NEW ORLEANS
Ryan Bates is the brand new vice chairman of improvement for IDP Properties. Bates will likely be answerable for actual property improvement and new enterprise within the New Orleans market in addition to overseeing the eight multi-family properties IDP Properties has in Louisiana.
Bates is a local of New Orleans who earned a bachelor’s in enterprise administration from Morehouse Faculty. He started his skilled profession at JPMorgan asset administration the place he labored as an investor for giant establishments and excessive internet price personal purchasers.
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Jennifer “Jen” Roberts has been named chief govt officer of Agenda for Youngsters, the state’s oldest baby advocacy group.
Roberts replaces Dr. Anthony “Tony” Recasner, who just lately retired.
Roberts has spent greater than 20 years advocating for kids. She earned a bachelor’s from Bryn Mawr Faculty and a grasp’s in training from Harvard College.
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Brian McNamara has been employed as a public administration professor of observe within the Tulane College College of Skilled Development.
McNamara has 21 years {of professional} expertise within the trade. He earned a bachelor’s diploma in authorities from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy, a grasp’s diploma in public administration from Previous Dominion College, a legislation diploma from the William & Mary Regulation College and a grasp of legal guidelines in admiralty from Tulane Regulation College.
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Carmen James Randolph has been named founding president and chief govt officer for Ladies’s Basis of the South.
Ladies’s Basis of the South was arrange by girls and ladies to advance gender and racial justice. Randolph will construct the group, dealer partnerships with girls leaders throughout the South and oversee the strategic course and day-to-day operations of the group. She has a background in philanthropy management and is the previous vice chairman for applications for the Higher New Orleans Basis.
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Caroline D. Lafourcade, of Gordon Arata, has been appointed to the 2021-22 Louisiana Board of Authorized Specialization Tax Regulation Advisory Fee for a three-year time period.
Lafourcade beforehand served on a 13 member job pressure created to check and make suggestions to reduce employee misclassification in Louisiana.
BATON ROUGE
Sandy Colvin has been named chief improvement officer for the Higher Baton Rouge Meals Financial institution, and Seth Hatsfelt has been named chief operations officer.
Colvin began working for the Meals Financial institution in April 2020 because the vice chairman of improvement and philanthropy, main items. She beforehand served as director of improvement for the LSU Basis and is co-founder and the founding head of college for St. Lillian Academy.
Hatsfelt has eight years of producing expertise with Boise Cascade and Group Espresso. He earned a bachelor’s diploma in agricultural enterprise from LSU.
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Sue Kozik has been named to the board of administrators for Nexus Louisiana.
Kozik is chief info officer and senior vice chairman with Blue Cross and Blue Defend of Louisiana. Kozik got here to Blue Cross from Seattle-based Group Well being and has held senior tech management positions at TIAA-CREF, Lucent Applied sciences and CIGNA.
AROUND LOUISIANA
J. Scott Ballard has been appointed to its board of administrators for House Financial institution.
Ballard is founder, CEO and proprietor of Ballard Hospitality and co-owner of Ballard Manufacturers. He has served on a wide range of management boards, together with chairman of the LSU Board of Supervisors, the St. Tammany Hospital Basis Board, the Louisiana Board of Regents, the Committee of 100 for Financial Growth Louisiana and the Louisiana Affiliation of Enterprise and Trade. Ballard earned a bachelor of science diploma in political science from Tulane College.