv Vesely as its new senior vice president and chief philanthropy officer. They were hired after national searches. “John and Liv have that skill[...]
Racial inequalities persist in U.S. unemployment numbers
Racial inequities in the unemployment count persist, according to the United States Department of Labor’s April Jobs Report. The unemployment rate for African Americans increased slightly to 9.7 % in the month of March, while the Hispanic rate was unchanged at 7.9%. The unemployment rate among Asian workers declined to 5.7%, and the rate for whites fell to 5.3%. [...]
You can’t do it all alone:’ Capital BlueCross’ Ann Corley Baum on how to be an effective leader
It doesn’t matter if you’re a corporate officer or an entrepreneur with a small start-up, it always helps to hone your leadership skills. So to help give our readers an edge, Lehigh Valley Business talked to Anne Corley Baum, president at the Allentown-based Capital BlueCross health insurance company, and author[...]
