People In Business

S.M. Wilson & Co. has promoted Brian Bea, Jack Kinamore and Mike Hanner to project directors. All three previously held the position of senior project manager. As project directors, Bea, Kinamore and Hanner are responsible for the supervision and overall performance and profitability of multiple project teams, large-scale building programs and the development and continuation…

Gori Julian & Associates, P.C. announced that James “Alex” Starnes has joined Gori Julian & Associates, P.C. as an attorney. Starnes will be working at the Edwardsville office of Gori Julian & Associates in the practice area of asbestos litigation. Starnes received his undergraduate degree from the University of Missouri – Columbia where he received…

Alton-based Simmons Hanly Conroy says Missouri Lawyers Weekly has named Michael J. Angelides, the firm’s managing shareholder, as one of its 2018 Law Firm Leader award recipients. The Law Firm Leader award is part of Missouri Lawyer Weekly’s annual Missouri Lawyers Awards, which recognize lawyers in the state who have made an impact during the…

Alton-based Simmons Hanly Conroy, one of the nation’s largest mass torts firms, announced Crain’s New York Business has named the firm’s shareholder Jayne Conroy to its inaugural list of the 100 “Leading Women Lawyers in New York City.” “We congratulate Jayne on her selection by Crain’s as one of the top women lawyers in New…

Edwardsville-based public relations and marketing firm Cork Tree Creative Inc. announced the addition of Amanda Juenger as an account executive. Born and raised in Maryville, Juenger graduated from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE) in 2017 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Advertising. During her final semester at SIUE, Juenger partook in a professional internship…

Engineering and surveying firm Thouvenot, Wade & Moerchen Inc. has hired Jeanne Switzer of St. Charles, Mo. Switzer will work as a structural engineering designer based out of TWM’s Waterloo, Ill., office. Switzer recently earned her master’s degree in Civil Engineering from Saint Louis University with a focus on structures. She also graduated cum laude…

Southern Illinois University Edwardsville’s Huaibo Xin, DrPH, program director and associate professor of public health in the School of Education, Health and Human Behavior’s Department of Applied Health, has achieved the 2017 Outstanding Immigrant Health Professional Award. The non-profit organization Health for All presents the award annually. It recognizes the contributions of foreign-born individuals who…

ALTON – Dr. Kareem “Keary” Husain, FACS, double boarded in general surgery and surgical critical care, has joined Alton Surgery as a member of the BJC Medical Group and is seeing patients starting this month. He joins Dr. Chris Aldridge and Kaycee Eyers, FNP-C, in the practice located at Medical Office Building B, Suite 230,…

Randy L. Mitchell has joined AAIC as director of architecture. With a Bachelor’s of Technology in Architecture from Washington University, he brings 32 years of experience in design and project management in the architecture/engineering/construction industry. Prior to joining AAIC, he served nine years as project architect for a local architectural firm and 23 years as…

HSHS Medical Group has welcomed Holly Shirley, MSN, NP-C, to its team of providers. She is now accepting patients age 18 and older at HSHS Medical Group Family & Internal Medicine at 1950 Vandalia St. in Collinsville. Shirley completed a master of science in nursing at University of Alabama College of Nursing in Birmingham, Alabama,…