Holmes Murphy & Associates hires three associates

NEW HIRES

Raining Rose Inc., Cedar Rapids, hired Terry Keiper (see photo) as maintenance manager. He previously was with Gazette Communications.

YouthPort, a collaboration between Tanager Place, Boys & Girls Clubs of Cedar Rapids and Young Parents Network, hired LaTaunia Crockett (see photo) as its coordinator.

Holmes Murphy & Associates has hired three associates in its Cedar Rapids office. They are David Still (see photo) as senior loss control consultant, as well as Liza Evans (see photo), formerly with EdgeCore in Cedar Falls, and Lauren Grask (see photo), formerly with TrueNorth, as account managers.

The Iowa City Area Development Group hired Alyson Wennlund (see photo) as its spring intern.

Converge Consulting has hired Megan Cendrowski as content specialist and Gina Patterson as marketing intern.

Nathan Van Genderen (see photo) joined Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, as executive vice president and chief financial officer. He previously was with Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center, Woodbridge, Va.

Neumann Monson Architects hired Sarah A'Hearn (see photo) as intern architect in its Iowa City office.

Knutson Construction, Iowa City, hired Wade Hiner (see photo) as director of business development. He previously was with Hunter Companies in Cedar Rapids.

Ruhl & Ruhl Realtors hired Miranda Pickett (see photo) as an agent in its Cedar Rapids office, located at 5805 Council St. NE, Suite A.

Imran Hassan, M.D., (see photo) has joined Mercy Medical Center's General Surgery Clinic in Cedar Rapids. He previously was with Southeran Illinois University School of Medicine in Springfield, Ill.

Geonetric has hired Kayla Eko-Acquah (see photo) as client advisor and Celine Klosterman (see photo) as web content writer.

PROMOTIONS

CliftonLarsonAllen LLP promoted Patricia Grundy (see photo) from senior accountant to Outsourcing manager, in the firm's Cedar Rapids office.

Security State Bank in Urbana promoted Vicki White (see photo) from assistant vice president to vice president.

Hills Bank and Trust Co., Coralville, promoted Carrie Ebel (see photo) from marketing communications, commercial, to commercial marketing officer in the Iowa City South Gilbert Street office.

The Greater Cedar Rapids Community Fondation promoted Emmylou Ball (see photo) from accountant to controller and Karla Twedt-Ball (see photo) from vice president of programs to senior vice president.

BOARD MEMBERS

Douglas R. Kopp (see photo), president of Alliant Energy's Iowa and Minnesota utility company, based in Cedar Rapids, has joined the Iowa Business Council.

Marc Linderman, associate professor in the University of Iowa's Department of Geographical and Sustainability Sciences, has been named to the advisory board for the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture, a research center at Iowa State University.

CERTIFICATION

Certified Authority on Workers Compensation has been achieved by Roger Batterson (see photo), Jason Huber (see photo) and Aaron-Marie Thoms (see photo), all of the Millhiser Smith Insurance Agency in Cedar Rapids.

Mercy Medical Center's 8th & 8th Medical Office Building, located at 788 Eighth Ave. SE, Cedar Rapids, has been awarded LEED Silver Certification by the U.S. Green Building Council.

BUSINESS RELOCATION

Agri Management Services of Marion, owned by Richard Isaacson, has relocated to 5475 Dyer Ave., Suite 141, in Marion.

KUDOS

Linn County Auditor Joel Miller (see photo) graduated from the Gallup Successful Strengths Coaching program earlier this month.

Simmons Perrine Moyer Bergman Attorney Nicolas Abou-Assaly (see photo) earned Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating, AV Preeminent, for legal ethics and ability.

Geonetric's Operation Overnight event has been awarded the Outstanding Business Volunteer award by United Way of East Central Iowa.

CompTIA, a non-profit association for the information technology industry, has awarded GreatAmerica Financial Services, Cedar Rapids, with the CompTIA Managed Print Trustmark.

West Side Agency Inc., Palo, has been named to the 2014 Grinnell Mutual Reinsurance Co. President's Club.

ESP International, Cedar Rapids, has been named a Blue Zones Worksite, the 11th in the city to have earned that recognition.

MediRevv, a healthcare revenue cycle management company in Coralville, was recognized as a Top Growth Company at the 2014 Prometheus Awards ceremony in Des Moines.

Millhiser Smith Insurance Agency, Cedar Rapids, has been named one of the Top 10 growth agencies for Auto-Owners Insurance in Iowa and Nebraska for 2013. This is the second time Millhiser Smith has received the honor.

Erb's Technology Solutions, Cedar Rapids, has been named to CRN's annual list of the Tech Elite 250. The firm has been on the list for four years.

Ruhl & Ruhl Realtors, with offices in Cedar Rapids, Iowa City, DeWitt, Maquoketa and Washington, is ranked the largest privately owned real estate company in Iowa according to RISMedia's 2014 Power Broker Report. The company is ranked No. 97, which is based on residential sales only. Skogman Realty, Cedar Rapids, is ranked No. 183.

U.S. Bancorp Investments Inc. honored LeAnn Erenberger, a financial advisor at U.S. Bank in Cedar Rapids, with the 2013 President's Club Inner Circle Recognition Award.

Shuttleworth & Ingersoll PLC, Cedar Rapids, celebrates 160 years in business this month, making it one of the oldest continuously operated law firms located west of the Mississippi River. It was founded April 15, 1854, by Nathaniel Hubbard of New York.

Designing Moves LLC, Cedar Rapids, has been awarded the Circle of Service designation by the National Association of Senior Move Managers.

The Hall-Perrine Cancer Center at Mercy Medical Center, Cedar Rapids, has received a three-year accreditation with commendation award from the Commission on Cancer of the American College of Surgeons.

Six local architects and members of the American Institute of Architects Iowa Chapter have been recognized for their service to the communities of Cedar Rapids, Marion and Mount Vernon. They are Kyle Martin, Martin Gardner Architecture; Matthew Stewart, Landon Burg and Bruce Hamous, all of OPN Architects; and Bradley Fritz and Mitch Bloomquist, of Sauter Baty Associates.

Cedar Rapidian Pat McGrath of the McGrath Automotive Group and a 1980 graduate of the University of Northern Iowa, was named 2014 Alumnus in Residence for the Department of Marketing at UNI.

WORKSHOPS

An educational workshop, 'When and How to Elect Social Security Retirement Benefits,” will be April 29 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Cedar Rapids Public Library. For additional information, contact Frank A. Varvaris and Associates, (319) 862-0363.