Banking
Northwest Bancshares, Inc. and Northwest Bank appointed Louis J. Torchio, president and chief executive officer of both companies, effective immediately.
Casino
Live! Casino today hired Bryan M. Prettyman as vice president of slots and marketing.
Education
Charlene Newkirk, Southeast Region President, Community College of Allegheny County, was appointed to the Commission on Structured Pathways of the American Association of Community Colleges.
Lesley Rains joined the University of Pittsburgh Press as publicity manager.
Grove City College welcomes four new professors to the faculty ranks this fall: Lucian Gideon Conway III, professor of psychology; Keith Graybill, assistant professor of accounting; Aileen R. Ruane, assistant professor of French; and Annie Shepherd, assistant professor of English.
Investment Management
Colliers hired Bryan McCann and Willis Croker. They will lead the firm’s capital markets services and platform in Pittsburgh focusing on multifamily assets.
Law
Casey Alan Coyle joined Babst Calland as a shareholder and member of its litigation group. Mr. Coyle will be based in Harrisburg.
Burns White LLC announced that J. Roy Nunn would join the firm on Sept. 1, as counsel in the railroad law practice group. He will be associated with its New York office.
Manufacturing
PPG appointed Brad Budde as vice president and chief digital officer, effective Sept. 6.
Nonprofit
The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh hired John Ukenye as its advocacy and policy officer; Joshua Smith, associate director of youth leadership programs and director, Black Male Leadership Development Institute; Ginger Underwood, program manager, Black Female Leadership Development Institute and Loretta Ellis, opportunity broker.
Linda Jones was promoted to executive vice president and chief development officer at United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania.
Business notes
The Heinz Endowments, the Ford Foundation and the Poise Foundation, has begun a $3.2 million second phase that will be administered by the Program to Aid Citizen Enterprise over three years. Designed to support the advancement of Black-led cultural groups in Western Pennsylvania, the initiative, representing total investments of $10 million, was launched last year and focuses on expanding the organizational capacity of these groups in the Pittsburgh region’s arts and culture sector to ensure a more sustainable future.
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First Published: August 29, 2022, 10:00 a.m.