Career Moves

Charlene Edwards, branch manager at AAA Vacations in Raleigh, was promoted to regional manager for the company's Eastern North Carolina branches.

Erin Robbins has been named account manager at Kelly MarCom, a branding and advertising agency in Sanford.

Coby A. Wellington joined Driesenga & Associates, an engineering firm in Morrisville, as administrative assistant. Eric Rose joined the construction-materials-testing department as a senior engineering technician.

Jane S. Shaw has been named president of the nonprofit John W. Pope Center for Higher Education Policy in Raleigh.

Lendy Pridgen joined the New Bern office of RSM McGladrey as a manager of health-care consulting. RSM McGladrey provides accounting, tax and business consulting.

Jeremiah Dooley was appointed director of engineering, managed services at Peak 10, a data center operator and managed services provider. Dooley is based in the Charlotte office and will work in each of Peak 10's data centers, including the Raleigh center.

Dino Skerlos has been named vice president of sales at DunnWell, a Garner company that provides exhaust hood and fan cleaning services.

Laura E. Hoke, an assurance professional in the Raleigh office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, has been named a partner. PricewaterhouseCoopers provides assurance, tax and advisory services.

Vern McDonald joined Vaco Raleigh as business development manager. Vaco specializes in contract, special project and direct-hire services in accounting and finance, information technology, operations and executive search.

Theodore B. Clippinger, Joleen Lockhart, Matthew Ansley and K. Daryl Carrington were named associates at JDavis Architects in Raleigh.

Nathaniel H. Goetz has been promoted to director of research and advocacy at Triangle United Way.

Shepard Hockaday was hired as manager of building services at Dewberry, an engineering firm in Raleigh. Jacob Hilton was hired as a civil designer.

On the boards ...

Bonnie M. Cramer was elected chairwoman of the AARP board of directors. Cramer retired from the state Department of Health and Human Services and the Governor's Office of State Budget and Management.

Community Partnerships, a nonprofit agency that helps people with disability or social and economic disadvantages, has appointed Marilyn Forbes and Esther S. Hall to its board of directors. Forbes is a partner at Raleigh law firm Womble Carlyle, and Hall is executive director of the N.C. Legal Education Assistance Foundation.

Communities in Schools of Wake County elected its 2008-2009 board. Elizabeth McGee of Apple Gold Group is chairwoman; Bob Heyward of Golden Corral is first vice chairman; Jimmy Talton of CapTrust Financial is treasurer; Bill Bunn of RBC Bank is chairman of resource development; Randy Whitmeyer of Hutchison Law Group is chairman of board development; Patsy Williams, a community volunteer, and Michael Olander, of Apple Gold Group, are co-chairmen for program and strategic planning; Mark Larson of Grant Thornton is past chairman; and Gregg McDougal of Kilpatrick Stockton is the at large member.

Christine Peterson, vice president of Risk Management Associates, has been named to the Greater Raleigh Chamber of Commerce board of directors. Peterson will serve as the 2008-2009 Central AM chairperson.