First Posted: 3/25/2015
AWARDS
Farmers Insurance honors Wapak agent
Farmers Insurance honored Alan Davis, of Wapakoneta, as a 2015 Million Dollar Round Table qualifier. These agents are among the top-producing life insurance agents in the United States.
A total of 50 Farmers agents qualified for this honor this year, which is a 35 percent increase from 2014.
APPOINTMENTS
First National Bank announces staff
First National Bank announced new board member John B. Arnold and the appointment of Chris Alexander as city executive for the Findlay market. Three new individuals joined the First National Bank team, Dave Walter, system administrator and security officer, Michelle Brandt, compliance/BSA officer and Jen Vastano, marketing director.
Arnold previously served on the board of First National Bank from 2007 to 2009. He has more than 30 years of banking experience, including vice president of Commercial Lending at First National Bank and president and CEO of Fifth Third Bank of Western Ohio. Arnold and his wife, Chris, reside in Findlay, where they own and operate a small family business. They are the parents of two married children, a daughter and a son, and have two grandsons.
Alexander was appointed city executive for the Findlay market. His education includes an undergraduate degree from Miami University and a master’s degree from The Ohio State University. He has almost 20 years of banking experience, including eight years with First National Bank. He will oversee commercial loans and overall bank activity for the Findlay market in this new role. He and his wife, Nicole, and their two children live in Findlay.
Walter serves as systems administrator and security officer at First National Bank. He has an associate of science degree in computer forensics from Marion Technical College/The Ohio State University Marion Campus. He has more than nine years of IT technical support experience with Upper Sandusky School District and Marion Technical College. For six years he has served as deputy sheriff for Wyandot County and is active in providing his technical skills to charities and non-profits via his computer-support company.
Brandt joins First National Bank as compliance/BSA officer. After graduating from Tiffin University with a business management degree, she served as a teller, branch manager and personal banker and has accumulated more than eight years of banking experience. She serves as assistant den leader for Cub Scout Pack 309 in Findlay and is a committee member for the Children’s Mentoring Connection Bowl for kids. She and her husband, Jason, have a son and a daughter.
Vastano serves First National Bank as marketing director. She has a bachelor’s and master’s degree from Bluffton University and bring more than 12 years of marketing experience from McDonald’s Corporation and a McDonald’s Franchisee organization. Jen and her husband, Shawn, live in Lima with their daughter and own a small business.
Delphos Chamber appoints members
The Delphos Area Chamber of Commerce appointed officers of the board of directors. Executive director of the Delphos Area Chamber of Commerce is Tara Krendl.
The President is Janet Metzger (Westrich Furniture and Appliances); vice president is Clint Gable (Elite Naturescapes). Treasurer is Alisha Reaman (Superior Federal Credit Union).
Additional members of the board of directors include outgoing president Denny Klausing (Eagle Print); Doug Milligan (Bunge); Jennifer Moenter (Ameriprise Financial); Dr. Jacob Mohr (Mohr Smiles, Inc.); Jodi Moenter (Schrader Realty and Toledo Molding & Die); Cheryl Stocke (Flowers on Fifth); Ryan Carder (Delphos Tent & Awning); Angie Gable (Your Hometown Stations); Anita Lindeman (Community Health Professionals); Kelly Rist (Delphos Public Library) and Dawn Welker (Lavish Salon & Spa LLC).
NEW HIRES
Anytime Fitness Lima adds personal trainer
Dylan Legge, a 2011 Kenton High School graduate and a 2014 Ohio Northern University graduate, has joined Anytime Fitness Lima as a personal trainer.
Legge has been bodybuilding for four years. He has a passion for health and fitness, and he turned that passion into helping others reach their goals. After receiving his bachelor’s degree, he went on to obtain his personal training certification through ISSA.
St. Rita’s Health Partners welcomes Dr. Kevin Casey
Dr. Kevin Casey joined St. Rita’s Health Partners to serve in the role of vice president of medical affairs.
Dr. Casey comes from Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where he held the position of emergency medicine residency program director. He completed his medical degree at Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine and completed his internship and residency at St. Vincent Mercy Medical Center in Toledo. He obtained his master’s in business administration at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He has served in healthcare leadership positions for the past twelve years in various capacities.
His responsibilities as vice president of medical affairs include close collaboration with all clinical departments and associated joint ventures, the chief of the medical staff and all medical staff division and department chiefs to provide professional expertise and input into the planing and programs dealing with health care delivery at St. Rita’s. He will also be responsible for oversight of the medical staff services department and continuing medical education programs.
Dr. Casey lives in Lima with his wife, Lisa, who is a family medicine physician, and their two children.
PROMOTIONS
Schimmoeller promoted
Eric Schimmoeller has been promoted to director of planned giving at The University of Tennessee Foundation, Inc.
Schimmoeller joined The University of Tennessee Foundation, Inc. in November of 2012 as an associate director of planned giving. In his new role, he will continue to work with graduates and supporters of all campuses and institutes in the University of Tennessee system in helping secure funding form individuals to support the educational mission of the university. Prior to coming to the University of Tennessee, he worked as a planned giving officer at Ashland University and Purdue University. He also has worked as a development officer for the Phi Delta Theta Foundation.
He is the son of Carl and Marsha (Schuerman) Schimmoeller of Fort Jennings and is a graduate of Fort Jennings High School and Ashland University. In October of 2014, Schimoeller was elected president of the Downtown Knoxville Civitan Club. He is also a member of the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning, Smoky Mountain Planned Giving Council and Knoxville Estate Planning Council.
Central promotes Faurote
The Central Insurance Companies has announced the promotion of Ben Faurote, juris doctor, to vice president of human resources and facilities, effective March 13.
As vice president of human resources, Faurote holds the overall accountability for the human resources, training and education and facilities departments. This includes responsibilities of employment, employee benefits, the performance appraisal program, salary administration program, company policies, training and development, and facilities, which includes maintenance, grounds, custodial and leases for the regional offices. He also chairs the pension and savings and profit participation advisory and administrative committees and is a member of the management and risk management committees for the company.
Faurote is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and the Ohio Northern University School of Law. He has been employed by Central for five years as a claims attorney and most recently as assistant vice president of human resources.
He and his wife, Catherine, have three children.
