Here’s a look at the promotions, hires, moves and reporters in the Memphis area business scene:
Mary Grayson Fauser he joined Marx-Bensdorf REAL ESTATE DEALERS. She now works in tandem with her mother, Robin Fauser, to serve buyers and sellers throughout the Mid-South. She graduated from the University of Memphis with a degree in finance.
Based in Memphis IMC companies, one of the largest ship drainage companies in the United States, recently announced the expansion of Ohio Intermodal Services (OIS), an IMC company, to Louisville, Kentucky. The new location is part of a strategic growth plan to expand drainage expertise and services into the Ohio Valley, a region currently underserved by carriers that haul and store containers from Louisville rail yards. The new 11-acre OIS will become a full-service warehouse. Pacific Dryage ServicesThe IMC company also recently opened a Riverside, California location that offers warehousing and cross dock services.
Memphis and Shelby County Redevelopment Agency (CRA) has chosen Lobelia Cole-Smith as its first financial director. Cole-Smith brings 34 years of experience in finance, grants management and nonprofit leadership to CRA. She previously served as director of operations at Shelby Residential and Vocational Services (SRVS). Previously, she also worked as director of finance at SRVS. He also hired RAK Emma Turri as a community builder/project manager i Stephanie Clark as a paralegal/housing specialist working with the agency’s single-family home renovation program. Turri manages special projects that help eliminate or rehabilitate blighted properties throughout the CRA’s TIF districts. Clark will help create and maintain systems that support the CRA’s ability to complete its goal of 45 Uptown TIF home renovations each quarter.
Experienced non-profit public relations professional and civic advocate Marvin Stockwell has founded Champion the Cause, a solo advocacy practice that aims to “shine a light” on mission-driven efforts in Memphis and beyond. He has spent the last 20 years working at all points along the size spectrum of nonprofit organizations, including Church Health for 13 years and, most recently, Children’s Research Hospital St. Judas.
dr. Isaac Fordjour and his staff merged their practices Clinic for oral and maxillofacial surgery with Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Group of Memphis. The merger creates one of the largest black-owned oral and maxillofacial surgery groups in the country. Fordjour maintains a reputable, well-established, long-standing OMS practice in Memphis. Together with Dr. Ronald C. Staples and Richard D. Meekins Jr., have more than 90 years of experience in combined oral and maxillofacial surgery.
RBG Wealth Advisorsthe Memphis-based locally owned, fee-based independent wealth advisory firm announced the appointment Alyssa Williams as his associate in customer service. She graduated from Sam Houston State University with a BA in Psychology. Before moving to Memphis, she spent several years working for a Texas CPA firm.
Published by Gilliam Communications Marcus Mason he joined WLOK radio as program director of the station. A radio industry veteran, Mason will help guide WLOK’s gospel format while helping to develop the station’s demographic identity and core values. He holds undergraduate degrees in business administration and agriculture, both from the University of Tennessee at Martin. Mason’s previous communications experience includes promotion manager at WJKT in Jackson and as news director and on-air personality at WJKT’s urban contemporary radio station, WYJJ.
WORTH ATTENTION
Rhodes College is presented as one of Billboard magazineBest Music Business Schools 2022 for their Mike Curb Institute of Music. The college also made the 2020 list. Billboard did not release the 2021 list. Billboard selected only 38 programs based on factors including industry recommendations, alumni information provided by honor students from multiple power lists and information requested by each school. The programs are presented in alphabetical order. The Curb Institute was founded in 2006 as a gift from the Mike Curb Family Foundation.
— Compiled by Daniel Ginsburg
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