The Hyde Collection announced the hiring of Susan Pruiksma as its financial manager.
She will oversee all of the museum’s financial operations including annual budgets, outside audits, accounting, and purchasing activity.
In addition to bookkeeping, Pruiksma will be responsible for developing and coordinating account and statistical data for all departments, monitoring the museum’s financial position, and reporting to the director, finance committee, and board of trustees.
Pruiksma comes to The Hyde from the Saratoga Rowing Association, where she served as business manager since 2010. Between 2005 and 2015, she also worked as bookeeper for the Lower Adirondack Regional Arts Council (LARAC).
A Washington County native, Pruiksma lives in Argyle and is a graduate of Adirondack Community College, with a degree in business administration.
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Lisa Frawley recently joined the team at Mannix Marketing Inc. as a digital marketing strategist and Kathryn Tracey was hired as a strategic content developer
Frawley will provide clients with search engine optimization, paid search, social media marketing, and other digital-marketing strategies.
Frawley brings with her 18 years of marketing and copywriting experience. She has worked with national brands, including 1-800-FLOWERS.COM, Marvin Windows & Doors and General Electric, as well as several regional businesses. She holds a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Hofstra University.
Frawley returned to her hometown of Glens Falls four years ago. Outside of MannixMarketing, Frawley is a group fitness instructor.
Adding to an undergraduate degree in writing and economics from Loyola University Maryland, Tracey recently completed her M.B.A. at the R.H. Smith School of Business with a focus on integrated marketing communications.
She brings over a half decade of experience in technical and scientific communications to the Mannix team.
Tracey will be using her expertise in inbound marketing, certified via Hubspot, to strengthen the content marketing arm and enhance the effectiveness of online copy for the company and its clients.
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Bond, Schoeneck & King PLLC announced that Srividya Revuru, Ph.D., has joined the firm’s intellectual property and technology practice and is a resident in the firm’s Albany office.
Revuru is a registered U.S. patent agent. Her experience includes patent drafting and prosecution with some experience in assisting with freedom-to-operate (FTO) and due diligence analyses. In the preparation and prosecution of new patent applications, Revuru has particular experience in the areas of semiconductor design and fabrication, electrochemistry, material science and chemical arts.
Revuru is a multidisciplinary chemist with experience in synthetic organic/medicinal chemistry, solid-phase chemistry, nucleic acid chemistry and semiconductor technology. She is the published author of 13 peer-reviewed papers in journals such as JACS, Journal of Photopolymer Science and Technology, Organic Letters and Tetrahedron. Additionally, Revuru is the named inventor on one issued U.S. patent.
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Claudia K. Braymer was promoted to counsel in the Glens Falls law firm of Caffry & Flower.
Braymer joined the firm as an associate attorney in July 2011. She is a 2002 graduate of Penn State and a 2009 cum laude graduate of Albany Law School, where she was a member of the Albany Law Review. Her practice is focused on environmental and land use law, real estate law, and litigation.
Prior to joining Caffry & Flower, Braymer was an Appellate Court Attorney in the Appellate Division, Third Department, of the New York Supreme Court and an environmental consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton in the Washington, D.C., area. She was a member of the U.S.A. Women’s national rugby team for five years, and played in the Women’s Rugby World Cup tournament in 2006 and 2010.
In 2015, Braymer was elected to represent the Third Ward of the city of Glens Falls on the Warren County Board of Supervisors. She also serves on the board of the Warren County Bar Association, as co-chair of the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserve committee of the state Bar Association’s Environmental Law Section, and on the Third Department’s Committee on Character and Fitness.
She is a founder of, and the head coach of, the Foothills Rangers Rugby Club, a youth rugby program in the Glens Falls area. A native of Pennsylvania, she now lives in Glens Falls with her family.