NEWH - Fall 2015 - 10

Who's Who

The Suquamish Clearwater Casino
Resort has recently opened its
new hotel tower and conference
center designed by Rich Fergus
Miller, led by interior designer and
principal Jennifer Fleming. The
tower adds 98 guestrooms and
suites, three new dining venues,
and 10,000 square feet of meeting
and conference space.

Boutique Design magazine
took second place, Best
Trade Publication in Ohio in
the Press Club of Cleveland's
2015 Excellence in Journalism
competition. BDNY and BDwest
made Trade Show Executive
( TSE) magazine's annual Fastest
50 shows list, marking BDNY's
second appearance in the
Fastest 50 listings, and BDwest's
first. Two panelists have been
announced for Boutique Design
Power Players: Women Leaders
in Hospitality breakfast and panel
discussion at BDNY, sponsored
by NEWH: Christine Zimmerman,
Ian Schrager; and Elizabeth Lowry,
Elkus Manfredi.

From awards to promotions, see what your fellow NEWH members are up to

DC Building Group announces
three new promotions: Nathan
Penticoff to estimator, Charlie
Stewart to director of preconstruction services, and Ted
Tetreault (shown) to project
manager. The contractor company
also hired Jennifer D'Alessio
as accounting administrator,
and Eli Cox as pre-construction
and marketing coordinator. The
company will build Starbucks,
the first F&B tenant in Las Vegas'
Grand Bazaar Shops, and the first
Buffalo Wild Wings to be located
in the resort corridor, and recently
completed the resort corridorbased Chili's flagship across from
City Center, and M&M's WORLD
Las Vegas in the Showcase Mall.
 

Dawn Vojtush joined Baker
Barrios Interior Design division in
Orlando, overseeing global resort
and hospitality accounts.
Narda Malcolm-Kingston
has started her Ph.D at Iowa
State University in Hospitality
Management.

Ash Mohammed, previously
Studio Rendering's vice president
visual experience, has been
named chief creative officer.  

HB Architectural Lighting hired
David Fortin of Fortin Hospitality
as its rep for New York and
surrounding territories.

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HG Arts has expanded its project management team, promoting
Tara LaManna to senior project manager, Carrie Lewis and Sorcha
Baty to project managers, and Dabney Valtinson, Justine Santiago,
and Joshua Gregg to junior project managers. Other promotions
include Ashley Baldwin to director of operations and Michael
Giordano joins the firm as repro manager.

NÖVO by Design has expanded
its territory-focused product
representation in Florida with
Downing Management Group,
and in Hawaii with Cynthia
Toth, president of Cynsational
Sales. NÖVO is looking to add
further representation for the US
Northeast and Northwest and
many Canadian provinces.

Rachael Fernbach is now the new
architectural representative for
Daltile in southern New Jersey.

Mark Cunningham is now
representing PierPoint in the Metro
New York area.
Duralee welcomes Darci Sassen
as its new director of contract
sales. She is filling the position that
was held by Gary Rosenthal, who
recently retired.
 

Venus Group has recently formed
a hospitality decorative division
headed up by Richard Horton.
Nisha Desai has been named
creative director and Melissa
Crystal will oversee purchasing
and business development.

After 34 years in the tile industry,
Dort LeBrun retired from Daltile
in June.
Christine Lakso recently joined the
team at Contract Surfaces.
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