Business people for February 19, 2001

Recent Las Vegas appointments and honors:

David Palmer is general manager/leasing director of Furniture Mart Enterprises.

At BankWest of Nevada, Lois Kachnik is note department officer in the central office.

Bernadette Goodemote is an account executive and Hank Hope is the studio manager at Hands Ink Advertising and PS Media.

David Best is director of national sales for the western region, Patty Aspinwall is project and order coordination manager and Richard Cheval is sales engineer at XO Communications.

Paulette Baker is state escrow administrator for First American Title Company of Nevada.

Martin Herbert is general manager and John Cahill is executive chef at the Olio! Restaurant at the MGM Grand hotel-casino.

Robert Lucero is assistant vice president/business development officer at Silver State Bancorp.

Geoffrey West and George Okinaka are associates while Suzette La Grange and Paul Hoyt are senior associates at CB Richard Ellis.

Mary Jo Solon is director of adult inpatient services at Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center.

Larry Cooper is sales manager at Philips Supper House.

At Nevada State Bank, Cassie Eisinger is senior vice president/community banking administration, Guy Chaffee and Robert Hart are business development officers in the new SBA and USDA department, Christal Krehnovi is vice president/training director; Deborah Smith, Anne Gumroyan and Patricia Johnston are administrative officers, Joseph Palmarozzo is vice president/marketing officer, Virginia Knudsen is senior vice president/region manager of northwest Las Vegas, Tiffany Averett is communications officer, Raeann Velarde is training/performance manager, Karen Gonzales is employee development specialist officer, Wendy Malcolm is assistant vice president/loan servicing assistant manager; and Thalia Wines and Maria Gutierrez are training officers.

Virginia Lewis is field director at Northwestern Mutual Financial Network, the Bostick Agency.

At Vestin Group, Steve Byrne was promoted to chief executive of Vestin Mortgage and Peggy May was appointed as president; while Lida Morgan is director of marketing.

Marla Hockfeld is director of communications at the State Bar of Nevada.

Nora Cooper is a senior account executive at F/F/E Associates.

Chris Seaquist is assistant superintendent at Clark & Sullivan Constructors.

Suzanne Caldarello is marketing director for Las Ventanas at Summerlin.

Kelly Owens is director of business development at Captivads Inc.

Kevin Workman is assistant vice president, real estate, at Community Bank of Nevada.

At Del Webb Corp., Jim Rizzi is vice president of land development in LasVegas while Craig Garhardt, Mike Bailey and Denver Stack are senior project managers at Sun City Anthem.

Jon Wall, visitor information clerk, is employee of the year for 2000 and Carolyn Titterington of the marketing tourism department is employee of the month for January at the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

Bryan Sharp is senior project manager, Kent Blomberg is project manager and Mike Mixon is a senior estimator at Martin-Harris Construction.

Fred Lewis is Midwest regional sales manager and Raul Rodriguez is Northwest regional sales manager at Idea Center Signs.

Elizabeth Trosper is vice president of community and public affairs at MassMedia Public Relations and Advertising.

David Sheleheda is a public relations coordinator at the Firm Public Relations and Marketing.

Jason Kuckler is development coordinator at MagnuM Opus Development.

Glenn Elton is director of management services at Colliers International in Las Vegas.

Brett Campbell is a shareholder in the Henderson CPA firm Chavez & Koch.

Karen Haller is assistant general counsel and Craig Roecks is senior counsel at Southwest Gas Corp.

Pat Clark, president/CEO of Pat Clark Pontiac GMC, is a recipient of the 2001 TIME Magazine Quality Dealer Award.

Mike Hesser is Las Vegas representative for L & M Food Service.

Susan Hescher is vice president/loan servicing manager at Nevada First Bank.

Steve Schorr of Cox Communications and Dr. Robert Futoran joined the board of governors of Lake Mead Hospital Medical Center.

Gerry Tan is a project manager for Beers Construction.

New estimators at Korte-Bellew & Associates are Jeffrey Kissinger, Stephen Rollins and Karin Wilson.

Scott Frost is director of sales at helloNetwork.com.

Attorney and state Sen. Mark James joined the board of directors of Nevada Community Bancorp.

Rene Merlau is sales executive/broker relations officer at Intrawest's MonteLago Village at Lake Las Vegas Resort.

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