People in the News

Thomas D. Kern

was named vice president of operations processes, testing and quality for Harleysville Insurance. He had been assistant vice president of information systems.

Advertising Specialty Institute, a Trevose media and marketing organization, promoted

Rob Spike

to vice president, distributor services. He had been executive director of distributor services.

Cam Pincus

and

Ruth Tanur

, CPAs at Isdaner & Co. L.L.C., Bala Cynwyd, have been named directors. Pincus has been named director of Integrated Services Department and Tanur has been named director of Individual Taxation Department. They had been managers at the firm.

Inglis Foundation, a Philadelphia nonprofit organization serving people with physical disabilities, named

Gavin Kerr

president and chief executive officer. Kerr joined Inglis from Sherbrooke Partners, a Boston health-care and strategy consulting firm.

Nicholas J. Giuffre

was named president and chief operating officer of Bradford White Corp., Ambler. He had been executive vice president.

Arthur Ashe Youth Tennis & Education in Philadelphia named

David Broida

the organization's interim executive director. Broida, a board member, is the former director of Upper Merion Township's Park & Recreation Department.

The Archer Group, a Wilmington interactive marketing firm, announces three appointments:

Dennis Egen

has been promoted to vice president of information technology. Egen had been director of Web development at The Scientist, the magazine for the life sciences.

Andrew Fishman

has been named vice president of client services. Fishman had been with Digitas Health.

Ben Levin

has been named vice president of performance strategy. Levin had worked at G2 Interactive.

Braithwaite Communications, a Philadelphia marketing communications agency, has hired

Whitney McKnight

as an associate vice president. She previously ran her own boutique agency in Marlton.

Haverford Trust Co., a Radnor investment management company, said

John H. Donaldson

had joined the firm as vice president and fixed-income portfolio manager. Donaldson had been a portfolio manager at Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co., Horsham.

Merck & Co. Inc., a Whitehouse Station, N.J., drugmaker with major operations in the Philadelphia area, named

Barry J. Goldstein

vice president of diabetes and obesity clinical development. Goldstein had been director of the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolic Diseases and professor of medicine, biochemistry and molecular pharmacology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University.