People moving up and around in the metro Atlanta business community:
Atlanta-based Southeast Mortgage has named John Rymer III builder development coordinator.
Senior Connections has named Jenny Bedard, a VP in the Cox Automotive Strategy Group, to its board of directors effective immediately.
Kajima Building & Design Group Inc. has promoted Ronald Torralba to design project manager; Masashi Katayama and Saul Garcia to senior project manager; Charles Rose to field engineer; Chet Cofield to senior estimator; Mark Lee to project manager; Jeffrey Tutman to industrial engineering manager/vice president; Yoshinari Sato to project executive/vice president; Robert Brown to senior vice president/chief administrative officer; Jeffrey Stiner to senior vice president/chief operating officer; and Shinya Urano is now president/chief executive officer.
PrivatePlus Mortgage, a division of Private Bank of Buckhead & Decatur, has named Susan Retsky as a post closer.
The Georgia Foreign-Trade Zone has announced its 2015 board of directors and officers. Elected to the post in 2014, Brian McGowan will continue to serve as board chair. New board members include Scott McMurray, division director for Global Commerce at the Georgia Department of Economic Development and Kevin Shinkle of Delta Air Lines.
Rand Rozier has joined corporate communications firm The Ledlie Group as an associate.
United Community Banks has elected CEO Jimmy Tallent as chairman and COO Lynn Harton has been elected to also serve as president.
Encompass Supply Chain Solutions Inc., a provider of forward and reverse logistics, has promoted Scott Cameron to senior vice president of operations and service solutions. Joe Hurley has been named senior vice president of business development.
Tim Schmidt has joined Franklin Street Insurance Services as a senior director specializing in property and casualty risk management solutions for property owners across the country.
The Southeast Franchise Forum has elected three new executives to its 11-member board of directors for the 2015 year. They are Rick Batchelor, Dave Bridges and Tray Doster.
Atlanta-based accounting firm, Moore Colson recently hired Chad D. Creasman and Katherine L. Gleaton.
Southern Company has elected John D. Johns, chairman, president and CEO of Protective Life Corp. since 2002, to its board of directors. The company also has elected Todd A. Perkins assistant secretary.
PrivatePlus Mortgage, a division of Private Bank of Buckhead & Decatur, has named Doug Bragg a vice president and mortgage banker.
Ed Hula III has been named to the newly created role of director of business development for Around the Rings, an Atlanta-based publication focusing on the business of the Olympics.
Access to Capital for Entrepreneurs has appointed Courtney I. Smith chair of the board of directors. It also named Susan Nethero chair of the advisory council.
Reid Mason has joined Franklin Street's Atlanta office as director of retail leasing, specializing in shopping center leasing and landlord representation throughout Georgia, eastern Alabama and southern Tennessee.
