ADVERTISING & MARKETING
GCG Marketing has promoted Marcie Heffley – to senior account executive and Leigh Ghesquiere and Lauren Coleman to senior art director.
Heffley will continue her account service work, including maintaining key relationships ensuring that client needs are met, in addition to leading teams of account executives and coordinators. Ghesquiere and Coleman will oversee art direction for several clients and continue creating engaging and effective visuals.
BANKING & FINANCE
GM Financial has added the several members to its executive team. Mike Kanarios has been named chief strategy officer; Stephanie Castro was named chief privacy officer; Ryan Bachman is chief information security officer; Will Stacy is the new chief marketing officer, and Brian Fallon was named chief commercial officer.
EDUCATION
Tasha Ginn has been named principal of Fort Worth Cristo Rey High School. Ginn previously was head of schools for KIPP Charter Schools in Dallas and began her career as a Teach for America corps member. She is working toward a doctorate in educational leadership at Texas Christian University.
NONPROFITS
The partnership of the DRC and Paulos Foundation took honors Nov. 17 in A Night of Light, the CNM Connect annual awards program recognizing excellence in the North Texas nonprofit sector.
The partnership won Nonprofit Partner of the Year for redeveloping the Palm Tree Apartments, a housing community for people once homeless, in cooperation with Fort Worth Housing Solutions.
It is the second award for the project given this year to the partnership of the DRC, the Paulos Foundation and Fort Worth Housing Solutions.
Fort Worth Housing Solutions and project partners also won an Award of Excellence from the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials recognizing the Palm Tree Apartments as a project that produces affordable housing through innovation or public/private partnerships.
The 24-unit Palm Tree Apartments, built in 1955, today provides permanent supportive housing for people who were formerly homeless, 80 percent of whom had lived unsheltered in the surrounding Six Points Urban Village.
The Paulos Foundation bought the complex in late 2015 and renovated. It opened to residents in May 2016.
DRC Executive Director Bruce Frankel and Paulos Foundation President Flora Brewer accepted the award on behalf of project partners. Nonprofit Partner of the Year was one of five awards presented in A Night of Light at the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas by CNM Connect, formerly The Center for Nonprofit Management.
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