ADVERTISING
James O’Connor
James O’Connor has joined Trainor Advertising as senior vice president. He will be responsible for overseeing all account services at the agency and will personally handle the newly acquired Academic Management Services account. O’Connor spent the last eight years as a senior member of the corporate communications department at Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island, where he managed the company’s Request for Proposal function, edited numerous publications and served as project manager for market research initiatives and direct mail campaigns. He is a graduate of Providence College, a Certified Health Consultant and holds a professional designation with the Academy for Healthcare Management. He is a resident of Saunderstown.
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BANKING
Terri L. McCarthy
Terri L. McCarthy has been appointed to branch manager for the People’s Credit Union. She will be responsible for managing operations of the Credit Union’s Middletown office. She has previously served as a teller, head teller, Visa administrator, branch manager for the Portsmouth office, lending manager and manager of the Friendship and Thames Street offices for People’s. McCarthy attended the National Lending and Sales Institute and successfully completed certification of the Management Enrichment Training Program sponsored by the Credit Union National Association. She resides in Middletown with her husband Brian and their children Erin and Timothy.
George R. McMann
George R. McMann has been promoted to branch manager for Citizens Bank’s Woonsocket office. He previously served as assistant branch manager for Citizens’ Plainfield Pike office in Cranston. McMann received a BS in marketing from Rhode Island College in Providence. He is active with the Woonsocket Rotary Club and the Northern Rhode Island Chamber of Commerce and resides in Woonsocket.
CATERING
Frank Maragos
Frank Maragos has been named executive catering chef at Gatehouse Catering Company in Providence. He was formerly employed as executive chef at the Cheeky Monkey in Newport, and has experience with several European assignments. Maragos received a gold medal at the 1992 Dakota State Chef Competition, was named one of the top five chefs in the 1992 and 1993 National Culinary Competition, was chosen for the Atlanta Olympic Culinary Team in 1996 and received the silver medal as captain of the American Culinary Federation Junior Team in 1999. He is a graduate of Johnson and Wales University.
FINANCIAL SERVICES
Regina Kingsborough
Regina Kingsborough has been promoted to team leader in the defined contribution department of The Angell Pension Group, Inc. in Rumford. She will be responsible for the day-to-day operations of the department. She was formerly employed as the pension department supervisor at the New England Trust Company and in the employee benefits department at Fleet National Bank. Kingsborough is a graduate of Bryant College with a BS in management. She resides in Coventry with her husband and their two children.
HEALTH CARE
Carol Ewing
Carol Ewing Garber, Ph.D., has been honored by the American Heart Association’s (AHA) Rhode Island affiliate with the annual Health Impact Award. The award is given each year to an area health care professional who helps the AHA take major steps toward the goal of educating the public about heart disease and preventing spread of the disease. Garber, who is on the medical staff of Memorial Hospital’s Division of Cardiology, is an exercise physiologist in charge of several programs at Memorial. She is director of the hospital’s Human Performance Laboratory and works with the Cardiac Disease Prevention and Rehabilitation Program and the Heart Disease Prevention Center. She earned a master’s in exercise testing and training and a Ph.D. in exercise physiology, both from the University of Connecticut.
HOSPITALITY
Robin Guinaugh has joined Hampton Inn & Suites in Warwick as assistant general manager. Her responsibilities will include working with the general manager to direct areas of hotel operations including guest services, front desk operations and hotel administration. Guinaugh was most recently employed by the Townplace Suites in Gaithersburg, Md. as operations manager, where she received “the Most Inspiring Service Story” Award from Marriott. She has also worked for Holiday Inn and Homewood Suites in Ohio and St. Anthony InterContinental in Texas.
MANUFACTURING
James E. Morrison
James E. “Jim” Morrison has been named chief financial officer at Teknor Apex Company in Pawtucket. His responsibilities will include the accounting, tax, credit, treasury, financial analysis and risk management functions for the six divisions and 14 locations of the company. He was formerly employed at Monsanto Chemical Company, holding positions in the areas of cost accounting, financial analysis and division controller of their worldwide plastics division, at ANGUS Chemical Company as CFO and at Huber Engineered Materials as global vice president of finance. Morrison is a graduate of the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. With a BA in accounting and received an MBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH.
Justice Robert E. Flanders, Jr.
Justice Robert E. Flanders, Jr. has been named chairman of the board of directors of the YMCA of Greater Providence. In this volunteer capacity, he will oversee the program’s progress on its five-year strategic plan that is focus on strengthening the YMCA’s role as a family resource center and catalyst for community improvement. Justice Flanders has served as a member of the Rhode Island Supreme Court since 1996. Prior to that, he was a trial lawyer for 20 years. He served a 12-year tenure as the Town of Gloucester’s solicitor, a four-year term as a member of the Barrington Town Council and eight years as general counsel to Rhode Island Solid Waste Management Corporation (now known as the Resource Recovery Corporation). He is a graduate of Brown University and holds a law degree from Harvard University. He resides in East Greenwich.
REAL ESTATE
Barbara Jagolinzer
Barbara Jagolinzer of Nunes Realty, Ltd. has been selected as The Newport County Board of REALTORS 2000 REALTOR of the Year. A 14-year veteran of the real estate business, she holds the Graduate REALTORS Institute, Certified Residential Specialist and Certified Buyer Representative designations. Jagolinzer is the immediate past-president of the Newport County Board and will be the treasurer for the Rhode Island Association of REALTORS for 2001. She is a board of directors member for the Bureau of Jewish Education and is a past-president of Sisterhood Temple Shalom as well as Island Hospice. She resides in Portsmouth with her husband, Rabbi Marc Jagolinzer and their three children.
