Bruce Lisanti was named CEO and president of Medical Informatics Engineering, a health care information technology company based in Fort Wayne.
Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. promoted David Lantz to vice president of claims and David Walters to assistant vice president of underwriting.
William J. McKinney, vice chancellor for academic affairs at IPFW, was elected vice president for honors and fellowship of the honor society Phi Kappa Phi. He was also named a member of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities Provost’s Advisory Committee for its “Re-imagining Undergraduate Education in the 21st Century” initiative. McKinney also received the Bucknell University Class of 1985 Academia Award for “pioneering unique pedagogy, offering significant contributions in the field of research, and shaping an exceptional environment for global education.”
Design Collaborative promoted Kelli Warner to graduate construction engineer.
BDK LLP’s Fort Wayne office hired Sarah Hissong as a first-year staff in tax and Shelly Swihart as a first-year staff in audit and promoted Paul Bracht to supervisor.
Kerry D. Parrott joined Stahl Engineering and Failure Analysis LLC as a senior engineer/fire analyst consultant.
The following lawyers from Barnes & Thornburg LLP were listed in the 2010 edition of The Best Lawyers in America: Bobby B. Gillenwater in the area of intellectual property law; William T. Hopkins Jr. in the area of labor and employment law; Kathleen M. Anderson in the area of commercial litigation, labor and employment law; Dennis C. Becker in the area of tax law; D. Randall Brown in the area of bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation; and Stephen L. Fink in the area of bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law.
Sara Lochner-Goff was named president of the board of directors of the Whitley County Chamber of Commerce.
Carrie Stuckey, founder and former president of Priority Mortgage, joined Arbor Mortgage as a branch manager.
Sweetwater Sound hired Peter Foster, Aaron Rom, Katie Stockman, Matt Kreager, Jim Watson and Karl Long as sales engineers and Derek Bennett as a database programmer.
Vern Ceder, author of “The Quick Python Book” and technology director at Canterbury School, was accepted to offer a daylong tutorial on “Python for Linux System Administration” at the Ohio Linux Fest in Columbus on Sept. 10.
Marty Laub, general manager of the Red Lobster in Fort Wayne, received the Diamond Club Award from Darden Restaurants. The award is given to general managers who demonstrate outstanding results by living Red Lobster’s core values of respect, integrity, genuine caring, hospitality and teamwork while also achieving top financial performance.
The Northeast Indiana Chapter of the American Payroll Association elected officers and committee chairs for the coming fiscal year. They are Erin Nash, HR generalist, Tower Bank, president; Cindy Shelton, payroll manager, Dalton Corp., vice president; Amy Lung, Fort Wayne Community Schools, secretary; Shirley Schultz, payroll specialist, Xcel HR America, treasurer; Martha Kleber, payroll manager, Lutheran Health Network, government liaison; Shelton, national payroll week; Mitch Johnston, CPP-ITT, education; Lynn Cook, BRC Rubber, audit; Gail Gerber, Lutheran Health Network, program; Lori Remenicky, National Tube Form, membership; and Shelton, nominating committee.
Dr. Raymond E. Dusman Jr., chief physician executive-health care administration for Parkview Health Systems, was named a member of Tower Financial Corp.’s board of directors.
Todd E. Larson, a financial adviser with Ameriprise Financial, qualified for the annual Circle of Success recognition program by establishing himself in the upper echelon of the company’s top producers and achieved recognition in the areas of financial planning, client service, professional commitment and corporate values.
WANE-TV promoted Tom Antisdel to director of sales and Michael Thena to digital sales director.
