Profile of the Week Mark Gordon Job: Founding partner and chair of the Risk Management Practice Group of the law firm Pietragallo, Bosick & Gordon, LLP Age: 54 (I can't be!) Favorite stock/mutual fund: Any issue that is moving upward. Someday I want to: Fish the Great Barrier Reef. Interesting/Useless Fact about me: I am not as good a golfer as I think I am. What inspires you: People who have passion. Person you'd most like to have dinner with: Colin Powell What do you like about Pittsburgh: Our people.

Accounting

Gregory J. Schofield joined Herbein + Co. as a tax senior.

Advertising

Jamie Bauman joined Taliored Marketing Inc. as marketing coordinator.

Associations/Organizations

Ron Cusano, member, environmental law practice group, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis, was appointed to the board of directors of the Green Building Alliance.

The Pittsburgh Society of Association Executives elected its officers and new board of directors for 2006-07. Officers: President: Craig Davis, executive director of convention sales, VisitPittsburgh; president-elect: Nicholas Stratigos, chief financial officer, PIA/GATF; past president: Mary Lee Gannon, president and CEO, Forbes Health Foundation; and secretary/treasurer: Jeff Dewalt, chief financial officer, Oncology Nursing Society. The directors of the board include: Denise Malley, director of charter sales, Gateway Clipper Fleet; Lisa Rawa, executive director, Pittsburgh Human Resource Association; Patricia Raffaele, vice president of advocacy and communications, Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania; Diane Scheuring, manager of member services, Oncology Nursing Society; Rich Strunk, member services representative, PA Tourism and Lodging Association; Melissa Ungar, director of events planning, Pittsburgh Technology Council and Louise Wallach, senior manager of sales and meeting services, Air & Waste Management Association.

The Pittsburgh Technology Council announced the re-election of Dave Nelsen, president and CEO, Talkshoe, to its board of directors.

The Institute of Medicine has elected Timothy R. Billiar, M.D., the George V. Foster Professor of Surgery and chair of the department of surgery at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, to its 2006 class.

Consulting

Thomas Burke has joined Clear Thinking Group as a consultant in the Crisis Management/Turnaround Management Practice Group.

ChemTech Consultants, Inc. promoted William Blake Housam to vice president, engineering.

Design/Communications

Sewickley Graphics & Design, Inc. promoted Michael Seidl to senior graphic designer.

Education

The Early Learning Institute announced its Executive Committee for the 2006-07 fiscal year: President: David P. Duessel, partner, Maher Duessel; first vice president: Nicholas A. Garrubba, senior vice president and COO, Brentwood Bank; second vice president: Robert B. Brown, Jr., partner, Yarsky & Brown, LLP; treasurer: Terry Collier, president, Terry Collier & Associates, P.C.; secretary: Thomas B. Sturges, III, president, Pennsylvania Drilling Co.; special appointee: Sylbia Kunst, principal of Pioneer Education Center of the Pittsburgh Public School System; immediate past president; Richard A. Andracki, attorney/principal, Andracki Law Offices.

Carnegie Learning, Inc. announced that Mike Reynolds joined in the new position of national sales manager and David Farr joined as chief financial officer.

Engineering

McMillen Engineering hired Zachary Smitley as design engineer.

Health and Medicine

Marcie Callan has joined The Pilates Bodyas co-owner and business manager.

Family Hospice and Palliative Care announced that Sandra Tomlinson, senior vice president of provider services, Highmark, Inc., has joined the board.

Law

Grogan Graffam, P.C. announced that Edward J. Chiodo joined as a senior associate in the professional liability practice group. He concentrates his practice in medical malpractice and other professional liability defense, product liability and toxic tort litigation.

Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP announced that Thomas C. Gricks III has rejoined the construction, environmental, and litigation practice groups and will be a resident in the Pittsburgh office. Mr. Gricks worked at Schnader previously from 1994 to 2003.

Cohen & Grigsby, P.C. announced that Elizabeth H. Cronise, Philip K. Kontul, Nicole L. Phatak, John M. Rumin and Helen S. Shaffer have joined the firm. Ms. Cronise joins as an associate in the Litigation Group where she concentrates her practice in the areas of mass torts, product defects, consumer protection, antitrust and securities fraud. Mr. Kontul joins the firm as an associate in the Labor & Employment Group where he concentrates his practice in representing and counseling employers in a wide range of employment related matters. Ms. Phatak joins the firm as an associate in the Estates & Trusts Group, where she concentrates her practice in the areas of estate and trust planning. Mr. Rumin joins the firm as a director in the Business Group where he concentrates his practice in the areas of corporate finance, municipal finance and taxation. Ms. Shaffer joins the firm as an associate in the Litigation Group and Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Group, where she focuses her practice on general litigation matters.