Promotion, Bulletin Board ETC: Albuquerque Journal Business Briefcase

Jan. 15—Promotion

Stephanie Strzyzewski has been promoted to director of hotel sales at Sandia Resort & Casino. Strzyzewski has been at Sandia Resort & Casino for more than 15 years, transitioning from catering sales manager. Prior to joining Sandia Resort & Casino, Strzyzewski worked as a dance instructor and owned a wedding planning business. She also worked at Sheraton Uptown. Strzyzewski received her bachelor's degree from the University of New Mexico.

Jessica "Jessie" Rosell of Albuquerque has been promoted to the 2024 partner class at Lathrop GPM LLP. Rosell concentrates her practice in environmental, litigation, and appellate matters, representing clients in negotiating administrative claims with federal and state environmental agencies, advising clients in initiating and maintaining environmental regulatory compliance programs, and assisting in complex environmental and toxic tort litigation in federal and state courts.

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Solace Sexual Assault Services has announced its new Board of Directors. The new members are:

Treasurer — David Wannigman. Wannigman joined Solace soon after retiring from Los Alamos National Laboratory. He also serves as a volunteer advocate on the after-hours hotline, administrative support volunteer, as well as helping out with various maintenance tasks around the center. In his professional life, Wannigman was a nuclear safety engineer.

President — Nirmala Ganapathy. Ganapathy has been a managing partner of a small business in Santa Fe for the past 18 years. She is a licensed airplane pilot and Ph.D. electrical engineer who had a research and development career in the petroleum, consumer electronics and medical-devices industries. For more than 30 years, she has been working to helping survivors of sexual violence.

Vice President and Secretary — Amy Adler. Adler has a bachelor's degree from Duke University and master's degree from the University of California. As a nurse practitioner, Adler has been caring for patients for almost two decades, including as a forensic nurse examiner. She provided forensic exams to adult and pediatric patients at the UCLA Rape Treatment Center in Santa Monica for eight years. Now in Santa Fe, Adler continues her work as a forensic nurse examiner at Christus St. Vincent.

Board member — Laura Carlson. Carlson is currently the business development manager for Nusenda Credit Union. She has worked in finance, tech and software. In her current role with Nusenda, she works to bring financial literacy resources to communities all around the state.

Board member — Peter Ives. Ives was educated at Harvard College and Georgetown University Law Center. Ives worked as an attorney in Santa Fe for many years, including for The Trust for Public Land and general counsel to the New Mexico Department of Cultural Affairs.

Board member — Mona Martin. Martin has a master's degree in from Fairleigh Dickenson University and from the University of New Mexico. She worked as a bilingual special education instructor, program director and administrator, as well as teaching computer science at Santa Fe Community College and developing instructional courses for Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Albuquerque Regional Economic Alliance has announced its Board of Directors for 2024.

The new members are:

Executive Committee Members and Officers for 2024

Board Chair — Don Tarry, president and chief operating officer at PNM Resources

Chair Elect — Josh Parsons, chief financial officer at Sandia National Laboratories

Treasurer — Teresa Costantinidis, executive vice president for Finance and Administration at the Univeristy of New Mexico

Secretary — Celina Bussey, client relationship executive at Deloitte Consulting LLP

Immediate Past Chair — Cynthia Schultz, chief executive officer at Bradbury Stamm Construction, Inc.

Members:

Kyle Beasley, chief executive officer at Bank of Albuquerque

Michelle Dearholt, executive vice president of operations at Nusenda Credit Union

Joe Farr, president at Duke City Commercial LLC.

Caroline Garcia, audit partner, KPMG LLP.

Justin Horwitz, attorney at Law at Rodey Law Firm

Shad James, president and chief executive officer at Jaynes Corporation

Janice Torrez, president at BlueCross BlueShield of New Mexico

Eric Weinstein, senior vice president at Aon

Continuing Board Members:

Walt Benson, county commissioner — District 4, Bernalillo County Commission

Mike Canfield, president and chief executive officer at Indian Pueblo Cultural Center

Phil Casaus, president and chief executive officer at BRYCON Corporation

Kent Cravens, chief executive officer at GAAR

Robin Divine, chief executive officer at TriCore Reference Laboratories

Tracy Hartzler, president at Central New Mexico Community College

Wayne Johnson, county manager at Sandoval County

Leean Kravitz, vice president of public affairs and government relations at Fidelity Investments

Pepper Lang, business development at Albuquerque Publishing Co.

Dan Long, general counsel at Gridworks

Roxanna Meyers, president at Century Sign Builders

Adrian Montoya, regional vice president at Summit Electric Supply Co., Inc.

Julie Morgas Baca, county manager at Bernalillo County

Megan Oblack, director, sales and business development at Lovelace Health System

Ryan Shell, president at New Mexico Gas Company

Ben Spencer, partner at Titan Development

New and Reappointed Board Members:

Brian Brown, vice president of sales and marketing at Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Jim Chynoweth, managing Director at CBRE Inc. Albuquerque

Frank Gallegos, environment, health and safety manager at Intel Corporation

Ben Gardner, chief executive officer, principal and architect at Dekker/Perich/Sabatini

Joanie Griffin, founding principal at Sunny505

Debbie Harms, chief executive officer and qualifying broker at NAI Sun Vista

Ruth Huning-Gonzales, manager at Huning LLC.

Adam Leyba, executive vice president at Klinger Constructors, LLC.

Meg Meister, shareholder at Modrall Sperling Roehl Harris & Sisk

Joan Tafoya, director at Data Center Operations — Global, Meta

Bulletin Board

SCORE Albuquerque will host its workshop titled "Ask the Expert Q&A Marketing" from noon to 1 p.m. Tuesday via Zoom. Local expert Diane Villegas, chief executive officer of Big Picture Marketing Strategies, will answer questions regarding marketing, branding, timing, social media, message and developing a plan. This workshop is free. Register at score.org.