Career Moves

Ex-GSK manager joins Raleigh firm

A small Raleigh firm that helps companies recruit patients for drug tests has hired a former clinical trial manager for GlaxoSmithKline as its chief medical officer.

David M. Shearer, 43, also will serve as vice president of clinical operations at Integrated Clinical Trial Services. The company, founded in 2004, now has seven employees. It works with pharmaceutical companies and clinical-trial organizations to make recruiting patients easier and cheaper.

In addition to his work at GSK, Shearer has been a research scientist at large drugmakers GSK and Wyeth. Most recently, he was medical director of diabetes at MannKind Corp., a California biotechnology company.

In other moves ...

Nick Kellock joins Concord Hospitality Enterprises Co. as chief operating officer effective Sept. 15. Kellock will provide direction to the overall operation and develop initiatives to manage and enhance the infrastructure of the company. Concord Hospitality is a hotel management and development company based in Raleigh.

Allison L. Harris joined JDavis Architects in Raleigh as an intern architect. JDavis Architects is an architecture, landscape architecture and interior design firm.

On the boards ...

Stephen R. Light, president and chief executive officer of Xerium Technologies, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors. Michael Phillips was named vice chairman. Xerium of Youngsville manufactures clothing and roll covers used in paper production.

Brad Phillips, vice president of government and public affairs for the Eastern North Carolina division at Time Warner Cable, has been elected president of the board of directors of the N.C. Cable Telecommunications Association.

Steve Jones, market president for the Carolinas and Virginia at RBC Bank, was appointed chairman of the East Carolina University board of visitors.

Paul A. Boyer, chief financial officer of StrikeIron in Cary, and David V. Gilroy, founder and managing director of GrowthFinance in Charlotte, have been appointed to the board of directors of EnviroSystems in Mooresville, whose mission is the development and commercialization of products designed to prevent infectious diseases without harming the environment.

Gloria Shealey, president and chief executive officer of The Daniele Co. in Chapel Hill, was elected executive vice president of the National Association of Minority Contractors.

Triangle Tomorrow, a program of the Research Triangle Regional Partnership, elected new officers and members of the board of advisors. Smedes York, president of York Properties, was elected chairman, and Ken Eudy, president of Capstrat, was elected vice chairman. New members elected to a two-year term are John R. McAdams, president of the John R. McAdams Co., and David Strong, president at Rex Health Care.

Gigi Fein, principal with consulting firm Smarter Moves in Chapel Hill, joined the Cornucopia House Cancer Support Center board of directors.

Janet Jackson, geographic information systems manager for McKim & Creed in Raleigh, has been elected to serve as president for the Carolinas Geospatial Information & Technology Association chapter.

Chapel Hill resident Melissa D. Brumback, a partner at Ragsdale Liggett, has been named co-chairwoman of the N.C. Bar Association Young Lawyers Division Newsletter Committee. Brumback will solicit and write articles for the quarterly news letter, The Advocate, and coordinate publication of articles in the newsletters of the different NCBA sections.

John Morrison, vice president of operations at Advanced Energy, has been named to the advisory council of the Electric Power Research Institute. Advanced Energy is a Raleigh-based nonprofit that focuses on industrial process technologies, motors and drives testing, transportation and applied building science.

Brian P. Storey, an investment analyst for First Citizens Bank & Trust in Raleigh, has been elected secretary of the board of directors at CFA North Carolina Society, an association of investment professionals.

Lissa Johnsen, president and chief executive officer at Raleigh-based Business Technology Solutions, has been named treasurer of the Information Technology Alliance, a professional association for IT professionals.

Matthew Sullivan, an attorney with White & Allen in Kinston, has been elected to the board of governors of the N.C. Advocates of Justice, formerly the N.C. Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Bob Jurek, senior vice president and chief financial officer of Tributary Advisors in Raleigh, and Tom Earls, a private practice attorney based in Raleigh, have joined the board of directors at Mulkey Engineers & Consultants in Raleigh.

Elizabeth Kurzer, who works in planning and policy development for the N.C. Department of Commerce/Division of Workforce Development, was elected to the board of directors for the National Association of Workforce Development Professionals.