Michael S. Macnab
First Independent chooses trust leader
Michael S. Macnab is First Independent’s newest vice president and manager, leading the bank’s trust and investment services team.
Macnab comes to the Vancouver-based bank with nearly 25 years of trust financial service experience. He was director of the Oregon State University Foundation and held trust fiduciary management roles at West Coast Bancorp, Wells Fargo and Chicago-based Northern Trust.
Macnab has a Bachelor of Science degree from Oregon State University and is a graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School.
Macnab chairs the Oregon Bankers Association trust committee, is vice president of the Corvallis-based E.R. Jackman Foundation and is treasurer of the Oregon Agricultural Education Foundation. He was inducted into OSU’s Agricultural Sciences hall of fame in 2007.
Brandon Rossman
Unitus names Mill Plain branch manager
Brandon Rossman will manage Unitus Community Credit Union’s new Mill Plain Crossing branch in Vancouver. Rossman comes to the Portland-based credit union after working as a real estate broker at ReMax Equity Group in Vancouver. For more than nine years, Rossman was a branch manager at Wells Fargo in Gresham.
Unitus’ full-service branch at Mill Plain Crossing opens July 16.
Jeff Simpson
Greenen & Greenen gains attorney
Jeff Simpson has joined the Vancouver law firm of Greenen and Greenen. His practice will focus on personal injury, real estate and construction litigation and commercial law. Simpson is licensed to practice in federal, Washington and Oregon courts. He earned a juris doctorate from Willamette University College of Law and a Bachelor of Science degree in marketing from the University of Utah.
Robert Pool
Business institute chooses local adviser
Robert Pool has joined the board of advisers for the Institute of Business and Finance, chosen from more than 3,000 candidates nation-wide. Pool is a certified financial planner and adviser at Arcadia, a Vancouver-based investment firm. He is a registered financial adviser with the National Association of Personal Financial Advisors and holds a master’s degree in financial services from IBF. Pool is on the board of directors for Lead International, a Vancouver-based nonprofit that supports economic development in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa.
Steven Day, Alexander Krob
Neurologists earn certification
Steven Day and Alexander Krob, neurologists at The Vancouver Clinic, were named diplomates of the American Board of Electrodiagnostic Medicine. The board certification qualifies Day and Krob to diagnose, evaluate and treat impairments of the neurologic, neuromuscular and muscular systems. Both are fellowship trained in neuromuscular disorders and are Vancouver’s only neurologists who also are board certified in electrodiagnostic medicine, according to the clinic.
Crystal Kaleta, Melanie Keller
Immortelle gains modeling, acting instructors
Crystal Kaleta and Melanie Keller are the newest instructors at Vancouver-based Immortelle Modeling and Acting Agency. Kaleta is Immortelle’s new modeling instructor and has eight years of experience in the field. She is a graduate of Portland Community College.
Keller will teach acting. Her experience includes work with Seattle-based Broadway Bound Children’s Theatre. Keller has a bachelor’s degree in theater from the University of Washington. Immortelle works with ages 7 to 17 and celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
Brandy Ray
Event center hires coordinator
Brandy Ray has joined the staff of the Clark County Event Center in Ridgefield as an event coordinator. Ray has a background in staging and booking events and worked with advertisers, clients and as a full-time staff writer at the Oklahoma City-based MidCity Advocate newspaper. Ray holds a bachelor’s degree in public relations from the University of Central Oklahoma.
Association of Fundraising Professionals
Fundraising pros choose leaders
The Association of Fundraising Professionals of Oregon and Southwest Washington has named new board members. From Southwest Washington, the board includes Cathy Barr as treasurer. Barr is executive director of Longview-based St. John’s Medical Center.
The board’s vice president of marketing is J. Michael Schulz. He is the foundation development manager for the Legacy Salmon Creek Hospital Foundation and for five Legacy foundations in Portland. John Korb remains on the board as past president, and is a Vancouver resident working for the Portland-based Adventist Medical Center Foundation.
Wells Fargo Vancouver
Six take banking honors
Six employees of Wells Fargo in Vancouver were honored at the bank’s National Sales and Service Conference in Orlando. Branch Manager Joel’ene Bogle, Service Manager Loretta Gilbert and tellers Isa Mays, Cindy Thurman, Leesa Stutesman and Amelia Norrbohm were included in the bank’s top 3 percent of employees with superior sales or service in 2007.
Jennifer Hopkins, Karen Sheckard
Prudential adds two in Washington
Portland-based Prudential Northwest Properties has added two agents in Southwest Washington. Jennifer Hopkins is working at the firm’s Clark County Northwest office in Vancouver and Karen Sheckard is based at the Longview branch.
