business briefs
• Paul Arab, Home Federal Bank assistant vice president and internal audit department manager, has won the 2015 Elijah Watt Sells Award from American Institute of CPAs. Arab is one of 75 to receive the award in 2015.
• Ben Adams has been added as Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon Inc.’s new vice president and was elected to its 2016 board of directors. Adams has 12 years of experience in project management, design and
construction administration and is the office lead for the firm’s Columbus, Ga., office. He served as project manager and/or lead engineer primarily for water distributin and wastewater collection.
• Andrew Clark has been added as Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon Inc.’s new vice president and was elected to its 2016 board of directors. As manager, Clark leads the Water Services team in the Knoxville office. His projects include water and wastewater planning and treatment, pumping stations, replacements and rehabilitations.
• Randy Hudgings, based in Memphis, has been added to Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon Inc.’s 2016 board of directors. He has 25 years of field and design office experience in civil and structural engineering. He has worked on design and construction projects for U.S. government, private and commercial clients.
• Kevin Lindsay, based in Birmingham, Ala., has been added to Barge Waggoner Sumner and Cannon Inc.’s 2016 board of directors. He has a 20-year tenure with the firm and has more than 33 years of experience in the design and construction of aviation, industrial, higher education and retail facilities throughout the Southeastern United States.
• RCN Technologies, a telecommunications company in Renaissance | farragut has received one of Cradlepoint Emerging Partners in 2016 during a Cradlepoint Partner Summit. This is the third year the company, which as grown from the basement of its president, Geoff Yearack, to an office of 15 employees.
• Janet Brewer has been named senior vice president and chief communications and marketing officer for Tennessee Valley Authority. She has served as vice president of communications since joining TVA in 2012. She will be responsible for brand reputation and marketing, internal and external strategic communications, media relations, digital and social media platforms and for assuring all of TVA’s communications reflect its mission of service. (no photo submitted)
• Nathan Lynn, Bearden High School athletic director and administrative assistant, has been named one of the Leadership Academy 7th Cohort of Fellows. The Leadership Academy is a collaborative venture between The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and Knox County Schools and prepares talented individuals to become outstanding school principals. The full-time 15-month fellowship program is part of the Center for Educational Leadership and is housed in t he Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies in UT College of Education, Health and Human Services.
• Barge, Waggoner, Sumner and Cannon Inc. Community Fund recently made a $2,500 donation to East Tennessee Kidney Foundation. This contribution directly aids daily operations of the Dialysis Transportation Program.
• Karen Tindal has been hired as Knoxville Track Club race director for the Farragut 13.1, 5K and Kids Mile, which is set for Oct. 29. Tindal, a Farragut native, is a group exercise instructor and personal trainer with local fitness facilities. She previously was director for Girls on the Run of Greater Knoxville and serves on a variety of local board of directors and committees.
• Scott Schmidt has been hired as head coach for Knoxville Track Club RunKNOX program, which hosts sessions year round. Schmidt is a senior training specialist with NSPS in Oak Ridge. His background is in health and fitness, which he will use in his new duties of writing programming for runners and walkers of all fitness levels.
• FirstBank Mortgage has announced 52 winners of its 2015 Next Generation Scholarship, giving $52,000 to customers within the communities it serves from a random drawing for a $1,000 scholarship for a child. Twenty six of the scholarships went to Tennessee customers.
