VeDISCOVERY, a tier-four provider of computer forensic services, data collection and processing, comprehensive document review and hosting of unstructured information recently appointed Wayne Pignolet to chief operating officer, Paul Cervelloni to vice president of sales and Martin Mangan to vice president, product development.
Pignolet is an experienced business leader with small and midsized organizations and joins VeDISCOVERY to manage all aspects of business operations. He has successfully started and also helped turn companies around in China, Europe, Mexico and the U.S. He has worked with Moen Inc., Hanley Wood and has owned his own business.
Cervelloni has held several positions within the information technology industry. He has served as the CIO for Fortune 500 companies and led complex buying processes for global enterprise software and services. He has extensive sales training and experience, which helped him sell enterprise software to corporations that valued stable, scalable, high-performance IT assets.
Mangan is responsible for the vision, implementation and creation of the VeDISCOVERY platform suite and is experienced in all facets of software development, database design, data processing and testing. Mangan leads a team of eight developers, designers and quality assurance professionals who understand the complexities and needs of processing semi-structured and unstructured data.
Alliance Solutions Group, a full-service staffing and recruitment agency with offices in Cuyahoga, Summit, Portage, Franklin, Lorain, Lake, Mahning, and Wyoming counties, has appointed Rob Sable as its new CIO.
As part of Alliance Solutions Group’s executive team, his responsibilities include overseeing the company’s overall information technology operations, support and strategy. He will also manage the implementation of new technology tools across the company’s seven branch offices and nine business units, with particular emphasis on creating new tools and systems that improve the staffing process in ways that create competitive advantage for the company.
In his new position, Sable will utilize his 16 years of experience in IT consulting and enterprise software to ensure that the company’s clients are matched with the right talent as quickly as possible.
Bruner-Cox LLP recently announced the promotion of Lisa Hilling to assurance services partner.
Hilling joined Bruner-Cox in 2005 with eight years of “Big Four” accounting experience. As partner Hilling provides audit and accounting services for hospitals, colleges, private foundations and governments. She is also responsible for audits in accordance with OMB Circular A-133 and Government Auditing Standards.
League Park Advisors, a boutique investment bank, has announced the promotion of Wayne Twardokus to director. Since joining League Park in early 2011, Twardokus has led the firm’s Industrial Group closing six deals in the specialty chemicals and gas, specialty distribution, and manufacturing industries.
Prior to joining League Park, Twardokus was employed at Harris Williams & Co. and its predecessor entity, National City Corp., where he originated and executed mergers and acquisitions for publicly traded and privately held middle market companies. During his time at National City he authored various industry research reports with a focus on the specialty distribution and industrial manufacturing industries, in which he remains active today. Prior to Harris Williams, Wayne was a member of the distribution practice at Brown Gibbons Lang & Co.
Brouse McDowell, a leading regional business law firm, has announced that Clair E. Dickinson, former Ninth District Court of Appeals Judge, has rejoined the firm in the Akron office as a partner in the Appellate and Litigation Practice Groups.
Dickinson previously served as firm counsel and chair of both the firm’s Appellate and Litigation Practice Groups. He also served nearly eight years as a member of Summit County Council and was president of that body for three years.
During his almost 12 years in the court, Dickinson participated in deciding more than 4,000 cases and wrote the lead opinion in approximately a third of those cases. He has both argued cases before the Ohio Supreme Court and sat as a visiting justice on that court. Dickinson’s practice will be focused on appellate advocacy and litigation.
Brouse McDowell is also happy to announce that Meagan L. Moore, an attorney in the Cleveland office and Elizabeth G. Yeargin, an attorney in the Akron office, have been named partners in the firm.
Moore is a member of the Environmental Practice Group and focuses in the areas of environmental litigation and counseling. She provides regulatory compliance support to the firm’s industrial and municipal clients in matters relating to water, air, solid waste and hazardous waste and assists clients in reducing their exposure to environmental liabilities in transactions. She is also a part of the firm’s Insurance Recovery Practice Group where she focuses on cost recovery for underlying environmental liabilities.
Yeargin is a member of the firm’s Business, Corporate & Securities and Business Restructuring, Bankruptcy & Commercial Law practice groups. She focuses her practice on transactional work, principally in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, general corporate law, finance, and commercial transactions and agreements.
