Business People on the Move: Brian Zoubek hired by Philadelphia firm

Former Haddonfield Memorial High star center and Duke University basketball player Brian Zoubek has been hired as an investment sales and leasing specialist at the Center City headquarters of MSC Retail. He had been an associate at Cushman & Wakefield's Manhattan headquarters.

Health Partners Plans, Philadelphia, a nonprofit managed health-care organization, has hired Lisa Getzfrid as senior vice president of operations and COO. She had been enterprise vice president of health plan operations at Conifer Health Solutions.

Plymouth Meeting-based national mortgage lender New Penn Financial L.L.C., has hired Amy Brandt Schumacher as president, originations and corporate technology. She had been COO for Prospect Mortgage.

Rosetta Genomics Ltd., a diagnostic test developer based in Israel and Philadelphia, has hired Ana C. Ward as executive vice president, legal and corporate development. She had been COO of Aptamir Therapeutics.

MarketPlace PHL, the management company for the retail program at Philadelphia International Airport, has hired Rebecca Simon as manager of marketing and customer service and Tammy Palmatier as specialty leasing manager. Simon had owned and operated Simon Says Social Media and Palmatier was leasing manager of Peddler's Village.

Remington & Vernick Engineers, a Haddonfield transportation engineering, design, and construction firm, has hired Mark A. Grevas as senior project manager in the transportation infrastructure division. He had been project manager at Collins Engineering in Charleston, S.C.

Building products distributor ABC Supply Co., Beloit, Wis., has named Tim Kuchan to manager of its facility in Runnemede. He had been an outside sales representative position at the company's Warminster store.

Villanova University has promoted Craig M. Wheeland to vice provost for academics, from associate vice president for academic affairs.

D. Deone Powell has joined the Philadelphia office of Zarwin Baum DeVito Kaplan Schaer Toddy P.C. as a senior associate in the firm's insurance casualty defense team. He had worked for Atkins & Cohen P.C. as outside counsel to Temple University.

Peter J. Moran has been named senior vice president of distribution and product management at Penn Capital Management Co., a Philadelphia investment management firm. investment management firm. He was founding partner of BHR Fund Advisors, which was acquired by Dundee Wealth of Toronto. In 2014 he began consulting for various asset management companies with a focus on institutional, foreign and alternative firms.

West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., Exton, has promoted Eric Resnick as vice president and chief technology officer, succeeding John Paproski, who has retired. Resnick had been vice president and general manager of integrated packaging and delivery within the innovation and technology team of the company.

Wistar Institute, a West Philadelphia nonprofit specializing in basic biomedical research with a focus on cancer and vaccines, has hired immunologist and vaccine expert David B. Weiner as executive vice president, director of the Vaccine Center, and the W.W. Smith Endowed Chair in Cancer Research. He had been a professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

Robert S. Baranowski Jr. has been promoted to partner at Marlton law firm Hyland Levin L.L.P. Baranowski has been an attorney at Hyland Levin since the firm was established in 2009.

HNTB Corp. of Philadelphia has promoted Jeff Konrad to vice president of rail in the Pennsylvania district from associate vice president. The infrastructure firm also hired James McGee as associate vice president, senior project manager, and Christopher Harding as senior technical adviser. McGee had been assistant district executive - design, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, District 5. Harding had been director of track design and layout for Amtrak.

Jonathan Kassa has been hired as director of higher education for Conshohocken-based AlliedBarton Security Services. He had been senior director of business development, grant management at Margolis-Healy.

The Brind-Marcus Center of Integrative Medicine at Jefferson whas named Rashna K. Staid as the practice's newest internal medicine physician. Staid is board-certified in internal medicine and will provide patients with comprehensive assessments and integrative treatment of chronic health issues as part of the Center's Integrative Health Management Program. Staid is certified by the American Board of Integrative Holistic Medicine and a member of the American Medical Association, American College of Physicians and the Academy of Integrative Health and Medicine. She received her undergraduate education at Cornell University majoring in nutrition. She is a graduate of SUNY Health Science Center College of Medicine and completed her internship and residency training in internal medicine at the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, Mass.

Fort Washington-based law firm Timoney Knox, L.L.P. has hired Andrea Procton as an associate attorney in the Insurance Industry Group. She served as the law clerk to the Honorable Robert J. Mellon in the Court of Common Pleas of Bucks County. She also served as a certified legal intern for the Defender's Association of Philadelphia, and as an intern at the Senior Law Center in Philadelphia. Procton, of Philadelphia, is a graduate of Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law. She was an Executive Articles and Symposium Editor of the Temple Political and Civil Rights Journal. She was also President of the Jewish Law Student Association and Co-President of the Sports and Entertainment Law Society.

Chamberlain, Hrdlicka, White, Williams & Aughtry, Philadelphia, has hired attorney Katherine Schadler Jordan as an associate. Jordan, who will work in the firm's tax controversy and litigation practice, previously clerked for Judge Joseph W. Nega at the United States Tax Court. Prior to clerking for Judge Nega, Jordan was an attorney with the Charlotte, North Carolina firm of Moore & Van Allen, PLLC, where she drafted estate planning documents for high net worth clients. She graduated from Duke University with a degree in political science and went on to earn her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.

Amanda J. Dougherty and Elizabeth V. Gavin have joined the West Chester-based law firm of Gawthrop Greenwood, PC, as associates. Dougherty is a member of the litigation and criminal law departments, and Gavin is a member of the firm's municipal government law department.

Dougherty, who concentrates her practice in real estate tax, criminal law and personal injury litigation,  began her career as a prosecutor in Montgomery County, where she handled general pretrial work and bench trial. She then went on into civil practice with the City of Philadelphia Law Department, focusing on real estate tax and insurance defense work. She represented the City and School District in trials and motions in the Court of Common Pleas, appeals in the Superior and Commonwealth Courts, and arbitrations in Philadelphia County's Compulsory Arbitration program.

Gavin began her law career as an associate at Bennett, Bricklin & Saltzburg LLC in Blue Bell defended clients in automobile and premises liability cases. While attending Villanova University School of Law, she clerked for The Honorable Kathrynann W. Durham of the Delaware County Court of Common Pleas and worked for Robert J. Casey & Associates, Employees of the Corporate Law Department of State Farm, where she had been a Claims Representative prior to attending law school. She concentrates her practice in municipal law, as well as land use, education and special education.

Comcast Cable has hired Noopur Davis as senior vice president of product security and privacy, reporting to Comcast Cable chief technology officer Tony Werner. Davis had been vice president of global quality at chip-manufacturing giant Intel.

Philadelphia marketing communications agency Hornercom has promoted Emily Adams to vice president, associate director, from account supervisor and Chelsea D'Amore to assistant account executive from account coordinator.

Sweet, Stevens, Katz & Williams, Chalfont, has promoted attorneys Mark Cheramie Walz, David F. Conn, and Thomas C. Warner to partner.

Tompkins Financial Advisors, Wyomissing, Pa., has hired Timothy West as a wealth adviser. He had been a financial adviser for Citizens Bank.

Law firm Cozen O'Connor, Philadelphia, has expanded its Commercial Litigation Department with the addition of Aaron McKown and Paula Zecchini as members. Both lawyers join the firm from Ring Bender L.L.P.

McKown will be resident in the firm's Miami office, while Zecchini will reside in the its Seattle office. Both McKown and Zecchini litigate matters nationally, including handling a significant case load in Southern California.

In addition to serving as counsel for clients ranging from Fortune 500 companies to non-profits, McKown and Zecchini currently serve as national litigation counsel for GoDaddy. Over the course of the past five years, McKown and Zecchini have secured an impressive number of dismissals on GoDaddy's behalf in jurisdictions across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court, the Second and Ninth Circuits, and the Texas Supreme Court.

In the GoDaddy case, they defended the company against a $40 million cybersquatting claim filed by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

McKown focuses his practice on representing individuals and corporations in intellectual property matters. Zecchini focuses her practice on complex commercial and intellectual property litigation, with an emphasis on Internet law.

Chesapeake Utilities Corp., a diversified energy company in Dover, has hired Naimul Islam as vice president and corporate controller. Islam comes to Chesapeake from SourceGas, a GE Energy and Alinda Capital-owned regulated and non-regulated utility based in Golden, Colorado, where he was the corporate controller – accounting.

Prior to SourceGas, Islam was with Southern California Edison for over 10 years, where he served as the affiliate controller and principal manager of accounting.

He will  will manage all of the company's accounting operations, including corporate accounting, internal and external financial reporting, business unit accounting, accounts payable, capital accounting, income taxes and shared services-accounting.

Matthew Brouillette, president and CEO of the conservative  Commonwealth Foundation, will step down June 30 to launch a new endeavor in Pennsylvania the organization announced recently. Brouillette has run the think-tank, which has offices in Harrisburg and King of Prussia, since 2002. The next steps in Commonwealth Foundation's succession plan will be announced in the coming weeks.

Global pharmaceutical company Merck, Kenilworth, N.J., with local operations in West Point, Upper Gwynedd, has hired Sanat Chattopadhyay as executive vice president and president, Merck Manufacturing Division. Chattopadhyay will succeed Willie A. Deese who will retire on June 1, 2016 after 12 years with the company. Chattopadhyay joined Merck in 2009 and most recently served as senior vice president of Global Manufacturing Operations (Human Health).

AgroFresh Solutions, a Philadelphia company that provides technology used by growers and packers of fresh produce to preserve and enhance the freshness, quality and value of fresh produce, announced that Thomas Macphee, CEO has stepped down from his position. Additionally, Stan Howell will step down as president at the end of April 2016.

The company's board has formed a search committee to evaluate candidates to serve in the consolidated role of president and CEO.

The responsibilities of CEO and president will be assumed on an interim basis by an Office of the Chair which will be comprised of Nance Dicciani, chair of the board, and Stephen Trevor, a director of AgroFresh and the former CEO of Boulevard, which acquired the AgroFresh business in July 2015. AgroFresh is a former subsidiary of the Dow Chemical Co.

- Mike Zebe