Local named partner at interactive marketing firm
Posted on February 8, 2010 at 9:53 amRosetta Marketing Group has promoted Nashville-based Steve Gustafson to partner. Gustafson has been with the interactive marketing agency — which counts Tractor Supply and LifeWay among its local clients — since the latter acquired Brulant in 2008.
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Nissan’s marketing VP Brazil-bound
Posted on at 8:47 am
As part of a broader executive shuffle, Nissan has promoted its North American Vice President of Marketing Christian Meunier to run its Brazil unit. There’s no replacement yet and North America sales chief Brian Carolin will fill the gap for now.
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Retired Air Force general to advise Franklin tech firm
Posted on February 5, 2010 at 10:22 amDigital Reasoning Systems, the local company whose intelligence software synthesizes usable information from masses of data, has brought on as a special advisor and advocate Tom Hubbins, a former chief information officer of the U.S. Air Force.
I believe that they will continue to find innovative ways to process, exploit, and disseminate knowledge from unstructured data. Take for example the medical field, consider how humanity could be better served by understanding and sharing the immense amount of unstructured diagnostic data in the search for cures. Researchers would be able to see corollaries and discover facts, which may have previously gone unnoticed.
SEE ALSO: Digital Reasoning names new exec
Iasis director resigns
Posted on at 9:55 amMerchant banker Curtis Lane, who had been a director of Iasis Healthcare since 2004, stepped down from the board late last month. The 52-year-old will continue to advise the group, though.
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Radio venture shuffles top execs
Posted on February 4, 2010 at 1:56 pmDebut Broadcasting, the publicly traded regional radio chain, has a new CEO in the form of Ron Heineman, a director of the company since last summer. Cited for his turnaround expertise, he takes the place of Steven Ludwig, who late last month resigned from his position.
Heineman also has taken the chairman’s seat, replacing Robert Marquitz, who has in turn become Debut’s COO. Heineman’s River Falls Financial Services last year provided Debut with a credit line that gives him the option of acquiring a large stake in the company (Ticker: DBTB) by converting outstanding debt.
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Randy Smith earns industry honor
Posted on at 10:29 amRandall Smith, CEO and co-founder of Hendersonville-based hotel researchers STR, won the Lifetime Acheivement Award at the Americas Lodging Investment Summit in San Diego.
Founded in Lancaster, Pa. in 1985, STR provides performance, profitibality and census date to hoteliers in North America and the Caribbean.
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Leadership changes at Country Weekly
Posted on February 2, 2010 at 12:14 pm
The parent of Country Weekly has named Lisa Konicki editor-in-chief, apparently replacing Larry Holden. The magazine also is getting a new managing editor and art director.
SEE ALSO: Two Row pubs fold
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Waller chair named Bar Foundation fellow
Posted on January 29, 2010 at 8:42 am
John Tishler, chairman of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis, was one of about three dozen attorneys recently named fellows of the Tennessee Bar Foundation for their service to the industry. Tishler, a bankruptcy and restructuring specialist, has led Waller for two years and chairs its diversity committee.
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Meet the city’s best environmental attorney
Posted on January 25, 2010 at 10:31 am
The Best Lawyers in America has named Gary Shockley of Baker Donelson the top Nashville-area environmental lawyer for 2010 based on peer feedback. A graduate of the University of Tennessee, Shockley has tried cases in more than 25 courts around the country.
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Coopwood’s compensation in Memphis
Posted on January 20, 2010 at 12:37 pm
Reginald Coopwood will be paid $510,000 a year to lead the MED in Memphis for the next three years. It’s not clear what his compensation was at Metro General — he doesn’t appear in our Gannettian friends’ database, likely because an entity other than Metro chipped in — but we’re guessing it was a good bit less. Enough, anyway, to make you leave the best job you’ve ever had.
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Cherry principal named to trade group board
Posted on January 19, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Veteran local commercial real estate player Mylinda Vick has been elected to the board of the International Tenant Represenative Alliance, an umbrella group for tenant representative firms across the world. Vick is a principal at Cherry & Associates.
Ad firm adds senior account exec
Posted on at 11:22 am
Courtnay Hamachek has joined Victor Results Advertising as senior account executive, moving over from the Designory, where she helped launch Nissan’s Cube. Before that, she worked at various agencies in Memphis and Nashville.
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Mayberry named CEO of Century II parent
Posted on January 18, 2010 at 1:13 pm
Tena Mayberry has been promoted to CEO of Fortune Industries, the Indianapolis-based professional employer organization that acquired Brentwood’s Century II in 2005. Mayberry, 45, was last spring named president of the company (Ticker: FFI), which is on track to post annual revenues of about $60 million. She will continue to work from the offices of Century II, of which she also is president.
Outplacement firm opens local outpost
Posted on at 10:36 am
Navigator Executive Advisors, a fast-growing Florida-based outplacement and career transition firm, has hired Sharon Barnes to work the Middle Tennessee market. Barnes is an HR veteran with experience at HCA and Cendant, among other places.
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Ballmer’s latest bookings
Posted on at 7:34 amIt seems everybody is clamoring to make the most of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s Jan. 20 visit to Nashville.
After the Tech Council said Ballmer would speak at its annual membership breakfast, the Nashville Health Care Council booked him for a lunch event on health care IT. Now HCA is planning to announce some sort of philanthropic partnership with Microsoft at a 2:15 p.m., and there’s a 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. “Microsoft Meets Music Row” gathering at the Cool Springs Mariott.
Who gets him after that? The honky tonks?
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