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SHELLEY BONGIOVANNI
JASON TSITSO
bankESB announced four recent promotions: Shelley Bongiovanni to underwriting officer, Devon Bunger to clos- ing and post-closing officer, Bryan Fleury to secondary and system support officer, and Madison Kinney to assis- tant branch manager in the Amherst office. Bongiovanni, Bunger, and Fleury’s promo- tions coincide with the launch of Hometown Mortgage, the newly formed residential- lending division of bankESB. Bongiovanni joined bankESB in 2013 as loan specialist/ underwriter and was promoted
People on the Move
in Springfield, announced
the promotion of two of its employees. Jason Tsitso was promoted from executive proj- ect manager to vice president of Operations, and Joseph Leon was promoted from project manager to executive project manager. Tsitso has been with PDC for five years, starting as a project man-
ager and taking on increas- ing responsibility as a senior project manager and executive project manager. As the vice president of Operations, he is now responsible for the devel- opment and success of the
staff and company. He is a graduate of Porter & Chester Institute and was named to Busi-
nessWest’s 40 Under Forty class of 2012. Leon, who holds a degree in construc-
tion management from the University of Nevada, joined PDC three years ago as a
years and has extensive experience in the bank’s core systems and digital technologies. Having worked in various departments at the bank, she found her pas- sion in the Information Technology and Innovation department in 2018. Before joining the IT depart- ment, she managed the eServices area for eight years. She has been instrumental in working with vendors and partners to continue to find the best solutions
to help the bank best serve its internal and external customers.
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The board of directors of Mar- tin Luther King Jr. Family Ser- vices has elected attorney Rose Colon as vice president. Colon practices in the Probate & Family courts of Western Mass. for the Massachusetts Depart- ment of Revenue. Prior to that role, she was the first Latina assistant district attorney in
Berkshire County. She is also an adjunct professor at Bay Path University in its Legal Studies & Criminal Justice Department. She earned a bachelor’s degree in legal studies from Bay Path University in Long- meadow and her juris doctorate from Western New England University School of Law.
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MCLA announced that Jean Clarke-Mitchell, assistant pro- fessor of Social Work at Lesley University, has been nominat- ed to the MCLA board of trust- ees. A 2000 alumna of MCLA, she is also in her second term on the college’s foundation board. Clarke-Mitchell is a licensed clinical social worker
who served as the clinical director of the Elizabeth Freeman Center, and an outpatient clinician at the Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. With more than 20 years of experience in the clinical field and more than 10 years in academia, she looks forward to participating on the board. She has an extensive resume in social justice activism and working with community organizations, includ- ing the Rights of Passage and Empowerment pro- gram as a senior mentor. She serves as a board mem- ber on Rockfort Moving Forward, Leadership Coun- cils of Western Massachusetts, the Albany Assoc. for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, and the Massachu- setts Women of Color Network. Prior to teaching
at Lesley, Clarke-Mitchell taught social work and psychology at Westfield State University, Smith Col- lege, Cambridge College, and Elms College. She has worked with groups in South Africa, taught students in Ghana, and conducted presentations on healthy relationships and self-care in Jamaica. She continues to affect positive change by teaching social work full- time and continuing to develop effective social-work practitioners.
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Joe Kriesberg has been named the next president
and CEO of MassINC, a non-partisan think tank ded- icated to making Massachusetts a place of civic vitali- ty and inclusive economic opportunity. Kriesberg will oversee all strategic planning, fundraising, and oper- ations for the organization’s work across multiple dis- ciplines, including research and civic programs, and will serve as publisher of CommonWealth, MassINC’s civic news outlet. The organization also includes the MassINC Polling Group, a for-profit subsidiary of MassINC. Kriesberg will join MassINC after nearly
30 years at the Massachusetts Assoc. of Community
People
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DEVON BUNGER
JOSEPH LEON
ROSE COLON
BRYAN FLEURY
to senior loan specialist and underwriter in 2020. She is responsible for underwriting and approving loans, mentor- ing and training new under- writers, and monitoring con- struction loans through the dis- bursement phase at Hometown Mortgage. She has 26 years
of experience in the banking industry, and prior to bankESB, she was employed by Park West Bank and Trust and CitiFinan- cial. She holds an associate degree in business administra- tion from Holyoke Community College. Bunger joined bank- ESB in 2018 as disclosure desk
specialist/closer. As closing and post-closing officer, she is responsible for managing the daily operations of the residential lending closing and post-closing/ funding department at Hometown Mortgage. Before joining bankESB, she was employed by Dwyer & Sanderson as a real-estate paralegal, at Florence Bank as a loan closer, and at Greenfield Savings Bank as a post-closing quality-control specialist. She holds a bachelor’s degree in legal studies from Elms College and a lending diploma from the Center for Financial Training and is currently working toward a supervi- sor diploma and real-estate lending diploma, both from the Center for Financial Training. She is also
a member of the Northampton St. Patrick’s Assoc. Fleury joined bankESB in 2013 as loan processor and was promoted to mortgage systems administrator and then secondary/post-closing manager. In his new role as secondary and system support officer,
he is responsible for supporting the secondary mar- ket and all lending software at Hometown Mortgage. Fleury holds an associate degree in business admin- istration from Holyoke Community College and is the president of the International Assoc. of Approved Basketball Officials Board 28. Kinney joined bankESB in 2017 as a teller and most recently held the title
of teller supervisor. In her role as assistant branch manager, she is responsible for assisting with overall branch management of bankESB’s Amherst office, as well as applications for consumer and home-equity loans, as well as the employee-hiring process. She holds a certificate in human resources from the Cen- ter for Financial Training.
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Professional Drywall Construction Inc. (PDC),
a commercial drywall company headquartered
project manager. In his new role as executive project manager, he will oversee the project-management staff.
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Meyers Brothers Kalicka, P.C. (MBK) recently welcomed Col- leen Berndt, CPA as senior manager, as well as Mia McDonald; Karen Korpinen, MSA; and Eric Bone as associ- ates in the Audit and Account- ing department. Berndt has practiced public accounting since 1989 and holds valu- able experience in both pub- lic accounting and corporate firms. She holds a bachelor’s degree from American Inter- national College and sits on the board of directors of the Colburn Keenan Founda-
tion. McDonald has worked in public accounting since 2020 when she began as an intern with MBK. She holds bache- lor’s degrees in economics and business management with a mathematics minor, account- ing concentration, and antici- pates completing her master of science in accounting (MSA) degree in May. Korpinen brings experience in the non- profit field to her work in pub- lic accounting with MBK. She holds an MSA from Merrimack College and an MBA from Clark University. She serves
as treasurer on the board of
directors of the Northampton Parents Center. Bone brings a fresh perspective to his
engagements as a recent college graduate; he holds a bachelor’s degree in accountancy with a minor in finance from Providence College and is currently pursuing his MSA with a focus in data analytics at UMass Amherst.
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Country Bank announced that Lisa Saletnik has
been promoted to vice president of Business Systems Optimization. Saletnik holds an associate degree in health science from Bay Path University and gradu- ated from the New England School for Financial Studies. She has been with Country Bank for 23
COLLEEN BERNDT
JEAN CLARKE-MITCHELL
MADISON KINNEY
MIA MCDONALD
KAREN KORPINEN
ERIC BONE
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