business briefs
• Rather & Kittrell recently hired Alex Thompson and Dixie Bartee as client service specialist, Alisha Grant as accounting manager and Collin Ironside as associate advisor.
Thompson and Bartee will be working with the RK Operations team to serve clients as they pursue successful financial futures.
Grant will be responsible for providing timely, accurate financial reporting to management and ensuring the efficiency of day-to-day accounting tasks. Ironside will work with clients as they pursue their financial futures.
• Weichert, Realtors - Advantage Plus in Knoxville has announced Jacqueline Burg, Ashley Pilburn and Richard Rackley recently were named the top agents in the office for January.
Burg earned the overall Top Agent Award, while Pilburn and Rackley were named the Top Selling Agent and Top Listing Agent, respectively.
• Heartland Financial Consulting Group of Wells Fargo Advisors recently was named as one of Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Management Teams in 2024.
This accolade represents a list of professionals who come to work with one goal on their minds — helping their clients succeed.
• Shawna Carr, Ryan Tomlinson and Mark Underdown recently joined as agents at Weichert, Realtors - Advantage Plus, 10160 Parkside Drive, Suite 100, Knoxville.
• Knoxville TVA Employees Credit Union celebrates its anniversary Thursday, Feb. 15. The anniversary marks 90 years of serving East Tennessee with innovative financial services and community outreach programs. KTVAECU continuously seeks ways to support its membership and community, and this anniversary event is no exception.
This February, it contributed $45,000 toward member credit card balances to kick off the year-long celebration. The credit union randomly selected 90 members to receive a $500 credit toward their credit card balance.
• Keith Kall recently joined Peachtree Planning in East Tennessee as managing director for the Knoxville team. His role is to build the Peachtree Planning brand in his market area.
• University of Tennessee Medical Center recently selected Lynette Clinton, MBA, CHCIO, CDH-E, as senior vice president/chief information officer, leading all information technology efforts in the health system.
Clinton joins the medical center with more than 25 years of experience within the healthcare industry, most recently serving as vice president/applications and interim CIO with BayCare Health System in Clearwater, Florida.
• Lee Barrett, president at Nisus Corporation, has been selected to be a member of a chief executive peer advisory board in Knoxville by Vistage Worldwide Inc. He joins almost 400 senior executives, business owners and CEOs across Tennessee who are Vistage members. Barrett was named president of Nisus in 2021, culminating nearly three decades in the pest control borate industry, including the past 24 years with Nisus.
• Rather & Kittrell has announced the promotion of Chase Kerby, CPF, AIF, to senior advisor and Daniel Maupin, CPR, and Sam Paganelli, CFA, CFP, to advisors.
• Mountain Commerce Bancorp Inc, announced eight promotions: Kevin Horne, executive vice president/chief credit officer/chief operating officer, now chief banking officer; Tim Topham, executive vice president and regional president for East and Middle Tennessee; and David Bright, executive vice president, chief financial officer and chief administrative officer.
Other promotions were Josh Marsh to senior vice president and market president; Tom Jensen, executive vice president and city executive who’s now team leader for Bearden Financial Center; Connie French, senior vice president and senior relationship manager who’s now team leader for the bank’s West Knoxville Financial Center; Brice Chapman, senior vice president and relationship manager who’s now senior vice president, senior relationship manager and senior deposit officer; and Wesley Lemon, first vice president and assistant controller who’s now controller.
