Career Moves

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CORRECTION

An item in the April 22 Business section about new jobs for Angela Poole, Aundra Wallace and Sherrill Hampton named the wrong organization as their employer. The three joined the N.C. Community Development Initiative.

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Hamner adds liaison for public, private partners

The Hamner Institute for Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park has hired Naina Bhasin to work as its director of business and technology development.

Bhasin, 34, will manage partnerships between Hamner and others in education, government and private business involved in public health and pharmaceutical research.

She also will help develop The Hamner Accelerator for Translational BioScience, a program that provides emerging companies and universities with access to resources provided through Hamner.

The Hamner Institute is a nonprofit organization that traces its roots to the 1974 founding of the Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology. That institute was created to develop a better scientific understanding of how environmental chemicals affect human health. It became part of the Hamner Institute last year as part of an expanded mission.

Charles Hamner, a biotech pioneer in Research Triangle Park and longtime head of the N.C. Biotechnology Center, is chairman of the institute's board.

Bhasin's work will include oversight of agreements such as one announced last week by UNC-Chapel Hill involving basic and translational research. The agreement calls for the two organizations to work together in pursuit of new therapies for cancer and respiratory diseases.

In other moves ...

Christopher "Kip" Turco was hired as chief operating officer at Hosted Solutions, a Raleigh data center and managed-services provider with offices in Boston, Charlotte and Cary.

Angela Poole has been hired as chief financial officer at Cherry, Bekaert & Holland, an accounting firm specializing in nonprofit organizations. Aundra Wallace was hired as senior vice president of commercial real estate and Sherrill Hampton was hired as senior vice president of residential development.

Greg Greenwell of Durham has been named chief executive officer at Vendedge, a Georgia vending operation. Greenwell will direct operations in a six-state area stretching from North Carolina to Florida.

Tenney Woo, a manager at Verizon Wireless, was named president of the N.C. Chinese Business Association.

Fara Palumbo was appointed senior vice president of human resources at Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina.

Patsy F. Daniels joined AIHF Executive Health as executive health physician, helping corporate executives and their spouses maintain their health through evaluation and preventive care. Daniels will maintain her family practice in North Raleigh.

James Iadanza was named managing director of Prime Only Steakhouse & Sushi Bar in Raleigh.

William A. "Beau" Mills was named a senior partner at Fountainworks in Raleigh. He will specialize in public policy development and market research.

Oren Cohen was appointed senior vice president for clinical research strategies at Quintiles Transnational of Durham.

Robert Huff III joined engineering firm Driesenga & Associates as senior engineering technician in the firm's construction materials testing and inspection department.

Lee Hortman, vice president of Gray & Creech Water Systems, has been named vice president of the National Water Dealers Association.

James H. Murray joined ScottMadden as a partner in the energy practice. ScottMadden is a management consulting firm specializing in energy, shared services and outsourcing advisory services.