People moving up and around in the metro Atlanta business community:
Waveguide Consulting Inc., an independent AV/IT consulting firm, has promoted Melissa Barton Edenfield to director, human resources and finance. The company also has promoted Steve Ruff to manager, systems commissioning.
Empowris has named Jackie Ireland executive director, responsible for overseeing strategic planning, leadership and corporate expansion nationwide.
Burr & Forman has added Atlanta-based associate Nathan Gruber in the firm's corporate and tax practice group.
Atlanta-based accounting firm Moore Colson recently promoted Lana Yelina to manager in the business assurance practice, Mandy Yau to senior associate in the tax practice, Samantha Scott to senior associate, tax practice, Jake Patton to senior associate, tax practice, Natalie Jett to senior associate, tax practice, Kristi Smith to senior associate, corporate accounting and Jackie Fitzgerald to senior associate in business assurance.
Turner Sports has promoted Craig Barry to executive vice president of production and chief content officer.
WestRock Co. has named John Fortson chief financial officer of Ingevity, the company's specialty chemicals business.
Chris Wagner has been promoted from branch manager to managing partner at ABC Supply.
Mike Van Alstyne has been named president of EvoShield.
Fifth Third Bank has named Samantha McElhaney business banking group team lead for Atlanta Market.
Atlanta-based Liaison Technologies, a cloud-based integration and data management solutions, has named Robert Fox vice president, emerging technologies.
Manheim has named Grace Huang senior vice president of inventory services, a new role at the automotive auction company owned by Cox Enterprises.
Five members of the faculty at Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business have been appointed to endowed professorships. They are Vikas Agarwal, professor of finance; Daniel Bauer, associate professor of risk management and insurance; Alfred Mettler, clinical associate professor of finance; Stephen H. Shore, associate professor of risk management and insurance, and Jon Wiley, associate professor of real estate.
LCG Associates Inc., an institutional investment consulting firm, has named David R. Emerson to run its new office in Seattle.
Zagoria Law, an Atlanta-based law firm specializing in personal injury cases, has hired Brooks P. Neely as associate attorney.
Michael Richtberg has joined SoftNAS as vice president of business development.
Rare Country, a new country music and lifestyle website, has named production executive Laurissa Phillips as its chief creative officer and general manager.
Marsh & McLennan Agency has promoted Sean Mitchell to senior vice president.
Maria Peck, director of the Norcross-based ACE Women's Business Center, has been elected to serve on the board of directors of the Association of Women's Business Centers.
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