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Al Patel has been named chief marketing officer at West Shore Home, a Mechanicsburg-based home improvement company. Patel most recently led marketing teams at Trugreen, and Culligan International.  He also has led brand marketing efforts at MillerCoors and Procter and Gamble.  At West Shore Home, Patel will focus on strengthening the brand, modernizing the consumer and digital experience, and growing the […]

Robert Hutchinson has been hired as a manager in the tax services and small business practice groups at Boyer & Ritter, a Camp Hill-based accounting firm. Hutchinson, an accountant with over 10 years of experience, most recently worked as a senior accountant with another Pennsylvania firm, analyzing business budgets, assisting with tax planning and projections, […]

Jill Laskowitz, president-elect of the Lancaster Bar Association, has joined McNees Wallace & Nurick as an of counsel attorney in the Harrisburg-based law firm’s family and collaborative law group and its litigation group. An experienced family law attorney, Laskowitz handles matters around divorce, including custody, support and equitable distribution of marital property, and regularly drafts […]

Rod Hershberger has been named to the board of MITER Brands, a residential window and door manufacturer based in Harrisburg, effective July 25.In 1980, Hershberger co-founded VinylTech, a vinyl porch enclosure manufacturing company, with Paul Hostetler, and the duo began producing products in Venice, Florida, with just three employees. In 1987, Hershberger and Hostetler recognized […]

Adam Grim has been named director of strategy for Launch Kits, a web design firm based in Columbia. He will lead digital marketing bootcamps that help business owners make the most of their new websites, as well as efforts to make Launch Kits a go-to provider of affordable, custom websites. The new role is a […]

Melissa DeBarbieris has been named senior counsel attorney in the franchising, licensing and distribution group at Lancaster-based law firm Saxton & Stump.DeBarbieris has nearly 15 years of experience as an attorney and has spent the last six years of her career focusing on franchising law. DeBarbieris also has worked with commercial real estate developers in […]

Lydia Walker has been named senior vice president and chief development and impact officer of Community First Fund, a nonprofit lender based in Lancaster. It is a new role for the organization. Walker had been a vice president at the fund overseeing departments of development, program compliance and impact, and marketing/communications. She has worked at the […]

Michael Rice retired Aug. 20 from the board of Utz Brands, the Hanover snack company founded by his grandparents, Bill and Salie Utz. Rice plans to continue participating as an observer. But his board seat is being filled by B.J. Werzyn, founder and CEO of Mechanicsburg-based West Shore Home. Rice, 81, began working formally for the family […]

Rebecca Lupfer has been named a senior vice president and chief merchant for Carlisle-based grocery chain The Giant Co. The chief merchant role had been held by Giant president John Ruane, to whom Lupfer will now report.  Lupfer worked most recently as Giant’s CFO and has been with the company since 2018, when she joined as […]