The Chatham Area Chamber of Commerce has hired Ashleigh Brinkman as executive director and Ryan McKennedy as coordinator. Brinkman was born and raised in Chatham, where she and her husband, Tim, currently live with their three children. She most recently worked in medical sales and also has experience in event planning and fundraising. Brinkman holds [...]
Nick Williams has been chosen to succeed Phil Gonet as president of the Illinois Coal Association. He will start with the ICA on Dec. 1 and assume the position of president on Jan. 1, 2020. Williams, an Illinois native, is currently the associate director of the Illinois Petroleum Council. He has previously held several legislative [...]
Brad Reach is the new vice president and chief financial officer for Springfield Clinic. Reach most recently served as CFO of Arkansas Heart Hospital in Little Rock, Arkansas, and Illinois Valley Community Hospital in Peru, Illinois. Prior to that, Reach served in various finance roles at OSF St. Francis Medical Center and Heartland Regional Medical [...]
John A. Scherschel, MD, has been named president of Prairie Cardiovascular in Springfield. Scherschel is the fourth president in the group’s 40-year history and succeeds Marc E. Shelton, MD, who was appointed vice president and chief physician executive of Hospital Sisters Health System in March. Scherschel has served as a clinical cardiac electrophysiologist at Prairie [...]
Mark Birtch has started a new position as a licensed Realtor with Keller Williams Realty, Inc. “I’ll be doing primarily residential real estate, representing both buyers and sellers,” Birtch said. “I’m working with Jim Skeeters and his team.” Birtch spent the past eight years with Midwest Family Broadcasting, most recently as the director of sales, [...]
Krista Appenzeller, who is currently the senior assistant corporation counsel for the City of Springfield, has accepted a position as staff counsel with the Illinois State Bar Association. “I think it’s going to be quite the change,” she said, noting that while she will still be providing in-house counsel, “it will cover the whole gambit, [...]
O’Shea Builders has hired Patrick Randle as an estimator. Randle is based out of the Springfield office. Randle most recently worked in the St. Louis area for Kadean Construction. He served in operations and estimating roles on a variety of retail, warehousing and health care projects. Randle earned a degree in engineering and construction management [...]
Joe Bridges and Julie Lynch recently joined Hanson Professional Services’ Springfield headquarters as project administrators. They will assist project managers in all areas of the project process, including planning and startup, execution, monitoring and closeout, as well as the financial aspects such as invoicing, budget reports and accounts receivable tracking. Before joining Hanson, Bridges was [...]
Cordell & Cordell, the nation’s largest domestic litigation firm focusing on representing men in family law cases, recently hired Andrew Ricci as a senior litigation attorney. Ricci will be working out of the Springfield office, located at 2815 Old Jacksonville Road, Suite 100. Ricci earned his Juris Doctor from Northern Illinois University College of Law. [...]
Mike Adams has been hired as a sales representative for Luby Equipment Services, a St. Louis-based CASE Construction equipment dealer. He replaces Don Castens, who retired at the end of June and was responsible for a 12-county territory based out of the Springfield location. Adams most recently served as general manager for United Rentals in [...]