People In Business

Collinsville-based Ameren Illinois has promoted George Justice to vice president of Electric Operations. Justice has been with the company for 37 years. He is responsible for leading the company’s electric modernization program and overseeing more than 50,000 miles of distribution and transmission power lines for 1.2 million customers. Justice began his career as an engineer…

Avison Young-St. Louis announces Heather Norman, a Waterloo resident, has joined the company as operations and office manager. Norman’s responsibilities include overseeing the financial, human resources and day-to-day operations of the firm as well as streamlining onboarding programs for new brokers and designing customized procedures for best practices. Norman has worked in the commercial real…

Alton Steel Chief Executive Officer Jim Hrusovsky has announced two senior leadership moves at Alton Steel, in Alton. Chief Financial Officer John Goldschmidt (shown) will retire on Sept. 30 after more than seven years of service at Alton Steel. Jeffrey M. Dorries has accepted the role of chief financial officer and will replace Goldschmidt upon…

HSHS St. Elizabeth’s Hospital, in O’Fallon, Ill., awarded Hannah Schlemer with the national DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. Schlemer, of Troy, Ill., (top) has served as a registered nurse at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital for nearly seven years and for the HSHS Southern Illinois Division hospitals as a float pool nurse for a year. The award…

Ryan Osterhage, a lifelong resident of Waterloo, has joined Bank of Belleville as its vice president. In his role, Osterhage will handle all areas of community banking.Osterhage has more than 15 years of banking experience, working in loan operations, credit analysis, mortgage origination and exclusively as a commercial lender for the past five years. “Ryan…

Bank of America has named Business Banking Market Executive Marilyn Bush as market president for St. Louis. Bush succeeds Market President Michael Lawrence, who has taken a new role as Merrill market executive for the Twin Cities based in Minneapolis. Bush has served as the market integration executive in St. Louis since 2017. As market…

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Mark Luer, PharmD, FCCP, has been named dean of the School of Pharmacy. Luer has served as interim dean since July 2018. The appointment is subject to SIU board of trustees approval. “The SIUE School of Pharmacy has continued its outstanding record of accomplishment during Dr. Luer’s service as interim dean,…

Southern Illinois University School of Dental Medicine’s Eric Langenwalter is capping a lifetime of service to the Alton school with announced plans to retire in June. “Dr. Langenwalter has truly given much of himself to our school, for which he has been so devoted these many years,” said SIU dental school Dean Bruce Rotter. “Congratulations…

Jeffrey Krus, of Byrnes Mill, Mo., has joined Kwame Building Group Inc. as project engineer. Krus’ responsibilities include project budgeting and estimating, contractor and subcontractor communications, site management and responding to RFI’s and submittals. Krus has three years of industry experience as field project engineer. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Construction Management from Southern…

S.M. Wilson & Co. has hired Michele Lord as business development director, Matt Niemeyer as virtual design and construction manager, Tim Fischer as estimator and Gwen Arenberg as project engineer. Lord joins S. M. Wilson’s Business Development team with 20 years of experience in marketing, project management and business development with companies including Hellmuth, Obata+Kassabaum,…