[Not a valid template]Cover & Rossiter welcomes staffers
Cover & Rossiter welcomed two new team members: Michael McCullough and Samantha Maiorano to our accounting practice.
A recent graduate of University of Delaware Maiorano has joined the audit department.
McCullough is a 2011 graduate of the Delaware Military Academy and graduate of York College. He is finishing his Masters of Business at Goldey-Beacom College and has joined the tax department. Michael’s MBA with a concentration in Marketing brings the broad background that helps us differentiate ourselves in the industry.
Winterthur Museum honors Heckscher
The Trustees of Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library announced that the 2016 recipient of the Henry Francis du Pont Award is Morrison H. Heckscher, Curator Emeritus, The American Wing, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The award was conferred December 3 during a ceremony at Winterthur.
The award celebrates the vision and talents of Henry Francis du Pont. In bestowing the award, the Trustees intend to commemorate the dedication to excellence demonstrated in the creation of Winterthur, his great American country estate. In recognizing individuals who have made contributions of national significance to the knowledge, preservation, and enjoyment of American decorative arts, architecture, landscape design, and gardens, the Trustees honor his genius and legacy.
Heckscher is a 1964 graduate of the University of Delaware’s Winterthur Program in Early American Culture. He received his B.A. in American History from Wesleyan University and his Ph.D. in Art History from Columbia University. During his education, he developed particular interest in 18th-century American furniture and 19th– and 20th-century American architecture. He is perhaps best known for his nearly five decades of dedicated service to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, during which time he mounted several important exhibitions with accompanying catalogs including American Rococo: 1750—1775; John Townsend: Newport Cabinetmaker; The Metropolitan Museum of Art: An Architectural History, 1870—1995; and Creating Central Park.
In 1998, he was appointed the Anthony W. and Lulu C. Wang Curator of American Decorative Arts and became the Lawrence A. Fleischman Chairman of The American Wing in 2001, a position he held for 13 years. He conceived and supervised the decade-long renovation and reinstallation of the entire American Wing, culminating in the American Paintings and Sculpture Galleries that opened to much acclaim in 2012. He now serves as Curator Emeritus of The American Wing.
In 1993, Heckscher was reelected to the Winterthur Board as a Trustee and continues to serve in that capacity. In addition to his current membership on the Collections Committee and the Academic Affairs Committee, he has served on the Museum Committee, the Buildings Committee, the Museum Affairs Committee (Chairman 1998—2000), and the Period Room Subcommittee (Chairman 1999–2000).
Keener named vice president at DANA
Howard Keener has been named vice president of communications and member relations for the Delaware Association of Nonprofit Agencies (DANA).
Keener brings nearly 20 years of marketing communications and membership relations experience to his new role at DANA.
He was most recently led his own firm Keener Communications. Prior to that he held several marketing and community engagement positions with the Blood Bank of Delaware.
He has an MBA from the University of Delaware and a BS in in Business from Widener University.
Edmunds to head Breast Cancer Coalition
The Board of Trustees of the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition (DBCC) announced that Eileen Filliben Edmunds, JD/MBA, will become the new Executive Director of the statewide nonprofit organization. Edmunds, a two-time breast cancer survivor and a former volunteer and board member of the Coalition, will start her new role in January 2017.
Edmunds attended St. Mary Magdalen grade school and Archmere Academy high school. She was awarded a Jefferson Scholarship, a full four-year merit scholarship, to attend the University of Virginia as an undergraduate. After receiving her JD/MBA from the University of Virginia, Eileen started her legal career in corporate governance, commercial litigation and labor and employment law at Willie Farr & Gallagher in New York City before moving to Wilmington and practicing at Potter, Anderson & Corroon. A published author and featured speaker, she is currently a principal of ModernThink LLC, a human resources and organizational development consulting firm that, among other things, researches and sponsors the Great Colleges to Work For® Program.
Edmunds is a former Trustee of both the Delaware Breast Cancer Coalition and the University of Virginia’s Alumni Association Board of Managers. She is currently a Visiting Lecturer at the Darden School of Graduate Business Education. She also coaches one of St. Maximillian Kolbe’s girls CYO volleyball teams and serves on the University of Virginia’s Regional Selection Committee for the Jefferson Scholars Program. She has been awarded a Susan G. Komen Award for her cancer advocacy efforts.
Leadership Delaware names
After an intense, challenging and competitive application and interview process, the interview committee, comprised of graduate Fellows and Board Members, selected 27 young leaders for Leadership Delaware’s ninth class of Fellows. This group is poised to be an incredibly dynamic and talented class from many diverse backgrounds and experiences, from all three counties in Delaware, and we wish them much success as they embark on this exciting year of discovery. They are:
Atnre Alleyne, Education Advocacy Fellow, 50-State Campaign for Achievement Now
Scott Becker, Owner, Coastal Car Wash
Tianna Bethune, Deputy Attorney General, State of Delaware
Michael Bradshaw, Lieutenant, New Castle County Police Department
Michael Curry, Assistant Chair & Assistant Professor, Undergraduate Teacher Preparation, Wilmington University
Michael Dejos, Medication Safety Officer, Nemours/AI duPont Hospital for Children
Kia Ervin, Executive Director, Accelerate Delaware
Aiste Foreman, Director of Advanced Services, Trinity Logistics
Dennis Harris, Jr., Nurse Manager, Christiana Care Health System
Brittany Hazzard, Intensive Outpatient Program Therapist, Delaware Guidance Services
Tariq Hook, Director of Education, Zip Code Wilmington
Jeremy Kalmbacher, Director of Engineering, Tidewater Utilities, Inc.
Sarah Kenney, Communications Coordinator, Nemours Fund for Children’s Health
Michael Laureano, Store Manager III, Vice President, TD Bank
Sam Lewis, Recruiting & Retention Manager, Delaware Air National Guard
Samanta Lopez, Mentoring Program Director, ASPIRA of Delaware
Jissell Martinez, Business Administrator II, University of Delaware
Allison McCowan, Esq., Associate Attorney, Saul Ewing LLP
Faith Meisinger-Petit, Operations Manager, Corporation Service Company
Evan Park, Legislative Liaison, Delaware Department Of Transportation
Andrea Pedicone, Project Management & Account Services Leadership, Trellist Marketing & Technology
Bonita Penn, Registered Nurse II, Christiana Care Health System
Kate Rudolph, Administrative Director, Inpatient Medicine, Christiana Care Health System
David Skoranski, Assistant Public Defender, Delaware Public Defender’s Office
Stephenie Tatman, Audit Manager, State of Delaware, and Owner, Dolce Bakery
Michael Utley, Fleet Duty Officer, Exelon Generation
Matthew Windsor, Student Ministries Director, Eagles’ Nest Church
Long & Foster’s Cobb named president of Realtors Council
Long & Foster Real Estate announced that Debbie Cobb, a sales agent with the company’s Bethany office in Bethany Beach, Delaware, has been chosen to serve as president of the Sussex County Women’s Council of Realtors for 2017.
Last month, Cobb attended the National Association of Realtors’ annual conference in Orlando, Florida, where she was installed in her new role by the Women’s Council of Realtors network.
Cobb has been a professional in the real estate industry for the past 12 years.
Patterson-Schwartz additions
Patterson-Schwartz Real Estate welcomed John Syphard to their Bethany Beach sales team. He is a former middle and high school social studies teacher with a master’s degree in economics. He is a member of the Sussex County Association of Realtors.
Patterson-Schwartz welcomed Alison Washington to their Greenville office as a sales associate licensed in Delaware. Washington, who has her MBA and a bachelor’s degree in public administration, has a professional background as a consultant in the water utility industry. She is a member of the New Castle County Board of Realtors.
Patterson-Schwartz welcomed Wendi Ke to their Brandywine office as a sales associate licensed in Delaware. Ke speaks fluent Chinese and has a professional background as a network administrator in the electric utility industry. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Northeastern China before relocating to the United States. She is a member of the New Castle County Board of Realtors.
Zavel named SVP at SevOne
SevOne announced that it has selected Ed Zaval to lead its global services team as Senior Vice President of Global Services. Zaval manages 125 global services employees who provide support delivery of 24×7 phone, web portal, and on-site support across 13,000+ customer case transactions per year. Additionally, his Professional Services team is responsible for delivering advanced monitoring solutions via extensible data collection, visualization reports development, automated provisioning, and trouble ticketing integration.
Zaval joined SevOne in November 2015 to lead the Global Support team. Under Zaval’s leadership, the Global Support team has since rolled out higher value maintenance programs for SevOne customers. It has also consistently achieved high Customer Service Level Objectives results, underscored by SevOne’s recent recognition with TSIA’s ‘Innovation in Leveraging Analytics for Service Excellence’ award.
Zaval was most recently responsible for Global Services at Coriant and Sycamore Networks, suppliers of Service Provider networking solutions. He has spent almost 20 years leading high-growth and large-scale worldwide services organizations, providing the highest level of 24×7 support, professional services, hardware services, and customer training.
