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Annie Burridge has been named managing director of Opera Philadelphia. Burridge will join the artistic-planning team and assume responsibility for implementing the company's business plan. She had been senior vice president of institutional advancement. Jeremiah Marks has been hired as chief financial officer. Marks, who had been controller at Seattle Opera, succeeds Gary B. Gansky, who recently retired after 17 years of leadership with Opera Philadelphia.
Annie Burridge
has been named managing director of
Opera Philadelphia
. Burridge will join the artistic-planning team and assume responsibility for implementing the company's business plan. She had been senior vice president of institutional advancement.
Jeremiah Marks
has been hired as chief financial officer. Marks, who had been controller at Seattle Opera, succeeds
Gary B. Gansky
, who recently retired after 17 years of leadership with Opera Philadelphia.
In addition, the company has hired two opera professionals to serve in key fund-raising positions. Erin Kelley Sammis, recently executive director of the Pensacola Opera, joins the company as director of major gifts, and Thomas Rhodes, recently development manager at the Fort Worth Opera, joins Opera Philadelphia as director of institutional giving. Sammis and Rhodes will serve in leadership roles in the company's institutional-advancement department alongside Ryan Lewis, director of marketing and membership, and Frank Luzi, director of communications.
National Real Estate Advisors has promoted Daniel Killinger to managing director and head of its subsidiary National Real Estate Development, overseeing a $1 billion project portfolio of mixed-use and residential space in Philadelphia, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, including Center City's East Market. Killinger was previously director of development.
Shechtman Marks Devor P.C., Philadelphia, has announced the following hires: Jamie Burns, former tax senior at BDO USA, is tax supervisor; Michael Caffrey, former audit supervisor at Isdaner & Co., is audit manager; Amy-Grace Duncan, former staff accountant at professional soccer team Real Salt Lake, is accounting services associate; Roman Maslennikov, former manager at the Siegfried Group, is a manager in litigations consulting and forensic accounting; William Wright, former associate at PwC in its assurance practice, is senior forensic accountant in the litigation department; and James Padelt, former intern at Stephano Slack & Katz L.L.C., is staff accountant.
Commercial equipment financer Marlin Business Services Corp., Mount Laurel, has hired Greg Sting as vice president of portfolio management. He had been chief operations officer, vendor finance U.S., at CIT Group.
Berkadia, a Horsham commercial real estate company, has appointed Justin Wheeler as chief executive officer. Wheeler had served as the company's interim CEO since April, when Hugh F. Frater stepped down from the position and assumed the responsibility of chairman. While serving in the interim role, Wheeler continued his duties as chief operating officer of Leucadia National Corp., which entered a 50/50 joint venture with Berkshire Hathaway in December 2009 to form Berkadia.
DDCworks, a Conshohocken branding and marketing communications agency, has hired the following: Jeff Cronin, former assistant director of communications at the Temple University School of Media and Communication, is senior account manager of public relations; Kira Hadalski, former art director at Godfrey Q & Partners, is associate art director; Jackie Beramendi, former marketing coordinator at Berkshire Hathaway Home Services, is copywriter; Brittany Bayer, former assistant media buyer at FVM Strategic Communications, is media buyer and planner; Ronnie Naples, former position project manager for the Philadelphia Flyers' creative team, is creative projects manager; and Megan Young, former interactive art director at Jennings & Co., is senior art director.
Chris Miller, former director of Merrill Lynch's Valley Coast complex, has been promoted to director of the company's suburban Philadelphia complex.
TD Bank has promoted Steven M. Nelson to senior vice president, director of operations, in TD Equipment Finance in Cherry Hill. He had been a financial analyst in corporate and specialty banking.
National Penn Bancshares Inc., Allentown, has promoted Maureen P. Hobson, relationship manager, to senior vice president of National Penn's commercial real estate lending group.
Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller has announced that Michael R. Carlson, Adena Herskovitz, and Dylan J. Steinberg have been elected shareholders of the firm, and that Michele Sacks Fenkel has been elected of counsel. All four practice in the firm's Philadelphia office.
James Smith has been hired as senior vice president, commercial real estate lending for Delaware Valley and South Jersey, at Cape May Bank, Cape May Courthouse. A 31-year banking-industry veteran, Smith will lead the new Radnor real estate lending team. He had been founder and principal of Gold Dome Capital L.L.C.
Duane Morris L.L.P., Philadelphia, has hired Hyun J. Kim and Kevin F. Ward as senior accountants in its tax-accounting group. Kim was a senior tax associate in the private wealth sector at Grant Thornton L.L.P., Philadelphia. Ward was a senior accountant at Cover & Rossiter in Wilmington.
TechPats, a Doylestown patent consulting firm, said it had acquired Global Intellectual Strategies of Ottawa, Canada. Marek Wernik, chief executive officer of GIS, is now president of the combined companies, which will have offices in Doylestown, Ottawa, San Francisco, and Tokyo.
- Mike Zebe