Business Notes: March 6, 2022

The Gazette’s Business Notes is a compendium of the week's promotions, new hires, certifications, added business lines and business events, among other items, in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City and the rest of the Corridor.

Information and photos can be submitted to Business Notes by email to businessnotes@thegazette.com, or on our site at thegazette.com/businessnotes.

New Hires

Skywalk Group hired Charlee Dale as recruiting specialist.

Jonny Bishop is now assistant manager at Hames' Summit View manufactured home community.

Chad Sarsfield, Marc Banks and Austin Banks have joined Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. as financial advisers with SB Capital Management, a private wealth advisory practice of Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. in Cedar Rapids.

Brittany Barnhart is now with The Gazette as event support specialist and Nick Rohlman started as photo journalist.

Promotions

Julie Stow was promoted to associate executive director of the Cedar Rapids Tourism Office.

Board members

Dupaco Community Credit Union’ elected Steve Chapman, Ron Meyers and Renee Poppe to serve three-year terms on its board of directors. Ellen Goodmann Miller was elected to serve the unexpired term of the late Ron Mussehl. Officer appointments included Ron Meyers as chairman; Randy Skemp, vice chairman; Renee Poppe, secretary; Andy Schroeder, treasurer; and Joe Hearn, president and CEO. Appointed to committee chair positions were Steve Chapman, chairman, investment/ALM/ALCO committee; Denise Dolan, chairwoman, personnel committee; Jeff Gonner, chairman, audit committee; Ellen Goodmann Miller, chairwoman, credit-delinquent loan committee; Renee Poppe, chairwoman, nomination committee Andy Schroeder, chairman, CUSO board of managers and salary savings plan oversight committee; Randy Skemp, chairman, business lending committee and Dupaco R.W. Hoefer Foundation; and Robert Wethal, chairman, marketing committee.

KUDOS

Commercial Real Estate agent Tiffany Earl Williams at Skogman Realty was inducted into the Midwest Real Estate News Commercial Real Estate Hall of Fame.

MEETINGS AND NETWORKING

Monthly in-person networking and informative breakfasts sponsored by SCORE are held at Scott's Family Restaurant in Cedar Rapids, 7:30 a.m. on the fourth Thursday of each month through October. The next event will be March 24. Go to scorecr.org for more information.

West Side Mutual Insurance Association will hold its annual meeting for policyholders at 10 a.m., Tuesday, at 120 Vinton St., Palo.

Nominations will be accepted through April 1 for the upcoming class of Leadership Iowa, the state’s issues-awareness program provided by the Iowa Association of Business and Industry Foundation. The class will run October through June 2023. Leaders must first be nominated to be invited to apply to the program. Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations can be made at LeadershipIowa.com.

INSIGHTS

The initial Gazette Business Breakfast live panel discussion for 2022, “Doing Business in PY3: How businesses can gain traction,” is set for 9 a.m., Tuesday, April 5, at thegazette.com/businessbreakfast. The full panel will be named soon, and registration, while free, is required.