The Adirondack Trust Co. announced it has named Bobbi Jo Lucas as senior vice president, chief retail banking officer.
Lucas joined the bank in April and is responsible for the administration, growth, and efficient operation of the bank’s retail network, including oversight of the bank’s 14 branches in Saratoga and Warren counties.
Prior to joining Adirondack Trust, Lucas’s 30-year career focused on retail banking and management. With more than 14 years of leadership at Fifth Third Bank, she provided direction to 82 financial centers across six regions in eastern Michigan.
During her tenure there, she also played a lead role in retail staff recruitment, hiring, and development.
Lucas earned her bachelor’s degree in business administration from Kaplan University, and a business diploma from the Center for Banking Education.
She has served as an executive board member for the Boy Scouts of America—Water and Woods Council; committee co-chair for the Flint Institute of Art’s Art on Tap Event; past president of the Genesee Valley Rotary; board member for the Genesis Hospital Foundation, and more.
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Nick Kelly has been hired as sports/ reunion sales coordinator at the Lake George Regional Convention & Visitors Bureau, a division of the Lake George Regional Chamber of Commerce and an extension of the Warren County Tourism Department.
Kelly, a SUNY Oneonta graduate and Minerva native, has a background in hospitality and sales. He launched his professional career in Chicago at Lettuce Entertain You Restaurant Group and completed a management training program while building knowledge in the food and beverage industry and maintaining relationships with vendors and staff.
Kelly worked as beverage sales representative for Frederick Wildman and Sons, as well as Anheuser-Busch, overseeing extensive accounts throughout the Adirondack Park and Northern Capital Region.
His position involves establishing relationships with regional and national sports and reunion event planners to ensure that Lake George area destination assets are top of mind with decision makers.
Overall, Kelly’s role is to prospect and generate new professional relationships as well as maximize current business in the sports and reunion group business market to achieve booked business and overnight room goals.
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Upstate Agency, LLC, part of the Arrow Family of Companies, hired Chad Mallow as employee benefits practice leader.
Mallow will lead the strategic growth of Upstate Agency’s employee benefits division and drive the ongoing expansion of services within the greater Capital Region. Additionally, he will oversee the servicing and retention of employee and group health benefits programs and group health advisors.
He brings more than 20 years of employee benefits program experience, knowledge and program management to the position. Prior to joining Upstate, he held client manager and account executive roles in local markets and is a licensed Accident and Health insurance agent with New York state.
Mallow has an associate’s degree in communications from SUNY Adirondack College and currently lives in Ballston Lake.
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Upstate Agency, LLC, part of the Arrow Family of Companies, hired Chad Mallow as employee benefits practice leader.
Mallow will lead the strategic growth of Upstate Agency’s employee benefits division and drive the ongoing expansion of services within the greater Capital Region. Additionally, he will oversee the servicing and retention of employee and group health benefits programs and group health advisors.
He brings more than 20 years of employee benefits program experience, knowledge and program management to the position. Prior to joining Upstate, he held client manager and account executive roles in local markets and is a licensed Accident and Health insurance agent with New York state.
Mallow has an associate’s degree in communications from SUNY Adirondack College and currently lives in Ballston Lake.
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St. Mary’s Healthcare in Amsterdam announced Dr. Craig van Roekens is its new chief medical officer. Prior to joining St. Mary’s Healthcare, he was Team Health medical director of Glens Falls Hospital ED.
He joined Saint Mary’s Healthcare System in September as the Team Health ED director and earlier this year took on the role of the hospitalist director. He graduated with distinction from The Johns Hopkins Hospital Emergency Medicine Residency program in 1993.
In addition to being board certified fellow in emergency medicine, van Roekens received his Masters in Business Administration and Masters in Public Health in 2000 from UC Berkeley while working full time at Kaiser Permanente in Santa Clara, Calif.