Sisterson & Co. LLP promoted Joseph Tomayko, manager, consulting services practice; Kimberley Miller and James Marker, managers, tax practice; Nicholas Tarasovitch, supervisor; Michelle Hammond, Lee Mazzarini, Matthew Ruzic, Ryan Sulia and Peter Wallace, senior associates.

Ted M. Pettko was promoted to shareholder in the Pittsburgh office of Schneider Downs & Co. Inc.

Goff Backa Alfera & Co. LLC promoted Lauri A. Lisanti to senior consultant.

Jenn Reed joined Garrison Hughes, Downtown, as an account manager.

Fitting Group hired Kate Sullivan as business administrator.

Allegheny County Bar Association elected officers. President: Kimberly A. Brown, partner, Thorp Reed & Armstrong; president elect: Gary P. Hunt, partner, Tucker Arensberg; treasurer: Michelle L. Kopnski, attorney, Tucker Arensberg; and secretary: Mark T. Vuono, partner, Vuono & Gray. New members of its board: Mark A. Martini and Lisette M. McCormick.

Martin L. Griss was named director of Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley campus.

The National Energy Technology Laboratory selected Darshan Goswami as a general engineer.

Gerard Macioce was appointed chief information officer at Westinghouse Electric Co.

Dr. Rachna Kapoor joined the medical staff of The Children's Institute in Squirrel Hill as a pediatric hospitalist, a physician whose specialty is caring for children who are inpatients.

Maureen Papadopoulos joined Simpson & McCrady as benefits department manager and an account manager.

Oppenheimer & Co. hired Ellen M. Marcus as a financial adviser.

John A. Schwab joined Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti as an associate, commercial litigation practice.

Vicki Clark joined Knichel Logistics as sales support manager.

Westinghouse SURE (Service Uniting Retired Employees) elected John M. Senko president.

Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh Inc. appointed to its board Joseph G. Belechak, senior vice president, Westinghouse Nuclear Fuel; Craig T. Davis, vice president sales and marketing, VisitPittsburgh; Kristen I. Wells, partner, Pittsburgh office of Pepper Hamilton. And named to the Catholic Charities Free Health Care Center Board were Dwight Keating, vice president and chief investment officer, Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation.

Jewish Family & Children's Service hired Lara Daly, donor database/Web content management specialist; John Dalzell, assistant controller; Patrick Ferraro, employer liaison; Lisa Spahr, clinical administrator; Warren Sufrin, director, information technology. And it promoted Nicole Iole, director of guardianship; and Julie Marx, director, career development center.

Plextronics Inc. hired Michael Woolston, vice president of operations, and Don Hodo, quality manager. In addition, Kathleen McGinty, former Secretary of the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, has accepted an advisory position with the company.

M. Carol Fox was named president of Columbia Gas of Pennsylvania and Columbia Gas of Maryland.