Rhonda Banjak-Horvath has joined Burgan Real Estate, Boardman, “making the third largest real estate company by volume in Mahoning County that much stronger,” the company says in announcing her recruitment. Banjak-Horvath is a native of Hubbard and earned a degree in health education from Youngstown State University. For 17 years she managed and trained people […]

Nathan Byler  has been appointed vice president of Lencyk Masonry Co. Boardman. Byler is a 1992 graduate of Springfield Local High School. He joined Lencyk Masonry in 1993 as a bricklayer apprentice, quickly began running projects as a foreman, and became a journeyman bricklayer in 1996. Byler started estimating jobs in 2001, and became a […]

Elaine Maro has joined Oh Wow! The Roger & Gloria Jones Children’s Center for Science and Technology, Youngstown, as associate director. Maro will assist with development, fundraising and event planning, bringing her nonprofit leadership and grant-writing skills to enhance hands-on “EDUtainment” opportunities at the museum. She previously served as executive director of a small health-care […]

Kimberly Cervone, a commercial lines account manager at L. Calvin Jones & Co., Canfield, has earned the industry designations of Certified Insurance Service Representative (CISR) and Cyber Risk Manager (cyRM). Cervone began her insurance career in 2006, focusing on personal lines, small business and investment insurance. She switched to commercial lines insurance in 2011. “I […]

Jessie Wright, a supervisor with Canfield-based  Schroedel, Scullin & Bestic, CPAs, has been nominated as a director on the executive board of the Ohio Society of Certified Public Accountants. Wright, a certified public accountant, also holds the designations of certified valuation analyst and certified global management accounting designations. She specializes in employee benefit plan audits […]

Carmella Williams, owner and “kitchen chemist” of Carmella Marie, a natural hair-care company based in Youngstown, has won two 2018 Editors’ Choice Awards from TextureMedia, a hair and beauty content and eCommerce platform. Williams, who started her business in 2015, is director of diversity and inclusion at the Youngstown Business Incubator. Her company was honored […]

Bonnie Deutsch Burdman has been elected chairwoman of the board of directors of Western Reserve Public Media. She replaces community volunteer and University of Akron retired dean Mark Auburn, who will continue serving as a board member. Western Reserve Public Media is a PBS member station that provides broadcast channels WNEO and WEAO. Deutsch Burdman […]

Todd Yallech has been appointed senior vice president of field operations for Lencyk Masonry Co. Boardman. Yallech began working for Lencyk Masonry in 1991. He worked as a mason tender for his first two years with the company, and joined the bricklayers union as an apprentice in 1993. After a few years, he became a […]

Gina Vicarel has joined Home Savings with the title of recruitment administrator. Vicarel brings with her more than 10 years of recruiting experience. Before joining Home Savings, she was a staffing/HR consultant for an employment and recruitment agency. Her new responsibilities include recruitment for open positions throughout the bank, serving as a liaison to universities […]

Angeline Centofanti has been appointed chief financial officer of Lencyk Masonry Co. Boardman. Centofanti is a graduate of Poland Seminary High School. She earned a B.S. in B.A. in accounting from Youngstown State University in 1989, and earned her MBA with a finance concentration from YSU in 1997. Centofanti began her accounting career in 1990 […]